📋Changelog

Condensed changes are listed in this document. For extra details and previews of the functionality, refer to the corresponding update pages.

5/01/2025

✅New features

  • Series Publication Status Information and Filtering

  • Show Favourite Series on Profile

​⚡Improvements

  • Improve testing performance and analytics

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Fix custom tags not loading in Series Details

  • Fix Flame Comics Integration

  • Fix flaky tests

  • Fix overflow and scrolling issues on Series Details

  • Fix unhandled error on Series Details when title doesn't load properly

2/11/2024

🌐 New supported sites

​⚡Improvements

  • Handle Cloudflare's increased security measures to avoid chapter fetching interruption

  • Improve data fetching when Data Moderators ungroup sources

  • Remove various disbanded group sites and clean up the code

2/10/2024

✅New features

  • Allow searching by title in Profile's Library

​⚡Improvements

  • Improve DMARC security for emails

  • Make profile banner smaller on extra wide monitors

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Fix not being able to set chapter to 0

  • Fix Comick chapters without title or number being unrecognised

  • Fix flicker when opening nested modals

10/9/2024

✅New features

  • Show Top 100 Rankings in Series Details

​⚡Improvements

  • Allow Data Moderators to view rejected reports

  • Add scores to the exported list

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Fix Reaper Scans broken integration

  • Fix Similar Search not working for non-logged-in users

1/8/2024

​⚡Improvements

  • Improve Data Moderator Test

  • Stop tracking visits to protected pages

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Fix Asura Scans broken integration

  • Fix Personal Recommendations containing duplicates

1/7/2024

✅New features

  • Personal Recommendations

  • Customisable Discovery

  • Animated Banner

​⚡Improvements

  • Animated avatars can now be cropped

  • Upgrade PostgreSQL to v16

  • Introduce vector storage for AI features

  • Use a faster image-processing library for avatars and banners

  • Improve performance of chapter re-count

1/6/2024

✅New features

  • Series Ratings

  • AI-driven Similar Series

  • Dashboard Filters

  • Edit entries from Quick Search & Series Details

​⚡Improvements

  • Allow reporting from the Series Details page

  • Improved maintenance switching

  • Advanced Search / Browse uses new filters UI

  • Unify Add and Edit Entry UI

  • Classify Erotica series

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Comikey mature series are not auto-rejected

  • Fix not being able to pass Comick URLs to find series

  • Fix completed series chapter auto-setting

1/5/2024

✅New features

  • Set the latest chapter when completing a series

​⚡Improvements

  • Improve autocompletion on sign-in and sign-up

  • Indicate blacklisted series in Data Moderation

  • Record and display Report Rejections in Data Moderation

  • Simultaneous edit support for Data Moderators

  • Finish removal of MangaHub

  • Improve Series Details alignment on desktop and mobile

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Fix local search debounce issues

1/4/2024

✅New features

  • Add Profiles access to everyone

  • Login using username

  • Allow setting GIF avatars

  • Create the ability to add notes to entries

​⚡Improvements

  • Handle Comick dynamic slugs

  • Fix N+1 queries on Profiles

  • Add private profile version

  • Add rules for Data Moderators

  • Improve avatar and banner loading transition

  • Show Accept / Reject buttons on the profile when the invite pending

  • Improve navigating from notifications and activity lists

  • Create Data Moderation roles and permissions

  • Improve Dashboard Cover Grid transitions

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Fix invalid invoicing when paying after the subscription cancelled

  • Fix copy to clipboard from Quick Search not working

1/3/2024

🌐New supported sites

  • Comick

✅New features

  • Allow adding friends (Early Access)

  • Allow searching user profiles by their username (Early Access)

  • Add Notifications (Early Access)

​⚡Improvements

  • Improve highlighting when searching series by title

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Disable Dashboard filters when loading to avoid race conditions

  • Fix the Settings navigation layout on the iPad

  • Fix dynamic slug issues with certain sites

  • Fix tooltips remaining open when opening/closing modals

  • Fix pie chart layout shifting when switching tabs

1/2/2024

✅New features

  • Allow viewing others' libraries (Early Access)

  • Allow filtering others' entries (Early Access)

  • Allow setting profile picture and username on sign-up

  • Allow hiding series from public profile

​⚡Improvements

  • Update the Pricing page with updated perks

  • Improve series ungrouping in pending reports (Data Moderators only)

  • Allow editing alternative titles for series in pending reports (Data Moderators only)

  • Remove search engine v1 completely

  • Dashboard search uses search engine v2

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Fix the navigation bar not loading due to avatar load errors

