For 1.5 USD, you can now grab Paradoxium Premium using the coupon: NEWYEAR2021 available until January 15, 2021.

To redeem the coupon, head to https://paradoxium.xyz/plans and checkout there!

Grab Paradoxium Premium at 50% the price now!

As part of our first-year celebration of Paradoxium, we have renamed the bot to Mana which solidifies her identity as a "she" and not a "he" which people tend to think.

The only stuff that will change is her name, and official website links, etc. which as of writing, is now migrated safely to our new domains.

Paradoxium is now named, Mana.

The Waifulogy Project started by Mana Network has launched, the website is more of a demonstration (demo) of what our Waifu World can provide you hourly. The site is fundamentally a higher-level version of the feature (because of the lack of limitations as the web developer), feel free to check it out and see whether the bot is worth your time to invite.

https://waifulogy.fun

Launch of Waifulogy

Mana's official site is currently undergoing maintenance over some issues with connection, please stay tuned. In case you want to access our guide on how to use Mana, feel free to head to https://docs.mihou.pw instead. >w<

Website down.

The official Mana website is now back online, to celebrate the successful fix, are sending out a free coupon for anyone interested in Mana Premium: REVIVAL which reduces the all the prices to 50% valid until April 01, 2021. (Not April Fools) >W<

Website is now back online!

We have migrated all our Premium payments to BuyMeACoffee, though the code utilized is still in its early phases, from several tests we have done, it seems to be working. <3

Migration to BuyMeACoffee

"We", Mana Network, would like to extend our thanks to everyone (owner, users and etc.) for helping us reach one of our few milestones, while it may be small, it shows that Mana is growing well and for that, "we" decided to revamp her site, moving away from WordPress to our very own custom code.

Once more, thank you all for this milestone!

Thank you for 300 servers and 107 votes!

Summarized Patch Notes for Mana:
• Removal of Waifulogy.
• Author Ranking algorithm improvements, RAM reduction.
• Moved suggestions and bug reports to Github issues.
• Add Mangadex command.
• Improves a lot of backend stuff.
• Migrated quotes and anime actions to api.manabot.fun
• Public release of api.manabot.fun

1.6 Patch Notes

Summarized Patch Notes:
• Asynchronous Processing for Name Generation & Anime Action Commands
• Fixes MangaPark 'exception' which should be no results.
• Improved steal command with a special new feature: check it out through pa.steal help
• Fix track added embed title
• Asynchronous Manga Searches
•  Allow stealing of emojis from a message, if the message has more than one emoji, allow user to select which.
• Help for steal command improved

(released on 5/7/2021 6:45 P.M GMT+8)

[Patch Release] 1.6.1

As of 5:11 P.M GMT+8 5/8/2021: Mana's servers has finished scaling up vertically.

We will also rely on HetrixTools to give us a downtime monitor on our bot: status.manabot.fun

Summary of 1.6.2:
• Removed MangaPark command (since we don't want to bypass Cloudflare, too expensive and costly to maintain, me no paid for this.)
• Unescaped HTML characters.
• You can now retrieve the emoji of another message by referencing (replying with/without ping) the message with the reply being: emoji retrieve or emoji lookup
• Added a detailed emoji help command.
• Improved logging of console.

Help keep our servers alive: https://manabot.fun/plans

[Notice & Patch]

Summarized Patch Notes (May 13, 2021: 9:30 P.M GMT+8):
• Major optimizations.
• Changes to the command system.
• Global default cooldown increased to 7 seconds.
• All commands must abide the 7 second minimum cooldown rule.
• Added PWA (Power Assessment) for the developers of Mana to ping, used to assess errors (CUSTOM).
• Fixed an issue with English Name Generator not abiding the amount rule.
• Fixed issue with Name Generator (JP, FR, IT, DE) not giving names beyond 10.
• Solves an issue with the bot not disconnecting once kicked from VC (it now disconnects if two seconds later, it is still connected after being kicked).
• Search command no longer places the bot inside the channel immediately.

A short notice from the developer: One of my relatives who had contact with me and my other family members has recently tested positive which means I will be undergoing quaratine for some time, if there are any bugs, suggestions or issues you find with Mana, please head to: https://github.com/ManaNet/mana-issues and file a report there where I will take notice once I have time.

Help keep our servers alive: https://manabot.fun/plans

[Patch Release] 1.6.4 & Developer Notice

We are now taking a different stance with the images we send, we want to help both the users and the artists gain exposure which is why we are officially supporting a customized source finder (for the non-Reddit images since we don't have a method for Reddit atm but the subreddits have rules that enforces sources, hope that helps).

