Ah yes, because the Tachiyomi thing worked out so well. It’s not like dozens of forks popped up.

Kakao is not gonna get more money out of this, because something new’ll pop up. Also because Kakao does a lot through Tapas, which uses an awful and expensive coin system. Closing down MangaDex likely won’t bring in more paying customers.

MangaDex is great for discovering new manga. So much of my purchased manga and manwha is because I found it on MangaDex. Probably the majority of my collection tbh. It’s also sometimes used by legit companies and comic artists to post their stuff.