| I think it's active enough. Plenty of new threads every day. |
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| most forum activity is on anime series discussion now since that is the only subforum showing in the Official Mobile App and there are more Mobile users than Desktop users now casual discussion is dead the strict rules killed it plus as you said discord is a thing and that is killing all forums on the internet more |
| Myanimelist has been dead since it was created. |
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| Compared to the pre-Rule 7 era, MAL is indeed dead. You have to be a genius not to get your threads locked by the way—unless you ask questions such as "What did you have for breakfast?"—for they will be considered controversial if you used too complicated words, and "not encouraging discussion" if they are slightly humorous. |
| MAL is dead generally MAL clubs who looked like they still active are because the creator and few admins (who probably alt accounts of the creator) desperately making the club active by making the comment section of the club looked active The graphic contest are monopolized by the same people, who vote each other to make them in the top ranks |
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| Interesting questions gets harder and harder to keep producing. Can't say what could be the factors contributing but the lack of activity is noticeable. Wouldn't say its dead though. |
| "In the end the World really doesn't need a Superman. Just a Brave one" |
| Compared to the way it was 5 or 6 years ago it is indeed a bit dead. But for me, and for a lot of other users probably, it doesn't matter really. We're here to have an easy way to keep track of anime, forums are just an occasional sideshow |
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| Probably depends on what exactly "dead" means to you. The site itself? There are a lot more changes happening than there used to. The site is constantly being updated and I feel like there haven't been that many updates before as there are now (yes, I know that people want dark mode which has yet to be implemented, but I'm sure it'll come at some point). Of course, not all changes are to everyone's liking, but I guess that's how it is. The forum? Maybe not as active as it was a few years ago, but I wouldn't say it's dead. There are still lots of posts and new topics every day, especially in the episode discussions. However, due to the removal of Current Events, a lot of people stopped coming to the forums altogether. I think that shows. The clubs? Apart from a few active card or events clubs, yeah, they're mostly dead. But I'd say the userbase itself is growing as anime becomes more and more mainstream these days. Most new users are probably only updating their lists instead of engaging in the forums or clubs. BUT! As someone who has been participating in MAL events like MALoween or Secret Santa for several years now, I can say that the activity there has increased a lot (mainly due to profile badges). With similar sites like AniList or Anime-Planet, people just have to find the site that suits their likes the most. I have been a member of MAL for almost 10 years now and I don't really like the other sites, but that's just a matter of taste, I'm an old person that loves the classic and simple style of MAL lol |
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| These forum died before you join. 2016 and up you don't remember this site it was good. "You joined in 2022" take my user url and go to way back machine. |
Amityblight said: These forum died before you join. 2016 and up you don't remember this site it was good. "You joined in 2022" take my user url and go to way back machine. 2015 is at best, if you judge from how active and creative MAL clubs were |
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philtecturophy said: Amityblight said: These forum died before you join. 2016 and up you don't remember this site it was good. "You joined in 2022" take my user url and go to way back machine. 2015 is at best, if you judge from how active and creative MAL clubs were They were active 2012, 2013 and 2014 Mal used to be so lit new guys have no clue. |
I started to look at MAL clubs at 2015 and they were amazing. Some clubs back then: Chill club, Tea party day break, LOCS, CD2, Ethereal Realm, etc., all great clubs. I don't know before that, maybe before were even more amazing PS: lots people gonna argue I included CD2 in that list, but it was indeed a great club back then, very polite people, and it was my first MAL club, when I was randomly invited by the creator Berserker, thats when I knew MAL has clubs |
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| Depends on what you're referring to, the forums are not very active but that's all forums across the web, if you mean the website then no we have more monthly visitors than ever if you check out web traffic trackers. |
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| Things are a little less interesting with Flowers permanently banned, but new threads keep getting made and whatnot. |
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philtecturophy said: I started to look at MAL clubs at 2015 and they were amazing. Some clubs back then: Chill club, Tea party day break, LOCS, CD2, Ethereal Realm, etc., all great clubs. I don't know before that, maybe before were even more amazing PS: lots people gonna argue I included CD2 in that list, but it was indeed a great club back then, very polite people, and it was my first MAL club, when I was randomly invited by the creator Berserker, thats when I knew MAL has clubs I was mod for a club own by friend of mine who never active. I meet a lot nice and cool users who no longer use the site. ACasualViewer said: Depends on what you're referring to, the forums are not very active but that's all forums across the web, if you mean the website then no we have more monthly visitors than ever if you check out web traffic trackers. That too. Forums are things of past. |
