| Hello Everyone, This is my first post.. I want to make a request for my anime list.. Can you please give a custom category for the anime list?? I need a category named, "Dragon Ball Collection".. Sorry if I posted it in a wrong forum.. Thanks Boursk for the visualization :) Instead of: Dragonball You'd have just a singleDragonball Z Dragonball GT etc + Dragonball series Where you can click the '+', which would fold out to:- Dragonball series |- Dragonball |- Dragonball Z |- Dragonball GT |- Dragon Ball Movie 1: Curse of the Blood Rubies |- ... |- ... |- Dragon Ball Z Special 1: Bardock, The Father of Goku |- ... |- etc NOTE: even if the example is given with DB, we want this for all anime series. |
asandariNov 9, 2008 1:09 PM
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| While you're at it why not ask for a .hack collection, Sailor Moon collection, Pokemon collection, etc. |
| It'd be less of a pain in coder's asses if you just made another MAL username, called it xCG's DBZ collection, and link to it somewhere. |
Xjellocross said: While you're at it why not ask for a .hack collection, Sailor Moon collection, Pokemon collection, etc. nope.. because only my Dragon Ball Collection is Huge.. DB, DBZ, DBGT, DBZ(12movies), DBZ (2specials), DB(4movies).. it will look better I put all of them into a separate catagory.. |
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| I was being sarcastic, Xinil would never make another section on the list for one show or he'd have to do it for all the big franchises. |
| I'll take one for Slayers while you're at it. ;D |
| Id like one for Byakugan! |
Xjellocross said: I was being sarcastic, Xinil would never make another section on the list for one show or he'd have to do it for all the big franchises. Issun said: I'll take one for Slayers while you're at it. ;D Its-A-Trap said: Id like one for Byakugan! /facepalm |
Issun said: I'll take one for Slayers while you're at it. ;D Its-A-Trap said: I want an Aria and Shana one!Id like one for Byakugan! But seriously, no. |
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| Actually, I was going to suggest something similar to this. It's a feature that ANN has, where they get various shows from the same media franchise and group them together, like this. I know that anime/manga pages here link to spin-offs, sequels, etc., but I'd like to be able to see it all at a glance. Would something like this be possible? |
| that's not really what the original poster was asking for, they wanted separate sections within their list. as for your idea warbird, i'd only support it if it wasn't too much trouble to code. Xinil's hands are pretty full with trying to fix search, com to com, notifications and any random bugs that pop up. not to mention any new features he's already approved and not implemented yet. |
| I am not very sure that it is easy to do, because even in series relations on the description pages there is no overview for all related animes (something what AniDB have even as graphical representation). If there would have been the same ID for all related shows than it would have been possible. So it should be Anime Group ID. Which also could be used for adding into favorites (another idea which was previously suggested by some one). If we will ever reach such state with Group ID (and that it would be possible to show animes in groups (if not the separate column, maybe like "GroupName: AnimeSeries Season 2"), it would be also nice if we could handle animes in our list by this ID (adding all related animes at once to, say, Plan to watch). Well, call all this "idea enhanced". |
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| guys, is there any possibility of this feature to be implemented? let me explain the feature i'm looking for. it is kinda like a tree view. if you enable it in settings, anime which are of same groups (like All db/dbz/dbgt etc, all of gundams, all of initial d and so on) will be by default, under a tree which can be expanded if the viewer wishes. this is really required as these similar things clutter up the list and opening a new MAL account for this is, imo, absurd. afaik, this should be really easy to implement. adding a few more fields in the database table and a few small modification in the php files should do. the main problem would be entering the category data, imo. anyways, really looking forward to this feature and hear from the devs of MAL about this. PS: xCG account is used by 3 people to be exact! the one opened the topic is rather young. so he had difficulties in explaining things. |
xCGNov 6, 2008 11:01 AM
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| So, why were 3 people using 1 account again? I also want a section named 'reminds me of touhou sometimes'. All the entries are sorted alphabetically by default, anyway, why would it clutter? Also sorting ALL ANIME ENTRIES that belong to one part would mean that every anime gets his own header and entry in the list, not to mention that we need to tag all the anime that belong together (which you probably mean), first. Bad idea. You should make your own list on your own website if you really think that's what's necessary in a list... |
