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PostPosted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 6:11 pm Reply with quote
I was just looking through the release DB and noticed that if you modify the URL, you can get some pretty neat searches:

animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/releases.php?anime=Inu
animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/releases.php?anime=Card

These turn up releases with "Inu" or "Card" as part of their title. A quick glance around shows that we don't use the query in this fashion.. But it could be rather useful, I think.

Obviously, what we can do with this is, instead of displaying a bajillion different (out-of-order) releases on the anime page, we could instead link to the release DB page listing them:
animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/releases.php?sort=date&anime=Inu%20Yasha

Or we could at least re-order the "related releases" in this fashion. Since companies release DVDs in chronological order (..[GT aside]..), it would make sense to order them thusly, instead of the haphazard order we currently use.

Also worth considering, although it's less useful is using this same technique on anime/manga/people/companies. For instance:
animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?list=Inu
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