This poll's an obvious choice with Chinese New Year a few days ago. If you don't know your own animal, check this out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_zodiac
(Again, no official thread for this...not much to discuss...)
If you have poll suggestions, post them here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903
Previous Poll Results:
Question: For Valentine's Day, you will
Choices:
Receive candy / chocolates - votes: 513 (4.6%)
Give candy / chocolates - votes: 316 (2.8%)
Will give and receive! - votes: 852 (7.6%)
Wish you were receiving candy / chocolates - votes: 2218 (19.7%)
Wish you had the courage to give candy / chocolates - votes: 501 (4.4%)
Don't care - votes: 6870 (61%)
There were 11270 total votes.
The poll ended: February 20th 2010
Such a commercial holiday, and no one cares
I've just added a new feature to the series section, called "Categories". It is a sort of tagging feature for series. It's fresh off the assembly like, so if you have problems with it, please report it [sitelink=showtopic.php?tid=16859]here[/sitelink].
For anyone curious as to how it works, anyone can add a tag to the database. You can view the tag database by clicking on "Categories" on the menu to the right of this post. You can also search by tag (as well as genre and other things at the same time) by using the [sitelink=series.html?act=genresearch]advanced search page[/sitelink]. You can also vote specific tags up and down on a per-series basis.
I know this will seem a little crazy initially, but hopefully we can get a good tag database going and retain some consistency along the way. If you would like a tag renamed or combined with some other tag, please let us know by change request, and we'll take care of those issues.
Thanks!
First off, it's Chinese New Year! And it's the Year of the Tiger! Fairly significant holiday to me, as I'm Chinese
Secondly, happy Valentine's Day for all the lovers out there. For all of us singles, there's a third SAD holiday: Single's Awareness/Appreciation Day. Which would include me...I guess you can give gifts to yourself to feel better?
(And tomorrow is President's Day for all of us USA people, and the good thing about that is no school! But no special announcement for it tomorrow)
In honor of the upcoming sweet holiday, here's the poll suggested by our member turnip head. Hopefully not too many people choose the "Don't Care" option...
(No official thread for this)
If you wish to suggest poll ideas (and we need new, good ones!), go ahead and do so here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903
Previous Poll Results:
Question: If you were in a harem manga, what would you do?
Choices:
Date all of them at once - votes: 3035 (21.6%)
Date the one who obviously likes you - votes: 856 (6.1%)
Date the shy type - votes: 620 (4.4%)
Date the tsundere type - votes: 1143 (8.1%)
Date the outgoing one - votes: 216 (1.5%)
Date the most pretty, beautiful, and/or handsome one - votes: 501 (3.6%)
Date the one you pity - votes: 63 (0.4%)
Date the side character(s) - votes: 346 (2.5%)
Don't date anyone - votes: 875 (6.2%)
Date the one you care for the most - votes: 6380 (45.5%)
There were 14035 total votes.
The poll ended: February 13th 2010
Date the person you love vs. dating everyone...
This particular poll was suggested almost two years ago by Vudoodude...(I don't really like any of the current suggestions)
PS: Valentine's Day is almost here
You can discuss this poll on our forums here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=16552
If you wish to suggest poll ideas (and we need new, good ones!), go ahead and do so here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903
Previous Poll Results:
Question: The best way to do manga is with
Choices:
1 author who draws and writes - votes: 3617 (31.8%)
2 authors who split up the story and drawing - votes: 1765 (15.5%)
Multiple authors who work on different parts of the manga - votes: 250 (2.2%)
Don't care - votes: 5727 (50.4%)
There were 11359 total votes.
The poll ended: February 6th 2010
To be expected, the "Don't Care" option won the most votes (including mine), but out of the ones who do care, 1 author seems to be the choice
This poll was suggested by our member Regnak. So what's your view on multiple authors working on the same series? (This does not count assistants as "authors"). Think of like CLAMP or something else
Discuss this poll on our forums here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=16404
If you wish to suggest poll ideas, go ahead and do so here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903
Previous Poll Results:
Question: Main web browser
Choices:
Mozilla Firefox - votes: 11042 (66.9%)
Google Chrome - votes: 1600 (9.7%)
Internet Explorer 8 - votes: 1308 (7.9%)
Opera - votes: 1225 (7.4%)
Safari - votes: 559 (3.4%)
Internet Explorer 7 - votes: 490 (3%)
Internet Explorer 6 - votes: 108 (0.7%)
Internet Explorer 5 - votes: 30 (0.2%)
Other - votes: 149 (0.9%)
There were 16511 total votes.
The poll ended: January 30th 2010
Wow, just look at Firefox...I personally use Google Chrome though~
Another information poll. What's the main web browser you use?
If you wish to suggest poll ideas, go ahead and do so here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903
Previous Poll Results:
Question: Main screen resolution?
Choices:
Smaller - votes: 246 (1.8%)
1024 x 768 - votes: 2133 (15.5%)
1152 x 864 - votes: 255 (1.9%)
1280 x 768 - votes: 381 (2.8%)
1280 x 800 - votes: 1605 (11.7%)
1280 x 960 - votes: 275 (2%)
1280 x 1024 - votes: 2079 (15.1%)
1366 x 768 - votes: 570 (4.2%)
1440 x 900 - votes: 1258 (9.2%)
1600 x 1200 - votes: 363 (2.6%)
1680 x 1050 - votes: 1751 (12.8%)
1920 x 1080 - votes: 1084 (7.9%)
1920 x 1200 - votes: 884 (6.4%)
2560 x 1440 - votes: 23 (0.2%)
2560 x 1600 - votes: 145 (1.1%)
Larger - votes: 249 (1.8%)
Other (in between the numbered values) - votes: 430 (3.1%)
There were 13731 total votes.
The poll ended: January 23rd 2010
In case you were wondering, I use 1920 x 1080 on my desktop and 1280 x 800 on my laptop
One of our forum members has taken it upon himself to start up a Haiti Relief Effort challenge for MangaUpdates. If you are interested in being a part, please see this forum topic.
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=16125
Thank you all.
-M
This poll is not for fun. This one is serious. Informational purposes only for the improvement of the site.
If you wish to suggest poll ideas, go ahead and do so here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903
Previous Poll Results:
Question: Do you read doujinshi?
Choices:
Yes - votes: 7586 (58.7%)
No - votes: 4054 (31.4%)
What are doujins? - votes: 1283 (9.9%)
There were 12923 total votes.
The poll ended: January 16th 2010
Now, out of the ones who do read doujinshi, how many of them are hentai?
As you can probably tell, I widened the site a bit. Most people have monitors that are larger than 800x600 these days, so this shouldn't be that big of a deal to most of you. If you find something that doesn't look quite right (compared to how it did before), please report it to me (or post it somewhere...)
For those of you keeping track, yes, this is our first site design change in the history of MU (that's over 5.5 years). Since I suck at design (and hence, cannot fix the banner), I cheated, and made the right sidebar go up to the top of the screen. It opened a good spot for our totally awesome mascot, so I think it works. We'll see how people react ...
In case it doesn't quite look right, reload your page a few times. This should update your style sheets. Or just clear your cache
Update 1 Fixed bugs, also, I increased the size for author/series images, so they can be 300pixels wide now.
Update 2 Banner was extended so that it fits the whole width, so the search bar has moved back to its original place
