I think ~10 years?
For sure I was visiting when onemanga was still as thing, just didn't even make an account back then

As I remember, right after finding baka-updates for anime at ~2005-2006.

Nice to see a lot of the same people around for over a decade hehe ;3

I found Mangaupdates through bakaupdates around 2005-06 but didn't create an account until 2007. At that time, I had a crappy notepad to keep track of all my mangas until my hard drive crashed. Good thing it was only around 1k manga lol

According to my profile, I've had an account for 13 years now, though I remember frequenting the site for a few months (maybe even a year or so?) before making an account.

I found mangaupdates on 2008/2009, when I first started reading manga on sites. I think I created the account around 2016, but I have just actively using mangaupdates around 2019/2020, at the beginning of pandemic. Being isolated, I didn't have much to do except reading manga and manhwa. I need to sort out the list, and mangaupdates have just what I need.

Looks like we gotta see in another poll what the gender breakdown is! :3 I'm curious about all our members, too!

Regarding this week's poll... I've made friends and penpals on MU; I'm glad it's one part of my life that's stayed constant!

I think I lurked for a few years before actually making an account. I still have browser bookmarks from when that was how I would save manga I wanted to check out instead. I don't think I have updated my lists with all of them either...

my profile says over 15 years, could be even more before I made an account.

Ever since i registered so over 11 years... (I actually got into manga 13 years ago so maybe got here slightly before registration, not by much though, but either way it falls into 11-15 range)

10 years! (and like 9 days), so uh happy anniversary xD

A couple years into when I started reading manga? which is why my Completed manga list begins with a dump of manga ‘completed’ the same day. Also, far better than meticulously saving and updating bookmarks in a manual fashion. So thanks, MU.

More than 13 years! And I'll continue until this site dies, or I do, whichever happens first, lol.

Almost coming up to 10 years with an account; I definitely lurked without an account for a few months, maybe a year. I remember writing down what I was reading on a note card previously. (I feel like I had a quicker finish rate back then though, cos the note card could only hold so much info.)

Soon it will be 15 years since I registered but I wonder if I have lurked before that....hmmm. Definitely longer than I thought, I feel old now.

It'll be a decade next month! 😀 fun fact I learned of baka updates from an unholy combo of 4chan, aarinfantasy and Inuyasha journey.

Wow, time sure flies. 16 years already.

I know I only made this account in 2011 but I found it in 2005 at the same time I was switching to the Naruto and One Piece manga from the anime. Back then #null was still re-scanning the last hundred chapters of One Piece in high quality. Found so many more manga via this site back then!

For literally 6 years I followed new releases by just manually scanning the lines of chapter releases on https://www.mangaupdates.com/releases.html . In retrospect that was a pretty dumb waste of time since I was already following around 60 series back then! Finally started making a reading list after that. And now I'm up to over 150 unfinished manga I follow....

Back when OneManga was still the go-to aggregate website... which I don't remember the year of. Question: did the Baka Updates URL used to be baka-updates or was it manga-updates and only the dash was removed? My memory isn't great.

Was led here by baka-updates...apparently first made an account 08/04/2006, juuust making the 16+ years mark 😁

Looks like I joined in 2009. I'm not entirely sure what spurred me to join in that year, but I remember not using aggregators or trackers for a very long time. Looking at my history, I see Eden was being published prior to 2009 so I likely used the site before registering as I remember coming here for those updates.

At one point or another I stopped removing series from "my list", so now this site is both a tracker that I visit daily, but also a logbook of the manga I used to read. I can scroll down my list, select a series and see when it was last updated, and remember where I was in my life when I was reading it.

Being able to see the group names, and scroll back through the release history and see which groups juggled which series really adds to the nostalgia as I've always consumed my series directly from the group pages where possible.

This site is an absolute treasure, and I really hope all of the data on here is being archived somehow.

14 years strong 😎 Really weird to see my old whack manga reviews (nice to see my own improvement in writing and taste lmao)

14 years, wow. At that time mangatraders and this site were the two sites i visited the most. mangatraders shut down but even today i frequent your site at least 4-5 times a day. It's my favorite site on the net.

I have been a regular since the end of January 2007.

I've had an account for 4 years, which I created due to the demise of kissmanga (one of the best decisions I've made tbh). I did use the site regularly to look up series before I had an account, though.

Time sure flies! I didn't think about how long it's been until I saw people mention onemanga and mangatraders 😁 Good times! I remember staying up and reading all of eyeshield 21 in 3 days on onemanga. It was the plug 😎 I used to scope out manga updates for new manga all the time before getting an account.