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we need to start SHAMING people who are posting obviously mangago title pages on twitter bc 1) it exposes the site 2) it makes it loud and clear u aren’t an official reader — which is fine but during a time when companies refuse to pay their artists more and are hunting illegal sites for sport you need to learn to gate keep. if you want to share what you are reading THERES LITERALLY A SITE FOR THAT CALLED MANGAUPDATES (bakaupdates) that lists not only the title, alternative names, official reading platforms, author information AND SOCIALS but also is a neat website where u can keep ur read, to read, dropped mangas (if this place ever goes down fingers crossed). also if you download the korean keyboard and like type by character parts to create a single hangul letter you can spell out any title + mangaupdates into any search engine and mangaupdates will generate the page with the English title (as long as it’s not like too new) so u don’t have to keep begging twitter users who refuse to share the title

feeling frustrated and hopeless that your lists are gone? follow these five steps to restore it:
1. look through uploaded new chapters to see if any familiar titles can be added back to your reading if lists
2. scroll to see the comments/topics on the right bottom column. maybe your long lost love is being read by someone else right now
3. from the bottom slowly scroll up and read the topics (left hand column) and what other people are trying to find. maybe it’s there too!
4. internalize that yes you need to build it back from scratch if you didn’t tag https://www.mangago.me/home/mangatopic/21091022/
5. realize that at least your library of alexandria wasn’t burned to the ground but rather suffered through a massive earthquake that toppled the shelves and scrambled the books. it needs your [uncle sam propaganda finger point] help to be restored

if you logged onto here after months and are reading this im so sorry but what’s done is done. it was wiped in early january. all jokes aside the first 3 steps (other than going through my reading history or notifications and adding everything that was still documented to my lists. but that option is long past) are what i still do to this day to restore my reading lists. they will never be complete and i will mourn my lengthy comments i left on every single manga i read.

but honestly every day i’m just grateful this place still stands. wasn’t deleted or like that one site that was a public library & was friendly and open to transcribers only to shut its doors to the public and start charging an entrance fee AND burning the transcriber works as kindling.

also it’s kinda nice to reevaluate if you really did like a certain manga or not to keep it in your list. or that moment when you find what you’ve been looking for — that exuberant joy is kinda irreplaceable. rereading them and realizing it’s still peak? best use of time.

if you’ve read this far sorry for wasting your time and good luck trying to find your favorites again.