Great news! Are you going to implement a proper rest/graphql API now? It's been long due.

So that's why search results have been a bit wonky. "Stemming" is in play.

Has every search been ported to elastic search?

Pulling up the site on my computer makes the site look like it's you're zoomed in by 10%.

Can you change the font-size back from 14 (1rem) to 12 (1em)?
It looks strange somehow.

>rem values are relative to the root html element, not to the parent element. That is, If font-size of the root element is 16px then 1 rem = 16px for all elements.
https://medium.com/code-better/css-units-for-font-size-px -em-rem-79f7e592bb97
Maybe the design relied previously on having the font size of the parent element set correctly.

For series titles 1.77rem (~24 new) to 1.77em (~21)?

(Previously html had no set font-size (default 16px) and everything seemed relative to body-font-size (12px) which got inherited by the table cell the text was in).

A similar width of manga series entries (and everything else) would be nice too. Now the design fills a 1920x1080 screen at 175% zoom. A #centered div had a width of 919px before, now there seems no width limit on the top element.

Agree with @Transdude1996 regarding font size, 90% looks just right to me.

If you are going to convert everything to a frontend framework, please consider server-side rendering (Angular Universal, Next.js) or other techniques like lazy loading components/modules/routes. The pages don't change often (as in every several days for most popular ones, almost never for most) and I really enjoy how snappy everything is, making it a monolith of SPA would be a disappointment.

When I search by categories in advanced search, it won't let me filter out any genres. Those genres still show up in the results. It also won't let me limit my category search by list type.

Is there a reason you are using div's for tabular data?

Are tables that bad that they have to be avoided even if the data is tabular? Are mobile browser that incapable?

(e.g. "My List"😉

" + ) = 😉 is very annoying

Regarding the series page design:
Shouldn't the intention be that the right column (with volume image) gets appended at the end if the browser window gets small enough?

how to change advanced search view result?

i like old view search result when its only view list name of name and genre
without tumbnail / cover of the series

As always, phonefags ruin everything.

Everything is....big!

I think you're right tho Manick, people will get used to this. I always thought that this website was smaller than average anyway.

I do not mind. Yes it's jarring and everything seem stretched but I think I will get used to it pretty quickly.

As a long-time user and scanlator, I too preferred it when it was of a smaller font size. What's most jarring about it is when I switch from any other website using a normal font size to suddenly it being zoomed in now on this site. Like, I'm browsing r/manga or mangadex and then switch to here, and bam, it's just weird. I don't think that sense of discontinuity is ever going to go away if this stays like this. Is it not possible to add a user preference to change it to old MU, kinda like how reddit does old reddit?

Even if not, there are a couple other things. I find it kind of ironic that the site is now slightly zoomed in and yet categories on series' pages that have no votes are now comically tiny, unless you click on Vote these categories, and then they're all comically large. And even cats that have a few votes I still feel are smaller than they used to be.

Also, I liked it better with the rating system allowing me to see how many votes a particular rating received instead of just a percentage of those votes. Yes, it's possible to manually calculate the vote total for a certain rating because the total count is still there, but I'd rather not want to pull up a calculator if I can help it.

I'm not sure I understand.
Instead of making separate mobile version of site, you're just making normal version look bad so it looks better on phones?

Text truncation in some Lists is really annoying.
https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?stype=utf8title& search=Naruto&display=list

Where the genres truncated before? These Lists derive their use from being able to see lots of information without using up too much screen real estate.

Are there missing entries in "My Previously Added Releases"?

It looks no more compatible with my current web browser version. More like way too wide, untidy, unsettled. For me it is not very user-friendly. Considering for a retirement "homely" page, current design surely a shockwave change.

congrats on the mobile version, it’s a nice touch thanks 🙂

For me this looks amazing. My only complain at the moment is that the text size of the categories tags is smaller than the other text on the whole page, and makes it a bit hard to read.

My monitor is set to 4k. That´s why I have the magnification of Firefox set to 110 to 120% on most sites. I now need to scale down the magnification of the site to 90% on my regular PC to get the former letter size back. Is this a side-effect of the design experimentation?

The categories now look either gigantic while voting and tiny while looking at them regularly. The rating graphics stretch a bit far. The bars + colors kind of overpower everything else at that size.
The description boxes are also scaled down too much. Basically all with a proper (publisher) summary now needs to be extended. That´s kind of a problem if there are relevant notes. It´s now harder to spot nonsensical notes, links, etc. on the first view.

