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Ideas for a federated anime tracker (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago by Asudox@lemmy.world to c/anime@lemmy.ml
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14934313

Hello Lemmings.

I will be attempting to make a federated anime tracker this summer, but I am not quite sure what features people would want and how I would get the details for animes, mangas, etc.

For the latter: What I thought was to either scrape other anime websites continuosly in the background, but this most likely is against the ToS of every anime tracking website, such as AniList or MAL. (I actually asked anidb.net for special access to their DB because apparently you can request access to it, but I've been left on read by the two staff members) My second idea was to make it an anime tracker website where animes are only user-submitted. And the user submissions would be approved by assigned moderators. However, I think this would be quite inconvenient. I'd like to get your opinions and/or ideas for this.

For the former: So if you have any requests or suggestions, please drop it down in the comments section.

Thanks in advance.

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[-] Confidant6198@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago

To me the coolest features would be

  1. It tells me when new episodes come out
  2. It recommends me new anime based on my history
[-] Asudox@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)
  1. I'll see what I can do.
  2. I actually already have an anime recommendation system, but it's for MAL. And it only works if you already have a bunch of different animelists. I might have to make another one, or have the recommendations be user-submitted like in MAL.
[-] Confidant6198@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

I inputted my username and got this error

[-] Asudox@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Yeah, I've set a minimum limit for animelists. Your animelist appears to be smaller than 50 so it won't be processed. This is not because it can't, but because I manually set it so that anime newbies don't get bad quality recommendations. It has something to do with how the algorithm works.

[-] Confidant6198@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

Oh I see. Yeah, I never bothered inputting many since the website doesn’t give me any recommendations based on my data so I just ended up inputting everything on the TV Time app.

[-] Confidant6198@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

I added all the anime that I have watched and I got this error now

[-] Asudox@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Sorry, can you tell me your MAL username?

[-] Confidant6198@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

Ultimateburner

[-] Asudox@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Cool, you should now get a bunch of recs. Try it again.

[-] Asudox@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Well, that's unfortunate. You seem to be unique, so no recommendation can be given. I'll retrain the system today and see what happens. Sorry for the inconvenience. It might take a while.

this post was submitted on 04 May 2024
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