Couldn't find this in the last 3 pages of topics and a brief search, hopefully it's not already been suggested. On the My Lists Reading List page: about the little red notification, like (c. 49) for Mx0, which appears when a new chapter comes out, until you update to tell MU you've read that far. I notice when I update to the current chapter, sometimes that notification doesn't disappear. There are three reasons for this that I've found.

1. The series has each volume start at chapter 1 of that volume. For instance, Id went from v2c7 to v3c1, and there has been a red "(c. 7)" after it ever since.
2. The series is being split up to part a, b, c, or in the case of SAO part 1, 2, 3, etc.
3. MU briefly posted some Mirai Nikki 4chan releases for up to chapter 16, but then they were removed, yet it still says the most recent chapter is 16.

Here are my impressions on each of these:

1 - This could be fixed, I think, by sorting by volume and then chapter, so it will first decide if you've read up to the most recent volume, then decide if you've read the most recent chapter in that volume.
One problem could be for series like Mx0. Ossu's chapters are listed without volume information, but Hanaji-scans lists volumes for some of their releases. You would have to detect which series contain releases without volume information, and revert back to the current sort-by-chapter system for those series.
2 - With what I've seen of the list system I don't think this is easy to implement a fix, so I won't bother everyone by cluttering up this topic with a large amount of text on how I would approach it. ;_;
3 - Actually, I'm not sure if this is something you would want to fix. Since those scanlations really are "out there", it's true that to be up-to-date I would want to go out and find those, even though MU can't help me any more.

There's also an issue of how in some situations, like with School of Water Business, chapters are scanlated before all the previous ones have been scanlated. It's true that the highest scanlated chapter is 168, but when/if the lowest unscanlated chapter comes out (c. 17) I won't be able to use the My List page to notice that it appeared. If there were a feature that allowed me to be alerted in red when a /specific/ chapter came out, like say if the red text only showed up when chapter 17 was released, then that could be a solution, but I can't say I've considered all this very deeply.

Oh yeah, and not to make this topic too all-over-the-place, but while I'm here I'll add that when I clicked Preview I had to then scroll up to see what the post looked like--if there were a feature that led me to an anchor up higher, that'd eliminate the need for that. (Really doubting that kind of thing is high on your priority list, of course, but figured I'd mention it.)

Mainly it's a performance issue because of the way volume/chapter #'s are stored in the database.. they're not stored as integers, but as varchar.. mainly because in the beginning i didn't really consider having real text in the chapter/volume fields... like "Prologue" or "Story 1" etc... in other words.. the way the system is designed right now, it would be very difficult to implement.. The red chapter indicators are buggy as heck anyway... they need to be completely changed.

As far as the preview thing, i'll keep it in mind, thanks, but i'm working on a new site revision so i don't want to add any more new code to this site because i'd have to update all the different versions i'm working on.

is it possible to set 0 as the starting value chapter? ... some releasers do a chapter 0 sometimes, and when chapter 1 comes out I don't know if i already have it or just chapter 0.

It is not that painful to check one chapter.

on your number 3 it states that Mirai Nikki's latest chapter is 16. But right now i read up until chapter 19. That needs to be fixed too.

Thats a problem that i have found too...
im reading Superior from Janime and it is really annoying because after each volume they start over at 1( quite a few of my favoru\ite mangas are released this way)... so in order to do that i have to start back at one and go ^ a volume but then it flashes red because it thinks im issing the latest chapter...

Another suggestion i have is that i have a lot of manga in my "wish" list but the only reason i havn't read them is because i didn't know they were avaailable... it would be nice if there were red reminders for the "wish'list too... or if a separate reminder could telll me when it would start being csanlated....

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Ah, I see. A new site revision sounds great, I know I always have to rewrite large projects where I'm approaching them for the first time because the code is too awkward, so I look forward to the possibilities that will open up!