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SinisterOracle
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 Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2025 9:58 pm
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Jesus based on the novel Christ by Sapphire. Just what we needed…
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The_Outsider
Joined: 09 Sep 2021
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Location: Brazil
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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2025 9:59 pm
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Welp, time to transfer my list to another site, anybody know some good alternatives?
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EmeraldSaucer
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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2025 10:12 pm
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It was tolerable while it lasted, good thing it's incredibly easy to import to Anilist
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mdo7
Joined: 23 May 2007
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Location: Katy, Texas, USA
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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2025 10:16 pm
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Uh, why are some users on ANN panicking/alarmed over this, I had MAL since Jan 2010, and well beside some issues (other then the MAL forum), I had no other problem. I'll still continue to use it alongside Anilist (which I created in Jan 2023).
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WANNFH
Joined: 13 Mar 2011
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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2025 10:17 pm
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As the things cannot gone even worse considering MAL was already became quite overbloated with it's UX and ad space in recent years. Seems like it's time to finally saying goodbyes.
| The_Outsider wrote: | | Welp, time to transfer my list to another site, anybody know some good alternatives? |
Anilist been there for a while.
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sarusa
Joined: 17 Aug 2011
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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2025 10:18 pm
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Sigh, yet another site down the en[poop]ificator.
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sarusa
Joined: 17 Aug 2011
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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2025 10:21 pm
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| mdo7 wrote: | | Uh, why are some users on ANN panicking/alarmed over this, I had MAL since Jan 2010, and well beside some issues (other then the MAL forum), I had no other problem. I'll still continue to use it alongside Anilist (which I created in Jan 2023). |
Because MAL is getting sold to a super [poop]y AI/Blockchain/Crypto company that says they expect to make a ton of money on this - and there is no way to do that other than turn MAL to complete [poop].
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mdo7
Joined: 23 May 2007
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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2025 10:22 pm
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| WANNFH wrote: | | As the things cannot gone even worse considering MAL was already became quite overbloated with it's UX and ad space in recent years. Seems like it's time to finally saying goodbyes. |
If you have an adblocker for your browser (I would recommend downloading Ublock from your browser app store since that one is excellent), then that should solve your ad slowing down on your browser.
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WANNFH
Joined: 13 Mar 2011
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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2025 10:39 pm
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I personally have one - but considering how browsers (especially Chrome, because honestly screw Google and it's love to giving a sticks in a wheel trying to fight against the bloatware) love to fight with adblocks, it's not like a perfect solution for everyone - also while it get rid of banners, it never fixes the massive empty space, multiple columns of pushed articles space (do we even need that) on every single page and overall clunkiness.
But MAL honestly became a mess for a while since every single time when they trying to push something and then stumble all over again - and not like it's been a very secure with how much times it been hacked either.
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OniTasku
Joined: 07 Jun 2011
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Location: Santa Barbara, CA
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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2025 10:47 pm
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Well that's...disappointing. I don't really have high hopes for this venture, and could easily see the new owners simply mining whatever useful data the site has and then letting it rot in obscurity.
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Kougeru
Joined: 13 May 2008
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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2025 10:53 pm
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| WANNFH wrote: | | I personally have one - but considering how browsers (especially Chrome, because honestly screw Google and it's love to giving a sticks in a wheel trying to fight against the bloatware) love to fight with adblocks, it's not like a perfect solution for everyone - also while it get rid of banners, it never fixes the massive empty space, multiple columns of pushed articles space (do we even need that) on every single page and overall clunkiness.
But MAL honestly became a mess for a while since every single time when they trying to push something and then stumble all over again - and not like it's been a very secure with how much times it been hacked either. |
ublock origin works fine to remove most of that space on firefox. everything rescales . It hasn't been a mess at all. It also hasn't been hacked since like 2018
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LiteralGrill
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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2025 10:58 pm
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Glad I've been using Anilist for a while now, excellent site! Though they do lack listings quite as deep as MAL, especially for more obscure shows. I bet if folks worked together though, that could be fixed very easily with some time.
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WANNFH
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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2025 11:07 pm
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| Kougeru wrote: | | It also hasn't been hacked since like 2018 |
"Lain incident" where some hacker got the complete access to the site database happened less than two years ago in May 2023, so that's not really true.
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Arale Kurashiki
Joined: 24 Aug 2015
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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2025 11:32 pm
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So, "mobile-focused" site redesign that makes it stop looking like a functional website incoming within a year, then. As always happens.
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Shay Guy
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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2025 11:46 pm
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| LiteralGrill wrote: | | Glad I've been using Anilist for a while now, excellent site! Though they do lack listings quite as deep as MAL, especially for more obscure shows. I bet if folks worked together though, that could be fixed very easily with some time. |
I don't actually use the Anilist site that often, but I love their API. Practically anything you can imagine querying, you can query, from "list the most popular anime and manga that debuted between these two dates" to "list scores for each anime in this list of IDs" to "list all voice actors in this anime and all their performances in any anime". And no bandwidth wasted on any info you don't need. It's been my first experience using GraphQL, and it made a very good first impression.
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