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DakuTree
Add nearby chapter controls
When browsing through manga with multiple chapters, it would be helpful to have similar controls to AMR. For example, if I'm on chapter 76, but releases are up to 78. I can't read the chapter without going to chapter 76, then going to 77. I assume since the entire chapter list is saved serverside, this should be possible to implement.
It would also be nice to have a method of accessing any chapter of choice, through a dropdown of sorts.
This is more an enhancement than anything, but I would appreciate it.
Have actually been running this issue myself but unsure about the best way of implementing it.
At the moment we're not actually storing the entire chapter list, only the latest chapter, and would be nice to keep it that way if possible.
It also wouldn't be possible to keep Batoto & Mangafox reliably up to date as they use a different update method (following pages), and we only check the actual chapter pages once every 3 days (compared to every 12 hours for other sites).
Have been considering maybe using the latest chapter update history, but that wouldn't be completely accurate for series that update chapters in batch (Komi-san wa Komyusho desu for example).
Will have a look more into this as it would be useful to have.
Perhaps a locally saved list could be used here. Additionally, one of the functions I wish was in both AMR and trackr is a method of checking for omakes that appear on the list, even updating of older chapters. For example, New Game was originally updated with Volume 5, but the most recent releases have been done for Volume 4. Neither site tracks the most recently updated chapters, so I had no idea that they came out. Perhaps a recently released, maybe up to a week's worth, would be helpful.
Got a WIP solution that just grabs the chapter list via the userscript (example).
Just need to get it to work with every site.
Additionally, one of the functions I wish was in both AMR and trackr is a method of checking for omakes that appear on the list, even updating of older chapters.
Could maybe check for & store the latest omake separately, which means we wouldn't actually need the chapter list here. Might be a bit complicated with the differing formats between sites though.
Have opened up another issue over at #92 for this which has a bit more info.