1/1/2024

✅New features

  • Add the ability to upload a profile banner

  • Allow viewing own profile page (Early Access)

  • Allow viewing public profile pages (Early Access)

  • Allow controlling profile visibility

  • Add personal Activity Feed

1/12/2023

✅New features

  • Add the ability to upload a profile picture

​⚡Improvements

  • Increase password strength requirements

  • Disallow setting passwords that have been previously breached

  • Allow manually loading new pages in Advanced Search

  • Various improvements to Settings screens

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Remove the import button from the mobile

  • Fix not handling invalid URL suggestions

1/11/2023

​⚡Improvements

  • Upgrade underlying HTTP client

  • Provide a quick link to Advanced Search from Quick Search

  • Upgrade Storybook to v7

  • Remove duplicate alternative titles on hundreds of series

  • Add new tags, such as Vampire, BL, GL, and more

  • Improve UI for Admin Panel

  • Make suggesting new series instant

  • Add gradual cover loading on the Series Details page

  • SEO optimisations for Discovery and Advanced Search

  • Quick Search navigates to the Series Details page

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Fix webtoon timestamps incorrectly showing "1 day ago"

  • Fix Sign Up ToS and Privacy Policy links

  • Fix certain sites not deprecating sources when encountering 404

  • Fix inconsistent padding with the navbar across the app

  • Fix inconsistent padding on Discovery Carousel

  • Fix navigation issues when the app has been updated

  • Fix Advanced Search Added On + Newest filter combination

  • Fix suggesting upgrades to a source with smaller or the same latest chapter

1/10/2023

​✅New features

  • Discovery & Advanced Search out of Early Access

  • Added carousel to Discovery

  • Smart Suggestions v3

​⚡Improvements

  • Speed up premium status change on billing updates

  • Redesigned Pricing Page

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Handle approval / ignoring of outdated smart suggestions

1/9/2023

🌐New supported sites

  • Azuki

​✅New features

  • Add to Dashboard provides all options in Series Details

  • Allow filtering by Series Added On in Advanced Search

​⚡Improvements

  • Preload the Largest Contentful Paint on the Series Details page

  • Improve meta tag loading performance across the app

  • Show Kenmei Splash Screen instead of the white background on app load

  • Automatic rotation of dynamic URLs on supported sites

  • Add report limits per user

  • Rollout various improved security measures

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Don't load series twice when resetting Advanced Search filters

  • Fix expiring links on the site with dynamic URLs

  • Fix the Light / Dark Mode toggle resetting

  • Fix source list overflow in the Data Moderator panel

  • Fix copy when showing alternative titles in Series Details

  • Fix tags not loading on the Series Details page

1/8/2023

​✅New features

  • Add genre and theme filtering to Advanced Search

  • Sort by Last Added and Last Read in the Dashboard

​⚡Improvements

  • Simplify the Data Moderator panel for different report types

  • Improve Advanced Search filtering mobile UI

  • Backfill 78% of all series' descriptions

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Remove the focus outline on the mobile Advanced Search filter

1/7/2023

​✅New features

  • Series Details v2

  • Search Engine v2

  • Series genres and themes support

  • Series Synopsis

  • Similar Series

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Fix Tappytoon not returning all chapters

  • Improve auto-focus on Quick Search

  • Fix the iPad mini not loading series in Advanced Search when scrolling

  • Fix the issue with Tapas multi-season chapter counts

1/6/2023

​✅New features

  • Quick Search v2

  • Comikey Support

  • Adding series by URL

​⚡Improvements

  • Add new Rejection Reasons based on new guidelines

  • Improve supported sites redirection logic to handle more edge cases for various manhwa groups

  • Centralise supported sites configuration in the database

  • Improve the Premium Success page to provide better guidelines for unlocked perks

  • Add report re-submission delay to stop report spamming by some users

  • Various infrastructure upgrades on the API

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Fix Discovery shows series as Newly Released when they already existed before

  • Fix supported sites pagination being able to get into an infinite loop

  • Fix not deprecating Tapas series when getting a Not Found error

  • Fix issues with database connection pooling

  • Fix the error around trying to parse paid chapters that don't have a URL

1/5/2023

​✅New features

  • Add the ability to report issues with series data

​⚡Improvements

  • Remove the Stripe requirement on the app

  • Improve the performance of custom scrollbars

  • Improve DX as well as performance in the development environment

  • Remove unconfirmed users a month later

  • Add retries to handling billing changes for Premium members

  • Upgrade to Sidekiq 7, resulting in performance gains to daily updates

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Fix updater unhandled failure

