| Please give me the option to revert back to the old design. I don't find this new design as easy to navigate and the thumbnails are just distracting. Much prefer the simplicity of text only and having all listings visible by default. |
| Hmm... At first, I was surprised and skeptical, but I decided to give this change some time. The idea of slightly refreshing the Related Anime/Manga section and making it more comfortable to browse sounded good. That's why I thought my initial skepticism could've been simply because something new had appeared and I needed to get used to it. Unfortunately, after several days, I began to miss the old system. Don't get me wrong, the new one works well when there aren't a lot of related entries, and for sure it's great because it shows what kind of format each entry is (TV series, movie, ONA, etc.). But it doesn't mean the new way of showing those entries is flawless. When there are a lot of related entries, it simply becomes a mess. The section is already visually bigger due to several thumbnails, and expanding it to see a high number of entries of various kinds becomes hard to read. While the ability to hide long lists is convenient, I still think the more minimalistic approach of the previous system was way more informative and clearer, at least for entries with many other related entries connected to them. I really wish we could choose the system we prefer more in general. |
| I thought the "related entries" section had been removed from the website until I found this post. Because my eyes glaze over the MALxJapan and other ads, which is right by the related entries section. The related entries pictures are too small to see and nothing else in that section stands out. I thought it was just gone. |
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I thought the "related entries" section had been removed from the website until I found this post.
Because my eyes glaze over the MALxJapan and other ads, which is right by the related entries section. The related entries pictures are too small to see and nothing else in that section stands out. I thought it was just gone.
Because my eyes glaze over the MALxJapan and other ads, which is right by the related entries section. The related entries pictures are too small to see and nothing else in that section stands out. I thought it was just gone.
| @Maenads Yep, I'm still having this problem even after weeks of it being like this; eyes just slide right past it |
| This was a surprise, I was struggling to find sequels but with the current layout it seems confusing going back and forth series with 5+ seasons. I have to open tabs if I want to keep my progress between checking sequels. |
| The idea is really nice but an option to use the older version would be very nice. I prefer the more compact look it had compared to how it is now. I feel like this looks a lot nicer and cleaner  Compared to this which feels like a mesh between two styles and just looks a little janky  |
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| Couple things wrong with this 1. Please add the option to automatically show all related, having to click the button every time makes it really annoying to tell at a glance what anime are related 2. Please make it possible to either show all or none of the entires with images, the contrast is very annoying to look at & splitting shows with and without images re-orders the fields in oftentimes annoying ways Otherwise I like the idea, would appreciate if these 2 changes are considered |
| It would be nice if there's a LN list as well. If we have Anime/Manga lists, where's the Light Novel lists? It is rather confusing to see LN in the manga category. Also, it looks nicer when you're on the anime page and you get to see the main source of adaptation, and besides it, the alternative, both in a single page instead of clicking the LN source, and then the manga or vice very. That's too much work. |
| It's not that I dislike this genre but... to add unnecessary fan services to/in/for heroines and ultimately destroys her character and personality; their purity tarnished because of it, is the only thing I hope to not happen to them. For that sole purity is my fan service. |
| Is there going to be a summer fantasy anime league? |
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| As a mass anime watcher that prefer usability over visuals, this change is absolutely annoying and confusing. Before it was easy to say what is what. Now we have to click to expand the section, look for header for each tile to determine what is it. Jesus, I'm 15 years-exp developer and I will never understand, why those kind of worsening changes are introduced to designs that just work properly. If it's working, why change? @Edit So I actually spent 1 hour of my time and made Tampermonkey script to revert that change. |
tariel36Jul 4, 7:25 AM
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As a mass anime watcher that prefer usability over visuals, this change is absolutely annoying and confusing. Before it was easy to say what is what. Now we have to click to expand the section, look for header for each tile to determine what is it. Jesus, I'm 15 years-exp developer and I will never understand, why those kind of worsening changes are introduced to designs that just work properly. If it's working, why change?
@Edit
So I actually spent 1 hour of my time and made Tampermonkey script to revert that change.
@Edit
So I actually spent 1 hour of my time and made Tampermonkey script to revert that change.
tariel36 said: So I actually spent 1 hour of my time and made Tampermonkey script to revert that change. Awesome! If this had been how they redesigned it in the first place, I bet no one would have complained |
Navigating to the Naruto and Boruto anime using the relations from Naruto Shippuden felt super weird today. With the new design, I expect the Prequels and Sequels to be instantly visible at the top together with the Adaptation. It's the case for 99% of all anime and it was one of the explicit goals of the change to make prequels/sequels more visible. It feels so weird to just randomly have them hidden. It's too rare for me to have to press the "More related entries" on the bottom right to get used to it. My first reaction is often to just accidentally assume that the anime simply doesn't have more than 4 entries unless I know better. There is still almost no indicator for the fact that the other relations are hidden other than that small button on the side that I constantly forget about. I hate the moments when I just stare at the relations for a few seconds wondering why I can't find what I'm looking for until I remember to press that button on the right where I usually never look. (Maybe I'm dumb for not getting used to it, but the design just isn't good) It's already bad enough that I constantly have to second guess myself if the prequel/sequel I'm looking for is on the left or the right, because my head automatically reads it top to bottom for each column. Everywhere else on MAL the two columns are supposed to be read top to bottom except for here where it's left to right. This is super confusing! I really don't want to rely on user scripts for this. |
| Did they make a way to change it back? Not a fan. |
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| Absolutely hate the change. Couldn't even find the prequel/sequel stuff and thought it was legit removed. Usability & visibility plummeted on this one. |
| Love this update!! |
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| It's been 2 months since this was implemented, clearly MAL don't care or want to acknowledge change feedback I'm just glad someone shared a tampermonkey script to fix MAL's poor implementation of this |
| Have mercy. When I'm browsing through the larger series and I have to expand the window to do so under each season, it makes me sick of using MAL at all. I wouldn't have a problem with it if there was an option to choose the previous version to display related titles.... I'm guessing that, just like the feedback on reviews, the MAL team doesn't give a damn. |
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| The update is a great and welcome change. The experience could be optimized by giving the user an indication on where the entry stands in their lists, i.e. Completed, Plan to read, add to list, etc., without having to click on the link. Might be a programming nightmare, but it would be a great boon to the user's experience. That feature would create a nice convenience, and increase the value of the MAL experience overall |
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