Don't mark a chapter "read" if I back out at the missing chapters warning :planned:

[kdrakari]

I'll be using the manga Machikado Mazoku for my examples. It currently has chapters 17 and 20 (among others) but is missing chapters 18 and 19.

If I click on chapter 20 without noticing the gap then I'm shown a nice message letting me know that I would be missing some chapters if I keep reading.

However, if I immediately leave that page without reading any of chapter 20, it is still marked as read on the chapter list.

I can understand marking a chapter as read even if not all of the pages have been viewed, however in this case I haven't read any pages of the chapter, and in fact specifically took advantage of a feature designed to prevent me from accidentally reading the chapter; however, after that I still would need to manually go back to the chapter list and mark that chapter as unread. I believe it would make more sense to not mark the chapter as read in this situation.

 

[Oeconomist]

@Teasday recognized this problem at the outset; but it's hard to code to avoid it, and users can always click on th' eye-con to reset it.

A more fundamentally recoding could fix this problem, but the developers have a lot on their plates.

 

[BzzBzz]

How is it hard to code? You just mark it as "read" when mangadex.org/chapter/(manga-id)/1 is loaded instead of mangadex.org/chapter/(manga-id).

 

[blackyawgdom]

People don't realize that a good 50% of all coding is held together by duct tape and sacrifices to Hephaestus/Vulcan and Deus Mechanicus. Except iOS. That's made by writing on an angels soul using demons blood.

 

[Teasday]

This is a hard limitation due to the fact that requesting the chapter data already automatically marks that chapter as read in the backend and it's a holdover from before the time I was even a dev. It'll be fixed whenever I have time to write a more sane system for managing markers.

 

[kdrakari]

Alright, I can definitely understand "that would end up being a lot of work for relatively little value, and a reasonable workaround already exists". I guess it will probably get bundled in as part of a more major rework of that part of the code somewhere down the line.

 

[Teasday]

That it will

 

[DANDAN_THE_DANDAN]

People don't realize that a good 50% of all coding is held together by duct tape and sacrifices to Hephaestus/Vulcan and Deus Mechanicus. Except iOS. That's made by writing on an angels soul using demons blood.

I love this.