Content Discovery

Now that subscriptions are live we are faced with new challenges when thinking about the design of FAKKU. Because FAKKU itself is publishing all (or the majority) of content on the website, it is safe to assume it will all be high quality and worth reading if you are interested in its tags. Previously you could make an argument that as time went on the content on the website got better, so browsing through the years of past uploads didn't have much value. That is no longer the case.

This is even more important when thinking about a new user that hasn't been keeping up to date with the front page. We need to surface content from our back catalog that a new user may not realize we have, we want them to get the absolute most value out of their subscription (assuming, value = time spent reading = amount of faps). It's on us to come up with ways to surface that content to people, so you view the content on FAKKU as a massive library rather than just the latest on the front page.

I imagine this is a problem all big catalog websites like Netflix, Crunchyroll, Steam, etc are faced with and are attempting to solve. In the coming months we will be exploring different ways and designs to make our back catalog more obvious, including the one here. This is what the new /manga landing page will look like soon (click the image to see it in action). The idea is to build upon the idea of specialized categories that websites like Netflix procedurally generate, but do it for hentai.

Let me know what you think and if you have ideas of your own based on what I've said. Or even if you have some fun categories you'd like to see in the future, as the diversity of our catalog grows there will be lots of opportunities for some fun ones. You can view the /discover page here.

A category for subscription chapters from artists who have books published on FAKKU, would be helpful for people who want to get a book but want to see samples of the artists previous works.

Also further down the line when there is a lot more content there could be a section titled, "Chapters we love"
Where FAKKU staff members choose chapters that stuck out to them, it would change maybe every other week.

Also a Mind-F section for chapters like Train of Fate and other similar chapters.

Thank fuck.

I really like the new layout that's going to be implemented and agree with Luckydog on additional ideas that could be implemented.

Also like that the new layout works great with the touch screen on my laptop and iphone, I can't think to add more at the moment.

A random chapter button would be a fun and interesting way for people to discover/rediscover older chapters.

The Current Manga Page does have a "Random" bottom near the top of the pages in a section called browse, it's the last one. Hoever in my experience it usually almost always takes me to a book chapter, not a subscription chapter.

On the first look this seems like a good idea to discover new content/read related content


What a lot of people suggested on other topics: a function to ban specific content and a suggestion page which offers you chapters you could like based on the ones you got in your favorites (or a collection you chose)

This is good. Lately I've just been randomly selecting a magazine and browsing the chapters in it to see if one of them catches my eye, even though I've probably already read it in the past. This way combinations of tags can be suggested without needing to browse.

Also, I assume the combinations will change either according to user tag searches/follows or just periodically? I wouldn't want to have "Popular Pettanko with Anal manga" as a suggestion forever.

Since we now have read history would it be possible to show whether or not we've already read a particular manga? Maybe like a small check mark or something.

Also this has already been suggested but I think it would be pretty nice to have recommendations at the end of a chapter to seamlessly switch to a different manga.

That's actually a really good idea! And wouldn't be too hard to implement.

This is quite nice! and something the site definitely needs.

I've suggested reviews in the past and I heard the staff is already working on it, but yeah reviews made by users would definitely be a way to make the community more interesting as well as help readers discover new content and discuss series.

Maybe some reviews done by editors could also work, something like "staff pick of the week" or something, with a small review telling why they enjoyed the work.
The return of Fakku youtube channel would also be awesome for reviews and work as a way to interact with the community in a fun way (Fakku news!) but I guess Jacob and Mike are too busy for that...

How about a custom landing page once you log in? Basically, you can have 1 or 2 rows w/ the latest stuff/recommended stuff, but then you could have a "read it again" section made up of random titles in your favorites list.