ZoiQ said: So, why were 3 people using 1 account again? is there any problem? that is for us to decide. ZoiQ said: I also want a section named 'reminds me of touhou sometimes'. what is your problem? ZoiQ said: All the entries are sorted alphabetically by default, anyway, why would it clutter? Also sorting ALL ANIME ENTRIES that belong to one part would mean that every anime gets his own header and entry in the list, not to mention that we need to tag all the anime that belong together (which you probably mean), first. im amazed by your thinking if you are a part of the dev group. if one's collection doesnt have more than one (this option[number] should be configurable) anime of same group, dont show the header. simple as that. ZoiQ said: Bad idea. You should make your own list on your own website if you really think that's what's necessary in a list... excellent behavior..from a moderator. im sure this kinda behavior will bring a lot more users in MAL. keep it up. |
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| Im sorry but i dont think he offended you somehow. You sayed your suggestion dude and they tell you theirs.Why dont you do what someone allready sayed:Create one more acount put all your Dragonball collections there and link it to your profile.I also have watched everything about dragonball but i never thought i need something special like that.Also you should consider the workload for the Coder... |
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Cloud1234 said: Im sorry but i dont think he offended you somehow. You sayed your suggestion dude and they tell you theirs.Why dont you do what someone allready sayed:Create one more acount put all your Dragonball collections there and link it to your profile.I also have watched everything about dragonball but i never thought i need something special like that.Also you should consider the workload for the Coder... what about others like initial D, gundams etc? i create more accounts for those too? im here to *suggest* something as a user, im not demanding anything. so hearing "You should make your own list on your own website" is not pleasant. and im not asking for something exceptional..AniDB and ANN both has similar features. i just wanna hear what the devs have to say about it. on the other hand, simply letting the user create custom tree header of his/her own can be a simple but elegant solution. the user can create a tree header and put the anime s/he wants to put it there. |
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| Let's just start with the fact that duplicate accounts are not endorsed by MAL staff (since it's against the ToU). It's not acceptable to just go out and say that you should make a second/third/fourth/etc account for all your list types or whatever and use it as a work-around. About the idea........there two ways this can be implemented: (1) letting users make custom groups and (2) having series grouped together by default. The first one is crap. It just makes navigating around lists quite tedious. I can imagine people making seperate shounen and ninja headers, which would make it a guessing game where certain entries are. The second one is kinda nice, but there the workload would be a huge wall. Why? The DB would have to be rewritten to accomodate this, since there aren't any series groups. There are references to eachother (sequels, prequels, etc), but they aren't grouped together (like all dragonball, slayer, etc in seperate groups). And aside from that, the anime/manga lists need to be reprogrammed too. Not to mention, if the DB gets reprogrammed, the whole site gets influenced because of that (most notably the anime/manga pages). All in all, just because other sites have it, doesn't make it that much easier for this site to have it. Now obviously these are just my two cents and if Xinil says he'll do it, it'll happen. But I'm just showing you that this isn't as simple as changing some text on the site....... :( |
| Thank you Boursk for a useful reply. i know the second implementation is not *that* easy to implement. but i think it is not *that* hard as you are saying. while i do not know the internal details, i think adding one table for group names, and one field in the anime details table for a foreign key from group names table is enough. some changes in the user settings table and some changes in the frontend. and then just adding group names and ids. there's nothing to rewrite the DB. if the 2nd method is not possible, i'd be really happy if we get the first implementation. at least, i will be able to collapse the huge DB/InitialD etc series. |
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| .... why do you NEED them to be grouped together? Are you trying to brag about how much DBZ you've seen or something? |
| the fact is though that they ARE grouped together. since the completed list is usually in alphabetical order, they should be all together. and if you must, you can simply tag each DragonBall with a Dragonball tag, then you can click on the tag in your list, and every anime with that tag will be listed. |
kei-clone said: and if you must, you can simply tag each DragonBall with a Dragonball tag, then you can click on the tag in your list, and every anime with that tag will be listed. oh wow, didn't know! (rather, never thought about it.) That's handy. |