An image example of this new feature can be found on: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/731377154817916939/847234367003951104/unknown.png

Patch Notes:
• Allowed non-GIFs to Contribute command.
• All image commands (that are non-Reddit) now have the ability to retrieve the source. More details via pa.source help
• Source command added.
• Fixed some blocking issues.

Support Mana at https://manabot.fun/plans
Want to see the bot's uptime status, etc: https://manabot.fun/status

[Patch Release] 1.7

Patch notes for v1.7.4 (May 29, 2021):
1. Command Framework v3
2. Bintray removal from pom.xml
3. Help command transition to Java 11 Streams.
4. Yuriverse & WaifuWorld investigation for high CPU usage.
5. Mangadex API FIX + COVER
6. Fixes issue with Configuration Settings variables being null.
7. Major Performance Optimizations
8. The new manabot.fun/status!

Patch v1.7.4

Patch notes for v1.7.7:
1. Fixes issue with ratelimiter (cooldown v2) not releasing.
2. Shard independent uptime on https://manabot.fun/status.
3. Better AFK (prevents the bot from being rate-limited due to abuse).

Patch v1.7.7

Patch notes for v1.8:
1. Asynchronous command framework (possibly faster replies?)
2. Slash commands are now supported by Mana!
3. Fixes some more critical issues with the bot.
4. Migrated our own exception handlers to Sentry.

For any existing servers that wants access to Mana's slash commands, please go to https://discord.com/oauth2/authorize?client_id=741288788164345856&permissions=1177939302&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fmanabot.fun%2Fwebhook&response_type=code&scope=applications.commands%20identify%20bot&prompt=consent

The bot requires applications.commands scope which is something that Mana never requested when it first came out since I never thought about adding slash commands to the bot.

What kind of commands supports slash commands (a.k.a hybrid commands)
1. All anime action commands (from hug to the last anime action command you used on Mana).
2. wholesomeyuri,waifu,husbando,kemomimi,wallpaper,chibi,reddit
3. redeem

Patch v1.8

Patch notes for v1.8.1:
1. Added recommendations, recommend commands.
2. You can now recommend other users different mangas through the recommend command and also look at other users' recommendations through the recommendations command!

Previews:
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/807084213298921524/853312991926419477/Recommendations.gif
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/807084213298921524/853312992242696222/Recommend.gif


Patch v1.8.1

Mana now uses Patreon to handle Mana Premium payments: https://patreon.com/manabot!

We also have a Twitter now where we will also share new updates of the bot and status reports there: https://twitter.com/ManaDiscord 

Current Patch (1.8.3):
1. Fixes some stuff with interaction/slash commands.
2. Deprecation of redeem command for Premium keys in favor of the link version (manabot.fun/gift/code)

Previous patch (1.8.1):
1. Added recommendations, recommend commands. 
2. You can now recommend other users different mangas through the recommend command and also look at other users' recommendations through the recommendations command! 

Previews: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/807084213298921524/853312991926419477/Recommendations.gif https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/807084213298921524/853312992242696222/Recommend.gif 

Announcement!

1. Fixed issue with Mangadex which had some values as null instead of a placeholder.
2. Fixed all commands that uses Jikan: anisearch, manga, anime, we have moved from an external wrapper to a custom made one.
3. Fixed a typo with ratelimit message, it should be clearer now that you are being rate-limited on the command and not on all commands.

Help fund our servers @ https://patreon.com/manabot or https://manabot.fun/plans

Patch v1.8.4

Patch notes:
- Removed author commands (profile, wrote, etc...), a replacement will come for profile in the far future.
- Removed some developer commands.
- All anime images should now have a button that redirects you to their source.
- Improvements on some parts of the code.

Live view of Source button: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/807084213298921524/860844620266864650/recording2.gif

Mana v1.8.7

Changelogs
Mana has recently released a major patch for this month which introduced several major new improvements to Mana which will be extremely beneficial to the bot in the far future.

- We are now using https://github.com/ShindouMihou/Velen to handle our Fuzzy Command Suggestion and also Paginations which involves mdex, anime, dynasty, sh and a tragically massive amount of commands with GitHub recording an estimated 900 lines deleted and 600 more added (which means, the amount of code has been reduced by a tragic amount).

- Redis is now being actively used in Mana to help out with our default internal cache, votes should now be cached inside Redis and several others stuff like Dynasty results and Jikan.

- A lot of dependencies that had no use in Mana anymore had been purged, greatly reducing its file size.

- Mana is now utilizing its own webhooks for DBL and no longer relies on external library to take care of the webhook, it may be a bit buggy but trust me, it works.

- A lot more changes were done in the backend which involved a lot of restructuring in, for example, how our configurations works, how the Discord bot is built and deployed, etc. which was the main cause of the major downtimes today.

