What are some of you folks using? I’m using MAL and only recently discovered they were open source, but couldn’t find anything on anilist’s website. Does anyone have a primary list and a backup list? I see this is a big discussion online and want some Lemmy opinions!

  • LackingGravitas
    5·
    4 years ago

    My watched anime list is a plain text file on my computer which includes titles, dates created, and short opinions :) At some point I decided that grep was all I really needed. As far as sites go, I feel that that MAL is more comprehensive than anilist, particularly with older anime, but it’s been a while since I’ve checked.

  • riccardo
    3·
    4 years ago

    I’ve used MAL for two years, then it went down for a week and I decided to move to AniList. I have to say, I liked MAL’s “old school” design - and I probably like it way more than AniList’s. But AniList has great support and offers a cool graphql API which is relatively easy to understand and doesn’t break every now an then. Plus has some nice stats that are easy to reach in the site. One thing I liked about MAL a lot, is that it silently logs when you watched a specific episode. This info is well buried into some sub-menu but it’s there

  • cadejo
    3·
    4 years ago

    I didn’t know it was opensource, I tried to use MAL when I got into anime but it seemed too outdated for me, then I tried anilist and kitsu at the same time and stuck with anilist because I got involved with part of the community.

    • nBee
      3·
      4 years ago

      I don’t think it is. It doesn’t seem to be published anywhere (or I just can’t find it).

  • vis4valentine
    2·
    4 years ago

    I live Anilist. Works so good, its better organized, and its actually understandable.

    • suyrbn
      2·
      4 years ago

      You may want to take a look at anidb. It doesn’t connect to any third party domains, doesn’t have any ads, has pretty good search system and probably has the most comprehensive database out of all anime tracking sites (full character cast for most series, often with marked episode occurrences, appearing songs and sometimes full staff credits). On the downsides it uses Google reCAPTCHA for registering (not logging in or posting though), doesn’t have a manga database and might require a bit of getting used to.