| If you haven’t actually tried Anilist, how can you say it’s worse than MAL? Better database, better list stats, better UI, better score manipulation(7.5/10), better titles(romanji or English, your choice), better favorites(you can have more than 10 and NOT HAVE TO PAY FOR IT), better forums(cause they don’t have the 30 character limit) Please explain yourself MAL |
| Nah fam. I’ve got both lists and I like this one better. The community here is more fun and I also LOVE the early 2010s look of this website. Plus with more members on MAL the database is more accurate towards the actual stats |
| My poor signature was removed because it “took up too much space” |
| I have both and I feel MAL is way better honestly I'm not a fan of Anilist to be honest I forgot I had one until now. |
| I list the anime i've seen. I dont really care where i do it, but i started on mal years ago, why switch now. The listing function still works just fine |
| https://combosmooth.itch.io/ - I make free-to-play browser games for PC and I sell pixel art animation here |
| The mobile version of MAL looks far more appealing to me, that's how I ended up here in the first place. I don't even feel like giving Anilist a chance. |
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| I use both. MAL is better because it has better profiles and forums (forum signatures and your profile has free space for customizing) MAL scores are also better because AniLists top 20 or so anime are a joke and a popularity contest |
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| anilist is trash and will remain like that |
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Nah, I prefer here. This is where the toxic people are at. I can have all the fun I want with them here  |
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SleepySimoon said: You mean the tags? MAL is currently updating their system, but AniDB will always be superior, so I usually go there when I want to search for something specific.Better database, better list stats, Where?better UI, No, I hate this modern web design. MAL looks better and is way more intuitive.better score manipulation(7.5/10), Ten scores are enough, why do you need more? And most people don't even use the full scale on MAL.better titles(romanji or English, your choice), It's just the main titles, and I prefer romaji over English anyway.better favorites(you can have more than 10 and NOT HAVE TO PAY FOR IT), Ten is enough, having more devalues them. You can put an extended list in your bio if you need.better forums(cause they don’t have the 30 character limit) It's not difficult to get to 30 characters if it's a good thread. |
| welp, I don't use it so I can't tell anything but I heard that their mods are strict D: |
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| You forgot to add that there is less toxicity, barely bot score manipulation. |
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| I prefer desktop mal to anilist by a large margin. I prefer the search feature here on mal more too. |
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| Nah, I am on both and like MAL better. mazuchi said: SleepySimoon said: You mean the tags? MAL is currently updating their system, but AniDB will always be superior, so I usually go there when I want to search for something specific.Better database, better list stats, Where?better UI, No, I hate this modern web design. MAL looks better and is way more intuitive.better score manipulation(7.5/10), Ten scores are enough, why do you need more? And most people don't even use the full scale on MAL.better titles(romanji or English, your choice), It's just the main titles, and I prefer romaji over English anyway.better favorites(you can have more than 10 and NOT HAVE TO PAY FOR IT), Ten is enough, having more devalues them. You can put an extended list in your bio if you need.better forums(cause they don’t have the 30 character limit) It's not difficult to get to 30 characters if it's a good thread.Everything this guy said |
| y'all should watch haibane renmei |
| Anilist has Dark mode, MAL doesn't, Therefore MAL is ass. |
| "We could make the world better, but it's easier to just shut our eyes." ~Blackwall |
| Being able to rate with decimals and the free extended favorite lists is huge there and solved tons of doubts I had with ratings and choices for favs, not to mention, most importantly, that the database changes actually freaking get sent through, most of the time in a matter of hours. I waited MONTHS here for pics I sent to get added, and I'm still waiting for poor Kouhei from Idoly Pride to be changed to main character of the series, c'mon MAL, that dude is basically the protagonist! I sent the changes at least 4 months ago and he's still sitting there classified as supporting, sigh. MAL still has its better things over Anilist anyways, in big part due to how much older this page is. The forum has plenty of interesting topics from many many years ago and it's still a very active place. The way higher number of members also helps in terms of keeping track of statistics. But yeah, overall I like Anilist more, but I still just use both pages since I have been here for long enough and I like what it also offers. |