  • Fix MangaDex incorrectly appearing offlined due to missing chapters

  • Fix issues with Redis timeouts

  • Fix Lynx Scans integration

  • Fix banner iOS spacing issue

2/4/2023

🌐New supported sites

  • Tappytoon

​⚡Improvements

  • Upgraded Redis instance to version 6.2 for improved performance

  • Improved new Search Engine (currently tested internally)

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Various minor fixes on the API

  • Various fixes on the UI

1/3/2023

​⚡Improvements

  • Improved error tracking for background jobs

  • Migrated API error tracking to Sentry

  • Improved Export file by adding new columns

  • Switch to a better management system for Early Access features access

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Fixed password reset not working

  • Fixed Flame Scans chapter updating for non-standard links

  • Fixed security edge-cases

1/1/2023

​✅New features

  • Add blacklisted and deprecated source Smart Suggestions

​⚡Improvements

  • Improve the welcome email for new Kenmei Lite Premium members

  • Send an email to new members that haven't confirmed their emails 3 days later

  • Advanced Search Readable On filter now sorts sites alphabetically

  • More improvements to how Smart Suggestions are generated

  • Improve Kenmei code security

  • Improve DX further by switching from Percy to Chromatic for Visual Regression testing

  • Upgrade payment processing libraries

  • Improve Export CSV file, by providing entry migration information

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Fix the Maintenance page not correctly redirecting back to the main app

  • Fix not handling site redirects on series when fetching the latest chapters

  • Fix the issue with generating Chapter Upgrade Smart Suggestions

  • Fix sorting by unread sometimes showing older releases ahead of newer ones

  • Fix pagination issues when trying to fetch a page that does not exist

  • Fix various unhandled errors in the UI

1/12/2022

​⚡Improvements

  • Allow Data Moderators to crop covers

  • Massive improvement to DX by switching from VueX to Pinia

  • Various improvements to the Smart Suggestions system

  • Various improvements to Report modal

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Fix Reaper Scans chapters being deleted

1/11/2022

​✅New features

  • Add the ability to ignore Smart Suggestions

⚡Improvements

  • Correctly show latest approved series in Discovery - New Releases

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Fix titles being updated between sources, as well as Kenmei URLs changing

  • Fix Reaper Scans integration

  • Fix Advanced Search loading series twice, when navigating back from a different page

  • Fix flaky integration test

3/10/2022

​✅New features

  • Add the ability to ignore Smart Suggestions (Coming soon)

  • Add Source Deprecated Smart Suggestion type (Coming soon)

  • Add Site Offline Smart Suggestion type (Coming soon)

  • Add ability to bulk apply / reject Smart Suggestions (Coming soon)

⚡Improvements

  • Improve performance of fetching new chapter updates

  • Data Moderators can blacklist series

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Fix Advanced Search not loading new series on tall screens

  • Fix the Smart Suggestion arrow not being properly aligned on mobile devices

  • Improve handling of unexpected errors in the app

1/9/2022

​✅New features

  • Add the ability to export the entire list

⚡Improvements

  • Better session management

  • Overhauled chapter timestamp logic, making them more accurate

  • Provide more detailed series suggestions rejection reasons emails

  • Remove the Terms of Service warning page, now that everyone has accepted ToS

  • Improve SEO configuration

  • Correctly refresh Premium status, when cancelling a subscription or being overdue

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Fix not being able to update the title without a cover set

  • Fix count of users tracking a particular series getting out of sync

  • Fix not handling some random errors, now showing a correct error message instead

  • Fix series suggestions failing due to an invalid cover being set

  • Reset Premium features properly after cancellation

1/8/2022

🌐New supported sites

​✅New features

  • Sort entries by number of chapters released

  • Show locked chapters

  • Add Discovery Mode (in Early Access)

  • Add Advanced Search (in Early Access)

⚡Improvements

  • Provide better control over the Maintenance mode

  • Upgrade Database to a much beefier and stable tier

  • Allow wider width on 1440p monitors

  • Start collecting genres and series classification information

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Fix pagination overflow when deleting the last entry on the page

  • Fix Leviatan Scans timestamps issues (more remain)

  • Fix changing order on large lists when sorting

1/7/2022

🌐New supported sites

​✅New features

  • Send Approval / Rejection emails for suggested series

⚡Improvements

  • Improve performance when fetching new updates

  • Allow better duplicate merging when approving newly suggested series

  • Update Card Shadow design, to significantly improve the performance in Covers Mode

  • Provide information on deprecated sources in the series suggestion menu

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Fix shadow bleeding on the Series Details page

