Luthandorius

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@Maffy :



Nice post. You even found the right words without trying to insult. So far we see a lot of people that are happy. And I guess a lot of people that are not happy with MAL started to use other websites. Some of them might come back to use MAL.



I only hope the mods/admins aren't going to be tooo harsh in deleting posts. Some might be less nice. (Even I feel like I'm a bit in an area where it is possible to get deleted/warned when I advice people not to pay any money.)



Would be a very bad idea to delete/warn ... better just to let the people post it. And hopefully in some months the thread dies ...

... and hopefully the company behind MAL learned something.





As for the "If this is the pace everything on MAL will take from now on (because why would something change?), is there any decent future?":



To me it seems MAL has always been slow regarding changes and giving feedback/accepting suggestions. We can see that with the very flawed genre system that exists since MAL exists.



My hope is that this big down time marks the start of active development. (Before that no one actually seemed to care ... that why it took such long time to fix everything. Wouldn't have happened if there were regular small fixes every now and then with some active developers that cared.)







I still prefer MAL. There is a German database with forums ... but the active userbase is too small. Other English databases I don't like from the design or community or other stuff. MAL (still - I hope this stays) offers the nice old classic default list design - which I prefer. (Clean and compact.) Yeah the genre stuff is flawed ... but I just stopped caring. Not using the search anyways since I mainly use currently airing stuff.



And for airing stuff forums are most important. Full reviews/recommendations can only really help once shows are fully released. (Full/complete info that needs to be in a review.)





For the airing stuff - especially for complicated shows where people with source knowledge might help - forums are important. I tried to use reddit but couldn't get into it. There always have been a lot active users hare and a good userbase where - if the show wasn't totally unpopular - always enough people with source knowledge (manga/novel) helped if you had questions. Nice post. You even found the right words without trying to insult. So far we see a lot of people that are happy. And I guess a lot of people that are not happy with MAL started to use other websites. Some of them might come back to use MAL.I only hope the mods/admins aren't going to be tooo harsh in deleting posts. Some might be less nice. (Even I feel like I'm a bit in an area where it is possible to get deleted/warned when I advice people not to pay any money.)Would be a very bad idea to delete/warn ... better just to let the people post it. And hopefully in some months the thread dies ...... and hopefully the company behind MAL learned something.As for the "If this is the pace everything on MAL will take from now on (because why would something change?), is there any decent future?":To me it seems MAL has always been slow regarding changes and giving feedback/accepting suggestions. We can see that with the very flawed genre system that exists since MAL exists.My hope is that this big down time marks the start of active development. (Before that no one actually seemed to care ... that why it took such long time to fix everything. Wouldn't have happened if there were regular small fixes every now and then with some active developers that cared.)I still prefer MAL. There is a German database with forums ... but the active userbase is too small. Other English databases I don't like from the design or community or other stuff. MAL (still - I hope this stays) offers the nice old classic default list design - which I prefer. (Clean and compact.) Yeah the genre stuff is flawed ... but I just stopped caring. Not using the search anyways since I mainly use currently airing stuff.And for airing stuff forums are most important. Full reviews/recommendations can only really help once shows are fully released. (Full/complete info that needs to be in a review.)For the airing stuff - especially for complicated shows where people with source knowledge might help - forums are important. I tried to use reddit but couldn't get into it. There always have been a lot active users hare and a good userbase where - if the show wasn't totally unpopular - always enough people with source knowledge (manga/novel) helped if you had questions. BBCode