Welp, it’s been a good run, but it is seeming more and more likely that the age of MangaDex is over. With the wave of over 7000 takedown requests and policy changes requiring explicit rights or permission to upload, scanlators have largely stopped using the site.
So, what comes next? I don’t know, but let’s chat about it. Additionally, feel free to use this thread like you would any other weekly general thread by sharing about what you read this past week, asking for recommendations, or questions.
Like normal, please be careful with spoilers. I wrote a guide about spoilers in case you need a refresher on how to handle them (also linked in the sidebar).
That is not how it works; it is what I would like.
And for a niche like exclusively hosting several dozen pages of translated comics at a time, every instance duplicating the whole database would not take that much space. Even if it’s only a cache - one terabyte would go a looong way. Certainly long enough for anything popular to be recognized as missing and manually rehosted.