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wjs018@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

desktop alternative to Mihon

I have been experimenting with Suwayomi after @PrincessKadath@ani.social mentioned it among all this Mangadex drama. It isn’t strictly a desktop alternative, but it is accessible via a web ui in the browser.

Lots of Suwayomi rambling and impressions

So, if you don’t want to mess with DNS, VPN, proxies, port forwards, etc. you could just run it on your local machine and just access it from that one machine. Alternatively, if you already know/want to learn selfhosting, then you can put it on a publicly accessible domain or behind a VPN and access it anywhere on any of your devices. The nice thing about it is that it is essentially the same as Mihon. It has a similar UI, uses the same exact extensions, and can even import a backup you make from mihon to transfer over all your series and read history. The main drawback is how it interacts with Mihon. They advertise that it can be added as a source to Mihon itself and can sync things back and forth. I found that syncing things from Suwayomi to Mihon works really well. However, syncing from Mihon to Suwayomi doesn’t. Also, in my use case when I am trying to share a link to post to this community, getting that from Mihon doesn’t work. That’s because accessing a series in Suwayomi from Mihon’s webview doesn’t work, so I can’t really grab a url to share. So, instead, I have lately been running Suwayomi on my homeserver to basically just download and back up a bunch of series while I do my reading still from Mihon. This means that if stuff is removed again in the future, I would have an archive still that I could go back to instead of resorting to sketchier and sketchier aggregator sites.

Totally agreed about The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t a Guy At All. I was positive that the prom arc was going to be a finale, but I am happy to be wrong.

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