I don't know if I'm allowed to post this, but if I am, great! If mangaupdates is not going to be allowed to have group listings here a simple fix:

For Chrome:


For FireFox:


For Opera:


If you have the ways to fix it on other browsers, please post your fix. I'll update this post as we go as long as this thread is allowed.

-All thanks goes to a random Anon for making the script.

Last edited by Zuan at 11:18 pm, Dec 7 2013

For Firefox you need to download the GreasMonkey Extension first.

Then Click on this Mangaupdates-url fix.
Then hit install, There problem solved.

Last edited by zenaku2005 at 2:41 am, Dec 5 2013

That's missing about 600 group URLs.

In addition, it does nothing to solve the problem. What about new groups?

Updated script. Renamed all links without sites to "No Site".
http://www.mediafire.com/folder/4mra2j7o1y58d/MU%20fix
http://pastebin.com/aCRz5FT8


You can add them, or post URLs here, so others add them.

Last edited by Reyalsdog at 11:10 pm, Dec 5 2013

I know there are some missing groups and links that don't work but for a script that solved a huge problem in such a short time that's something.
As for the new groups it's either add it manually or having someone updates the script.
Unless browser ricing becomes violation to the DMCA.
BTW I'm not the one who made the script, some kind anon did.

I think the best solution would be creating a scanlation group search engine.

Search engines are not responsible for illegal content they index.

Groups could submit URLs to it. In addition, a crawler could index individual release pages.

I'm not as tech savy as you guys but what about a simple alphabetical list of current groups and their URLs posted somewhere that we could download?

I have never edited scripts in my life, nor do I know how. It took me all of 5 minutes to set this up.

Last edited by Zuan at 9:02 am, Dec 5 2013

Returning to missing urls.

I just checked missing numbers from first 100 pages (from 1 to 100), and only find either non existed (on MU) pages, or groups without sites. You sure those groups from this ~600 list have sites? And maybe you provide links on MU to this ~600 groups pages, if you already know where they are?

EDIT: Disregard. I just don't have the time.

Last edited by HumanoidInterface at 4:40 pm, Dec 15 2013

^^ You sir are too kind.

For Opera, just drop it in the UserJS folder with a ".user.js" extension.
To find your UserJS folder: Right click on a page → Edit Site Preferences... → Scripting tab.

What I did, which is a lot easier, is I went through all of the groups that scan the mangas that I read, search for them on google (ex: "[type in the name of the group here] scans") and 95% of the time you should find their website. Just save it to your favorites in a folder titled manga scans or something, and then off you go to it whenever you see a release on this site.

I guess if you read every manga on this website then it would be much easier the other way...

Thank you.
I'd been adding the sites to my bookmarks, but it's slow and tedious.

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^ Not just scanlators, but also company documents are getting it wrong now!

For FF users that don't mind using Batoto's database and don't want to Google the group names:

http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/batoto-groups/

You add Batoto Groups to the search engines in your browser, you activate it (or use a separate addon, e.g. Selected Search, to choose from many searches at once), right-click your mouse and click [Search Batoto Groups for "<group's-name>"]

It might create an additional step, but at least you don't have to type the names in and there are moderators to verify the entries (including the links).

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