This is me playing Princess Connect Redive even though it's just a dumbed down version of Granblue Fantasy with better client and waaaaay better visuals.
@HDMI1 - Yeah, just VPS1, $6.25/mo.
For anyone else interested, go here first: https://mangadex.org/md_at_home/request - read the instructions at the bottom then follow the link to https://sdbx.moe/vps . Once it's set up you don't have to do a damn thing.
You can monitor your client and...
My sdbx.moe MD@H box has served 9TB of manga is the past... I don't know, almost a year? It was super easy to set up and zero maintenance - it's not my problem, it's theirs! I just pay the $6 or whatever once a month. Super easy way to help.
@Sonaldo Basically there's no way to do it without doing tons of translation on your own, whether that's immersing yourself moving to Japan, taking classes, whatever. I read and translated a heck of a lot of raw manga, repeatedly wrote and memorized all the hiragana and katakana and basic...
@asdfwanderer @Look4Diversion @Sonaldo Looking at the Japanese raws, what the Japanese cycle gangsters (bosozoku) are doing is something where the boso loooove to be super florid with their speech and writing, because they're basically chuni and they think it's cool.
So where a normal...
I love how detachedly flirty they are and how we're seeing everything from his point of view as an unreliable narrator.
The unreliable narrator is quite old in literature, of course, but sadly rare in manga unless they just really rub in your face as a gag or they're going for shocking ending...
@volcelhmptn - the dedicated API server is just completely hosed right now, so if you attempt to parse what you get back you may be parsing a blank page. That's the first thing I'd check - write what you think is the page content to a debug file and see if it's anything sane.
So assuming you...
So a not as good version of https://mangadex.org/title/34944/soredemo-ayumu-wa-yosetekuru
Edit: Oh well, it's fluffy and cute, we can always use more fluffy and cute.
@Teasday I was able to convert PMDL's code over to use API v2 in a just over an hour (using Newtonsoft JSON). Very nicely done, this is so much better than scraping HTML.
edit: The mark_read doesn't seem to be working, though, even when specifically parameterized. Not a showstopper, though.