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Scanlator is starting to translate a completed series that has lots of extra side content sprinkled throughout the story. They should...
Translate in order of release regardless of main story vs. side content
Prioritize the main story then go back and translate the extras
 
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7 years ago
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Because manga jouhou got too big for its britches. w2x4n


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7 years ago
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I was already using baka-updates (which was way more "alive" at the time than it is now), I started shifting from watching anime to reading manga in 2006 mostly because of the truly ridiculous sequential number of Naruto filler episodes, and that's when I found this website. I didn't make my until 5 years later because I didn't see an as necessary (I never went on the forums and if the "reading list" features already existed, I didn't know about them). I'm pretty sure I was linked here directly from baka-updates--mangahelpers didn't even exist yet in 2006 so it wasn't from there. But yeah, I picked "to find where to read or manga" because the feature I most used was the direct link to scanlator's websites (since this was long before mangaupdates even implemented its short-lived internal manga reader).


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7 years ago
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Like many others, I can't my first visit to MangaUpdates. But I know that when I was using it in the beginning, I used it mainly to find new manga to read.


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7 years ago
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I'm pretty sure I stated using this site "To find a new series to read." But once here I started using the forums, and was very active for a while.


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7 years ago
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Ah. Right. I completely forgot onemanga, it's been so long! But yes, once that site died, it's been Mangaupdates for me.


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7 years ago
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bigger database and you can make custom lists


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7 years ago
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I actually ed here only after I found out about NU which is strictly for asian novels. I was looking a place to have a list of the manga I've read/am reading and that was MU. I probably visited MU before that, but I really can't . If I did, it would have been to read the synopsis of a manga I wanted to read (but I feel like I would have done that in Batoto.)

I was that guy who had his own list of anime and manga I was watching/reading in an evernote note until I found out about MAL, NU and MU xD I still have those notes cause of nostalgia and it was the only way I could actually what I had watched/read during the times I didn't use MU and the rest.


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7 years ago
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Can't really any longer. Was too long ago now.
ed: 08/23/06 (over 11 years ago)

Which was a phase when I was reading a lot of manga and most was found on IRC. So I likely ed to keep track of what I was reading and which IRC channels to go to when Lurk didn't have it. Or was that channel later?


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7 years ago
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#lurk did indeed exist in 2006 (started in 2004), but I never actually used it for some reason. I getting some manga from IRC, but only about a quarter? #null was the only group for which I literally never finding releases anywhere but IRC. Usually groups had direct links to .rars of the chapters, even back then.

I only discovered MU in 2006 but I had at least started to read manga online in 2004.... I AQS scanlations of Negima from as early as 2005, and I think it was in 2004 that I first discovered two Yahoo Groups... one for Naruto and one for One Piece. Clearly sister groups, as far as I know they contained the most up-to-date scanlations at the time, and I people from those groups founding the Arlong Park forums and maybe even mangahelpers? Wow how times have changed.


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7 years ago
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Quote from Senrosj

I was that guy who had his own list of anime and manga I was watching/reading in an evernote note until I found out about MAL, NU and MU xD I still have those notes cause of nostalgia and it was the only way I could actually what I had watched/read during the times I didn't use MU and the rest.

This is 100% me. I had a notebook where I'd keep erasing in pencil the chapter I was on for each series as new chapters came out and a spreadsheet for the anime I was watching. Finding websites to do this made my life a lot simpler.


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7 years ago
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Onemanga died and I needed a way/base to keep track of what I was reading.


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I only discovered MU in 2006 but I had at least started to read manga online in 2004.... I AQS scanlations of Negima from as early as 2005

Negima was my first series as a scanlator, back in 2005 with AQS. The original reason I ed MangaUpdates was to add our releases here.


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Yes, I that it was your name on most (if not all?) of the release posts 🙂 Sorry the group didn't live to the end of that series! I never watched the group's subtitled anime tbh, I only read your negima releases XD


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