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Kalladin
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Post #572179 |
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5:49 pm, Oct 2 2012
Posts: 3
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Quote What resources does it offer that you use?
What headaches does it relieve or create?
What services do you feel mangaupdates is lacking?
- I use the releases page to quickly see what has been updated.
- At times I get bored I use it to quickly find something to read.
- ^It helps me spend more or less time reading manga. Not mangaupdates fault.
- I love the tags, helps find specific terms.
- The suggested mangas (whatever is called), is addicting at times.
Not really what it lacks, but it chooses not to have:
- In the respective update chapter, a link to where it can be read it.
- Real time chat similar to that of kongregate.
--PS: If you haven't figured it out, I hardly use the forums.
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whitespade
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Post #572209 |
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9:29 pm, Oct 2 2012
Posts: 226
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it really good to find unknown stuff, and the tags really help to pinpoint the exact specification. it helps that i dont waste time reading a manga and found a few volume down the road that there is something that i really hate about it.
i also like the review. of course people can say whatever, but i tend to read a manga with a lot of positive review, or a lot of negative review with one very elaborate, very descriptive and detailed positive review. i also rely quite a lot in rating, but i do find a lot of people just downvote a work not on the merit of the style and storytelling, but only for the content that affect their sensibilities. of course i also tend to downvote manga with content i found objectionable, but there is a lot of manga that i like with such themes, so ultimately the review that help me.
and i also like these forums. i am very narcissistic, so being able to impart a piece of myself to others is quite a good way to past my time.
well, i think the link part cannot quite work if the manga is licensed o the scantalator dont like to get the scan outside at large. and i never found the beauty in talking real time - most of the conversations are banal and not thought of well. i simply can't write a coherent sentence knowing the other person is waiting on the other side.
and yeah, it is also nice to read the bickering of some posters here. sometimes i get tired reading manga, but their petty fights are quite entertaining.
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Kalladin
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Post #572218 |
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10:14 pm, Oct 2 2012
Posts: 3
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@whitespade
It totally left my mind, the reviews and the rating. Yea I like to use those as well to determine to some degree what I should read.
Hmm sounds like your content with what mangaupdates has to offer. Frankly I am too, its more like I'm not expecting much more though. If they do release such a tool, well we'll see how that works out.
As for the forums lol, you can't believe how tempted I was to light some fire and purposly create a post easy to rage about. The reason: it's so easy to write it out of your mind. I suppose thats the same thing that occurs in realtime chat.
As for scanalators respect, I have an easy solution to that. Simply when the scanalator updates that they have released the chapter, it's them who puts the link in. But dont worry about it much.
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Hartland
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Post #572219 |
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10:15 pm, Oct 2 2012
Posts: 21
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Mangauppdates is my manga bible.
I mostly use it to track releases on titles I'm currently reading. But also to some extent those I've read.
Since I don't use it to do anything spectacular (I don't hang out in the forum, I just randomly read threads based on what comes up on the news page) I can't say it really creates any problems (headaches). I totally adore the genres an categories search system, and as a student of library and informations science I'm fascinated by how well it seems to work. It's just a shame that most other (western) literature are harder to categorize as well and easily.
Can't think of anything that I am missing on this site... I guess the site could become bigger and more... more. But I think I actually prefer it the way it is. Basically a database. Let news and editorials and big reviews be on those other sites. They need a reason to live as well, right?
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Kalladin
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Post #572220 |
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10:19 pm, Oct 2 2012
Posts: 3
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@Hartland
Yea one of the things that is sad is that novels dont have a similair database. At least I dont think there is one. There might be some that are close, but no where near what mangaupdates does for manga.
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Zarallx
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Post #572226 |
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11:54 pm, Oct 2 2012
Posts: 63
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Find new manga, or learn about a manga i'm intending to read.
And to screw around with a lot lol.
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pyonk
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Post #572251 |
a possessive lover
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3:22 am, Oct 3 2012
Posts: 340
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Quote What is mangaupdates to you?
a map to trackdown manga.
genre, categories, and recommendation are so helpful.
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strixflash
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Post #572266 |
Noblesse Forever!
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4:20 am, Oct 3 2012
Posts: 655
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The Obvious: Checking releases, Managing lists,Checking the ratings/reviews/comments before picking a series.
I think the forum is the best part for everyone. For me its a great way to ask for new reccomandations when I want to read something. Then there are discussion threads about the series, which is a great place to post your views/thoughts on events or remove your frustation in cases like Bleach and Naruto.
So its my no.1 source for my manga needs.
Last edited by strixflash at 6:10 am, Oct 3
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silencecomes
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Post #572274 |
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5:57 am, Oct 3 2012
Posts: 482
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The most awesome database + forum site ever =0
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Is this me in a nutshell?
Pretty much.
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monkry
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Post #572276 |
Yuki no Hana
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6:24 am, Oct 3 2012
Posts: 70
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One of my Must-Visit-Everyday webs.
While there are people that using RSS or subscribing mangafox, I choose mangaupdates to limit myself in consuming manga, and I love reading comments because it helps me find a way in how to describe a manga.
What I feel lacking is its search-engine (AFAIK, there's even a kind of add-ons to do that... CMIIW).
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TaoPaiPai
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Post #572300 |
Member
11:22 am, Oct 3 2012
Posts: 863
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lol
so this is a
LOVE BUM THREAD
i use BUM to find manga
and it is pretty awesome
BUM to me is a useful tool
for which i am greatful
but
i really dont like
the recomendations
it is very missleading
naruto have
7 Seeds,basara,gokusen,liar game,mars
listed under recomendations
that is 5 of the more odd ones
if you think naruto is the best thing ever you would think most of these are awful
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