AniList Ownership Change

nazo2 years ago58

Hey folks! As a long-standing member of the team, I'm very excited to help bring in a new wave of development to the site as one of the new co-owners!

nck2 years ago50

Crazy to think that I joined AniList back in 2015 only to use it as a back up for my list and now this. If you've got any questions, feel free to ask 'em.

nekochan2 years ago1
I have a question
- nck2 years ago
  oh yeah?
  - nekochan2 years ago13
    Nah nat really

nck2 years ago4

ok fine

Fredomnom1 year ago5
Don't think you will ever get to hear the question \*_*

depressed2 years ago12

a mobile app would be great

hsch962 years ago3
You mean other than Aluminium?
- nekochan2 years ago9
  There is no official AL app
- monosees2 years ago20
  aluminium is great
  i also use otraku and honestly think that anilist would waste a ton of time making an official app
  just focus on the site itself, the mal app turned out to be ass either

Ontri2 years ago2

Cool

Pepe2 years ago16

add ranked lists please PLEASE

Mafia2 years ago
Wym?
- Pepe2 years ago14
  every other web (letterboxd, serializd, imdb, backloggd, etc) have the option to make a list and then rank the series in there
  - Mafia2 years ago2
    Ohh i get it

doginasuit2 years ago55

More progress toward open source please!

FelineFowl2 years ago5
Came to comment this, I vaguely remember a promise of at least partial open-sourcing and seems I wasn't the only one.
Koopz2 years ago9
Nooo! Mentioning this only postpones open source for another year!
amikelop2 years ago2
I also came to mention this!
I personally feel a lot more happy contributing to open source projects, both monetarily and as a developer

Mili2 years ago20

Groups please! That's the only thing I miss from M*L

Removed2 years ago1
Ýou mean clubs?
stinkbug2 years ago1
more like mid anime list
thxvii1 year ago
need this

Seta2 years ago5

que le debe
que le debe nazo al psoe

Seta2 years ago1
(it also means congratulations for the new position to co owners)

nim2 years ago4

Looking forward to it! Thank you both for dedicating your time!

Mafia2 years ago3

i do not know if possible, but a tracker of how many days until a new chapter of a manga comes out like the animes

wlwarlock2 years ago6
I know that mods have said in the discord that this is near impossible to implement due to the sheer number of manga ongoing at any given moment which have varying release schedules.
- Mafia2 years ago
  Yeah, i was thinking about that could be impossible for the same reason
Rinko2 years ago5
It is not possible. There are thousands upon thousands of releasing manga, compared to, at the absolute maximum, about 100 airing anime at any given time. And manga can have very irregular release schedules and, even if they are mostly on a consistent schedule, they take breaks a lot more often.
It's also a lot less useful, 'cause chapters don't always get translated immediately.

Brendyrose2 years ago7

Uncap the 11,000 soft-limit on lists please, or at least make it a paid feature for top donators or something (I know i'm not a donator but I would become one just for this).

boylettuce2 years ago
i didnt even know there was a cap. does this go for planning and completed etc... or only custom lists??

Globe2 years ago6

yay nazo

Globe2 years ago
and ~~nick~~ tehnut too ig
- sex2 years ago
  Who's nick?
  - Globe2 years ago2
    oh true true
- nck2 years ago8

Ibanez2 years ago

Can we expect any Anilist API policy changes?

Congratulations on the change! @TehNut has helped me personally a few times I had questions about the API so I know this is a change towards the right direction.

nck2 years ago1
Can we expect any Anilist API policy changes?
Nothing planned currently, what would you be interested in seeing change?
- Ibanez2 years ago
  Absolutely nothing, I'd say :-).
  The only thing in my mind is, back then we had to contact Josh if we wanted to monetize our usage of the API, and I could never get a reply from him, so if you guys have plans on charging for the API, I am interested in reaching an agreement where I can pay for my usage if my app makes more than enough to cover for the Apple dev program for a year.
  You also mention a new API. Can we expect compatibility with the GraphQL one for a while, or are you guys planning on something similar like V1 of the API?

Alrios2 years ago2

Congrats to nazo and Tehnut, best of luck with your plans and development!! ^-^

rockerLs2 years ago29

i suggested this on another thread years ago but i think some sort of "similar characters" feature on character pages that uses the recommendations system would be a great addition.

a lot of times ill watch an anime and fall in love with one character in particular and have the itch to watch or read an anime or manga with similar characters but its not always easy to google "anime/manga with similar characters to [x]" and get good results.

being able to "recommend" similar characters would help me scratch that itch and potentially find new series i would otherwise have never seen or even known existed in the same way that anime/manga recommendations do.

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i also hope we see that whole "multiple character images" thing from the roadmap in the fairly near future.

AmadisHali2 years ago1
Bump

Lane2 years ago2

Kongrats

Taluun2 years ago4

Lol nerds

nck2 years ago1
- Taluun2 years ago1
  Lol cant even post an image correctly
  - nck2 years ago5
    skill issue

qw3rtyu10p2 years ago2

Oh nice an official mobile app! Banger

Instapot2 years ago23

May have already been said, but having the show's music (OPs and EDs most importantly) in the overview page would be incredible.

nck2 years ago26
This is absolutely something I'd like to get done
- Instapot2 years ago2
  I am in your care
FishinPenguin2 years ago
This would be awesome!