  • Show loading animation when ungrouping sources

1/6/2022

🌐New supported sites

⚡Improvements

  • Set a retry limit when trying to update broken sites

  • Improve handling of source redirection drastically

  • Improve and unify updating logic

  • Major upgrade for the payment processing logic

  • Automatically detect newly released series on supported sites

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Fix chapters getting out of sync when existing chapter gets overwritten

  • Fix not removing pending status when ungrouping sources

  • Fix sometimes logging people out before 2 months pass

  • Fix incorrectly assigning chapters to the wrong sources

  • Fix not showing correct error, when trying to mark deleted chapter as read

1/5/2022

✅​New features

  • Completely revamped Reporting system aka Reporting v2

  • Make the site completely PWA compliant

  • Allow installing the app on Windows and Mac

  • Add Refresh button to fetch the latest entries with existing filters and sorting

  • Add a new way to update the web app to the latest version

⚡Improvements

  • Speed up loading when suggesting a new series

  • Upgrading to Ruby 3.0 for various under-the-hood speed improvements

  • Completely exclude 18+ titles from being searchable

  • Improve reliability of fetching new chapters every 15 minutes

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Fix Select All not working properly if you had less than 50 entries on the page

  • Fix MangaDex not correctly marking series as deprecated (aka not available anymore)

  • Handle properly trying to set the last read chapter, when it doesn't exist anymore

  • Fix not being able to merge duplicates when one has 0 chapters available

  • Fix pre-populating cover and alternative titles for a newly suggested series

  • Fix missing available chapters when some sites rotate their URLs

  • Fix allowing terminating an account for a Premium member, without terminating their subscription first

  • Fix not being able to fetch some MangaDex covers

1/4/2022

⚡Improvements

  • New covers CDN

  • Fix a minor performance degradation on series search

  • Add ability to approve pending series in-app (admins only)

  • Add ability to switch series for the source in-app (admins only)

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Fix MMScans volume detection

  • Fix MMScans chapter recognition

  • Handle errors raised by RSS Feed parser, to correctly set sites as being down

1/3/2022

🌐New supported sites

✅​New features

  • Ability to share a link to a Kenmei series

⚡Improvements

  • Remove all the legacy sites and series, that have been removed for months

  • Allow overdue Premium members to update their payment info, instead of subscribing again

  • Add ability to support sites without an API or RSS Feed

  • Ability to migrate entries between sites automatically

  • Show a banner when Premium subscription is overdue

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Fix MangaDex now showing chapters from partners that can be read on the site

  • Fix MangaDex not showing all chapters due to incorrect filtering

  • Fix not updating entries' series when migrating

  • Fix actions dropdown being cut-off on short lists on mobile

  • Show Billing Portal to overdue members

  • Fix Read Manhua showing chapters as being released in the future incorrectly

  • Fix shows Set to Null when setting a chapter as read, which only has a title

  • Make chapter badges correctly truncate, when they are very long

  • Fix MangaHub and others not correctly identifying Ch. 0

  • Correctly show Available Chapters by default, when you haven't selected the last read chapter yet

1/2/2022

✅​New features

  • Ability to search series by alternative titles

  • Ability to filter own entries by alternative titles

⚡Improvements

  • Massive speed-up of series search (20x-100x faster in some cases)

  • Improve series suggestions logic to approve more series automatically

  • Blacklist adding NSFW titles from MangaDex and MangaHub

  • Remove all the pre-Chapters v2 code to improve the codebase

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Fix inability to delete own account post-Chapters v2 release

  • Fix status select going off-screen when editing an entry

  • Fix Tritinia Scans integration

  • Fix inability to update multiple entries post Chapters v2 release

  • Fix not getting Series Already Suggested error when trying to suggest existing series

11/1/2022

✅​New features

  • Ability to select last read chapter from available chapters

  • Ability to manually input last read chapter and volume

  • Allow reporting individual entries in list mode

  • Last read chapter tracked across sources for seamless switching between sites

⚡Improvements

  • Improve reliability of MangaDex and MangaHub releases (no missed updates)

  • Setup ability to enable Maintenance Mode

  • Improve Leviatan Scans integration, making sure URLs are always working

  • Improve Asura Scans integration, for more reliable URLs

  • Migrate from AWS to DigitalOcean, for better image serving for covers mode

  • Fetch Smart Suggestions asynchronously, for faster page loading

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Fix Asura Scans missing all chapters sometimes

  • Fix total entries count being incorrect in some cases

  • Fix missing custom scrollbar on selects

  • Improve search bar position on iPads

01/12/2021

✅​New features

  • Front-end Overhaul

  • Back to Top Button

  • New Notifications

  • New Select Dropdowns

  • Add confirm entry deletion dialog

⚡Improvements

  • Optimised Landing Page Images for faster loading

  • Upgrade from Vue 2 to Vue 3

  • Switch from Webpack to Vite

  • Improved Site Downtime detection algorithm and email system

  • Ability to update Series information (Admin functionality)

