Zephyrast said: Is there any way to see the fansub votes and comments I left? At they very least I'd like to be able to access that information so I can post it somewhere else. I left dozens and dozens of reviews for the subs of various anime and will be pretty ticked if all that was deleted without any warning. Not like it matters since there was no fansub comment section to easily find them like forum posts. |
| The fansub section needs to come back. where can i find old (early 90's and older) unlicensed anime with good subs if MAL decide to remove it for good? :c |
Psyche_IzayaOct 27, 2018 7:30 AM
| Eh, what can I say on the matter. We all agree that it was a bad move. Until Aikatsu!, PriPara, PreCure, Battle Spirits, Jewelpet, and many others get official releases then I'm against the "anime industry". |
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Psyche_Izaya said: The fansub section needs to come back. where can i find old (early 90's and older) unlicensed anime with good subs if MAL decide to remove it for good? :c So I don't know much about this, but I want to help if I can, and I think someone mentioned aniDB as the last place to get this kinda info? Can anyone confirm if that's true? O_o https://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=main |
Shishio-kun said: Psyche_Izaya said: The fansub section needs to come back. where can i find old (early 90's and older) unlicensed anime with good subs if MAL decide to remove it for good? :c So I don't know much about this, but I want to help if I can, and I think someone mentioned aniDB as the last place to get this kinda info? Can anyone confirm if that's true? O_o https://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=main I wouldn't call it the last place since you can still use a userscript to bring the old fansub comments back here. But yes, AniDB has good info about fansub groups. |
Jinbou said: I wouldn't call it the last place since you can still use a userscript to bring the old fansub comments back here. Wait, really? |
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DragonKnightGX said: Jinbou said: I wouldn't call it the last place since you can still use a userscript to bring the old fansub comments back here. Wait, really? Obviously it's read-only, but yeah. Google 'MAL bring fansubs back' or something, there was a popular reddit thread about it with a title like that back when the fansubs were removed. |
| https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/9kq1ch/bringing_fansubs_back_on_mal/ Is this it? |
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| @DragonKnightGX yep that's it. |
Jinbou said: Shishio-kun said: So I don't know much about this, but I want to help if I can, and I think someone mentioned aniDB as the last place to get this kinda info? Can anyone confirm if that's true? O_o https://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=main I wouldn't call it the last place since you can still use a userscript to bring the old fansub comments back here. But yes, AniDB has good info about fansub groups. Well thanks, good information for everyone! |
Beary64 said: Psyche_Izaya said: The fansub section needs to come back. where can i find old (early 90's and older) unlicensed anime with good subs if MAL decide to remove it for good? :c Y'know, this is a really excellent point. Also, the reason we even have an American anime industry is oldschool fansubs. I understand not wanting fansubs of partnered or licensed anime, we live in a culture of fear of litigation bullying. Now turning to the industry: if the fan translation of an anime is superior to the licensed, it means the licensor really needs to compete by improving their translation, not by crushing the perceived opposition underfoot. I get that copyright is a thing, but the pushback against fan translation in general is circumferential self-injurious behavior. When a group is anticompetitive, they're really just hurting their own quality's checks and balances. For translation, that used to imply multiple groups making drafts, which meant higher quality TLs all around and a better spread for consumers. Why can't we find a way home to that? Edit: autocorrect hates me and I wanted to reword things I suppose the reason is that rights to sub one anime are given to only one company. I don't know if it is legally possible to give the rights to multiple companies, but at least this is not done (and even if, there aren't enough companies subbing anime to have competition). This create a monopolistic situation where the company does not need to write good subs to sell their product, they only need to do the minimal job (and attack their only competitor: the fansubs). Maybe this is why fansubs have better subs: they are competiting with each other and thus need to have the best translation. |
| Lmao fansub info gone? Guess I'm never coming back. |