| Correct me if I'm wrong, but I had the idea that the suggestion was about having some kind of tree thing in your anime/manga list. Instead of: Dragonball You'd have just a singleDragonball Z Dragonball GT etc + Dragonball series Where you can click the '+', which would fold out to:- Dragonball series You can correct me if I'm wrong....... :S|- Dragonball |- Dragonball Z |- Dragonball GT |- etc Anyway, I won't go too far into the DB thing. I have a certain image about how it would look like, but I haven't actually seen it, so who knows. Either way, whether it's more or less work than I think, it's still quite a lot of work. Xinil's the man who's gotta do the work, so don't think badly of him if he declines. ^_^ |
Sirdam said: .... why do you NEED them to be grouped together? Are you trying to brag about how much DBZ you've seen or something? i do not like DB series THAT much. so keep your stupid thoughts out of here.zzzz. i already said why i want this, i think the list will look more arranged and nice if this feature gets in. Boursk said: Correct me if I'm wrong, but I had the idea that the suggestion was about having some kind of tree thing in your anime/manga list. Instead of: Dragonball You'd have just a singleDragonball Z Dragonball GT etc + Dragonball series Where you can click the '+', which would fold out to:- Dragonball series You can correct me if I'm wrong....... :S|- Dragonball |- Dragonball Z |- Dragonball GT |- etc Anyway, I won't go too far into the DB thing. I have a certain image about how it would look like, but I haven't actually seen it, so who knows. Either way, whether it's more or less work than I think, it's still quite a lot of work. Xinil's the man who's gotta do the work, so don't think badly of him if he declines. ^_^ exactly! not only for DB..for any anime that has multiple series and OVAs. my collection isn't as great as many others. but if you visit it, you'll see that most of the list is occupied by DB things (couple of series and a LOT of OVAs). i dont like the looks of it. http://myanimelist.net/animelist/xCG i wont think badly if this feature gets denied because of current workload. but if it gets denied with reasons like "brag about it/make your own list on your own site", i definitely have the right to think badly. on the other hand, even custom tree creation would do for now. |
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| I support this idea - to be able to group a whole lot of prequels/sequels/spin-offs/side stories/OVAs/specials into a group like in a tree that you can unfold. I have 9 animes of Naruto on my list and it can be a lil' confusing to scroll over when there are so many from the sam anime (and because some of the movies have tremendous long japanese titles ó_O) and some series as Dragonball are even larger. That custom grouping in your list that takes all entries of a certain anime and groups together under the anime's "main title" would be an ideal solution - for those who knows how to control it and can master it so it doesn't become some lame guessing game as Boursk said. I think it could be an overall cool feature, but I don't see the exact need for it, so I wouldn't go suicidal mode if it's declined xD Fair suggestion though. ... and jeez people why can't some of you just make a reply that shows some common sense without going all offensive? Not really the right place - You're under the "Suggestions" thread... |
| ... Even if I took time to write alot of intelligent words of deep thought and meaning in my signature, would you really care to read and comment on it? ... |
| I added some description to the title... probably should have done that sooner. Please try to use descriptive titles in the future. |
| Boursk's idea looks really good. Frankly, load of titles in list where most of them are just some ova, specials, movies and continuations is pretty annoying. Not to mention the mess. |
Ii tenki desu ne... |
asandari said: I added some description to the title... probably should have done that sooner. Please try to use descriptive titles in the future. thanks. btw, not all anime are grouped properly. if you look at the DB list..some dragon ball movies appear before DBGT and some appear after. also, many series sequence is totally out of order. just for example, fatal fury 2 appears before fatal fury. |
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| hey guys.many of you opposed my idea because it'd take a lot of database entries about which one is which's sequel/prequel etc etc. i just noticed that this is already present. when you view a anime details (eg. http://myanimelist.net/anime/813/Dragon_Ball_Z_(Original) or http://myanimelist.net/anime/298/.hack//Legend_of_the_Twilight ), these are already there. another thing is that, as the anime count increases, the list loading time increases significantly. implementing AJAX based folding option will eliminate this issue (just like anibd.net). |
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Xinil said: I sometimes miss, forget, or lose suggestions. If I haven't responded to your suggestion, or I said I was going to do it and it has been quite a while with no update/response, please post again in the SAME thread you created and ask for an update. I'll be happy to let you know what the status is. :) bump! |
