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Manga General Discussion Thread - RIP MangaDex Edition [2025, Week 21] (ani.social)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by wjs018@ani.social to c/manga@ani.social

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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).

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[–] creamlike504@jlai.lu 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is that how it works? I thought content is only hosted on the original server, and each instance only shows a temporary copy at best.

If every instance is duplicating the content of every other instance, wouldn't they crumble under the hosting costs in... hours?

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

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.