Dropped Status by group

[as280093]

Let group add dropped by group status
So if a Scanaltion group is looking for picking up dropped manga they can search via filter or something
And it also helps for reader who join their discord and ask the group if they have dropped this manga so and so

 

[Oeconomist]

How good have groups been about announcing that they have dropped a series? I've certainly seen such announcements, but I have no idea what share of drops have been unannounced.

What, if any, policy would there be about third parties getting such report made? For example, if a group has not updated its translations for two years of an ongoing biweekly series, then it seems that they have dropped it; but if they instead had a month-long pause after consistently updating every two weeks, then it seems hasty to conclude that they've quit without announcement.

Encouraging announcements (and tagging or status change is an announcement of a sort) reduces ambiguity, but also makes it less likely that a group that would otherwise just have quietly stopped translating will decide, after all, to resume translating. (I've seen one case of a group denying that they would quit, then quietly quitting, then resuming with an implicit admission that they had quit. They since have seemed to quietly quit again.)

 

[as280093]

Some group may not change the status but there are readers who want new chapters this they will confirm and report it to mods to add that status, with providing proof like credit page were group has added any info about being dropped or discord screenshot from admin or members will be genuine to confirm it's dropped

 

[Plykiya]

Nobody owns the series they work on, implementing this would just make it seem like they did. Whether or not a group drops a series is irrelevant. Any number of groups are allowed to work on a series at a given time. Not all groups will upload to MD, yet they can still claim here they haven't dropped the series to try and prevent other scanlators from working on it. Some groups also never consider a series they do as dropped, even if it's been over a year with no release.

 

[Oeconomist]

@AbyssalMonkey—

@as280093 is simply seeking to make MangaDex more useful to those groups that like to pick-up dropped series. (There really are groups that derive a particular pleasure from picking-up dropped series.) He or she was not expressing dissatisfaction at slow releases, and I was just noting a problem in distinguishing between quietly dropped series and series with slow releases.

I think that there are implementation problems; @Plykiya thinks that there is at least one fatal implementation problem. But @as280093 was seeking something conforming to the mission of MangaDex.

 

[Plykiya]

@Oeconomist I'm aware, but groups have no difficulty at all finding series that are dropped. There are more series than groups, one of the easiest things to do as a scanlator is to find something to work on.