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For a while the Mahoro-chan bot has been posting titles, but they're often not well upvoted or viewed and seem potentially more spammy among the titles that individuals are posting themselves out of interest. The bot was fine when this community was still pretty low on subscriber count but I'm thinking it might be past that time as engagement has gone up, and there were already other voiced concerns from members that even individual manga discussion posts were spammy.

I'm not a moderator anyhow so we'd either have to contact the bot creator (mentioned in the bot's profile) or have a moderator do so depending on the decision.

Edit: I think @man_zonder_poespas summed up what I was thinking in a much better and concise manner in his comment: "Personally I like the idea that the chapter is posted by a fan of the series so that they’re relatively likely to respond to comments on the chapter. Y’know, have the idea that at least one person is invested in the thing being posted."

I know we have engagement issues due to being new and very limited in size or if people are being scared off by just discussion posts. I do think that the larger the community, the better the chances of more discussion and more non-chapter posts since lurkers are always a majority.

Having some sort of pinned discussion posts as others have wanted, or a pinned awareness post to help drive more engagement I think would also at least be a sign for newcomers.

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[–] Thade780 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I honestly don't mind. As of now, the majority of daily posts are either made by me, @[email protected], or @[email protected].

Since I can only speak about myself, I know for a fact that I get my updates from Tachiyomi. The main problems I see are two:

  • time (right now I am on vacation and can be more active but in two weeks I will be back to work);
  • if I actually notice an update since I have more than 4300 entries (and growing) in Tachiyomi.

This also happened on Reddit for me. I missed the update notification but noticed the new chapter since it was posted on /r/manga.

Also for new series. It's not like on MangaRock where there were suggestions based on what you were reading. Now at least once per week I sort for newly posted and check if there's something interesting. Most of the times I will just miss it though.

About discussions I would really love for those to take off. One of the updates I have been posting constantly is Under Ninja. I still have no idea what the hell is going on and I would like for other people to give their opinions or express their views on it, even if to say that it sucks. 😅

[–] Flippanteer 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh my god 4300? You’re nuts!

[–] Thade780 2 points 1 year ago

Can't say I disagree, lol.

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