Frostbytes said: With other websites like anilist providing the users with more features like 25 favorites, public feeds, dark theme and many other useful features like taiga(while also lacking some of the mal features as disadvantages), do you think MAL has finally started losing its relevance? Many users permanently migrated to other sites too after the apocalypse here. MAL is relevant af. Anilist is just gay lol |
| I can't get my head around the forums of anilist, I like the order here. |
| I'll be using both sites (MAL and AL) as I got friends in both places. I love AL global feed and MAL forums so... |
| A lot of people are only here because of the community. And the site has the biggest amount of followingship, so I would doubt any other competitor would get in the lead regardless of the 2 month silent storm. |
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| A lot of people are only here because of the community. And the site has the biggest amount of followingship, so I would doubt any other competitor would get in the lead regardless of the 2 month silent storm. |
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This. MALGraph was the reason I even made an account. |
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I don't think MAL is going anywhere anytime soon |
| as stated before, MAL is just a very organized website and it's going to be hard to find a website that works as well as MAL does. I used kitsu while I couldn't update my anime list entries here, and that's about it. Imo Kitsu ain't even that good and I didn't bother to create a user on other websites, such as anilist. |
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| I was here, and i'll be here. I rarely post anything on these forums though. Too many elitist and toxic people. Not to mention the ones that think it's a race to comment on everything, and mark every anime, to wave around as some kind of status symbol. That being said, the site is good the way it is i believe. It's not like i have to see the above mentioned creatures, unless i choose to. |
Frostbytes said: With other websites like anilist providing the users with more features like 25 favorites, public feeds, dark theme and many other useful features like taiga(while also lacking some of the mal features as disadvantages), do you think MAL has finally started losing its relevance? Many users permanently migrated to other sites too after the apocalypse here. Let's put it like that: I have over 800 titles in my anime list. It took me 3 days to input the original set, and years to grow it to this size. If I'll migrate to another site now, I'll need to spend at least a week on that. It takes more than a few features to make me do it. In the first place, what the hell are public feeds and taiga? Why would I need some northern forest in my anime list? Or do you mean the angry loli from Toradora? I think she is listed on MAL already. About the only solid choice is AniDB, because it's paired with a good database. (MAL's database is lacking in many things) But there is no particular need to migrate there either. |
Frostbytes said: flannan said: Let's put it like that: I have over 800 titles in my anime list. It took me 3 days to input the original set, and years to grow it to this size. If I'll migrate to another site now, I'll need to spend at least a week on that. It takes more than a few features to make me do it. In the first place, what the hell are public feeds and taiga? Why would I need some northern forest in my anime list? Or do you mean the angry loli from Toradora? I think she is listed on MAL already. About the only solid choice is AniDB, because it's paired with a good database. (MAL's database is lacking in many things) But there is no particular need to migrate there either. That's why mal provides you with export list option and you can import your lists in other sites, it's a matter of two minutes lol. Public feeds are global feeds, basically like twitter where you comment/post something in your profile and gets visible to everyone in the global status, you can discuss then. Taiga is an anime tracker for pc, synchronizes your pc and a lot of users find that useful. There are other features too but whatever. Thank you for your explanation. I still don't feel like migrating, though. Maybe because I actually like MAL's nice and shiny interface. |
| Luckily the lists features were only down for a short time, so I've been able to keep my lists updated in MAL. |
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| I hereby pledge my loyalty to MAL. May its reign be eternal. |
| My only problem is converting my list back to MAL after I converted it to Anilist. |
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| Am only interested in updating my list and keeping stuff tracked. Got no need for other sites. MAL could do with a dark theme though. |
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| I created Anilist account a while ago, everything was fine until I changed my username. I cannot login or reset my password even with correct email (I checked everything twice before). That's why I came back to MAL. I agree that Anilist has a lot of feature, but MAL still has larger fanbase. |
| MAL is so much more popular than Aniilist (and better) but quite a few people did leave this site when the apocalypse happened although I don't think it will have much of an impact on MAL in a few months. |
ItsXolo said: I don't think MAL is going anywhere anytime soon So no one's going to mention the spike in anilist and kitsu traffic from when mal when down? Also apparently now mal is getting more traffic than pre apocalypse |
