| I'm seeing so many MAL profiles/accounts that just leave you no hope that they'd ever come back. People that didn't log in for 2,3,4,5 years now.. why is this happening? And, in most of the cases (as far as I know), there're lots of those left here, waiting for them to come back, still hoping, some might have moved on already, but some... Honestly, it is so heartbreaking, beats me... I'd like to know if there's anyone else going through a similar situation (aka u get to know smb here, talk 24/7, share your most deep thoughts and feelings and one day before u even manage to ask for their discord, they leave for good and up until today, you know nothing about them…) OR (the other side) you were the one that did sth so cruel to smb? I'm curious why'd people treat others this way? Does it feel so good to let a human being in ignorance??? while knowing they care, knowing they're looking for you. How does it feel? Why aren't people more honest about their choices, even if it's online? (and not real life, as some might say). Thanks in advance. Waiting for sth that might just never happen, is painful. Just saying.  |
| Lets be real, the forums suck ass now. |
| After reading this I'm feeling kinda sad. |
 "というわけで。待望の、体 操 服！ でっあ～る。祭りであれば、余も着飾ってはいられぬと用意したが……うむ！ 心身ともに軽くなったようだ。どうだ？ 似合っているであろう、マスター？" - Random Quote From Internet by Saber Nero |
| because they broke up with anime and aren't looking to get back together. |
| They're all dead, it's the only plausible explanation |
| MAL is a different place for different people. Though there are many who will use the site strictly for its list feature, a few lucky chosen ones will one day decide to post something on the forums. Be it a question about an anime, or a witty post. Fast Forward 1-2 years later they are either long gone or are now MAL forum regulars. Those who "Leave" MAL are usually those who became regulars. Whether its in forum games, the clubs or the casual discussion forums. There is a power struggle here of some kind. People want to leave their mark on the forums. Though in the last few years its a solo battle. Gone are the days when 4 or 5 users were associated with each other. Gone are the days when someone @ one of their fellow shitposters to contribute to a pointless thread. When all the old users and new users are single handedly posting in isolation. It gets boring. They are alone despite posting among 100s of people. Writing a diary entry would be more entertaining. People would much rather do something related to their adult life, college life, or social life than post in the void which is MAL. The younger generation of Anime fans who used to show up everytime an anime hit mainstream are now all on Apps, or other places.( Like Discord, or twitter, Anime Amino) Why go on a forum club based on your favorite anime when you can make a discord for it! |
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| people grow up and realize mal is somewhat childish |
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| i'm not leaving mal bahahahaha ilove this shit toomuch |
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| Let's be real here, no one cares if you're still on or was on the forums a lot. A few MALers I know left for some reasons I don't know and do know but that's all there is to it. Off to another thread like we always do. |
| mal lacks progressive improvement and forums are getting boring thesedays another reason might be work or school people get busier perhaps or they do not wish to spend time on an anime website and rather on something productive or meaningful to reality or maybe they just forgot their passwords and too lazy to request password resets some of my friends are gone forever PepeHands |
| The mods managed to chase a lot of people away. |
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| -Forgot password and couldn't recover -Made new account -Lost interest in anime and manga -Too busy -Prefered similar sites -Friends on MAL left so had no one to stay for -Harassed off the site -Lost internet access -Forgot they had an account -Got perma banned -Computer crashed -In prison -Put off by recent changes to the user agreement -Put off by increasingly strict rules over last few years -In a coma or died |
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| People change; they grow out of things. Sometimes using a specific website or even watching Anime altogether is one of those things. |