I don't really care about removing the fansubs from new shows, but seeing the old subs on old anime removed feels like part of the history of MAL and the anime community as a whole was just erased off this site. Most of those fansub groups don't even make fansubs anymore and it was always nostalgic to look back on that stuff. At least for me. Dude, seriously... This is pretty upsetting. Just yesterday I was comparing the fansubs for Bakemonogatari using MAL. It's really sad to think all those comments I read and votes I saw are gone now. |
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| I can't believe they actually got rid of the fansubs that's pretty much only reason I came back. |
| Thanks for update... as I’m like need api to be back soon.... as at moment having to used my iPad (iMAL) which does work with mal for me update it, if i’m not on the pc..... but can’t use it on my mobile (Pocket MAL) as app over there got issue with api ... yeah... bummer.... but wait for update on api though 😎 Fansub group.... I never heard this, so I’m bit clueless on this of what it is about.... hmmmmm 🤔 |
Animekid3Nov 4, 2018 5:53 AM
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| Weren't we supposed to be getting these updates every other week? Not that I expected any real news... |
pureevil4 said: Weren't we supposed to be getting these updates every other week? Not that I expected any real news... Yes, I believe its overdue. And I'm with you, I don't expect any real news until next year or so. However, updates are important for the community cuz it's nice to know there's no bad news for now! I appreciate hearing every two weeks that API is at least in the future because I keep expecting a "DENA scrapped the idea" announcement. |
| Fortnightly updates my foot, almost been a month now since the last. |
| The API is still being actively worked on, but I unfortunately have no new particular details to share in regards to its progress. It's a slow moving boulder at the moment. |
Xinil said: The API is still being actively worked on, but I unfortunately have no new particular details to share in regards to its progress Slowly worked on, well hopefully it will be done b4 next year. |
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Xinil said: The API is still being actively worked on, but I unfortunately have no new particular details to share in regards to its progress. It's a slow moving boulder at the moment. Well at least it's still in progress. After that, I hope you guys can work on some new site features to make MAL more fun and active! There's a lot of good suggestions in the forum :D |
KalfKaneda said: you mean before 2020 because it won't be done before 2019 lolXinil said: The API is still being actively worked on, but I unfortunately have no new particular details to share in regards to its progress Slowly worked on, well hopefully it will be done b4 next year. |
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AbdulrahmanHadz said: Swagernator said: Where's your signature image from?MAL needs to pretend that fansub groups are not a good thing for anime industry. It's from this pic, anime and character etc on the left |
| If we're getting rid of the fansubs section (Understandable!) a nice feature to have eventually would be more links to official websites. We have Crunchyroll, but it'd be great to also get HiDive, Netflix, etc if possible. |
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Netbug said: If we're getting rid of the fansubs section (Understandable!) a nice feature to have eventually would be more links to official websites. We have Crunchyroll, but it'd be great to also get HiDive, Netflix, etc if possible. Nobody wants useless clutter like that. |
Netbug said: If we're getting rid of the fansubs section (Understandable!) a nice feature to have eventually would be more links to official websites. We have Crunchyroll, but it'd be great to also get HiDive, Netflix, etc if possible. Official websites ain't got kids anime, so bring back fansubs or bust. |
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| Where are you, Update-chan? |
aslakahurani said: not sure my opinion matters or not. but, well, if fansubs are those funny annotations i've seen on some sites then i don't find the reason given by MAL folks to get rid of fansubs valid. fansubs could never replace or even compete with official subtitles. they are just two distinct things. They're not actually. They're just like official subs, but made by fans. Doesn't mean the excuse for getting rid of them is valid, because the so-called "anime industry" can kiss my ass. |
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| O_O MAL admins please! With the API back I promise we can make the community stronger. You can count on us :D I hope we're close D:  |
Shishio-kunDec 11, 2018 5:47 PM
| Less-than-monthly updates confirmed? Even if it's "Absolutely no progress whatsoever.", I like regular updates. |
| this is not lookin good boyos :( |
| Still waiting... |
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| @myanimelistllc @xinil Update for the holidays, please? :D |
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