First of all, thank you for continuing this service, which I've been using extensively over the last years. It's fair to say I watched a lot of shows, from particular years and genres, just to complete levels. In my opinion this was the unque selling point of the service, to give you slots to fill with anime entries, but leave the details to your individual taste. Any show from 2004 will do, just pick what you like to see. Yet, the redesign of the badges raises my concern, the dramatic increase of "specific shows" badges which require one to complete some random MAL entries.
This badge type isn't new, yet their inflation in the current draft site changes it's nature. There were like a dozen entries which were fairly short watches, mainly shorts, OVA and movies. The only TV entry was Pingu in the City, which is a short episode quick watch. Alltogether, all those buttons could easily be completed in a day or two. The main "challenge" was how abysmally bad most of the entries were, and the fact one needed to spoil one's list with a hentai, Boku no Piko and Bible Black.
The new draft now adds a massive amount of regular TV shows, Naruto alone requires almost 100 hours of my life time to complete. The time requirement for completing the "specific show" badges easily went up by multiple magnitudes, 100 times longer isn't much exaggerated. Also, the entries no longer mark remarkable shows, they feel random and pointless. Practically all of them come are for a single demographic genre, shounen. Which I have zero interest in, to be honest. At least add a fair share of Seinen, Josei and Shoujo shows, this "random shounentard parade" is a mis-feature, in my book.
I feel that mal-badges always had a focus on categories of shows rather than themed lists. That is what we have MAL Challenges for, and they offer an excellent badge system for these already at https://anime.jhiday.net/hof/user/inim#checklists
Thus, my request is: Remove the "particular show" themed badges completely. Or at least limit them in runtime, to at most movie length. |