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| Have you considered to... Cry About It. |
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| I tried Anilist, I agree it looks cleaner but I feel more comfortable here and most importantly, it's easier to use |
| Like WutIsDis said, Anilist is better as website but the forums are dead. I spent more than a year in Anilist but left after I noticed that the website has no privacy, and one of the mods is using the website to spread his political views (note that Anilist does not ban political discussion which is very prone to abuse; at one point the mod even encouraged political discussions in the site). One big minus for me was I cannot use an ecchi photo as an avatar; they removed my photo subsequently (the ecchi photo I used in Anilist is now my forum avatar here in MAL). |
BadonkersOct 30, 2021 7:56 PM
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| The only good thing about Anilist is the top3 anime. *shots fired* |
| OP has 11 posts and is already saying the character limit on MAL is a flaw. |
AdolZeppeli said: You can get dark mode on MAL by using the nightmode feature on the Opera browser.Anilist has Dark mode, MAL doesn't, Therefore MAL is ass. |
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SleepySimoon said: Yeah I do agree a bit with ya there OP, it does have a great UI, but it's more suited for mobile than desktop. The stats are also better than MAL's.If you haven’t actually tried Anilist, how can you say it’s worse than MAL? Better database, better list stats, better UI, better score manipulation(7.5/10), better titles(romanji or English, your choice), better favorites(you can have more than 10 and NOT HAVE TO PAY FOR IT), better forums(cause they don’t have the 30 character limit) Please explain yourself MAL But MAL is definitely superior in terms of forums though, Anilist's forums aren't as categorised as MAL's and they're rather inactive in comparison. In fact I see more activity on the status posts of users than the forums on Anilist. As for the experience with mods on Anilist, this one time I used the word retarded (while poking fun at the voice acting in a laughably trash anime) and that word got redacted. Was it really that offensive? But I guess that's better than being banned for only trying to cross the character limit on mal(seriously though that rule is absolutely useless and doesn't help in reducing spam posts AT ALL) If we're considering desktop, then MAL's better, if it's mobile then I'd say Anilist. |
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-Facktack- said: AdolZeppeli said: You can get dark mode on MAL by using the nightmode feature on the Opera browser.Anilist has Dark mode, MAL doesn't, Therefore MAL is ass. Yes, I know there are extensions to force dark mode, but they're usually very Janky. I would better have a customizable dark mode like AL, which is an inside feature and not a third party mod. (also, who tf uses Opera in 2021?) |
| "We could make the world better, but it's easier to just shut our eyes." ~Blackwall |
AdolZeppeli said: Yeah I had to use Opera because Chrome(the RAM devourer) kept crashing when I tried to use MAL and Anilist(and a bunch of other websites). I have no idea how to solve this problem.-Facktack- said: You can get dark mode on MAL by using the nightmode feature on the Opera browser. Yes, I know there are extensions to force dark mode, but they're usually very Janky. I would better have a customizable dark mode like AL, which is an inside feature and not a third party mod. (also, who tf uses Opera in 2021?) Opera isn't all that bad tbh. At least it's got a RAM limiter. It would've been nice if there was the option to search through the browser history though. |
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| If you haven’t actually tried MAL, how can you say it’s worse than Anilist? More active community, fun events, mods with no bias, no infinite scrolling, no one is fishing for followers or likes, no consistent session expired, no weird cache with updating status or posting on the forum, more consistent database, an entire news section. Please explain yourself AL. ------ I may have looked like some MAL fanboy, but I just really wanted to show that AL has flaws too. It isn't like that site is perfect. I don't get this MAL vs AL nonsense, if anything MAL is more similar to A-P in some way. Just use what is suited to you. I wouldn't think anyone from AL benefits off of MAL directly or vice versa, so what is the point of all this literal useless pointless fighting. |