| I used to come on here every single day until the site was hacked or whatever and was offline for a while. Then when I came back after everything was restored, it was kind of dead. No one I talked with on a daily basis uses this site anymore. The clubs that were super active have now fizzled out. But I am sure that not all areas were affected. The forums still seem pretty active. I just personally do not come around as often. |
| Yeah the mods killed the forums years ago with shitty new rules. But what do they care, they don't even post here. |
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| Yes, the long down time of the site, the character limit making posting frustrating, paired with authoritarian mods shutting down the majority of topics that would get a lot of replies with their trash rules and new mods never questioning those rules because they havent been around for more than a couple years mostly only existing after the rules were made and barely if ever use the forums and probably have never used another forum in their life so they dont know how forums are run just Twitter, Reddit and Facebook. Out of touch. Clubs that implemented Discord groups did themselves in. |
ACasualViewer said: the forums are not very active Because you mods are so strict about the content of the threads these days and don't cut any slack.. people are just afraid to speak... You have to be clever to get your point across without offending somebody's personal opinions.. .. They don't update pictures of characters and characters info or add new Manga to the database.. They all just monitor reports and hand out bans and lock threads.. |
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ryo-san said: ACasualViewer said: the forums are not very active Because you mods are so strict about the content of the threads these days and don't cut any slack.. people are just afraid to speak... You have to be clever to get your point across without offending somebody's personal opinions.. .. They don't update pictures of characters and characters info or add new Manga to the database.. They all just monitor reports and hand out bans and lock threads.. @ACasualViewer isn't a forum moderator so it ain't their fault. Honestly mate, no matter what we say, the "forum mods" just won't listen to reason. Look at Rule #7 for example... like 95% of the forum community hated that rule and wanted that rule to be removed. Guess what the "Forum Mods" did? They made terrible excuses and basically said "nope". I don't hate them but being dismissive towards users who disagree with their rules is beyond ridiculous. If it wasn't for the strict rules and mods (only some) who abuse their power, MyAnimeList forums wouldn't be dead. Hope @StephWeeb can tell this to the other mods but I doubt they will listen. |
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ThePrinceOfAcid said: Hope @StephWeeb can tell this to the other mods but I doubt they will listen. The other forum mods/community mods, maybe even admins might read this post. As I am from the generation of Forum Moderators that was appointed after the CE closure I sadly can't give my opinion in this matter as I have not a clue how bad Current Events actuall was to moderate. |
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| Yes but actually no. They still give us some updates occasionally and add some useful functions like stack. In the other hand, many active users in the past dropped this site for various reasons, most clubs are dead, there're a serious lack of significant forum discussions, the Anime and Manga mods usually reject update requests especially for lesser-known entries. |
kizumi91 said: the Anime and Manga mods usually reject update requests especially for lesser-known entries. This is the absolute truth.. I saw some Manga which listed elsewhere but weren't listed on Mal,so I asked if they can add them but I didn't get any responses back.. I wanted it added to the database so that I could add it to my stack of shoujo mystery https://www.anime-planet.com/manga/medium-reibai-tantei-jouzuka-hisui |
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StephWeeb said: ThePrinceOfAcid said: Hope @StephWeeb can tell this to the other mods but I doubt they will listen. The other forum mods/community mods, maybe even admins might read this post. As I am from the generation of Forum Moderators that was appointed after the CE closure I sadly can't give my opinion in this matter as I have not a clue how bad Current Events actuall was to moderate. More than that. Unless you are on a second account you weren’t on the site before any of the rule changes that so many complain about. |
| What rule changes? I was probably not here when changes happen so I want to know. |
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ThorLL said: What rule changes? I was probably not here when changes happen so I want to know. A lot to cover if I go over every board but you can see it in the rules for each board. Just read the post dates and edit dates and you can see when the additions were added because new posts were made for the updates often. |
| it's slowly dying because mods wanna keep the forums kids friendly, another problem is that mods are incompetent so they just delete what they feel like it, hence few people bother to post on AD and the like the database is bad in regards to old anime because the mods don't care about old or unpopular stuff, I can't add characters for Kimegumi because it will take 5 months for them to be allowed and sometimes the mods will just delete those entries yet fucking one piece characters are added after one day after the episode airs. I went to edit info about some manga but still nothing, I even provided proof yet new shit gets all the edits. Mods might argue that they're few which is fair but why even have a db if you don't care about it? Things like these make people lose interest in mal overall |
