I am curious who already used this site before the "MAL-incident" and who just came here cuz MAL is down (like me)
Just like many others I treated Anilist as a backup site that simply looked better. Now I am not only glad that I imported my MAL list shortly before MAL went down completely but I was also happy to see that Anilist had improved drastically recently. Apart from the redesign I am also a big fan of the Advanced Scoring system, which we can individually expand and adjust, that allowed me to finally give an accurate score to the anime I watched. Add to that how fast the UI is and the Global feature and I can not see myself ever using MAL as a main again, or at all. Whatever the team behind Anilist was doing to arrive at this point, I hope they keep doing it.
Not sure if i'll stay or not Still lacks some useful features that MAL has like opening songs/endings and recommendations etc
I just read that Recommendations are on the to-do list and will be implemented soon, but without an ETA. Check this post by a mod https://anilist.co/forum/thread/3248/comment/73013
I think all of us have different must-have features, over time I hope that the Anilist staff will implement some of the most requested ones. As for me, the redesign fixed the few issues that I had.
Just come here due to the Great Disaster of MAL, casually fired up Google and after comparing, I choosed AL as new shelter.
Yeah i used Anilist for several months a while ago (on an account i can no longer access) before going back to MAL because i ran into some issue that i absolutely can not remember.
Definitely plan on sticking around for a bit, just need MAL back up for my lists that i now know i need to be better about backing up.