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  • I guess I’ll have to look into self hosting my library again on my server. Any tips for which software/stack to run?

    Support for downloading from most major sources going forwards like Mangaplus and various aggregators (and I guess scraping out the last data from Mangadex before it’s gone) is important. Or some other kind of automation for updating and downloading new chapters on release and other metadata.

    Preferably something headless running in Docker (web GUI optional), and the ability to sync to Mihon is crucial. I’ve been looking at Kavita, Komga, and Suwayomi but haven’t decided yet.





  • I hope this is the only instance of a takedown of this magnitude for a while, but I fear the publishers are now smelling the blood in the water now that the Mangadex team have folded to pressure once. Worst case scenario they get repeated takedowns and vanish over time, or shut down like Batoto. I guess this will just repeat the cycle of; community manga site gets popular -> popular community site gets taken down -> surge in use of aggregators -> aggregators increase ads -> community gathers around new popular site. Rinse and repeat, as manga publishers refuse realize what Gabe Newell has known for decades, piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem.


































  • An unexpected and quick axe. The overarching element driving the plot got “solved” by blowing up Earth. I guess the mangaka drew themselves into a corner by solving every conflict in a few chapters, going “Haha, actually everyone is a good guy”, and not really building on the larger political conflict back on Earth.