I want to throw in more ideas. This is actually a lot, I feel like requesting a feature instead a feedback for redesign tho.

For main page, what to add/fix :
1. Moderator’s announcement can be highlighted at the top and separated from other parts of the website.
2. Upcoming series release calendar (TBA, TBC, etc). I strongly encourage this if you’re not sure what to fill in the front. This might be worth considering as to what people can expect in the future.
3. Change all the description mentioned manga in each section of the website. Or distribute them evenly what is what, some kind of intuitive trivia. Because this website isn't just about manga anymore. Include the naming of mangaka, change it to author instead to make it more general.
4. Place FAQ where people can see. And categorize to make it simple to search.

For series page, what to add/fix :
1. User personalized recommendations.
2. Link for reading/buying so people don’t have to cram everything into the description.
3. Algorithm to prevent people from adding unnecessary categories e.g Cringe Fest, Shoujo Trash etc. This relates to, maybe you can move the vote for a category to another vote, which is more to give their impression of a series.
4. Enable filter adult content/auto blur explicit image as a user.

What to remove :
1. Old users review as people prefer leave a comment.
2. Algorithm recommendations.
3. Forum discussion.
^All of the above, I find it less useful to keep. Again, I want to emphasize the importance of comment section more. Just simple and fully supported comment section with reaction is enough.

For profile page, what to add/fix :
1. This is personal suggestion. Give people option whether they want to be invisible/offline/online/busy etc if you still want to keep profile public. No last active information. Sometimes I feel like I need some privacy.

For submit entry, what to add/fix :
1. Make another box where people can put their source to back up their entries.
I can cover this when reviewing manga just fine, but it’s a big world out there so sometimes I don’t know where people get this series info and whether it’s serialized or not.

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Actually, once the entry is out there, it's beyond our control. Unless I go around inspecting, I'll fix it right away.

I'm also worried about the consistency issue. But I leave it to Manick if he wants to highlight this still completely manual editing. Make a report change for this action is not a bad idea. There are also people who ask the author's data to be corrected via request and they explain why. It's also good to do.

I'm feeling the same way, Hinokai. Like, are there even any competitors? Not every manga I want to follow gets uploaded to mangadex. The only issue I have with this entire site is that truly anonymous scanlations, e.g. those posted to imgur/reddit, won't be indexed. Other than that, all the info I want about manga releases is uploaded here so it's perfect for my boomer browsing tendencies. They even brought the scanlation group website links back after what was probably a decade of leaving them out due to dmca concerns.

I feel this simple and easy to use design is fine as it is. And this site have also been doing a very great job at what is was meant to be doing.

I've been using the site for forever! I agree that it hasn't been updated in a long while.
As long as its main functionalities (the "my list" feature and the ability to search for new manga by categories, tags, and genres) maintain their function I am not against any changes.

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I don't think I need to reply since another person already did, but i was talking about the manga page.
Let me give you a exemple that really happened. I just started a manga with 50 chapters today . I normally put it in mu list after i read all available chapters. So i have to click 10 times more or less to register the chapter i am at or i can go to my list and edit there after i find in my really big list and after i just left the manga page...... 😅 that is a bit of a bother so i still use the 1+ 5+ but it could be better with a edit button at the manga page.

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I agree with the person who said seeing covers in our list would be good. I personally use this site to keep tabs of my lists, although this site has some drawbacks (OEL and stuff) it's still great for the intended purpose. MyAnimeList, Anime-Planet can already show thumbnails so adding it here would be great.

So, re: adding support for half chapters and the like, I thought a bit more of this, and maybe a combination of adding fill-in support on manga pages + support for decimals would make this viable, while also still retaining the old +1 and +5 incremental support. So like if there's a half-chapter, I could just edit my chapter count to say 2.1, or whatever. Adding support for 0s would be nice too, so I can record prologue chapters and the like as well.

Also, another Advanced Search option I'd like to see is the ability to search keywords while also doing a genre and/or category search.

And, this is mostly just a consistency thing, but I noticed that for the "Type" section, it's kind of... messy? For instance, there's stuff like "Artbook" and "Doujinshi" but also "Manhwa" and "Manga" and "OEL" and "Vietnamese".

My suggestion would be to split this off into two sections, one for actual "Type" (Artbook, Doujinshi, Drama CD, Novel, Graphic Novel?, maybe even a webcomic option? idk) while another for "Source Language" (Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, etc.). This also helps because if you want to search solely, say, Japanese novels, you'd be able to. If nothing else, the uninitiated will no longer have to google what the distinction between "manhwa" and "manhua" is, or what OEL stands for.

EDIT: Oh, and this isn't a must-have or anything, but it'd also be nice to have a separate "Demographics" category for Shounen, Shoujo, Seinen, Josei, Adult, Yaoi, Yuri, Hentai instead of leaving them in "Genre". (Maybe a "Kodomo/Children" tag could even be added, for stuff like the Corocoro Comics.)

EDIT2: I keep thinking of more stuff to add, haha, sorry. But this is mainly relating to Updaters:

It'd be nice if Admins were given the ability to write a short reason when they reject a new release/group/series suggested by an Updater, so the Updater can know what they did wrong (if anything).