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| So yeah, status? |
| bump again :( |
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| Although not necessarily supporting the suggestion, I'm still in for franchise pages for anime, and creating a top 30 from them. I'd still like to see the anime franchise'd in my list, but not as much as franchise entries. |
| bumpy bump! |
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| At first I was skeptical of this, but it would be useful for things like Favorites. I currently have Slayers as a favorite, but I liked the franchise as a whole and not just the first season and liked some prequels/sequels more than others. The same with Clannad, Ef, Tenchi Muyo, Dragonball, Ah My Goddess, etc... Implementing something like this for just the the favorites wouldn't be a bad idea. And selecting what sequels you liked for those with multiple seasons and order them under the pull down list. An example of my favorites with Slayers on it would look like: +Slayers -Slayers Special -Slayers Try -Slayers Motion Picture -Slayers Next -Slayers Excellent -Slayers -Slayers Return -Slayers Premium -Slayers Gorgeous -Slayers Great |
Kid_at_HartApr 12, 2009 6:05 AM
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| Somebody mentioned it on IRC the other day (I think, maybe IM... but someone asked pertaining to this idea) a benefit of franchise pages would be that we could 'watch' a franchise, and be alerted (via email like topic reply, PM etc etc) when new items (OVAs, sequels and such) are added to the franchise. It'd be really helpful to be able to keep track of new stuff and make sure you've seen all of the related franchise stuff, because some people are too lazy to keep track of all the new announcements every season to see if there are new sequels/OVAs/movies etc for series they love. So this is an additional awesome idea that could easily be implemented with franchise pages. |
| Could've sworn I posted here already.. guess not. I would love this idea as well as we were discussing in the related anime suggestion thread. It'd be great to have it a drop down list like Boursk showed. Or an actually page for the whole franchise like this. And having MAL message you when there's a new anime in the franchise your watching would be an awesome feature ^^ |
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| bump :( |
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| Don't know why I didn't do this before ...: Franchise list Version .1 Ah! My Goddess is My link example And Ah! My Goddess and Aria are My Spoiler Examples ( haven't been able to get it inside the table well yet ) I think I prefer aria's way I'm not sure how hard it would be to input this into MAL's code. |
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aoikishu said: Woah, looks cool. I liked the spoiler way more, though the huge hide/show button ruins it, maybe we can change it with a simple + as with Boursk's idea. Going to a new page everytime you want to see the anime themselves (the link example) is just too much work. Though I must say, I do want that "more" button on the franchises to see the total time watched and etc. How it would work when you first click on more and then click the button to see the anime themselves (also with "more" button) without them clashing, I do not know.Don't know why I didn't do this before ...: Franchise list Version .1 Ah! My Goddess is My link example And Ah! My Goddess and Aria are My Spoiler Examples ( haven't been able to get it inside the table well yet ) I think I prefer aria's way I'm not sure how hard it would be to input this into MAL's code. |
| bump! |
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| There are a number of series with a large amount of movies (3 =>). It seems to be a decent idea to add a parent page that links to individual pages for each movie. As it is now, I am intimidated by the number of results that show up if I search for "Pokemon". Another one that comes to mind is Kara no Kyoukai, where the series is made up of movies entirely. The parent page can possess some attributes of the specific pages, in that users can give a rating and comment on the movies as a whole. In effect, something similar to the current "Series" pages, but with less specific details (E.g. Omitting the "Information" panel would seem to be a sound decision). The thought of users arguing "Which Bleach movie is the best?" is pretty entertaining. |
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| I quite like this idea; unfortunately, I have nothing useful to add as to whether this would be feasible, or even useful. I will say that perhaps if/hopefully when the tags feature is fixed, this may just become moot as you could just tag your series. Admittedly that wouldn't necessarily look as good, and would be slightly more troublesome for someone who really wanted this custom tree feature in order to group, say, every DB anime as there is a lot. Pretty much just a bump masquerading as my two cents. |
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| i really like this idea. why ares some replies so upset at this ?? It will make everything really organised |
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