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| I see, sad times. Probably because 'kids frendly stuff' is profitable, not just Disney but even Hayayo Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli got so fat and rich of that, Does MAL somehow profit from kid frendliness? |
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ThorLL said: I see, sad times. Probably because 'kids frendly stuff' is profitable, not just Disney but even Hayayo Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli got so fat and rich of that, Does MAL somehow profit from kid frendliness? No, they cant even have users under age of 13 because US data collection laws. |
| Be glad we still have a forum. Other sites are closing down their forums, look at crunchyroll. |
| lol, doesn't this thread turn up like every year or smth |
ThorLL said: I see, sad times. Probably because 'kids frendly stuff' is profitable, not just Disney but even Hayayo Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli got so fat and rich of that, Does MAL somehow profit from kid frendliness? I don't think MAL itself cares. The moderator Ardanaz (who barely posts in the forums) has bragged in the past about being responsible for rule 7 and the closing of CE, so it's more of a volunteer mod decision than a MAL decision. |
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| "Dead" in the sense that the threads in AD specifically are repetitive as fuck. I can't blame anyone if they get tired of replying to the same thing over and over again. |
| There's so few active people here so... she's dead Jim. |
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| I only joined a year ago so I'm not really sure, but from what most people are saying is that everything has kind of died down a bit compared to earlier years. But still I think and hope that MAL won't die anytime soon. |
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| I've been on the site since 2017 only to mark anime that I've watched. I like having a list of what I've seen and I haven't bothered to switch to aniilist or any other sites. I only started using the forums pretty recently though, but I think it makes sense that the MAL gets less traffic with other sites like aniilist being much superior when it comes to a design perspective. I also think since the internet has gotten bigger there are plenty of other ways to discuss anime, like in private discord servers |
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| Threads are getting very uninteresting since last year. And it's only getting worse recently with all the Demon Slayer, FMAB bots and CSM threads (they're so mindbogglingly bad it's not even funny). Either way, shouldn't it be a good thing that you're visiting this site less frequently? It's not a particularly productive activity anyway. It's quite fun to visit once in a while, but daily is just not great. |
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BigChef said: I've been on the site since 2017 only to mark anime that I've watched. I like having a list of what I've seen and I haven't bothered to switch to aniilist or any other sites. I only started using the forums pretty recently though, but I think it makes sense that the MAL gets less traffic with other sites like aniilist being much superior when it comes to a design perspective. I also think since the internet has gotten bigger there are plenty of other ways to discuss anime, like in private discord servers This is objectively untrue. https://www.similarweb.com/website/myanimelist.net/vs/anilist.co/#overview |
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ACasualViewer said: BigChef said: I've been on the site since 2017 only to mark anime that I've watched. I like having a list of what I've seen and I haven't bothered to switch to aniilist or any other sites. I only started using the forums pretty recently though, but I think it makes sense that the MAL gets less traffic with other sites like aniilist being much superior when it comes to a design perspective. I also think since the internet has gotten bigger there are plenty of other ways to discuss anime, like in private discord servers This is objectively untrue. https://www.similarweb.com/website/myanimelist.net/vs/anilist.co/#overview The point was there are plenty of other ways to discuss shows now which might lead to less traffic on the site. I wasn't making a statement on aniilist being more popular at all |
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BigChef said: ACasualViewer said: This is objectively untrue. https://www.similarweb.com/website/myanimelist.net/vs/anilist.co/#overview The point was there are plenty of other ways to discuss shows now which might lead to less traffic on the site. I wasn't making a statement on aniilist being more popular at all That statement is also untrue, 60 million monthly impressions is on the higher end for us, traffic isn't notably decreasing. |
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| Forums in general are going by way of the dinosaurs because of Discord but I'd say MAL is honestly doing well when taking that into account. |
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Narmy said: ThorLL said: I see, sad times. Probably because 'kids frendly stuff' is profitable, not just Disney but even Hayayo Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli got so fat and rich of that, Does MAL somehow profit from kid frendliness? I don't think MAL itself cares. The moderator Ardanaz (who barely posts in the forums) has bragged in the past about being responsible for rule 7 and the closing of CE, so it's more of a volunteer mod decision than a MAL decision. He used to post more. He created this club immediately after that no one wanted to join which brings to questiion his motives. https://myanimelist.net/clubs.php?cid=75292 |
| This deserves a parody movie. GOD's MAL's not DEAD! Who would of MAL do that line?  |
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| this question gets asked once a month and it's funny. forums are ded in terms of socializing but the actual site in terms of people who click on is doing great |
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