| considering i had no clue what anilist was before this thread i'd say mal's fine |
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| What is API? I keep seeing that everywhere and I have no idea what that means. Also to answer the OPs questions. I have no idea, I so know however I made back ups on AniList and Anime Planet and when I was importing my list it was taking a long time to import and this was back when MAL went. So those sites probabaly did gain a lot of users but whether they will still be as popular or relevant as MAL once this site is fully back, only time will tell. |
| Doubt it. MAL got its listing system back up pretty quickly; only the forums, for the most part, have been down the longest. I don't know what few features are still left to get fixed but I imagine the primary purpose for the vast majority of people in using MAL is just to list and track their anime, features which were fixed very quickly compared to the rest of the site. Not to mention that for as new or shiny other websites may be, MAL doesn't look atrocious, it doesn't have much in the way of clutter and I've personally never had any issues with it being slow or laggy. I never had much of an incentive to fuck about trying other websites because MAL works just fine. In the years I've joined I don't think I've ever experienced MAL being down once, so I'm not gonna just piss off forever because of a random blip since that means trying to adjust to new websites. |
MazAug 8, 2018 3:12 PM
 It's an entirely different kind of flying, altogether! It's an entirely different kind of flying. |
| No. I saw the activity is the same (more or less) when the reviews returned weeks ago. I created an account for AniList and that site is ok but it doesn't have so much activity as I expect. The forums there are mostly dead. I like that it has some useful features like the dark mode and the score system. I will stay in both sites. |
ToumaTachibanaMay 2, 2019 10:37 PM
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| Anilist makes me feel like I don't want to be on that site. |
  "๐๐ธ๐ป ๐๐ธ๐พ, ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ท ๐ฏ๐ช๐ต๐ต๐ฒ๐ท๐ฐ ๐ฒ๐ท๐ฝ๐ธ ๐๐ฎ๐ต๐ต ๐ฒ๐ผ ๐ท๐ธ๐ฝ ๐ฎ๐ท๐ธ๐พ๐ฐ๐ฑ." ๐๐ท๐ฒ๐ถ๐ฎ ๐๐ฒ๐ผ๐ฝ | ๐๐ช๐ท๐ฐ๐ช ๐๐ฒ๐ผ๐ฝ |
| Newer users might have chosen other sites for the past 2 months because they didn't see all the advantages of MAL but I guess those who've been here for while won't just go somewhere else if they are used to this site. I tried anilist myself but it just didn't feel right, I still like MAL better. |
| IDK but MALs forum is more active so im happier here |
| Apps are the biggest threat. Anime Amino, Kitsu, MyAniList MAL needs to make a mobile app version of their site or they are gonna die. |
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| Anilist and kitsu are ass tbh, horrible navigation. Forgot which one tried to mirror MAL's db lmaoo. |
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| any other anime community site is irrelevant tbh i dont think mal is going down anytime soon. see the demand for the site during the maintenance its still impressive. and btw u are doing this topic on mal so |
 still life: pink roses |
Arimias said: Coolspot said: MAL needs to make a mobile app version of their site or they are gonna die. They already have one dawg. The problem is it's really shitty atm. They have a mobile site not app apps are not official. |
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| One of the reasons i won't leave MAL is because i already have my list updated so if i migrate to another website i have to add all the anime i've watched from the start and that's a waste of time and energy. |
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| Nothing comes close to MAL imo. I've tried other sites, didn't like them. |
  Crying doesn't mean you're weak. Enduring doesn't mean you're strong. |
| i think the word of losing its relevance doesn't seem right to describe the current MAL situation right now...... The lack of moderators and admin who are active in digging up informationis the cause of losing its relevance. And dont have to blame them, considering that MAL was being maintained a few months ago. so what is the words to correct the phrase of losing its relevance?  |
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| The biggest appeal of this site over the others [was] a large and active forum userbase: * By now, it has probably eroded somewhat with the extended downtime. * It went to shit anyway before the MALpocalypse - this place is a safe-harbor for shitposters and trolls. |
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| I think MAL is better than Anilist in many ways - but to be honest, the lack of communication almost made me want to ditch this site. I think MAL is fine for now, but if something like this happens again, and they choose to be secretive once more, it won't go well. |
Arimias said: Coolspot said: They have a mobile site not app apps are not official. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.myanimelist https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1706630 Ah I dont have android lol my bad. Cool cool. |
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| I think Anilist should be worrying about the people leaving their site and going back to MAL now that the forums are back up. |
| AL Forum is cancer as fuck though. I'd rather have this simplistic cancerous forum style. No really, not kidding. |
| I don't really like their forum, I prefer the one in mal really. |
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| Time for MAL to have a big update and prove themselves the best anime list tracking website. |
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