I am a bit confused about Dynasty's homepage's sections.
I am not sure what's the difference between the two sections I squared below.
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I have long assumed both sections are "Recently Added" but the left section include thumbnails and tags, while the right section doesn't. Today I realized the two sections don't display the same chapters.
I hope this is not a silly question!
Not a silly question at all!
It would be more accurate to say that the items on the left (with thumbnails) are recently released and items on the right (text only) are recently added to the site. The difference is that the releases are when the chapter was first made available by the scanlator. For example, the items in your screen-capture were added to Dynasty on Aug.17, 2022, but their release dates are in 2020 an 2021.
Something I'd quite like is a "brand new" page that takes this distinction a bit further and only shows new oneshots and chapter 0/1s of newly added series.
Generally when I visit the site it's to read new chapters of subscribed series, or something totally new. The "to read" list is good for the former, but the front page isn't great for the latter as I find it's predominantly chapters for series I've already tried and am not interested in.
I think I've previosuly brought up being able to blacklist/ignore series additionally to tags for the same effect, which at the time was dismissed for proably being to resource-intensive.