The date it posted on this site doesn’t convince me it is a joke, and even if it is, it’s not funny.
I have my “what media do I want to consume later?” lists spread across multiple spots. This should be a nice kick in the butt to cut MAL out and move it to a different preexisting spot.
I just exported my MAL list, and I suggest others do that too, as a backup. (View your list, there is an export button at the left side)
I don’t exactly know what this news means and I dont intend to stop using MAL immediately, but if this is a signal for the beginning of the end for MAL then I wouldn’t be surprised if they remove the export ability at some point, to try and stop people from leaving.
Yeah, I have no intentions of staying. I’m planning on exporting the list and then deleting my account because even though this might not turn out to be a bad thing, I don’t trust it. I’ve heard of open source alternatives and I think I’m just gonna go to that route.
That makes having a MAL account just feel icky now.
“Blockchain, AI”
This just screams of a company that’s out to exploit for maximum profit at the expense of their (L)users.
Welp. See ya folks. Kitsune/AniList are good options with Kitsune being open source.
Kitsu being open source
Hmm, they have an api, and after a couple minutes of playing around with it I was able to figure out how to map an AniList id to a kitsu url. So, I might add kitsu links to rikka’s posts in a future version.
That would be awesome, thanks.
This is now live. The Witch Watch thread is the first to include Kitsu under additional links alongside AniList and MAL. As rikka makes posts in the future they should include it as well.
