 2023 Yearly Wrap-Up... ...in Code MAL's development team were hard at work over the last year, improving our backend systems and releasing a few key features that members have been requesting for a long time.
...in Collaborations MAL has been strengthening its ties with the anime/manga industry in Japan and there were a few interesting tie-ups that happened over 2023 with various prizes for participants! For more industry-related promotions and events, check out MALxJapan.
...in Community Get involved with our community (and maybe even get a time-limited profile badge) with one of our annual events! They're a great way to meet new people on MAL and expand your anime/manga knowledge.
...in Contributions & Crew A very big thank you to all our active users who participate in our community, are committed to improving our databases, write reviews and recommendations to help fellow users, and who make up MAL. We are now 15.5 million registered users! Last but never least, a very big thank you to the ever-growing and dedicated staff. I am constantly grateful for the time and energy they give to our site and community to continue to grow it further. Innumerable database additions, edits, requests, reports, sns posts, and problems are processed each and every day of the year (even on Christmas!). MAL wouldn't be MAL without this amazing group of people. If you would like to join this team and give back to MAL, are well-versed in the guidelines and requirements of your position of interest, and have the motivation to work independently, please consider checking out our Open Applications thread. Current Statistics—taken on Jan 4th
Happy New Year! |
This year, for the first time, I managed to participate in most of the events, I was happy with the profile badges I got. <3 Happy New Year to everyone!! |
 |
| How many Ishinashi accounts were created and consequentially banned during 2023? That's the stat I'd like to know. |
| ye im curious how many are alt accounts and inactive accounts too out of 15 million |
| Happy New Year! Thanks to the MAL staff for keeping the site running and hosting all of last year's cool events. |
 |
We thank you for the changes and I like most of them but there are still much more important problems such as:
Some other things that I find difficult to understand : We are in 2024 and website still has extremely weird limitations for resolutions in profile, characters, forum pictures, for example : a 1024 x 1024 (if I remember correctly) limitations for a profile picture.... in 2024? A 100 x 125 resolution limitation for forum picture? and many others It's understandable that these are difficult problems but you have to start somewhere. |
YubisoftJan 12, 2:07 AM
| Yeah, Happy Holidays and congrats on the changes... but when are we gonna be told about all the hidden changes done for whatever reason without an explanation nor log whatsoever. We should be able to learn about those things as well, as users of this site. Yes, I'm still salty about a couple of them, like Music types being yeeted from the rankings without receiving one of its own (and let's not talk about the Magic tag) |
| Dark theme on mobile when? |
 |
Kineta said: our Fantasy Anime League now runs every season! Previously, FAL took a break during Summer and Winter. Now, you can try and predict every season's most popular anime! Now this is the most highlight i'd like to make at this thread. Now i kneel over 🧎 Wish you all a happy new year for 2024 and so on. Keep watching anime and update your list at mal. Stay on healthy as well. That's it xd. |
 Hide and seek is the best offline games on this fatamorgana-called-world-thing. Please comment nicely. I am newbie here. I'm level  on mal-badges. View my badges  |
Reply to Yubisoft
We thank you for the changes and I like most of them but there are still much more important problems such as:
Some other things that I find difficult to understand :
We are in 2024 and website still has extremely weird limitations for resolutions in profile, characters, forum pictures, for example : a 1024 x 1024 (if I remember correctly) limitations for a profile picture.... in 2024?
A 100 x 125 resolution limitation for forum picture?
and many others
It's understandable that these are difficult problems but you have to start somewhere.
- The elimination of fraud bots is extremely slow.
- There is also an extremely big amount of accounts that have been created to affect the ratings and even they don't affect the rating that much anymore, I am not sure how good your system is when a single user has created 100+ accounts for this reason.
- Manga, light novel etc submissions take years to be approved and absolutely nothing has been done to improve the situation. BTW I don't blame the current mods but I blame whoever is responsible to only have 6 people to do this specific amount of work.
- The majority of anime, manga etc are extremely poorly tagged and even if the users want to help by submitting the changes you absolutely do nothing (at least in my experience)
- Changes to manga and anime etc take forever and sometimes never happen. For example I submitted an official English title and Synopsis in both the official mal forum and directly via the edit button for a doujinshi and it took more than 6 months to get accepted.
Some other things that I find difficult to understand :
We are in 2024 and website still has extremely weird limitations for resolutions in profile, characters, forum pictures, for example : a 1024 x 1024 (if I remember correctly) limitations for a profile picture.... in 2024?
A 100 x 125 resolution limitation for forum picture?
and many others
It's understandable that these are difficult problems but you have to start somewhere.