deg said: - adult life, busy with work or school - MAL ads are annoying, yes a lot of people still do not use adblock - there are better alternatives to MAL like AniList and Kitsu - MAL has lack of modern features and its development is close to none existent - MAL has bad security lots of hackers and spam bots - strict forum rules + traed said: That busy is one explanation and the rest also, even though I don't hope for some suggestions to happen, but there can be also two other possibilities:-Forgot password and couldn't recover -Made new account -Lost interest in anime and manga -Too busy -Prefered similar sites -Friends on MAL left so had no one to stay for -Harassed off the site -Lost internet access -Forgot they had an account -Got perma banned -Computer crashed -In prison -Put off by recent changes to the user agreement -Put off by increasingly strict rules over last few years -In a coma or died 1) a general loss in interest (not restricted to Anime and Manga) after having spent so much time with online communities 2) they get to know people more locally to them and/or move to a place where they can meet people who are close to them in their vicinity, thus not needing any online community or online-only contact for socializing The second one may suck for the online friend or good online acquaintance, but from the position of the local friend or local good acquaintance, they would prefer to spend more time with that person, too, so people tend to make a cut-off point once they get so fulfilled with their local relationships |
| I'm definitely quitting MAL in a few years because I'm maybe even quitting anime ? Whatever, life follows its flow. |
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| I also wanted to leave MAL tbh, but I have my Emilia blog. Furthermore, I still have a duty to defend Emilia when Remfags bash her. When and if Re:Zero season 2 is aired and finished then perhaps I will finally find peace and leave this site for good because my work will be done :) |
| Maybe because MAL is owned by lazy ass people who implemented a premium service but never fixed or did anything to improve this place? |
Prophetess of the Golden Era  |
| I know that feel bro. People you regularly talk to for so long and also the ones your care about, some major changes happened in their life, got tight schedules and have to struggle in their daily life that they can't interact with you like they used to anymore. They will even forget about your existence bro. It's all about changes in priorities and emotions. They are like dummies who cling to their basic priorities in the end. So, it would be Orokana of you to be sad over something like that. Just take care of yourself and also get busy with the stuffs that will improve you cuz it's just the way things in life are. |
  "Self respect is the greatest gift we can give to our self" |
Klad said: Lets be real, the forums suck ass now. Spam bots Mal forums are ass Mods are ass Rule 7 is ass But the major reason is starvation. When you can't afford food how do you expect them to afford the Internet? And coma. I agree with tread 75% of the worlds population spends half their life in coma and laziness |
  ur opinion = shit |
deg said: That's certainly a possibility, though Discord is a messenger and people who would have more contact with people they can meet face-to-face, would much rather use something like WhatsApp with their real names, instead. I can very well imagine that once people have found a satisfying social circle with people, with whom they can meet in person, they won't feel as much of a need to socialize with people whom they only know from a pseudonymous, interest-based, social site.i may add that maybe those who leave go to other social sites now like reddit, facebook, twitter and discord I personally doubt that a site like Facebook or Twitter will stay relevant in most people's lives who at one point created an account of either or both. Reddit might be good to look things up or to ask a question pseudonymously, but other than that, I can't see a majority switch to it, either. deg said: This is something I can agree with, though MAL has hold itself fairly well for so long, which could be because of the ease of socializing through profile comments.and forums is also a dying social platform through out the internet anyway |
| The forums are overmoderated and some of the choices made in development (removing fansub lists, extra ads) are simply making the user experience worse. |
Coolspot said: MAL is a different place for different people. Though there are many who will use the site strictly for its list feature, a few lucky chosen ones will one day decide to post something on the forums. Be it a question about an anime, or a witty post. Fast Forward 1-2 years later they are either long gone or are now MAL forum regulars. Those who "Leave" MAL are usually those who became regulars. Whether its in forum games, the clubs or the casual discussion forums. There is a power struggle here of some kind. People want to leave their mark on the forums. Though in the last few years its a solo battle. Gone are the days when 4 or 5 users were associated with each other. Gone are the days when someone @ one of their fellow shitposters to contribute to a pointless thread. When all the old users and new users are single handedly posting in isolation. It gets boring. They are alone despite posting among 100s of people. Writing a diary entry would be more entertaining. People would much rather do something related to their adult life, college life, or social life than post in the void which is MAL. The younger generation of Anime fans who used to show up everytime an anime hit mainstream are now all on Apps, or other places.( Like Discord, or twitter, Anime Amino) Why go on a forum club based on your favorite anime when you can make a discord for it! This is the most morbid yet true post I've seen in this thread. I completely second this, especially the first half. The reason why people don't associate with MAL anymore is because MAL is a shell of its former self. |
