Did you know AniList before?

I created my account 3 hours ago XD
Never heard about this place before :/ (thx mal)

I joined this site about a year ago at the recommendation of a friend.
I've never seen it as active as it is now with all these MAL refugees. :0

To be honest, I was actually comfortable enough with MAL and never looked into alternatives until it stopped working, which is the minimum requirement I had for it. Now, AniList actually feels designed better and I absolutely love the stats here.

I signed up years ago to use AniList as a backup account, since it was easy enough to do with the import feature. I have a backup account on quite a few sites, since they also sometimes offer unique stats or recommendation pages.

Back in the day I was curious about the other platforms similar to MAL so I've made accounts on AniList and Kitsu (at that time it was called Hummingbird).
So even if I had this account I only came back when MAL went down. And it was definitely a good idea.

I didnt, ever since I started watching anime last year I have been using MAL and didnt even bothered looking for alternatives....but I am very happy I came here. Especially engaging the community is designed in a more attractive way compared to MAL

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.

I've known it before the slight redesign to the UI moving the topbar from the side to the top But I might actually stay now that it looks better

Nah, I am using it for the first time.

I joined the site on either day 1 or 2 and that was a while ago.

I've been using AL since 2014 I think... I switched from MAL after my friends started using it. So glad I did. :D

Signed up years ago but never use until now.

I had heard about it for a while now, and coincidentally decided to try Anilist just a day before the MAL incident, so I had time to export my list. Now I've decided to move here permanently because I like it a lot more than MAL.

I've had a Anilist, Kitsu and AniDB account for about 2 years, I really like this site so it'll be my primary tracker now and MAL will be my backup if and when it comes back.

I came here earlier, because I wasn't satisfied with MAL. This is my primary site for listing the anime I watch, but I keep a MAL account for its greater popularity. With MAL going down, I'm glad I was using two sites and not just one.

I came here 3 years ago as an alternative to Kitsu, then stopped using both and just stuck with MAL. Now I plan on using this and MAL.

Just come here due to the Great Disaster of MAL, casually fired up Google and after comparing, I choosed AL as new shelter.

I didn't know AL. I am just refugee from MAL xD

yep i know this site before, i made an account here and on Kitsu/Hummingbird years ago when MAL was down for a whole week because of a DDoS attack

i first found out about anilist a year ago when i noticed it while i was scrolling through anichart, only made my account yesterday though

I joined in 2016 (maybe sooner) because I really liked AniChart, and I stopped using MAL regularly about two months ago.

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.

I created my account since 2 hours because the happened, and this place is amazing, the design, plataform and stats are oustanding :)

Known this site for a few years. Took this time to jump. :)

I created my account on Nov 20, 2013, I had to check my mail for the date. I forgot about the site a few times.

I imported my MAL stuff 2 years ago... but I accumulated more in those 2 years, now I am waiting for MAL to come back online so I can do it again.

Been here for 10 months now. It's great you should defo stay!

Although I came from MAL like everyone else and just created an account just before. I've known about anilist for a few years now, even creating an account that I no longer know in it's early years. I didn't stay around because I felt MAL was solid than anilist was at the time :3

I only came because MAL won't get their shit together.

I used Anichart but not the anime list before. I used Kitsu as a backup previously and also had a account at Animeplanet.

I created accounts everywhere possible for testing purposes.
I then Switched between kitsu and MAL.
But with the recent redesign here I like it better.