New Poll - Main Story vs. Side Story 64602x

2 days ago
Posts: 10875
This week's poll was suggested by our member AUOdere. If a scanlation group is picking up a series that is already completed in the original language and it has a lot of extra content sprinkled throughout the series, should they prioritize the main story first or keep everything chronological? 2w1v9
You can submit poll ideas here: https://mangaupdates.telechargerjeux.org/topic/kilkdnn/site-manga-poll-suggestions
Previous Poll Results:
Question: How old is your current smartphone?
Choices:
- I don't use a smartphone - votes: 160 (5.4%)
- Less than 6 months - votes: 184 (6.2%)
- Between 6 months to a year - votes: 228 (7.7%)
- 1-2 years - votes: 754 (25.6%)
- 3 years - votes: 521 (17.7%)
- 4 years - votes: 357 (12.1%)
- 5 years - votes: 281 (9.5%)
- 6 years - votes: 142 (4.8%)
- Older than 6 years - votes: 322 (10.9%)
There were 2949 total votes. The poll ended: May 31, 2025
Dang, 11% of you use a smartphone that's older than 6 years? I guess you don't use apps
A just ruler amongst tyrants
2 days ago
Posts: 27
Regarding volume extras, IMO that's when reading official volume releases yields a better experience than scanslations: you get to read the extra punchline right after the chapter it refers to, as opposed to a .5 release many months after.
Then when you try to go back and re-read the original chapter it may well have been pulled offline, like with simulpubs or the recent Mangadex mass expunge...
2 days ago
Posts: 13
Translate in order of release, assuming we're talking about those volume extras like omake and author's notes and not spin-off stories published on the side. They get too out of context if translated later.
And, as a reader, I'd prefer waiting a bit longer to get the chapter plus the extra instead of having the extra coming separately unless the extra is practically a small chapter.
1 day ago
Posts: 12
Sorry if I don't get the question, but "completed" should mean all tanks have released, so all the side content that get pulled together as a .5 when working with magazine raws should be available to release with the chapter, so there shouldn't be a .5 at all, or just be the afterword/omakes?
Spin-offs I consider a different manga, so I wouldn't blame the scanlator however they choose to do it.
Social media stuff, no idea since I don't have any.

1 day ago
Posts: 268
Order of release for sure... So many times those side stories are referenced in main story in some way (even if only as easter egg)
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14 hours ago
Posts: 506
I'm probably not circling back for the side stories after the series is over. If they aren't translated along the way I'll just never see them.