Yubisoft said: Manga, light novel etc submissions take years to be approved and absolutely nothing has been done to improve the situation. BTW I don't blame the current mods but I blame whoever is responsible to only have 6 people to do this specific amount of work. I absolutely agree and honestly can't believe the numbers >Manga: 67,040 (↑4,984) It feels like the backlog has been around 7000 the entire year https://sean.fish/mal_unapproved/manga So how almost 5000 got approved is beyond me. Maybe due to the staff being more "into" some manga rather than others only certain types get approved fast and don't spend much time in the backlog, idk. But this backlog needs to get cleaned up already. And I'm not sure just recruiting more people can do the job. They need to change how they approach subject in the first place. |
| Happy New Year! |
St0rmblade said: Yubisoft said: Manga, light novel etc submissions take years to be approved and absolutely nothing has been done to improve the situation. BTW I don't blame the current mods but I blame whoever is responsible to only have 6 people to do this specific amount of work. I absolutely agree and honestly can't believe the numbers >Manga: 67,040 (↑4,984) It feels like the backlog has been around 7000 the entire year https://sean.fish/mal_unapproved/manga So how almost 5000 got approved is beyond me. Maybe due to the staff being more "into" some manga rather than others only certain types get approved fast and don't spend much time in the backlog, idk. But this backlog needs to get cleaned up already. And I'm not sure just recruiting more people can do the job. They need to change how they approach subject in the first place. Well since I don't have access to the tools that the mods have when approving things I can't be sure if the way they do it is wrong or not good enough but in my humble opinion no matter which type of work, you have to first increase the manpower to maximize the efficiency and in this case more mods = will most likely reduce the waiting times for the submissions . Also since the mods work for free they don't a specific schedule. Also as someone who mainly submits doujinshi works and light novels which are not super famous , the waiting times make believe that you maybe right about mods choosing specific personal stuff to approve first. |
YubisoftJan 9, 7:16 AM
| Nice. |
 |
| Dark mode finally!! My eyes get dry really quickly on desktop |
 |
| I just found out one of the newest security features. MAL has changed the spam page to prove that you aren't a robot. Instead of clicking a button, it forces you to complete a captcha task. |
| While I participated in 7 events in 2022, in 2023 I participated in 13, almost double wow. I'd say also the organization was better for the events, the badges were way cuter too. In general good job to all the staff, and thank you for your hard work. But I just gotta say, my most favourite-est update from this year was... The dark theme, I've waited for years for this and now we finally got it! |
 |
Reply to St0rmblade
Yubisoft said:
Manga, light novel etc submissions take years to be approved and absolutely nothing has been done to improve the situation. BTW I don't blame the current mods but I blame whoever is responsible to only have 6 people to do this specific amount of work.
Manga, light novel etc submissions take years to be approved and absolutely nothing has been done to improve the situation. BTW I don't blame the current mods but I blame whoever is responsible to only have 6 people to do this specific amount of work.
I absolutely agree and honestly can't believe the numbers
>Manga: 67,040 (↑4,984)
It feels like the backlog has been around 7000 the entire year
https://sean.fish/mal_unapproved/manga
So how almost 5000 got approved is beyond me. Maybe due to the staff being more "into" some manga rather than others only certain types get approved fast and don't spend much time in the backlog, idk. But this backlog needs to get cleaned up already. And I'm not sure just recruiting more people can do the job. They need to change how they approach subject in the first place.
| @St0rmblade If people are getting their submissions approved, it encourages them to submit more, not to mention the expanded guidelines to allow more webtoons which introduces a lot more content. It may be a better metric to see the number of approved submissions between years: Manga: 62,056 (↑5,217) (https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=2068385) which is reasonably similar (and of course not every submission is equal in terms of effort). I do agree that it would be nice to see the oldest items in the queue approved, but I also understand a desire to prioritize popular/translated work. More manpower can be good, but it can also take up a lot of time to train people and find the best willing individuals for the job. Introducing some paid positions might see the most results, as then you could expect a more streamlined experience for reviewing submission, but I suppose that would also bring about another layer of complexity when money is involved, unless it was handled at the company level like what they do with developers. |
 |
Reply to Kwanthemaster
@St0rmblade
If people are getting their submissions approved, it encourages them to submit more, not to mention the expanded guidelines to allow more webtoons which introduces a lot more content. It may be a better metric to see the number of approved submissions between years:
Manga: 62,056 (↑5,217) (https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=2068385)
which is reasonably similar (and of course not every submission is equal in terms of effort).
I do agree that it would be nice to see the oldest items in the queue approved, but I also understand a desire to prioritize popular/translated work. More manpower can be good, but it can also take up a lot of time to train people and find the best willing individuals for the job. Introducing some paid positions might see the most results, as then you could expect a more streamlined experience for reviewing submission, but I suppose that would also bring about another layer of complexity when money is involved, unless it was handled at the company level like what they do with developers.
If people are getting their submissions approved, it encourages them to submit more, not to mention the expanded guidelines to allow more webtoons which introduces a lot more content. It may be a better metric to see the number of approved submissions between years:
Manga: 62,056 (↑5,217) (https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=2068385)
which is reasonably similar (and of course not every submission is equal in terms of effort).
I do agree that it would be nice to see the oldest items in the queue approved, but I also understand a desire to prioritize popular/translated work. More manpower can be good, but it can also take up a lot of time to train people and find the best willing individuals for the job. Introducing some paid positions might see the most results, as then you could expect a more streamlined experience for reviewing submission, but I suppose that would also bring about another layer of complexity when money is involved, unless it was handled at the company level like what they do with developers.
