Future of AniDB: Difference between revisions

Also see [[Development]]. Most important atm is [[Generic PersonCompany DEV]].

Our reviews are not considered to be very good (citations needed..). The problem might be that we currently fail to separate the good ones from the bad. Since the reviews are sorted by rating it is important that the rating system work, which it doesn't atm (at least with few votes). ''Latest reviews'' shows the low interest for review rating. How can this be improved?

* Higher visibility of reviews: New reviews have high visiblity on the main page already, but the question is how high visiblity does the main page have? It might help to improve the anime page too. For example, show parts of one random review, show latest reviews for that anime, ajax, etc.

* Add ''quick reviews'' or ''anime comments'' to give the less commited the ability to share their thoughts without attempting to write full reviews.

* Give the reviers the ability to customize the style (css) of their reviews.

The content of AniDB should be open and free for everyone to use. We should therefore also make the TCP API public, or at least parts of it. Instead of worrying about people "stealing" our data, we should rather appriciate the users we have and "give something back" to them. Our strength is not the current content, but the users who contribute with new data every day. And if we were to be considered the most serious source of information related to anime (open and free), we would surely only gain contributors, not lose them. Scrapers would have a "right" way to do it, instead of leeching here and there, now and then, by using the site / mylist export / UDP API.

* Separate file info from the rest of the data: The file info stands for the biggest chuck of data and is for many not really interesting. By separating we lower the barrier for implementing tcp api clients and open for possible performance gains. (The file part could remain non-public if wanted.)