  • Completely switch to the new Chapter system (part of Chapters v2 work)

  • Move bug and performance monitoring to Sentry

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Fix Reset Password not working correctly

  • Fix mobile Add button not showing on first app load

  • Fix report dropdown being cut-off

  • Fix Terms and Privacy Policy links not working in Sign Up

  • Fix Settings Navigation on Mobile overflowing

📅01/11/2021

🌐 New supported sites

⚡Improvements

  • Remove a lot of old code as part of Chapters v2 work

  • Remove old code in preparation for the Import overhaul work

  • Madara sites now return covers

  • Add ability to fetch all series for any supported sites

  • Update Lynx Scans integration

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Fix Read Manhua showing Last Released in the past

  • Fix Reaper Scans integration breaking for series without chapters

  • Fix Reaper Scans chapter title fetching

  • Fix failing to add some series from MangaDex due to missing English titles

📅01/10/2021

🌐 New supported sites

🚀 Coming soon

  • Performance improvements to the app

  • New tag selector UI

  • New notifications UI

⚡Improvements

  • Ignore external chapters on MangaDex and other sites

  • Update Duplicate Fixer to handle Chapter V2 work

  • Update MangaDex integration to comply with latest API updates

  • Various smaller improvements

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Fix search not working properly on iOS

  • Exclude BiliBili releases on MangaDex

  • Fix showing unread chapters daily on Flame Scans

📅04/09/2021

⚡Improvements

  • Comply with latest MangaDex API changes

  • Add new Onboarding screen for new users

  • Add ability to change cover and title on a series

  • Add Custom Chapters groundwork

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Clean up entries that had URLs set, but no chapter information

  • Convert old Trackr.moe entries to have correct chapters and volumes

  • Fix FlameScans integration

  • Fix MangaHub setting empty strings as the chapter title

  • Fix MangaDex not returning ecchi series

📅01/08/2021

⚡Improvements

  • Upgrade Redis and improve session management

  • Clean up component naming on the client

  • Streamline extraction of source and chapter IDs

  • Improve visuals for the Kenmei icon when adding to home screen

  • Streamline fetching updates from API-only sources

  • Update background job processing urgency

  • Speed up chapter fetching - from 30 minutes to every 15 minutes

  • Added Mixpanel Analytics

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Fix some MangaDex chapter URLs not working

  • Fix Asura Scans URLs sometimes not working

  • Fix No Chapters Read colour visual regression

  • Fix missing some MangaDex updates

  • Fix logging out too early when Remember Me checked

  • Fixed incorrectly being able to add BilliBilli from sites that advertise it

  • Fix Title Search accessibility

  • Fix flaky tests in the Continuous Integration pipeline

📅06/07/2021

✅New features

  • Kenmei Premium

  • Dark Mode [Premium only]

  • Covers grid [Premium only]

⚡Improvements

  • Fetch latest user data on token refresh

  • Add support for MangaDex v5 API

  • Fix memory leak in weekly series data refresh

  • Replace ElementUI divider and link components for custom ones

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Fix Madara sources not correctly picking latest chapter

  • Fix infinite loading during token refresh

  • Fix MangaDex chapters not being correctly identified

📅01/06/2021

⚡Improvements

  • Improve supported sites online/offline detection

  • Improve duplicate fixer, correctly setting unread when merging duplicates

  • Improve site suggestion logic → Official sites are suggested first, followed by Groups and Aggregators

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Fix not deprecating MangaHub series

  • Fix Smart Suggestions resetting tags

  • Fix resetting tags when manually setting a chapter

  • Fix Flame Scans integration

  • Fix unread state not being set correct

  • Fix getting stuck in infinite loading on Firefox

🐛Known issues

  • Can get stuck in an infinite loading for the list, that requires manual logging out to fix

  • Logging out with Remember Me cookie before 2 months pass

  • Setting series by URL resets tags

  • Using Smart Suggestion Upgrade resets tags

📅03/05/2021

🌐 New supported sites

  • MangaSushi

  • Arang Scans

  • Hunlight Scans

  • Trinitia Scans

  • Flame Scans

  • Read Manhua

  • Immortal Updates

⚡Improvements

  • Massive upgrade to TailwindCSS v2, unlocking work on Dark Mode & more

  • Create universal time parsing logic, to make maintainability easier and avoid bugs

  • Completely re-build duplicate series merger, making it much easier to merge duplicates

