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[Motoko11]

Apologies if this is answered somewhere else, or in this forum already, I couldn't find a clear cut answer.

I have started to adopt torrents, there a a few mangas I have seen which are up for adoption which require screenshots to be added and a few keywords. That sort of stuff. But also, their files aren't archived. There's just 250 or so loose images in the torrent. I was just wondering is this too is something that's needed to be fixed. Do I need to archive the images then request a swap on the torrent? Or are they acceptable the way they are?

Thanks in advance for any answers. And sorry again if this was already asked or answered anywhere else where I did not find it.

[Freedom Kira]

Screenshots for manga are supposed to be single pages of the manga, so just extract a few pages that are representative of the quality of the rest of the torrent. Do not obtain images from elsewhere, because they may not be the same quality.

About the archiving, I personally think it's fine, but the norm seems to be having it packaged up. I'd say, as a rule of thumb, to keep the data in the same form as was released by the original translators. If they archived it, do not extract them. If they had a torrent without an archive, don't archive it. This way, people who want to reseed a manga torrent can obtain the files from the original uploader, whereas if you create an archive, it will not be the exact same file as was originally released unless you happen to create it with the exact same settings using the exact same program on the exact same operating system.