the feature where chapters are marked as "read" isn't working as perfectly as it used to.

[Grimson-Gurdian]

before the addition of the follow features were added, manga chapters were marked as read just by clicking once on the chapter. Lately, However, this feature is not properly and is also not working when 1) using mangadex links from reddit 2) progressing from one chapter to another. Can anyone else relate?

 

[Plykiya]

The read marker now only appears if you're following that manga. Not a bug.

 

[eCinS]

I know that this is intended, but I see a big minus with this.
When I start reading a manga I do not follow yet I usually read it till the latest chapter and afterwards follow it.
So I have read the chapters and clicked on follow, but the chapters are not marked as read so I have to mark them manually.
I think that it would be best to mark chapters read even if you are not following the manga.

 

[Guspaz]

"It's not a bug, it's a feature"

It feels like a bug and it's quite annoying. I'd prefer if it was reverted. I don't follow a series until I've read a few chapters and decided if I like it... at which point none of the chapters that I've read are recorded.

 

[Plykiya]

It's not a bug, suggest how you want the feature to be changed in the suggestions forum. Most of the site features aren't finalized.
Holo stopped tracking reading for unfollowed series because the amount of rows of data for read chapters was getting a little overkill. As for the reading/re-reading only tracking chapters as read, that's just weird implementation. Suggest improvements and they'll usually happen.

 

[Teasday]

the amount of rows of data for read chapters was getting a little overkill

A "little" yeah, when you've got millions of rows of data in the first couple of months of your operation you're in for a bad time

 

[Guspaz]

I think that's more due to the choice of database schema and/or data format than it is the feature itself: there are much more efficient ways to track that, and while I'm not necessarily an expert in that field, I offered a few suggestions relating to schema and implementation in the suggestions forum that may help. Certainly, there are ways to store that sort of data in a far more compact manner.