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Honestly, at this point I'd feel uncomfortable if this design "modernized" if there was no option to use this old one, haha. I have however noticed some backend changes and the API creation is definitely good! Thank you for caring <3

As for what I use - obviously my lists, usually sorted by unread releases but I think all the sorting options are great and should stay. I also love using categories and searching by them (though the recommendations seem kinda sketchy sometimes + there is the forever empty old system). Honestly thinking about it, almost everything on the series page is useful and I wouldn't want to see go. Source language could be added, maybe even as filterable/searchable thing in combination with current searches rather than the strange combination that type has going on now.

Mainly, I think I would welcome more functionality for the releases page.

First off, I know I can filter out some scanlation groups and genres, being able to filter out categories (with x amount of votes/ratio so it's not fake tags) or even specific series I don't want to see would be good too. And then actually being able to see a list of things I filtered somewhere in case I changed my mind. If it exists, it's in not very intuitive place. Speaking of, the release filtering (genres you can disable and set the colors) really should be accessible from the releases page and not hidden in User CP only.

I think I'd like to see a variation of the releases page that filters only things on my lists (and ideally also shows which list it is on, with option to only pick which lists I want to see).

EDIT: Someone mentioned adding covers for our lists and while that seems fun, if it's added please make it as an option (per list even maybe). I have large lists and wouldn't want to paginate them to avoid lag because of hundreds of covers loading. On that thought, maybe it would be nice to be able to add favorites and have these shown with covers in a specific list (just split by type of list it's originally in), while they could otherwise exist as part of my normal lists....

EDIT2: Also browsed a bit and agree with most of Xunu's ideas and also support the idea of edit chapter count directly on page instead of having to go search in a potentially large list or clicking + many many times.

EDIT3: And yes please to personal private notes for series (that can be accessed by you from either the series page or from the list, ideally both). I don't think they should take up space, maybe just an icon signifying there is a note. As for reason... I don't think being able to add my progress as partial chapters is possible without breaking the current +5/+10 etc system which I love, I would love at least a way to note it for myself. And well, there are other things to note sometimes.

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If for some reason you check my public lists, please be aware that is only a fraction of my lists. Not like it matters.

Once again, thank you all for your suggestions! They will help evolve our experience and keep MU relevant.

-The categories are great, the fact that you can actually select them and look at a link with every other work that is tagged with them, and select and deselect categories when using advanced search.
I think it could be better although it is more laborious though. I would appreciate if they added a publisher, and publication field in advanced search, and also somehow standardized length, like vndb so we could search by length. It's fairly easy with manga series published in Japan, but they may have to come up with something else for Korean/Chinese and other web publications because of how they often get released in chapters of varying lengths.

Like (using vndb as a guide) for manga volumes not web publications at least we could go

Very Short Length <2 Volumes
Short Length 3-10 Volumes
Medium Length 11-30 Volumes
Long Length 31-50 Volumes
Very Long Length 51-100 Volumes
Super Long 100+ Volumes

Maybe there could be descriptions for categories?
Also, on a personal level it might be nice if we downvote a category for that work to not show up when we use advanced search for that category

Seconded!
I like the current desing and functions. Rather than a complete remake of MU I'd like to see new functions added, as mentioned already by other people:
- personal notes
- better advanced search
- follow author/series/scanlation group
If you change the desing of MU, I'd like an option to keep this "old" design.
I've been using MU for years and I think you're doing a wonderful job taking care of this web 🙂
Thank you. 🙂

Wanted to say this exactly. Whenever I use advanced search it gets pretty frustrating bc there's A LOT of novels being added here and I want to filter them out, but as far as I can tell there's only a way to show them exclusively, not take them out of the search while maintaining all other mediums.

I read manga for a reason, I don't got the attention span to read a novel lol.

I think people have great suggestions on functionality to add. However, I am commenting as to the design. Please, please, please leave it be. It's simple and no frills. Mangadex's homepage makes me dizzy -- I personally like clicking on "What's New!" if I want to see what's new. I do enjoy reading through the forums when it's active, especially since it's a great place to get recommendations. I like seeing the announcements first and screw the haters -- I love the polls, lol.

My biggest ask would be that on author's pages, if the manga with releases could be marked somehow. Like for instance:

AUTHOR NAME

Manga 1 Genres
Manga 2** Genres
Manga 3 Genres

Where manga two has at least (1) release by any group (in any language, too). It would make exploring author's other works so much easier since I like going through back catalogs when I find an author I like. This would also be amazing when I am looking through a particular magazine's (like Margaret) releases as well!

Edit 2: Not 100% sure how searches work now, but operators like "OR" would be nice, especially when I want to explore two "exclusive" genres. (By exclusive, I mean,) For instance, I want to use the same exclusion criteria and inclusion criteria to find Romance & Slice of Life manga but I don't care if it's tagged Josei vs Seinen vs Shoujo -- I'd like to see either/or. But it looks like the way the search is designed now, if I were to check Shoujo, Josei and Seinen, the search thinks I want it to show me manga tagged with all three ("AND" operator). I get why the search is set up this way because other genres can and are multi-tagged (Romance, Mecha, Fantasy, Slice of Life, etc). Sorry to ramble to get here, but maybe it might be helpful to separate the overarching genres like Shounen, Shoujo, Josei, etc into a separate field?

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