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Dec 29, 2015 3:04 AM
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List Updates and Facebook/Twitter Integration
Users who have their Facebook and/or Twitter accounts connected to their MAL accounts, are now able to update the progress of anime/manga they are watching/reading.

On your List Settings page, you can enable Facebook/Twitter posting for anime and Twitter posting for manga. The settings let you choose to post updates when you:
  • begin watching/reading a series
  • update an episode/chapter of a series
  • complete a series

Here, you can also choose a default setting for posting: ask for confirmation, always post, or do not post. You can then update this choice for individual series (like discussion threads) on the Edit Anime/Manga page.


The posts then will look something like the following:



Notes:
  • Currently, the List Update option is only available on the desktop site. It will be extended to the mobile site in the future.
  • We know the Facebook images leave much to be desired... This is a limitation of Facebook (forcing a horizontal image), and we're looking into how best to improve the image quality.
  • Manga updates will be extended to Facebook in the future as well.

Just Added PVs
We have also added a page to show recent PVs linked to the Anime DB. Right now, it will only show anime titles from the current season (Winter 2016) and beyond. In the next phase, we'll be adding a few tabs to display the latest PVs in different ways (e.g. Most Popular, Upcoming, etc).

The Just Added PVs page is accessible from the Watch header in the menu.


Review Sorting Update
We have also updated our review sorting method for the Most Helpful (Weighted) option (which is the default displayed on DB front pages). Earlier, we were dividing all series by their days posted, which resulted in heavy bias towards recent reviews. We have now updated it to a function which decays over a certain time period, rather than a full division by time.

For more information and to give feedback, please see here.
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Dec 29, 2015 3:17 AM
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What's a Facebook?

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Dec 29, 2015 3:18 AM
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Now I can annoy my friends even on facebook and twitter.
Obviois mal advertisement is obvious.

Dec 29, 2015 3:21 AM
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Thanks for the updates :3
Dec 29, 2015 3:33 AM
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Crap, now they'll know I watch hentai.
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Dec 29, 2015 3:36 AM
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Looks useful, though I may or may not be using this integration feature.

Dec 29, 2015 3:37 AM
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Crap, now they'll know I watch hentai.
Not as bad as people knowing that you watch Fate.

Dec 29, 2015 3:39 AM
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I won't be integrating but good work, guys!

Btw, PV page layout is on point!
Dec 29, 2015 3:40 AM
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Don't use Twitter or Facebook but looks nice for people who do
Dec 29, 2015 3:40 AM

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ExTamplier said:
KaiserBait said:
Crap, now they'll know I watch hentai.
Not as bad as people knowing that you watch Fate.


I am Fate fan and there's no shame in that.


Dec 29, 2015 4:02 AM

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Another new update for us already? well this one looks nice too.
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Don't use Twitter or Facebook but looks nice for people who do

I use Friendster.

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Dec 29, 2015 4:05 AM

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Thanks for the update.. ^^
(Even though I'm not using Facebook and Twitter)..

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Dec 29, 2015 4:55 AM

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I made a thread about this in the support forum but just in case: is the fact that the "insert today's date" feature inputs November instead of December a bug that's due to enabling these features? I've only enabled Twitter integration so far.
Dec 29, 2015 5:02 AM
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Nice update, but you should change the default text for completing a series. "Completed watching" isn't very smooth English, and is wasteful of Twitter's limited character count. You may want to try "Finished" or simply "Completed".
Dec 29, 2015 5:05 AM
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Look at MAL taking over the heavy social medias.
Dec 29, 2015 5:07 AM

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What is Twitter?







* It's just you.
Dec 29, 2015 5:14 AM

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Good job with the new features, they may be useful for those who like to share their progress on fb or Twitter, but I won't as I specifically use MAL and Facebook separately.
Dec 29, 2015 5:15 AM

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Max said:
Nice update, but you should change the default text for completing a series. "Completed watching" isn't very smooth English, and is wasteful of Twitter's limited character count. You may want to try "Finished" or simply "Completed".

This too. It's easily enough to edit it yourself, but it would make more sense to just have "Completed [title]".
Dec 29, 2015 5:49 AM

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I no longer use Twitter, but still nice update. The recent PVs is something I wanted though. Thanks!
Dec 29, 2015 6:06 AM
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Great, all I gotta do now is create a Facebook or Twitter account
Dec 29, 2015 6:20 AM

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cool, nice work :)
Dec 29, 2015 8:48 AM

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Nice work! Is there a Promotion Videos guideline? I am a bit confused about what is considered a trailer, pv, cm, announcement etc. Especially since I didn't receive a "approved" message.
Dec 29, 2015 8:48 AM

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looks good and i like how you have the separate tabs under watch for the pv's and for daisuki
Dec 29, 2015 9:00 AM
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Since I'm an unofficial mobile app user, this has been integrated in it (and on Taiga?). But having an official release makes me happy. (And a lot of FB users that I encountered will rejoice on this one.)

