- scraper/metadata/release-dates.js fills x-dates.release from MangaUpdates
publisher releases. MangaUpdates also lists English back-catalog re-releases,
so a date is kept only inside the AniList original run, when no scanlation or
source upload is more than 4 days earlier, and when it fits the release order
(no lower chapter dated after a higher one). Seasons that restart chapter
numbers are skipped; dates this job wrote and no longer accepts are withdrawn.
- The scraper refreshes ongoing series nightly before its update checks, only
while no download runs, and bumps the publish revision so the reader reconciles.
- tools/release-dates.js for a whole library (dry run default). Production dry
run: 728 chapters dated (Kagurabachi, JJK, Chainsaw Man, One Piece from 928).
- Peer sync: chapters this library already has adopt a peer's earlier ecosystem
date (job result ecosystemLowered); the peer listing now carries dates.
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- Chapter rows show when you first finished a chapter (setting: date + hour,
date, off) from a new durable progress doneAt; older reads fall back to the
reading clock's earliest remembered completion.
- chapter.json keeps added (arrival in this library, now kept on replace) plus
x-dates.source (source upload, bulk imports flagged), x-dates.release
(official, for a later metadata job) and x-dates.ecosystem (first entry into
any Manga Circus library; carried over peering, earliest wins, clamped).
- Rows show one release date by tier: official > source upload > ecosystem >
library, with all known dates in the tooltip (setting to hide).
- Fixes: WeebCentral dates came from the chapter page, which has none (every
chapter got the download time); they now come from the full chapter list.
MangaDex no longer writes a group's publishAt into added. Peering sends dates.
- tools/backfill-chapter-dates.js migrates an existing library (dry run default).
- Coverage dry run on the server: docs/chapter-dates-coverage-2026-10-24.md.
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Zero-dependency Node server + plain HTML/JS frontend.
- Library is a folder tree (Manga/Book/Chapter/pages), indexed in place;
page roles (cover, double, extra, rotation) are file name tags
- Accounts with per-user progress, reading settings, follows and
new-chapter notifications (in-app + optional webhook)
- Reader with Flow, Page and Book modes, pointer-anchored page zoom,
tap zones, auto-hiding controls, chapter picker, page preloading
- Multiple versions per chapter with community votes
- Docker image and compose file
- Demo library generator (tools/make-dummy.js)
- Docs: architecture, library format, import, scraper guide
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