  • Potential duplicates get set as Pending series, to be manually reviewed before adding

  • Upgrade Redis to the next major version (6.0)

  • Fix performance degradation when searching for series

  • Replace legacy loading indicator with a new one

  • Populate missing MangaHub sites (~12k new series)

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Fix Madara sites incorrectly identifying chapters

  • Fix Madara sites not correctly setting the last read timestamp

  • Fix Webtoon not fetching new data due to age restriction

  • Fix Smart Suggestions not showing up when they should

  • Fix Supported Sites wrapping status badges on some screens

🐛Known issues

  • Can get stuck in an infinite loading for the list, that requires manual logging out to fix

  • Logging out with Remember Me cookie before 2 months pass

  • Setting series by URL resets tags

  • Using Smart Suggestion Upgrade resets tags

📅01/04/2021

⚡Improvements

  • Add support for Madara sites

  • Improve performance on series search

  • Upgrade major dependencies for improved back-end performance and security

  • Sort sources by most recent chapter when searching or switching sources/series

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Fix Leviatan Scans and Sleeping Knight (due to them moving platforms)

  • Fix not handling edge cases when fetching new updates

  • Fix flaky tests on the back-end

🐛Known issues

  • Can get stuck in an infinite loading for the list, that requires manual logging out to fix

  • Bug with showing chapters being read in the future is still present

  • MangaHub having a lot of duplicates

📅07/03/2021

🌐 New supported sites

✅New features

  • Smart Suggestion System

  • Improved Manga Source picker, with the latest chapter information and online indicator

⚡Improvements

  • A complete overhaul of how chapters are stored in the database.

  • Addition of re-designed UI elements (e.g. dropdowns)

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Fix not being able to scroll Manga Series list on iOS

  • Fix incorrect layout on some devices, like iPad or iPhone Max Pro

  • Fix not disabling scrolling correctly on iOS devices

🐛Known issues

  • Can get stuck in an infinite loading for the list, that requires manual logging out to fix

  • Bug with showing chapters being read in the future is still present

📅31/01/2021

⚡Improvements

  • Massively improve load times for most users (30-50% faster loading)

  • Fix memory leak issues for background jobs

  • Implement Visual Regression tracking

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Fix Asura Scans changes URLs

  • Fix showing Read in X seconds bug

  • Fix MangaStream sources not correctly timing out when the site is down

  • Stop adding new series, when an import fails

  • Fix deprecating sources due to simple timeouts

  • Fix prematurely marking sites as inactive due to a fast timeout

📅03/01/2021

🌐 New supported sites

✅New features

  • Redesigned Dashboard on desktop

  • Redesigned Mobile UI

  • Add last read information

⚡Improvements

  • Improve how RSS Feeds are parsed during the latest chapter updates

  • Update landing page with the new UI preview

  • Add ability to more quickly fix duplicated series on the back-end

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Fix Asura Scans caching issue (not correctly grabbing latest releases)

  • Fix visual regression on Import completed (Import button would still be showing up)

  • Fix inability to import NSFW titles from MangaDex

  • Fix intermittent logout issues (users got logged out when updating too quickly)

🐛Known issues

  • Sometimes sites can be set as inactive, even when they are in fact still available

  • Some sources can get deprecated (showing no latest chapter) incorrectly

📅30/11/2020

✅New features

  • Add status page, that shows whatever the site is online or not + maintenance information

⚡Improvements

  • Mark sites as active or inactive, depending on their availability

  • Mark sources as deprecated, if we are unable to retrieve data anymore (URL changed, series removed, etc)

  • Finish v3 of the site auto-updater, that is able to deal with sites that are down or have issues

  • Switch checking for new chapter releases, from 1 hour to every 30 minutes.

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Fix minor error when logging out from Settings page

  • Fix errors raised when any of the supported sites time out

  • Fix errors raised when MangaDex is in maintenance mode

  • Fix errors raised when MangaDex has Database throttling on

  • Fix showing Something went wrong when there is a title validation error

🐛Known issues

  • Sometimes sites can be set as inactive, even when they are in fact still available

  • Some sources can get deprecated (showing no latest chapter) incorrectly

📅01/11/2020

🌐 New supported sites

🚀 Coming soon

  • Email notifications for series planned for removal or sources that are not in use anymore

  • Improved Source selector (providing information on latest chapters and whatever the source is down or not)

⚡Improvements

  • All inputs now use final design

  • Add ability to quickly clear your search term, when filtering dashboard by title

  • Add additional performance monitoring on the back-end

  • Added tools to track sources that no longer exist on the supported sites

  • Various smaller improvements

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Fix being able to scroll on iOS, when modal is open

  • Fix typo in Settings

📅11/10/2020

✅New features

  • Show both volume and chapter information per series

  • Add server-side pagination and filtering

  • Overhauled input validation

🚀 Coming soon

  • Add series by title

  • New UI for desktop

  • App-like experience on mobile

⚡Improvements

  • Overhaul of the internal APIs namespacing, allowing for quicker and easier addition of new sources

  • Additional internal tools, for easier fixing of issues with entries and series

  • Addition of server-side pagination brings speed improvements to large lists and better scalability for all user lists

  • Set hard timeouts on fetching new series, waiting only 3 seconds instead of 30 when a source is offline.

