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AniList Ownership Change
Hey everyone, as some may have already seen from our posts on April 1, @TehNut and I are officially the new co-owners of AniList! We have had many ideas swirling around in our heads for the future betterment and development of the site.
Here's some of the things you can expect to see us working on:
- Site stability
- New API version
- More frequent site updates
- A mobile app
- Many other large features we have on the roadmap (please continue making suggestions in the forum!)
Some of these things will come sooner than others, but rest assured we will be pushing towards these goals and more.
We hope you will support us in our efforts to further develop AniList!
Crazy to think that I joined AniList back in 2015 only to use it as a back up for my list and now this. If you've got any questions, feel free to ask 'em.
Just joined the site and it is great. One thing that I see missing but is kind of present is an episode list. Yes some shows have links to episodes but others are missing. Just a static list of the episodes without the "watch" would be useful and nice to see. Enjoying this site either way.
A bit over a year ago I prototyped expanding our episode listings. It was pretty much done, but relied on some pretty hacky internals on the data collection side. I definitely plan to revisit it in the future.
I also wanted it to show episode list, basically so I can add a single episode as repeat because there are many times I rewatch only some particular episodes because they are fun rather than the whole thing again, and I thought it'd be nice if that would show up in my stats, also able to rate individual episodes. ( like trakt) and set the final score based on the avg of it all would also be nice, also special episodes that are 1hr or more could be considered into account for the stats
I have a question
(I know that this thread is almost a year old but yeahh)
a mobile app would be great
You mean other than Aluminium?
aluminium is great
i also use otraku and honestly think that anilist would waste a ton of time making an official app
just focus on the site itself, the mal app turned out to be ass eitherYeah instead improve the site especially for mobile its missing many features that are on desktop site and also improve the api
Idk if this is actually the app but I just installed it :D
Btw Otraku's ui is a lot faster and smoother :)
Basically all same, just an app version instead of browser
add ranked lists please PLEASE
Wym?
More progress toward open source please!
Came to comment this, I vaguely remember a promise of at least partial open-sourcing and seems I wasn't the only one.
i do not know if possible, but a tracker of how many days until a new chapter of a manga comes out like the animes
It is not possible. There are thousands upon thousands of releasing manga, compared to, at the absolute maximum, about 100 airing anime at any given time. And manga can have very irregular release schedules and, even if they are mostly on a consistent schedule, they take breaks a lot more often.
It's also a lot less useful, 'cause chapters don't always get translated immediately.
Uncap the 11,000 soft-limit on lists please, or at least make it a paid feature for top donators or something (I know i'm not a donator but I would become one just for this).
i didnt even know there was a cap. does this go for planning and completed etc... or only custom lists??
Can we expect any Anilist API policy changes?
Congratulations on the change! @TehNut has helped me personally a few times I had questions about the API so I know this is a change towards the right direction.
Can we expect any Anilist API policy changes?
Nothing planned currently, what would you be interested in seeing change?
Absolutely nothing, I'd say :-).
The only thing in my mind is, back then we had to contact Josh if we wanted to monetize our usage of the API, and I could never get a reply from him, so if you guys have plans on charging for the API, I am interested in reaching an agreement where I can pay for my usage if my app makes more than enough to cover for the Apple dev program for a year.
You also mention a new API. Can we expect compatibility with the GraphQL one for a while, or are you guys planning on something similar like V1 of the API?
if you guys have plans on charging for the API, I am interested in reaching an agreement where I can pay for my usage if my app makes more than enough to cover for the Apple dev program for a year.
We aren't in a position to even think about this kind of thing quite yet.
You also mention a new API. Can we expect compatibility with the GraphQL one for a while, or are you guys planning on something similar like V1 of the API?
Can't really speak on this as the idea isn't much further along than nazo and I nodding at each other through discord voice chat.
In my personal ideal world, it would remain GraphQL and have a very similar shape to what we have now just without all the footguns. In which case the current API would be live for some time and just wrap the new one for backwards compatibility.
I just wanted to say that charging for use of the API would be an extremely bad move.
- continue this thread →
I never implied that we would. There has always been a commercial use clause in our API guidelines, which is what Ibanez was referencing.
Edit: to be clear, as long as I'm around, the API will remain as free as it always has been.
Currently AniList only allows light novels of Japanese origin. I dunno if it's reasonable, but I would like to be able to track other web novels and light novels on the site. Chinese, Korean, etc. I have been tracking my reading manually for actual books/novels because no website (including AniList) actually has a page for each of the random books I read. Sometimes an anime will be from a source that isn't Japanese, so AniList can't list the source because it is against policy to have non-Japanese books in the database.
Example: The anime for Solo Leveling is based on a Korean web novel. The "manga" listed as a source is actually a Korean manhwa from 2018 based on the web novel from 2016. The manga has no listed source, because that would violate the rules of what can be in the database.
I would love to see novels like this allowed in the database. Compromise idea: allow linking to a source on a different database website if the true source is not allowed on AniList. It feels wrong to list the Solo Leveling manga as having a source material with no link
There are no current plans to extend our LN guidelines. We are already missing a huge chunk of entries from our very narrow scope, expanding it just doesn't make sense.
Guidelines don't need to be expanded, you could just allow adding custom sources that aren't in the database when necessary.
i suggested this on another thread years ago but i think some sort of "similar characters" feature on character pages that uses the recommendations system would be a great addition.
a lot of times ill watch an anime and fall in love with one character in particular and have the itch to watch or read an anime or manga with similar characters but its not always easy to google "anime/manga with similar characters to [x]" and get good results.
being able to "recommend" similar characters would help me scratch that itch and potentially find new series i would otherwise have never seen or even known existed in the same way that anime/manga recommendations do.
i also hope we see that whole "multiple character images" thing from the roadmap in the fairly near future.
Bump
Oh nice an official mobile app! Banger
Great news all around. I have been posting more in as I can talk anime at least on this site unlike MAL. I'm happy for you both!
Good to see new AniList development! Some questions:
New API version
Is there any place to follow updates for this or potentially discuss changes before they go live? (and please don't say Discord)
A mobile app
Wouldn't this be somewhat of a wasted effort. In my opinion the mobile site works mostly fine and with some tweaks to that you won't have to spend time maintaining a web version and two apps (ios/android).
Any chance that we could get Webhook support? If episode airs, it'll post a message in Discord for example
