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submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by MITM0 to c/[email protected]
 

Can I post about Mihon here ? What are the best manga sources ?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

imo the best source is a locally hosted komga server. Download/purchase manga for hi res copies from places like AB/nyaa/baka/etc, rip scanlations with something like hakuneko or fmd2. Place in a folder, install komga+komf, point it at said folder. Komga scans in manga, komf scrapes metadata from manga updates or MAL. Use the Komga plugin in mihon and your progress is tracked both ways.

Much higher res most of the time, better translations, faster, more reliable, no ads, no tracking, no downtime unless your shit breaks, consistent across devices, no worrying about sites going down, manga getting taken down because it got licensed or group drama or whatever, and if you get tired of your library you can still just jump to the mangadex plugin or whatever I guess

I am somewhat conflicted on manga piracy. On one hand you should buy manga because the sales numbers for titles that aren’t stuff like one piece are often reallllly slim. On the other hand companies like viz are really shitty and my understanding is that the actual mangaka gets very little money from English releases. My suggestion is to learn Japanese. そうすれば、漫画をすべて読めます

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I mostly use Mangadex, but also bato.to, Manga Plus and some group specific sources. Also Komga, but that's only if you run your own Komga server.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Can I post about Mihon here?

Sure!

As for sources, almost my entire library is Mangadex with just a few exceptions. I have a couple Manga Plus series that I follow, one VIZ series, and then the odd scanlator group here or there that posts things to their page way before Mangadex and have an extension.

But seriously though, I just ran the numbers and I am at ~95% Mangadex.

Edit: If you really want to sail the seas and get pirated official releases, the Weeb Central extension is what MangaSee became, so it's probably a pretty thorough repository. I can't claim firsthand experience with it though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Can I post about Mihon here ?

Not sure tbh.

What are the best manga sources ?

Currently the primary source that I find the most trustworthy is Mangadex as they:

  • provide author/creator links to purchase their content directly on the manga/manhwa/comic page.
  • have been around for several years now.
  • have no ads and are funded by users, (their self-ads on April 1st are pretty great tbh)
  • provide frequent and timely updates on downtime and repairs (their means of communication could be better as they currently use Discord instead of Matrix or SimpleX)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm using TachiJ2K with these “sources”:

I despise how diasporic everything is, instead of the Darknet P2P I was promised.

Can't believe how many of you are extremely behind.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Can't believe how many of you are extremely behind.

What do you mean by that?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

The last two replies before me, recommended a website that had been throughfully compromised, twice.

Centralization is exactly what leads to these issues. Being on Lemmy, one would think there would be more mirrors of sources on TOR, I2P, SimpleX, GNUNet, etc.. A friend of mine even showed me an onion group that strictly publishes scanlateds on webp format. I'm still financially ruined to resume my mangadouga format.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You can scrape mangadex content completely anonymously though. Who cares if they have a breach. Only suckers make an account there

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

So a site gets compromised, fixes it quite thoroughly (they even completely took it down for quite some time) and you no longer trust it?

Also, twice? Both your sources refer to the same incident.

Being on Lemmy

The decentralized nature of Lemmy is hardly the reason I'm using it and I think I'm not remotely alone in this. In fact, I think it has a lot of downsides, particularly in regards to usability.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Are you trying to lead somewhere with this? Or can you empathize the diaspora of sourcing?

Why do we need “Mangadex, but also bato.to, Manga Plus and some group specific sources. Also Komga,” when you should just be able to connect on a p2p, and find your manga, in your scan group[s] of choice and language selection? What happened to sourcing?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think the main issue here is that not every group that provides free scanlations has the technical know-how (or the interest) to tackle the issue. They see the easy and open platform of sites like MD or Bato, and use it to upload to a bigger user base.

I don't necessarily after nor disagree with this, but after 30 years in IT I am not surprised at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I’m extremely aware of this. But I’m still too financially destitute to even tackle a simple manga format. May our influence reach further readers than just the technological illiterate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Are you trying to lead somewhere with this?

I'm trying to say I don't agree with your stance that we should use P2P and decentralize everything.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Then enjoy the nth time any of those sites get taken down.