  • Various smaller improvements

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Fix MangaDex MDList import getting stuck sometimes

  • Fix scrollbar jumping when modal opens

  • Fix issues with create/update of entries due to the new server-side logic

  • Sorting and filtering doesn't reset when updating entries

📅31/08/2020

🌐 New supported sites

✅New features

  • Bulk update the last chapter read

  • Search tags when adding new ones or filtering your list

🚀 Coming soon

  • Chrome, Firefox, Edge & Opera official extension

  • Ability to see volumes in addition to chapters

  • Project Scans support

  • WhimSubs support

  • Non Stop Scans support

  • Method Scans support

⚡Improvements

  • Massive speedup of site load time (Site can load 3x-5x for some users)

  • Improve underlying logic for handling supported sites, improving the speed of adding and managing new sites

  • Various smaller improvements

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Fix not being able to handle URLs without a www

📅02/08/2020

✅New features

  • MangaDex MDList shows if the list is private, instead of sending an email

  • Show if an import is already in progress

  • Ability to set the current chapter from the URL, even if manga already in your list

⚡Improvements

  • Huge overhaul of the API logic for managing supported sites

  • Improve test suite, by completely re-writing how all supported sites are tested

  • Remove OneShot Scans support, due to the group getting abandoned

  • Various smaller improvements

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Fix all duplicate entries, making sure they correctly grouped together

  • Fix logo not being visible on mobile

📅03/07/2020

✅New features

  • New sites added:

    • Edelgarde Scans

    • Secret Scans

  • Ability to create custom tags

    • Settings page allows management of tags

    • Custom, multi-tag system allows assigning tags to manga entries, for better management of the manga list

⚡Improvements

  • Under the hood improvement to new manga source creation, allowing for even faster creation of new sources

  • Improve duplicated manga fixer

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Fix small errors when session is expired while trying to do some action on the site

  • Fix account confirmation link working indefinitely, instead allowing you to confirm and log in only once

📅07/06/2020

✅New features

  • New sites added:

    • KKJ Scans

    • No Names Scans

  • Updated UI

    • New Manga List layout and colours (light theme)

    • New Bulk Edit buttons

    • Updated Announcement Banner (now dismissible)

  • Settings page

    • Added ability to update email

    • Added ability to update password

    • Can delete account completely

  • Add ability to select reading status for manga

    • Can select between Reading, On Hold, Plan To Read, Completed and Dropped

  • Ability to see and search all manga entries

🚀Coming Soon

  • Ability to create tags and apply any number of them to manga entries

  • Settings page

    • Selecting preferred title format (Romaji or English)

    • Overview of tags

⚡Improvements

  • Improved url format, # is not included anymore

    • e.g. www.kenmei.co/#/mangalist is now www.kenmei.co/mangalist

  • Added 404 Not Found page, when navigating to non-existing pages

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Remember Me correctly keeps users logged in for 2 months

  • Made emails to be case insensitive to avoid reported issues with login

📅05/04/2020

✅New features

  • New sites added:

  • New landing page

  • New navigation bar style

  • New modal style

  • Switch most of the buttons to the new style

  • Added page transition animation

  • Added most of the requested sites to Supported Sites page

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Fix new instances of imports failing due to duplicate manga titles

  • Fix page not taking up the whole screen on larger monitors (2K, 4K, etc)

  • Fix Jaimini's Box and Kirei Cake setting wrong last available chapter

  • Fix failing to add manga when there is an accidental whitespace added

  • Update missing logo in the sign up confirmation email

🐛Known issues

  • Shows Nothing New To Import when all manga entries failed to import, instead of showing them as failed

📅09/03/2020

✅New features

  • Cross-site support added. New sites added:

