| Personally, I find it a bit misleading that my bar for dropped anime (32 entries) to be twice as wide as my bar for completed anime (132 entries), and both being wider than the bar for total entries (which is 166). I am sure there is a rationale behind this, but personally, I'd prefer to see all these bars on the same scale. A possibility would be to have an option to switch between the current view and the suggested view. I've made a quick sketch to illustrate what I mean:  Note that the bars are not exactly to scale, just a quick approximation. As to the length of the bottom-most bar (total entries), this could either be the full width of the frame, or relative to the maximum possible, or as current, relative to some unknown function. (Finally, of course the topmost bar - time spent watching - must be in a different scale..) |
| I think this has something to do with the time (days). |
AlexSadist-sama said: I think this has something to do with the time (days). I'm not sure I follow. In that case, the length of the "total entries" bar should surely be the sum of the lengths of the above bars? At least it should not be shorter? |
| I know what you're saying, but the reason the Dropped Bar is longer than Completed is because the average number of Completed Anime of MAL users is much higher than their average number of Dropped Anime. The Bar is comparing your number to others. Many people feel that listing Dropped Anime is a waste of time and so they don't bother to list any at all. It's also harder for most people to recall what anime they dropped because they very likely didn't like the show to begin with. |
Terence_T said: I know what you're saying, but the reason the Dropped Bar is longer than Completed is because the average number of Completed Anime of MAL users is much higher than their average number of Dropped Anime. The Bar is comparing your number to others. Many people feel that listing Dropped Anime is a waste of time and so they don't bother to list any at all. It's also harder for most people to recall what anime they dropped because they very likely didn't like the show to begin with. I see what you're saying. On the other hand, personally I'm more interested in comparing my stats to myself: how many animes did I watch for every one I dropped? Etc. So it feels a tad surreal to have a bunch of bars who have no relation whatsoever to each other.. |
| I'd like to dig this topic up, though my reason is slightly different to the OP. The Plan to Watch bar scales waaaaay too fast. There are people with hundreds of series of their Plan to Watch, yet my list of 50 is represented by a bar 80% of the maximum length?  This shit annoys me to no end. |
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| Maybe because while you've seen people with hundreds of entries in their plan to watch. There are way more that have barely any. From what I understand, each bar goes off of the average on the site for that specific category. So I don't see it changing it anytime. |
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ermac81 said: Ok. Then go, they don't have any bars there.Hummingbird is looking better and better... |
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| I agree on the idea to lower the Dropped Bar extension rate per series. On short, you have my support. :) |
SubPyroFlow said: Do you know why it's so high? It's that it's based on the average of every user on this site. There's no way to lower that without abandoning the idea of using the average.I agree on the idea to lower the Dropped Bar extension rate per series. On short, you have my support. :) |
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IntroverTurtle said: That sound's pretty good to me.abandoning the idea of using the average. |
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IntroverTurtle said: I don't agree with changing them, but do you have somewhere that you got this from or are you just assuming?From what I understand, each bar goes off of the average on the site for that specific category. |
Slyr3do0n said: There's a thread about it somewhere or a mod told me, I can't remember. But it looks quite obvious. The bars go on different scales, they are using an average of something.IntroverTurtle said: I don't agree with changing them, but do you have somewhere that you got this from or are you just assuming?From what I understand, each bar goes off of the average on the site for that specific category. BurntJelly said: What's the point in making the scales the same?IntroverTurtle said: That sound's pretty good to me.abandoning the idea of using the average. |
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IntroverTurtle said: BurntJelly said: What's the point in making the scales the same?IntroverTurtle said: That sound's pretty good to me.abandoning the idea of using the average. Because then instead of looking like this: It could look more like this: The "fixed" version more accurately shows the distribution on my list. In my case, I don't care that I drop more than most people. That bar should not be longer than my Completed list. I wouldn't completely throw out the site average though. It would look bad to have 1 completed anime, but have the bar fill all the space. Or perhaps an exponential scale could be used... I don't have all the answers. |
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| Mine just shows 0 everywhere.... >_> |
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IntroverTurtle said: What's the point in making the scales the same? It doesn't look so confusing and annoying when trying to see them all as a whole. |
Peiale said: IntroverTurtle said: What's the point in making the scales the same? It doesn't look so confusing and annoying when trying to see them all as a whole. +1 |
| shameless necro since it's profile suggestions talk time http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1381274 elbaldo said: I'd like to dig this topic up, though my reason is slightly different to the OP. The Plan to Watch bar scales waaaaay too fast. There are people with hundreds of series of their Plan to Watch, yet my list of 50 is represented by a bar 80% of the maximum length? This shit annoys me to no end. i always found that annoying too apparently i've over average plant to read/watch, but it feels odd seeing i've (by width) more plan to read/watch than total entries, which is not true cause i've 2 or 4 times more total enties than planned |
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