We have that functionality in our latest version. You can invite with an email, they signup and set their password and you don't need to manage their account (unless you want to remove some roles, like Download from them)

Oh....I think I covered it above that it will never come. It's strange to me because the intent seems to imply like I need Ubooquity users to switch over, even though it's a free product. I'm just trying to show there are different solutions for users that might want more from their reader. There is no upside to me if Ubooquity users switch or not. Anyways, diatribe over. Thanks for clearing up the intent.

Kavita doesn't actually require any metadata inside the files (ComicInfo). It supports it, but the primary mode is parsing filenames to group. That's how I personally use it. It's very different from Ubooquity. I'm just sharing a free tool for users to use, I don't get comments like your other " but the general reply is that most users of Ubooquity have different needs than you can/will offer". 

Is that meant to deter me not to share my tool with people who are in the space as an alternative? If users here don't like it, no problem, don't use it. Just putting out there that there are alternatives for people that want a tool that is continuing development.

Folder view is not something in Kavita's future. A lot of people have asked for it (coming from Ubooquity), but it's not something I personally want to implement or support from within Kavita. I can def see how nice it is for US comics, where you basically need something like Publisher -> Series grouping. 

Yeah can totally understand that. Until I have metadata support (coding it this release), it is much more difficult to use for the way you organize. I also know it's a huge shift in organization coming from Ubooquity which mirrors the folder structure. 

Hmm I'm not sure which version you were using for the scan, because as of last saturday, the latest version changed it to be more like Ubooquity where it would scan in chunks and the spinner would also have a percentage.

Interesting that it didn't show anything under libraries for you since you created one. I think it's likely you were using v0.4.8 which had some OPDS issue, which was resolved in v0.4.9 (just released). 

Thanks for checking it out and leaving some feedback.

"It doesn't seem to have an individual issue view, or if it did, it certainly wasn't obvious or was not working for me." There is one, but it really depends on your naming convention. If you have volume markers then it's going to group it together. If not, then it will just show individual issues.

For the scan, can you ellaborate on what more you need? The scan only does 1 thing, read the files and put them into the Database (or update them if they are already in there). Then there is metadata which generates the cover image and reads (at the time of writing) limited metadata from the comicInfo if it exists. 

OPDS is def not folder based like other systems because Kavita doesn't require you to have things in certain folders. Instead it just emulates the UI over the OPDS protocol. This lets us track progress during reading or provide the searching and grouping constructs over OPDS (collections, reading lists, etc).

Ubooquity def still serves a niece, not trying to say don't use it, but wanted to share some alternatives since the project is no longer updated and has some limitations into what is possible. Again, appreciate taking a stab at it. 

Yeah totally understandable. If your system is working, no need to change. Just putting it out there as the users that were from Ubooquity on our discord have said it's been much better for them since changing. 

At least if anyone stumbles here and is looking for something more open and in development, they can try it out.