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Basenji 3y
Wouldn’t it be easier to find stuff you’ve watched sorting by most popular?

Unless you’re a fan of really obscure works, doing it alphabetically would be time consuming… considering we have 17,772 anime entries. Search isn’t optimized for showing every entry at once and so would need to cache which takes loading time and lots of used RAM (iirc).

How would doing the same thing on MAL or another site make it easier? If it’s the same way…
- superotaku193 3y
  I have thought of trying it sorted by popularity, but there's just that underlying thought of "what if I've watched something that was largely unpopular but I'd still want to track that". I suppose that might be the compromise I have to make though, it's just my perfectionist side of me that admittedly I could do to ignore in most cases.
  
  On other sites (I haven't used MAL and just pulled it up to see, so I could be misunderstanding) you can search anime only starting with a certain letter of the alphabet, say all "A" anime, etc. Even then it also looks like these search results are broken up by pages, which takes care of the extremely large cache and loading issues.
  
  I was thinking of making a "Site Suggestion" post to suggest having the list of all anime or search results in general broken up into pages for this very reason, but figured I'd ask first just to make sure there wasn't something obvious I was missing.
  
  Thanks for the reply and suggestion! Sorting by popularity is likely what I'll end up doing.
  Basenji 3y
  another suggestion would just be filtering year by year and when you get higher can go by season
  or filter by formats
  
  I understand that having a letter filter would be great and probably simple to implement (relative to other things being worked on, not a dev don't quote :d) but I don't think it would be used much often as such specific granularity, when we have other filters for browsing.
  superotaku193 3y
  Yeah I just saw someone else mention going by year too, I feel like that's also a pretty good play.
  
  Also, just putting it out there, I do very much like all the filters available already! Like the ability filter by source material and streaming service?! huge. It was just for my specific use case that there wasn't an option.