Additional Updates
- Fixed some minor issue with Mana's cache.
- Fixed some minor issue with WaifuWorld & Yuriverse not removing faulty channels.
- Fixed some minor issue with Mana's anime command showing broadcast as background which ends up with null.
- Quiz command has been updated to utilize less code and also to use select menus with no more deadline. Preview as shown on the GIF below.

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/807084213298921524/866052165923897374/recording5.gif

Patch v1.8.8

- A complete rewrite on Yuriverse and WaifuWorld's code, removing the legacy code back from its v0.1 days and starting from scratch in hopes of bringing  a more optimized code and more features integrated.

- Support for changing the speed of Yuriverse & WaifuWorld at a set of time.
  - 💎 20 minutes: Premium for Yuriverse and WaifuWorld.
  - 💎 40-minutes: Premium for Yuriverse and WaifuWorld.
  - 💎 60-minutes: Premium for Yuriverse and WaifuWorld.
  - 80-minutes: Default for both.
  - 120-minutes: Free.
  - 240-minutes: Free.

This will be changeable through a select menu and can be changed by anyone with MANAGE_SERVER permissions,.

- Change of default time from 60 minutes (40 minutes for WaifuWorld) to 80 minutes is because of the removal of the ad embeds.

- Add support for changing NSFW filter of both features.
  - 💎 No filter: Premium & Needs NSFW channel.
  - Default: At maximum, ecchi images.
  - Extreme: This is not tested yet but it should filter out even Ecchi.

- More image sources, this complete rewrite of Yuriverse and Waifuworld will bring in support for more image sources. The legacy code, before, had always been focused on only two image sources (including the reddit sources) but this new one should bring new images.

- Removal of ad embed in favor of these new Premium features, I know the ad messages have been very obnoxious to many and that applies to me who cringes each time I see it.

- Extreme has been tested but NOT TESTED fully on production scale which is what will be happening during this beta run where the bot will log all critical information that I will need to feed to Mana for improving its NSFW filters (this does not include the following: server information, users information, channel information, any information from Discord. It only includes information about the images that are sent).

Patch v2.0.0-BETA (1/3 Patches)

Changelog 2.0.0-RC1 (Release Candidate 1)
• Reddit source for Yuriverse has been disabled indefinitely.
• Premium 2.0 (codename: Crystals & Shards) is now released with two new commands: link and unlink.
• The following commands has been removed: license and redeem.
• All commands should now be running 50% faster (due to the recent change in Premium 2.0 since one of the benefits was half cooldown).
• Premium users are now able to see all the linked and to-be-unlinked servers with the premium command now.
• Premium users are now able to link servers through the link command which also allows you to relink servers.
• More changes at the backend (e.g. split the important debug logs to another log file, major refactors, removal of deprecated classes and methods).
• Fixed issue with the parser for Zerochan.
Additional changes
• CRITICAL Fixed issue with Premium time being at negative (since I was converting the days to days instead of millis cough).

2.0.0-RC1 (Release Candidate 1)

Hello, this is Mihou here (the developer of Mana). Recently, I introduced additional metrics to the bot to help me diagnose issues like memory leaks, etc. and amidst those metrics were the amount of images that the bot has sent (for bandwidth monitoring), while looking at the metrics, I noticed that the waifu images metric hasn't moved a lot which made me thought: "Something must have been wrong with this metric..." and looked into it.

There, I found out that WaifuWorld had been disabled for all non-Premium servers all this time. I am pretty shocked at this revelation and deeply apologize for this issue! It should now be fixed, sorry! :bow:

Important Apology

🌠 Hello, I am just here to say that I will no longer give changelog on this page (top.gg) but instead will send them over from the support server (https://manabot.fun/support) where it is easier for me to give out quick updates (or large) with image examples, etc.

🌟 If you want to keep track of all the changes of Mana, so far, please head to the support server instead where all the changes are logged properly.

❤️ Mihou

Moving changelogs to support server.

Mana now has her third NSFW filter deployed and active (for servers that are running with the filters enabled which is default).

This third NSFW filter should reduce the quantity of objective NSFW images (not the kind where you think handholding is lewd), it is powered by machine learning and from the beta testing has revealed a great result.

Want to hear more about every update of Mana, head to our support server: https://manabot.fun/support

Improved NSFW Filters.

For everyone who have been using Mana in the past, we'd like to announce that Mana has been rewritten to use full slash commands only with older and unused functionality being removed such as, but not limited to, autorole, welcome and leave messages and all sorts of multi-purpose functions that do not relate with anime.

 Mangadex integration and MyAnimeList have been improved with Mana being more responsive and expressive with her words than ever before.

Voting for Mana