Kwanthemaster said: I do agree that it would be nice to see the oldest items in the queue approved, but I also understand a desire to prioritize popular/translated work. More manpower can be good, but it can also take up a lot of time to train people and find the best willing individuals for the job. Introducing some paid positions might see the most results, as then you could expect a more streamlined experience for reviewing submission, but I suppose that would also bring about another layer of complexity when money is involved, unless it was handled at the company level like what they do with developers. All of these suggestions are nice and all and I had my own suggestions as well, I'm just kinda depressed that you virtually never see the MAL mods or admins actually discussing any of that, it's just all this talk is into the void. IMO most submissions are more or less fine, there're not that many cases where people submit some crap or do troll submissions, people doing submissions are usually motivated to include credible information, I just don't see why any submissions should be kept in this limbo for years, mods should just approve more stuff faster, if anything needs correction it can be corrected later, entries are editable, the primary reason people submit manga is to keep up it in their lists. |
Reply to St0rmblade
Kwanthemaster said:
I do agree that it would be nice to see the oldest items in the queue approved, but I also understand a desire to prioritize popular/translated work. More manpower can be good, but it can also take up a lot of time to train people and find the best willing individuals for the job. Introducing some paid positions might see the most results, as then you could expect a more streamlined experience for reviewing submission, but I suppose that would also bring about another layer of complexity when money is involved, unless it was handled at the company level like what they do with developers.
I do agree that it would be nice to see the oldest items in the queue approved, but I also understand a desire to prioritize popular/translated work. More manpower can be good, but it can also take up a lot of time to train people and find the best willing individuals for the job. Introducing some paid positions might see the most results, as then you could expect a more streamlined experience for reviewing submission, but I suppose that would also bring about another layer of complexity when money is involved, unless it was handled at the company level like what they do with developers.
All of these suggestions are nice and all and I had my own suggestions as well, I'm just kinda depressed that you virtually never see the MAL mods or admins actually discussing any of that, it's just all this talk is into the void.
IMO most submissions are more or less fine, there're not that many cases where people submit some crap or do troll submissions, people doing submissions are usually motivated to include credible information, I just don't see why any submissions should be kept in this limbo for years, mods should just approve more stuff faster, if anything needs correction it can be corrected later, entries are editable, the primary reason people submit manga is to keep up it in their lists.
| @St0rmblade Yeah, that's true. I'm sure if I was an active contributor on the manga side, I would be quite discouraged as well (this is less of an issue on the anime front). I agree that many of the submissions are probably good (at least that's the case on the anime front, apart from the usual suspects), and actually there was some discussion about having a select set of "superusers" who weren't mods, but their submissions would be automatically approved, which would help with some of the churn. Basically people who just work on their own stuff instead of handling others. Of course that still requires training, infrastructure, ect. - and who knows what the mods feel about that, lol. Probably the only solution is to have a concerted effort to clean up the backlog, but this introduces the risk of bulk denying stuff which shouldn't be. It's also a hard expectation for volunteers with limited incentive/capacity. I'd rather not introduce any errors by approving too quickly, but I do agree that submissions shouldn't need to be completely filled out in detail before being approved. |
KwanthemasterJan 8, 11:12 AM
|
| HAPPY NEW YEAR (lately) |
| Anybody else disappointed? |
 |
| last year was really good MAL wise. lots of fun events and many events i participated for the first time. didn't won fal at all tho ;-; still trying |
 The end of an era. Thank you Wit, Mappa and Isayama. Feeling half happy, half sad. Kawaii waifus and precious best girls <3333 |
| Happy New Year! Aye, 2023 was rich in content. Hopefully, 2024 will be similar in this aspect, or even better. Nice to see the stats of 2023. I'm surprised how many more reviews were written, compared to submitted recommendations. The latter is easier to make, so I thought there would be more recommendations than reviews, or at least that the difference wouldn't be that big in reviews' favor. :P |
More topics from this board
» [Challenge] You Should Read This Manga 2024 ( 1 2 3 4 5 )Kineta - Feb 23 |
214 |
by Veredus
»»
11 hours ago |
|
» Try MAL's New Mobile Site! ( 1 2 3 4 5 ... Last Page )Xinil - Feb 15, 2015 |
424 |
by Jeniferu4edy
»»
Yesterday, 12:58 PM |
|
» Moderators Wanted! Accepting applications for all positionsKineta - Apr 26 |
0 |
by Kineta
»»
Apr 26, 6:46 PM |
|
» Planned 5hr Maintenance, Thursday April 25 @ 1am-6am PTKineta - Apr 22 |
0 |
by Kineta
»»
Apr 22, 8:10 PM |
|
» New Site Update: Peak Anime 🗻 ( 1 2 3 4 5 )Kineta - Mar 31 |
213 |
by Lancelot73
»»
Apr 21, 4:28 AM |