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Dec 29, 2015 9:14 AM

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I'm excited for the next phase, which should include integration with LinkedIn.

Kineta said:
Review Sorting Update
We have also updated our review sorting method for the Most Helpful (Weighted) option (which is the default displayed on DB front pages). Earlier, we were dividing all series by their days posted, which resulted in heavy bias towards recent reviews. We have now updated it to a function which decays over a certain time period, rather than a full division by time.
Great update. Thanks.
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Dec 29, 2015 9:20 AM

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i can use this on my twitter but not on my fb
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Dec 29, 2015 9:28 AM

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This was actually pretty cool of you guys.
Dec 29, 2015 9:31 AM
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I never really use facebook and I never ever use twitter since that's not a thing in sweden... But nice for the people that do. :/



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Dec 29, 2015 9:58 AM

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I don't use facebook but it is a happy thing to see MAL grow.
thanks for the hardwork
Dec 29, 2015 10:35 AM

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Lol i will never use this especially with fb .

Dec 29, 2015 10:38 AM

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What is Facebook and/or Twitter?
Can I eat it?
Haters always gonna hate.
Dec 29, 2015 10:46 AM

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Kineta said:

Just Added PVs
We have also added a page to show recent PVs linked to the Anime DB. Right now, it will only show anime titles from the current season (Winter 2016) and beyond. In the next phase, we'll be adding a few tabs to display the latest PVs in different ways (e.g. Most Popular, Upcoming, etc).

The Just Added PVs page is accessible from the Watch header in the menu.


That at least is something I'll use. Thanks.
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Dec 29, 2015 10:58 AM

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I still wish you guys could give us an option (or remember our pick in the Reviews tab) when it came to sorting reviews but this change was also needed so good job.

And Just Added PVs isn't showing anything for me? EDIT: My ad block's fault.
But I'm glad this has been added.
Now only if you could implement that into the new Notification system, that'd be great.
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Now It's gonna be easier to recommend that Hentai list to my friends and family, thanks.
Dec 29, 2015 12:50 PM

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Having just watched two episodes, all I can say is that the Facebook integration clearly doesn't work, at least not when updating the episode numbers on the actual list page as usual.
Dec 29, 2015 12:52 PM

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Rayzer said:
What is Facebook and/or Twitter?
Can I eat it?
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Dec 29, 2015 12:54 PM
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Having just watched two episodes, all I can say is that the Facebook integration clearly doesn't work, at least not when updating the episode numbers on the actual list page as usual.


Mine was working before when I was testing it out, but not now - this goes for completing a series and starting one.
Dec 29, 2015 1:49 PM

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now MAL has that same feature of those MAL apps/softwares, i see this a lot on twitter
there are lots of MAL users doing this with those MAL apps but personally im not gonna use this

example https://twitter.com/search?vertical=default&q=MAL%20updater

nice work again MAL

degDec 29, 2015 1:57 PM
Dec 29, 2015 2:22 PM

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Facebook and Twitter? Nah.

Now, if you did this with Tumblr...
Dec 29, 2015 2:29 PM

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this is also free advertisement for MAL, we might see the total members reach another millions
Dec 29, 2015 2:48 PM
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I wonder what features will be added next. Maybe a like button?
Dec 29, 2015 3:40 PM

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I love this! MAL is really upgrading!
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Dec 29, 2015 4:22 PM

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I like the integrated PV section for anime page listings. Now I don't have to go digging through the discussion threads to find them.
Dec 29, 2015 5:16 PM

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Hi, the new feature has a side effect.

If i add a new anime, i need to manually refresh the site to edit the details.
Dec 29, 2015 5:18 PM

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More little features I'll probably never use but thanks anyway.
Dec 29, 2015 10:06 PM

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let your friends and family know when you complete Boku no Pico :D
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Roseheart said:
luinthoron said:
Having just watched two episodes, all I can say is that the Facebook integration clearly doesn't work, at least not when updating the episode numbers on the actual list page as usual.


Mine was working before when I was testing it out, but not now - this goes for completing a series and starting one.

Is it putting in the incorrect date? Perhaps that's not helping with things.

Twitter works, but only if you put in a date.
Dec 29, 2015 10:16 PM

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Finally! MyAnimeList connecting with Facebook! I've been waiting for this moment.
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Dec 29, 2015 11:56 PM
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I'm not connected through FB or Twitter, but this looks like a nice handy feature for those who are! Good work! The PV page is nice as well!
The review sorting change is great too.

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