NextUniverseOct 28, 2021 11:21 AM
| I have tried anilist, its just not for me Mal is best and will remain best. Also Mal anime database > anilist anime database |
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| I find myself using both but I use MAL more often since MAL has a significantly larger and more reliable database than anilist , plus MALs user interface is much more user friendly. |
| Dosen't have Hentai. Dosen't Have Chines or Korea works. The staff is so stupid that and cringe worthy that they have been trying to take mal members from mal into anilist when the site was down. The database is 10x worse then mal as it dosen't have everything. Stop smoking things you find in the trashcan, already. |
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SleepySimoon said: Hard disagree on the UI, I much prefer the edges in MAL to anilist's weird curves (unless I'm misunderstanding what UI is and its not the way the site and its functions look and are placed). But I agree about the other points. MAL is what I've used so far so I'm sticking with it as I don't think the points really matter as both sites basically do the sameIf you haven’t actually tried Anilist, how can you say it’s worse than MAL? Better database, better list stats, better UI, better score manipulation(7.5/10), better titles(romanji or English, your choice), better favorites(you can have more than 10 and NOT HAVE TO PAY FOR IT), better forums(cause they don’t have the 30 character limit) Please explain yourself MAL |
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| The top ranking are objectively better on Anilist. It's true that the community is far from being as big and active as on MAL, but that's exactly why we don't see many idiots trying to manipulate the score. |
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| Hmm, I dunno. I tried Anilist for a while, and although I do like its "cleaner" aesthetic and the nice cover pictures for title entries, I found that its database is not actually as complete as MAL's. I tested it by searching up some of the more obscure/unknown titles that I have in my list here and there was a considerable amount of them that I could not find over there; also no Hentai entries at all. That was kind of a deal breaker for me, since the database itself is like 90% of the reason I use this kind of site in the first place (don't care much for the social aspect). So I think I'll stick to MAL, thanks. In my experience, it's the most legit anime encyclopedia there is. |
Stygian_PrisonerOct 28, 2021 12:14 PM
| anilist's ui sucks. the database is less complete as well. it's good for backup, but I want something less script heavy. |
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Ethitlan said: Tendo_GM said: I use both. MAL is better because it has better profiles and forums (forum signatures and your profile has free space for customizing) MAL scores are also better because AniLists top 20 or so anime are a joke and a popularity contest Both are popularity contests. What are you talking about They are, but AniList is way worse, it puts new anime very high up. It’s 2 top anime are both from 2021 |
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Ethitlan said: And it also has hentai. Have you used the site?? I just dropped in there for a sec to look up Bible Black, arguably one of the most famous and popular hentai of all time... wasn't there. Looked up some other hentai titles like Araiya-san, which had a "safe", edited ecchi version for broadcast... nothing. Artistic erotic titles like Belladonna of Sadness?... zilch. Borderline hentai titles like Aki Sora, Interspecies Reviewers and Redo of Healer?... nope. I even checked the genre tags filter in alphabetical order and I didn't see "Hentai" anywhere in the "H" section. So, if you could drop me some links as examples and point me to those hentai titles that Anilist supposedly has, I'd appreciate it. Otherwise, I'm gonna have to call BS on this one, fam. Either way, the fact that I could not find any of the aforementioned titles at all already goes to show how lacking Anilist's database is compared to MAL's. |
Stygian_PrisonerOct 28, 2021 12:57 PM
| The only thing Anilist does better is the Stats section of your profile. Everything else is done much better on MAL |
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| anilist sucks. mods are garbage and they are strict on forums. they will ban you for saying trap. |
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| Who asked? You thought it was 30 character limit, but it was me, Dio! |
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| That's nice, but I literally don't care about most of that stuff...If you like it so much, you're free to switch over, but I won't be doing so unless MAL shuts down for good. Also, the forums here are an endless source of entertainment. |
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