[3+ weeks] Update MangaDex down and announces temporary shutdown

Original story from Jan 02, 2020 follows:

MangaDex down, one of the big scanlation sites, has announced through their official twitter account a temporary shutdown. The Mangadex shutdown will last for 72 hours or roughly three days. According to the announcement, the main purpose of the temporary shutdown is maintenance.

Manga readers and scanlators alike who patronize this website expressed disappointment about the MangaDex shutdown that’ll last for three days. But this might be a good thing as MangaDex also announced a move to a new hosting service.

Currently, MangaDex website is offline and the admins of the site will give further notice through their official twitter account whenever the maintenance is over.

MangaDex scanlators conundrum

MangaDex may be popular with its users, however, it was not always smooth for MangaDex and other scanlators. Around June of 2019, a number of scanlators took down their scans from MangaDex. They accused MangaDex of the possibility of slicing from their income through their scans.

This issue began when rumors about MangaDex going legit broke out.

Since MangaDex increased in popularity, many users patronizing the site concocted the idea of making it a legitimate manga reading website. This is mainly because more manga readers appreciate the better quality and more accurate content in MangaDex.

MangaDex, however, maintained that the main reason for scanlators pulling out from their hosting site is greed. If MangaDex would indeed be a legitimate manga reading site, they would be forced to charge scanlators for the maintenance of the website.

What are other alternatives?

With MangaDex shutting down temporarily, manga reader again scram for alternatives. MangaDex became one of the main resources for manga readers ever since the permanent shutdown of mangastream and jaiminisbox giving up shonen jump titles.

For those looking for scanlations, available sites include manhwatop.