  • New page showcasing supported sites

  • Trackr.moe imports all supported manga sources

  • Import email shows from which sites have manga succeeded and failed to import

    • Includes failed to import URLs

  • Show only currently tracked manga

    • Manga edit window allows changing to a different source, for a specific manga

    • Indicates under the manga title, how many sites are being tracked

  • Show warning, if trying to delete manga with multiple sources tracked

  • Ability to report if there are manga duplicates

  • New Failure errors when trying to add new manga

    • Website not supported when trying to add manga from unsupported site

    • Manga not found when website is supported, but manga url was not found

    • Chapter not found when website is supported, but chapter url was not found

  • Manga edit window pre-fills list of the selected entries

⚡Improvements

  • Huge optimisation all around, with big manga lists loading 3x-4x faster

  • Countless codebase improvements for smoother development in the future

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Fix MDList and Trackr.moe imports sometimes mixing up which list to add an entry to

  • Show manga not found error when MangaDex returns 404 error, instead of something went wrong

  • Fix Remember Me not working, when it was logging users out after 1hr

🐛Known issues

  • Shows Nothing New To Import when all manga entries failed to import, instead of showing them as failed

📅06/02/2020

Update #11

✅New features

  • Ability to use chapter link to add manga entry, which will pre-populate last read chapter as well

  • Trackr.moe import now happens in the background, instead of being real-time

  • Ability to edit a single manga entry, without relying on bulk selection

  • Row action buttons are shown on hover

  • Updated tooltips style and animations

🛠️Bug fixes

  • MangaDex MDList importing now correctly imports all found series

  • Trackr.moe import upload shows error message if upload fails

  • Broken loading animation is fixed when adding new manga in Add Manga

⚡Improvements

  • Manga list loads significantly faster (list with 800 manga entries load under a second)

  • Improve how new manga entries are evaluated

    • Manga entries without last read chapter chapter, but existing last available chapter are marked as unread

  • Various improvements under the hood to code quality and speed

🐛Known issues

  • MangaDex MDList import doesn't always show manga series that failed to import

📅 27/12/2019

Update #10

✅New features

  • Updated landing page with up to date newsletter sign-up information

  • Re-designed log-in and sign-up experience

  • Improved MangaDex updater, with more reliable tech and updates happening every 30 minutes

  • Added ability to import MangaDex MDList

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Editing entries after list has been filtered now shows up to date results

🐛Known issues

  • Initial manga list loading is slower. Will be addressed in the near future

📅 4/12/2019

Update #9

✅New features

  • Ability to move manga entries between lists

  • Report if there is an issue with the manga entry

⚡Improvements

  • Bulk deletion is much faster (x10 speedup)

  • Show error messages when deletion fails

📅 15/11/2019

Update #8

✅New features

  • Pagination on lists (shows 50 manga entries per page)

  • Ability to search by manga title

  • Manga with newly released chapters is ordered by latest released

📅 9/11/2019

Update #7

✅New features

  • Trackr.moe import includes latest read chapters

  • Series with newly released chapters show up at the top by default, with blue dot indicator

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Series without the latest chapter, will now show a title of the chapter, if its one shot, or Unknown Title, if there is no information available about the chapter

  • Fix lowercase titles not being alphabetically sorted

⚡Improvements

  • Improve Trackr.moe import speed (10 minute import takes seconds now)

📅 3/11/2019

Update #6

✅New features

  • Ability to mark manga entries as read, setting it to last chapter available

  • Show (blue dot) indicator for unread manga entries

🛠️Bug fixes

  • Correctly set latest chapter available from MangaDex

📅 1/11/2019

Update #5

✅New features

  • Update MangaDex latest chapter information hourly

📅 6/10/2019

Update #4

✅New features

  • Manga entries are persisted, both through import and adding individually.

  • Ability to select from multiple lists. There are 3 initial lists (Reading, On-Hold and Plan to Read)

  • Trakr.moe full import of MangaDex entries. It imports all lists, including custom ones.

🐛Known issues

  • Only full Trackr.moe JSON export file, found in Options, can be imported.

  • Perfomance is subpar for lists that contain hundreds of manga entries.

  • Mobile UI experience could do with a lot more work.

📅 22/09/2019

Update #3

✅New features

  • Basic registration and sign in functionality

  • Ability to delete manga entries, including bulk deletion

🐛Known issues

  • Registration requires manual confirmation by sending an email

  • No ability to reset password

  • No ability to change details after registration is complete

📅 17/08/2019

Update #2

✅New features

  • Add any MangaDex entry, by pasting in the URL.

  • Import Trackr.moe list (only MangaDex entries) from export file found on Trackr.moe

  • Basic manga entries table

    • Shows manga title, latest chapter released and when it was released

    • Allows sorting by title and release date. Default sorting is by name.

🐛Known issues

  • Manga Entries are not persisted

  • Slow import of big Trackr.moe imports

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