Klad said: Lets be real, the forums suck ass now. Yeah this. It feels like there's no new topics to talk about. You always see the same boring discussions and shitposts here on mal. There's no variety to keep the community here interesting enough to be apart of (tbh mal lacks a sense of community. Feels like it's every man for themselves). The database and user profiles are really nice, but apart from that this website feels stale. It didn't really hit me until mal went down and i found other websites to be on. After mal came back i realised how boring it actually is |
Lord_LamingtonDec 28, 2018 4:02 AM
| I'm the exact type of person you hate. ツ My hypothesis is that most people who used to frequent MAL were teenagers that ended up getting busy after 2-3 years of activity, and are now onto more "adult things." |
| People are people, and sometimes we change our minds. Real life priorities crashing in, better listing sites and lost interest in the medium. |
| I started using an AniList account but I still didn't leave MAL, because I'm curious enough to keep using MAL as well as attached to it, but others are the type of people who move on easily and MAL really needs to improve the website overall for a better user experience as well. |
| A few facilities that MAL provides better than AniList are score deviation compared to public scores and tag facility (grouping anime by appropriate tags) rather than notes. |
| Huh, the forum isn't so welcoming, from my point of view, and many topics are hard to discuss, in the sense that they have no meaning. Plus people get cold. At least that's what I think. If people were to communicate more with each other on this site, the community would be much larger. |
| Gg |
| Forum died when the mods got rid of quote towers and put in the 30 char limit. No one comes here for serious discussions and never have. It has always been about shit posting and clowning on others. |
| Real question is rather why they are staying... My reply: for some people here. |
hoopla123 said: Forum died when the mods got rid of quote towers and put in the 30 char limit. No one comes here for serious discussions and never have. It has always been about shit posting and clowning on others. Wow, I recognise your name and because that Iroha avatar brings back memories. You wont know who I am but lets just say back in the days, its a Iroha Isshiki fan :) |
 "Don't give up after failing just twice. We'll be able to do it next time. Failure is the stepping stone to success." |
| The user I used to talk the most with on MAL has been perma banned. He made dupes later but gave up. Personally, I left that forum because I got bored of it and had better things to do. I wasn't even watching animes anymore (Except for Jojo) nor reading mangas. I only came back due to the user I mentioned coming back to me again on Discord months ago. |
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This too. I'm not leaving anytime soon as I still login to update my lists. |
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I'm staying here because of facilities such as score deviation to public and grouping by tags and also I'm very curious person by nature. |
To update my lists duh & Procrastination tool~ |
 It’s okay to look back at the past, just don’t stare too long |
| Because we stop caring, we get older, etc I didn't "leave", but I'm not exactly "active" either Also I feel like the community can be kinda... eh sometimes. There are awesome people here, it's just that sometimes it's like the same cookie cutter threads especially in AD. Seriously since I've been here, the same topics lol. I don't really like social media anymore tbh |
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| OT: After having checked a couple of profiles from reviews and other parts of the forum, I noticed that there are a number of people who became inactive after having graduated, which I assume based on what is indicated on their join date, last active date, and the description on their profile that says "I am majoring in x and will be graduating on x", or "I will be starting college next month", or something specific I remember from a user: "I have watched enough anime, and will now be focusing on studying Japanese" or something along those lines. As for me, the only thing that will make me delete my account / leave is when someone I know in real life finds out about this account. Mod Edit: Removed quote of rule-breaking post and responses to it. |
KinetaApr 2, 2021 7:58 AM
 もろともに 哀れと思へ 山桜 花より外に 知る人もなし. On a mountain slope, Solitary, uncompanioned, Stands a cherry tree. Except for you, lonely friend, To others I am unknown. |
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