Anonymous
8/5/2025, 8:50:03 PM No.281223175
So what's wrong with MAL again?
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Thread 281223175 - /a/ [Archived: 249 hours ago]
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 8:59:07 PM No.281223425
>>281223175 (OP)
I have an account I haven't updated since 2017. I was thinking of logging in and adding all the anime and manga i've watched over the decade. A lot of the website is like a time capsule of the early internet. I still read reviews and discussions for old anime no one talks about anymore
I have an account I haven't updated since 2017. I was thinking of logging in and adding all the anime and manga i've watched over the decade. A lot of the website is like a time capsule of the early internet. I still read reviews and discussions for old anime no one talks about anymore
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 8:59:41 PM No.281223440
>>281223422
so it has soul?
so it has soul?
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 9:03:35 PM No.281223555
>>281223175 (OP)
Mostly the userbase (including the administrators), I think the website itself is fine but it has too little space for favorites in profiles
Mostly the userbase (including the administrators), I think the website itself is fine but it has too little space for favorites in profiles
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 9:04:11 PM No.281223571
>>281223175 (OP)
The top 10 list.
The top 10 list.
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 9:05:35 PM No.281223620
>>281223175 (OP)
To answer a dumb troll thread genuinely, the issue with MAL was that it was forum cancer meets people who fetishize taste.
In the abstract, that's not too dissimilar from /a/ itself, but on /a/ you choose to show off your taste. Technically the same is true on MAL, but forums incentivize personalities, and personalities means people are gonna fill up those lists and keep their profile public.
It's a social effect unique to MAL that denotes a certain type of user who has to conform to certain taste values or make their contrarianism part of their persona. Again, kind of like /a/ (pre-2018) but not really.
Most people on /a/ today seem to hate it because they're engaged in dumb wars over what can be in a popularity contest, which is the most proof you need that /a/ has been completely taken over by /v/.
To answer a dumb troll thread genuinely, the issue with MAL was that it was forum cancer meets people who fetishize taste.
In the abstract, that's not too dissimilar from /a/ itself, but on /a/ you choose to show off your taste. Technically the same is true on MAL, but forums incentivize personalities, and personalities means people are gonna fill up those lists and keep their profile public.
It's a social effect unique to MAL that denotes a certain type of user who has to conform to certain taste values or make their contrarianism part of their persona. Again, kind of like /a/ (pre-2018) but not really.
Most people on /a/ today seem to hate it because they're engaged in dumb wars over what can be in a popularity contest, which is the most proof you need that /a/ has been completely taken over by /v/.
Anonymous
8/5/2025, 9:09:05 PM No.281223733
>>281223175 (OP)
users nowadays think that if you even slightly enjoy a show you need to give it a top notch rating, so everything is skewed. any meh tier anime from >2018 has an 8+ score while a lot of good older stuff like watamote has a sub 7 score because people used to be more discerning.
users nowadays think that if you even slightly enjoy a show you need to give it a top notch rating, so everything is skewed. any meh tier anime from >2018 has an 8+ score while a lot of good older stuff like watamote has a sub 7 score because people used to be more discerning.