[STATUS] Comick.io closes down.

How is it that reading manga is one of the most unrealistic types of media these days? $20 for four chapters you can finish in an afternoon is impossible for a lot of people, and all other options are dropping like flies.

paying for digital manga is an absolute fucking scam.
it's a shame that so many great series will never license physical copies in english.
- paying for digital manga is an absolute fucking scam
  From services like Manga UP, totally.
  But I think Manga Plus, which is a flat subscription fee, is fine. Buying volumes on e-book stores like Bookwalker, Kobo or Kindle completely fine too (Kobo is the nicest IMO).
At least we can read stuff for free on the manga plus app, but pretty much anything that isn't on that app is going to be expensive like you said. And what if I don't want to read on mobile?

And I'll have to migrate all over again.
- To what, do you think?

Comick 2 incoming.

Not official

While I don't want to speculate, I wouldn't be surprised if this is the same thing that happened to MangaDex.

Why are we blaming discord users here?
- C&D.
  educational.

For the longest time I keep trying to find a variety of sources to get comics in case this happened. but Comick always had the most issues. So I kept getting my issues from them, and now it happened

My only issue with Comick is that they'd have a lot of duplicate chapters

@wjs018@ani.social I pinned this since it's quite important.

Thanks! I am primarily working in a lab today and haven't really been able to stay plugged in.

Oh. I guess this isn't a "wait it out" situation then.

I just started using it a week ago 🥲

GG, can't have anything nice around these places.

Oh... I...had quite a few comics... Hm...

What other good options are there?

I like weebcentral because they have RSS support, makes it very convenient to keep up with updates without needing to make yet another account on yet another site.
Here's hoping it won't become too popular or the axe might come for it next.
- Someone needs to make an archival torrent of as much manga as possible
- Note that weebcentral has already rebranded more than once, so I personally can't trust it as a stable source anymore

If you don’t use an app to read, it’s probably easier to switch to Kenmei.

As far as I know, Kenmei is just a tracker?
- It tracks progress but directly links to hosts, so you can read with it too, that’s actually the main feature.
Mihon and tachiyomi derivatives all have migration, I moved my whole library to other sources between Batoto, Weeb Central, and a few others.
Does anyone have recommendations for those of us using apps?
- like Mihon?

You can read it here on their official Discord: https://discord.com/channels/860696481837350912/860701547196579880/1417491617736036432

Could you share an invite to the discord? I'd get it from their page but...
- https://discord.gg/comick
this is, incredible.
You legit expect us to oust ourselves?

F

Was that a comic piracy website?

Aggregator, but yes in the end.

Well dang. I guess there's no way to export reading history or follows?

Never mind I read the rest of the post.

wut

Can anyone recommend a tool for tracking which comics I'm reading, but which doesn't host copyrighted material itself? I could host it myself if necessary.

I don't want to lose my progress and reading history when the next site shuts down.

Ideally the tracker could link to some sources but that's optional.

Tracking in itself is not illegal, think of TVDB, AniList, and MAL. Someone suggested using Kenmei, apparently you can also put where you read each manga.
- I've never used any of those, thank you for the tips!