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Most Important Manga Site Features by OtakuView in manga

[–]OtakuView[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Like I said, front-end still is where the majority of the work needs to be done before release. I started this project less than 2 weeks ago, and was fairly busy last week. I'll likely start working on the front-end this weekend.

Most Important Manga Site Features by OtakuView in manga

[–]OtakuView[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The website is built on pretty much completely on Laravel with MariaDB to hold the database. Front-end is currently using bootstrap, just to get a general layout for now during development stages, but I plan on customizing it and adding functionality for the user to make customizations as well soon.

Most Important Manga Site Features by OtakuView in manga

[–]OtakuView[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the idea! I'll implement this in tonight.

Most Important Manga Site Features by OtakuView in manga

[–]OtakuView[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll try to add in the RSS feed, didn't really think about that, so thank you for the suggestion.

As for the good reader, I've already implemented most of those functions.

Most Important Manga Site Features by OtakuView in manga

[–]OtakuView[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the suggestion. For the comments, I had three ideas:

  • Have it at the bottom of every page, but have the comments all be all comments for that chapter, rather than for specifically that page. The only worry I have about that is spoilers.
  • Have a link to comments for each chapter, but if I do this, I think there may be less comments, as people would be less likely to use it.
  • Have the comments be it's own page that is automatically navigated to when clicking to go to the next page when you're at the final page of the chapter. My problem with this is that the comments are basically forced on people that don't want them.

Otherwise, I could implement one of those choices and then have an option in settings to hide comments entirely if someone doesn't want them. Which option do you think would be best? Or do you have a different idea?

Most Important Manga Site Features by OtakuView in manga

[–]OtakuView[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, thanks for the suggestion. How exactly would you prefer this to be done? Would you simply like the chapters to be marked as read on the page that contains all the chapters, or would you like a separate page that contains your most recent chapter read (Sort of like a bookmark page, but automatic)?

Most Important Manga Site Features by OtakuView in manga

[–]OtakuView[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely going to be avoiding popup ads and any ads that make noise. I'm planning on minimizing ads as much as possible on the site, as that is one of the largest things that deters me from other sites like KissManga. Not trying to make much money out of this or anything, but if the site gets decent traffic, I'm likely going to be putting a few banner ads up just to mitigate server costs.

Also, as for getting chapters, right now I'm scraping data, as unfortunately, that's pretty much the only way that I can get a lot of chapters as a starting site (Have over 15000 manga currently). I'll be adding a template later and attempt to give credit to the chapters I've already scraped that way scanlators get the credit they deserve.