I’m kind of curious on which platforms are most popular on this community or if someone still tracks things manually.
I host my own personal manga server that I use tachiyomi on my tablet to read from it with. The server itself does tracking, but I also plugged tachiyomi into MAL, so I have 2 lists acting as a backup of each other.
For anime I just let my media server track it, keeps track of every season/episode play status. When a new season of something starts it pops up ready to be watched.
I use tachiyomi but what is this media server thing you are referencing? First time hearing about this in this context, I would have thought it was like having a cloud in your home you can pull files from over LAN/internet but I dont understand how it helps with tracking. Just from what it sounds like, you download the files, create the entries (else how would you track?) and then some software tracks what you have already read/seen? If thats what it is do you delete the media after you watch/read or would that mess with the entries?
First time hearing about this, I knew tachiyomi could be used as a reader to pull local files instead of using the extensions but this kind of use has never occurred to me.
what is this media server thing you are referencing?
take a look at plex or jellyfin for example. these are media servers that can be setup to automatically organize your media library and keep track of what you have downloaded, what series you are watching, what episodes you have watched, etc. also like you mentioned they also provide some sort of streaming service where you can watch your media over the network without having to download it on every single device.
I’d also like to mention that usually downloading is done using an external software like sonarr or radarr that fall in a gray zone in terms of legality so be careful if you ever plan to go that route.
for manga specifically, Komga can serve and track your progress. it integrates with tachiyomi and also runs a webapp that you can fallback to. i tried Jellyfin for manga and the UI just was not fun to use tbh.
neither of these track your progress publicly in the way that MAL does though, AFAIK.
For manga the server is komga, and i use tachiyomi to connect to it to read. Komga does its own tracking, and I also added MAL as a tracking in tachiyomi itself.
For anime (and everything I watch, also movies/tv etc) I use jellyfin. It keeps track of everything you watched. So if I finish season 1 of something and a year later season 2 releases, once I have the first episode of season 2 it’ll pop up on my list of things to watch. There’s been series I forgot about until this happened.
I just hook my Tachiyomi installation into my AniList, and now I don’t have to really manually track anything aside from my light novels (I completely skipped the spring anime season, and I’m on course to do the same for summer).
Does it work all the time or do you have to fiddle with it a bit? I never used this because I thought it would be janky and with all extensions being their own thing and having sometimes different tittles I thought it would trouble the automatic aspect and thus be no much more efficient than just logging in
Honestly, it’s trivial. One login to AniList within Tachi itself, then I just have to tap the Tracking button, and it’ll pull up a list of results when searching AniList for said work. I select the one I’m reading, and it’ll grab the info so I can start tracking my progress, including start and finish dates.
I use Tsuki and a browser plugin that updates my lists as I read. Afaik it supports most site trackers like MAL mangaupdates etc
I just regularly update my Mangaupdates page.
I’m too lazy to update it when I read oneshots though so only long series are in there.
Tachiyomi even if I didn’t read it using Tachiyomi. I like things that don’t require accounts to keep track of and I can export a back up of. Tachiyomi has been a useful tracker as a result alongside with other benefits. I do most my reading with the iPad due to the bigger screen aside from Webtoon type layouts where I don’t mind smaller screen of a phone.
