karehaqt
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6 years ago Latest update seems to have fixed my downloading issues, now just need Mangadex themselves to stop being so slow as updates / downloads are very slow compared to other sites.
Upgraded to the newest version to try it out on the newest site, but it's not going well.
First, updating the manga list 'from server' returns a 404. Using the first update option works, although with nearly 20k manga on the list it does take quite a while.
Second, program can freeze or crash when loading the manga info. This particularly seems to happen when trying to load manga from past the first third or so of the list; I first ran into it when trying to load one that started with a Z, and later when testing it letter by letter ran into it again in the Ks. The first instance it froze the program and monopolized around 50% of the CPU for ~15 minutes before I terminated it, the second it just froze while using negligible resources.
The third time Windows came up with its 'unresponsive program' box twice, first over the manga list pane and then over the info pane. Clicking past those brought up a 'program exception' dialog with the following in the 'more info' area:
The fourth attempt just brought up the 'unresponsive program' boxes without the 'exception' dialog.
For the manga that do load, download does seem to be functioning properly. There are some chapters where the images don't download, but that's a known problem on MangaDex's side affecting the first ~5000 or so files uploaded to the site. The more recent ones work fine.