A few issues:

Desktop:
Overlapping text on previously added releases page. Issue is on Firefox; it's fine on Chrome. I think the date or volume column could give up some space in general, though.

Mobile:
Here, the Manga Info tab is quite large. Column sizing isn't great. I think you can at least ensure that the Year and Rating numbers display cleanly. Having the genres truncated so much is somewhat annoying on mobile as you can't hover to see the full text like you can on desktop. I think it would be better to reduce the width of the Title column and reduce the vertical spacing a bit. You could probably even just lower the font size by one point.

Not sure about the justified alignment here. Long category tags are cut off.

Quite a lot of spacing between the sections here. Can be hard to tell where titles start/end under Category Recommendations.

My phone is 1440 pixels wide, so you can rule out my display being an issue. Looks the same on Chrome and Firefox (Android). In the end, I found myself going back to the desktop version of the site. Just easier to see more data more quickly, which works for me.

Side note: any plans for different themes, namely dark mode? If not, I will make my own.

I don't know if this can be considered a bug, since it was never an official part of the site to begin with, but the script "Manga Updates Group Fix" no longer works.

Used to be using that browser script allowed you to still have a link to the scanlator group's website from the group page (like it used to be before the removal of that function some years back). Now, however, it's completely missing, which makes things a lot more difficult to find the group's site to download the chapter or leave thanks.

As I said, I know that was never an official part of the site, but I'm wondering what changed to break this (incredibly) useful feature.

On the mangaka pages, the 'Titles' section at the bottom doesn't list any series: it's just blank. It's like this for every mangaka I've checked.

Using a PC with Win 7 and IE 11.

The "cover preview" script is now also shot but what can you do.

Looking at it with my Chrome browser with a 1366x768 resolution screen, the site feels like it got zoomed in. I tried just zooming out but I can't get a good size for the font; some end up looking big, others would be too small.

I fully agree with Transdude1996, Juhachi, bhui, and all other users who say that the font is too large. I also think that on desktop/laptop PC new design looks worse than the previous one.

And, no, I won't get used to it. I have seen similar design changes before, they make everything mobile friendly while downgrading the experience for PC users, and I didn't "get used to it" in any of those other cases.

Please, mighty please, add an option to switch back to the old design. Besides being more convenient for multiple people, it was compatible with older browser versions (which made it usable in older operation systems too).
For example, I have a second browser, old Opera on Presto engine. I use it because it is very customizable and memory efficient, I can have 50+ different tabs opened in there and it would eat less than 1 GB of RAM. This is what I used when I contributed to MU (add releases, series, authors, other info, fix mistakes), but now I can't. And doing it in my other browser, Pale Moon, is less convenient, which means that I'll probably contribute less.

Or, at the very least, add user options to customize the look for themselves. Font size, disable text truncation in lists (always show full names), always display search results as lists - are some of the options that would be appreciated by many users, as you can see from replies here.

I don’t see a way to log out, maybe I’m missing it though.

Can anybody help with a script (or any way) for a dark theme? The ones I have/was using won't work now 😀

Just chiming in to say thanks for the new responsive design! I've definitely had times where I've wanted to use MU on mobile and found it a hassle with the old style. I actually like the larger font too.


I also used a separate stylus theme script that no longer works. (This one specifically.) From the looks of it, most people aren't fans of the banner, so we could always just take it out completely? (Or, alternatively, open it up so users could submit their own banners and we could vote on a new one.)

Are there plans for a UI overhaul in general? I personally still find the site pretty usable, but the design itself is fairly outdated...

I just HATE mobile versions, they are just bad. If I can, I never use them (on my ipod, because I don't even have a mobile phone, just landline). For mobile everything has to be big, and it looks weird on desktop.

In here the manga releases with long names get cut of. The categories are too small. The font is too big.

Another site ruined by the mobile era.... 🙁

First of all, I want to thank you guys for maintaining this website. As a casual user, I have no problem with the new design.

However, there is a feature that I missed in the new design, that is the number of voters in each column in the "user rating" graph section (see the uploaded picture). For me, it's an important metric for picking up a new manga to read.

https://imgur.com/a/F74H4w2

Regarding the mobile version, everything seems pretty fine to me. The pages of the series are a bit strange because there are two columns even if there is very little space, but I think I will get used to it soon. The only issue I have found is that in some pages the text overlaps and it's all messy and difficult to understand. Here you have an example: http://imgur.com/9VVuIOX