Naruun2 years ago5

Can we get an AniList-mandated pizza party every month? Thanks.

nck2 years ago7
ok but you're paying

nekochan2 years ago4

Tganks

Removed2 years ago1

I have a real question: is megumin best waifu?

NENKA2 years ago2
to sukuna that is. remember how he always rips his shirt off around megumi ? fuck I just realised that it was megumin not (megumi) edited version
renega1 year ago1
No, Rukia it is.

georgebreezy2 years ago3

Just joined the site and it is great. One thing that I see missing but is kind of present is an episode list. Yes some shows have links to episodes but others are missing. Just a static list of the episodes without the "watch" would be useful and nice to see. Enjoying this site either way.

nck2 years ago12
A bit over a year ago I prototyped expanding our episode listings. It was pretty much done, but relied on some pretty hacky internals on the data collection side. I definitely plan to revisit it in the future.
- Removed1 year ago3
  Is the "future" here yet?
- BlackSpectrum1 year ago6
  I also wanted it to show episode list, basically so I can add a single episode as repeat because there are many times I rewatch only some particular episodes because they are fun rather than the whole thing again, and I thought it'd be nice if that would show up in my stats, also able to rate individual episodes. ( like trakt) and set the final score based on the avg of it all would also be nice, also special episodes that are 1hr or more could be considered into account for the stats

UnTamedFury1 year ago1

I have a question
(I know that this thread is almost a year old but yeahh)

Removed1 year ago2
And I thought I was late to it (u can see my replies above) (⁠≧⁠▽⁠≦⁠)

Maus1 year ago1

i use anihyou its pretty good- oh this was 12 months ago...

soymadip1 month ago

yeah official mobile app is waste of resources

moemoe2 years ago15

Aluminium mentioned

archziac2 years ago7

The only thing Aluminium is missing is a good logo

monosees2 years ago
lmaooo
doasu1 year ago
smh

Koopz2 years ago5

What would your use case for an "official app" be that can't be covered by the website itself?

1Frieren2 years ago

Idk if this is actually the app but I just installed it :D
Basically all same, just an app version instead of browser
Watch video
Btw Otraku's ui is a lot faster and smoother :)

das2 years ago7
That's not an app, but rather the version of the website optimized for mobile devices. Some browsers allow you to add a shortcut to your phone's home screen
- 1Frieren2 years ago
  Ooh nice, tnx for the info
scardracs2 years ago5
Personally I use MyAniList and it works like a charm. The only thing I miss about it is the forum supports

syphre002 years ago

i actualy realy like how the site works with mobile. On apple you can convert web pages into apps and im pretty sure u can do the same on android. just search

Simona1 year ago

yes! That's really one of the only things missing for me on ani-list.

bpmotard2 years ago1

ranked lists?

Pepe2 years ago2
yes, every other web (letterboxd, serializd, imdb, backloggd, etc) have the option to make a list and then rank the series in there

Celarye2 years ago2

There are work around methods which certain extensions/userscripts offer and work for most manga, I would love to see those become native.

Oddysee2 years ago

I just wanted to say that charging for use of the API would be an extremely bad move.

nck2 years ago8
I never implied that we would. There has always been a commercial use clause in our API guidelines, which is what Ibanez was referencing.
Edit: to be clear, as long as I'm around, the API will remain as free as it always has been.
- Oddysee2 years ago2
  That's great to know, thanks.

Ibanez2 years ago

I'll be hoping it is also Nazo's ideal world, then!

Thank you for your answers.

Ibanez2 years ago3

I actually thought of a thing - after a series is done airing, I'd love it if we could still retrieve the origianl schedule it aired. Currently finished series return a empty siringSchedules, but you can ask the API to return previously aired episodes.

toasterovenly2 years ago2

Currently AniList only allows light novels of Japanese origin. I dunno if it's reasonable, but I would like to be able to track other web novels and light novels on the site. Chinese, Korean, etc. I have been tracking my reading manually for actual books/novels because no website (including AniList) actually has a page for each of the random books I read. Sometimes an anime will be from a source that isn't Japanese, so AniList can't list the source because it is against policy to have non-Japanese books in the database.

Example: The anime for Solo Leveling is based on a Korean web novel. The "manga" listed as a source is actually a Korean manhwa from 2018 based on the web novel from 2016. The manga has no listed source, because that would violate the rules of what can be in the database.

I would love to see novels like this allowed in the database. Compromise idea: allow linking to a source on a different database website if the true source is not allowed on AniList. It feels wrong to list the Solo Leveling manga as having a source material with no link

nck2 years ago
There are no current plans to extend our LN guidelines. We are already missing a huge chunk of entries from our very narrow scope, expanding it just doesn't make sense.
- Sokrates95002 years ago
  Guidelines don't need to be expanded, you could just allow adding custom sources that aren't in the database when necessary.

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