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Hey everyone, as some may have already seen from our posts on April 1, @TehNut and I are officially the new coowners of AniList We have had many ideas swirling around in our heads for the future betterment and development of the site. Here's some of the things you can expect to see us working on: Site stability New API version More frequent site updates A mobile app Many other large features we have on the roadmap Some of these things will come sooner than others, but rest assured we will be pushing towards these goals and more. We hope you will support us in our efforts to further develop AniList

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Why do we need your help? AniList & AniChart are free to use but adsupported, however ads don't make enough to support the sites and we don't want to fill our pages with countless ads that can ruin your experience. Your donations will allow us to cover our server payments, development costs, and keep the sites running long into the future. : What do I get for donating? Donators receive access to exclusive features and bonuses, such as badges, animated avatars and lots more Check out each donation tier for their specific perks. Please note the minimum donation amount is $1. Monthly donations or Onetime donations We'll be incredibly thankful for any donation you can give, though recurring monthly donations will allow us greater financial stability in the months to come. If Patreon isn't your thing you can also do monthly donations via PayPal. Onetime donations will receive equivalent rewards for the same amount of time as one monthly donation . Please be aware donations are currently being processed manually and may up to 48 hours to be activated. If you have issues with your donation, please message @TehNut or email us at [email protected] Donation Rewards/Month $1 Tier Donator badge Discord patreon role Test out beta features before everyone else $3 Tier AniList & AniChart ads removed Pinned activity Custom profile colors $5 Tier Animated Gif Avatars Increase your genre, tag, voice actor, staff, and studio stats from 30 to up to 100 cards Full stats update every 12 hours Custom donator badge text on profile $10 Tier Custom donator badge text sitewide Full stats update every 6 hours Super discord patreon role $20 Tier Full stats update every 2 hours Sitewide animated rainbow donator badge A massive thanks to anyone who donates, we really appreciate it :

Please note that this roadmap and changelog is not a comprehensive list of all bugs and features to be addressed or implemented in the future and is in no particular order. Priorities may change dependant on the needs of the website and user base. Exact release dates can't be given, but feel free to ask on the Anilist discord server. Use the Subscribe button at the bottom of this post for notifications on new site updates. AniList Future Features Anime/manga tags rework UI improvements Polls Micro reviews/Reactions Anime song data Improved average score algorithm Dubbed languages data & filtering More options around Twitter integration Add Manga/Light Novel publications More character & staff images Markdown rework User uploadable images Adding activity types for reviews, thread creation etc Show score, progress, and more data on activity List export & auto backups Improve List Comparison feature Improved airing page Review comments Groups/Clubs

The purpose of this thread is to provide users information when a bug or issue with the site has been identified and acknowledged by the AniList dev team. We will attempt to update this as we have information, whether its to share workarounds until the bug has been fixed, information on when the bug will be fixed , etc. We will not go through and list previously fixed bugs, this will just be for bugs identified from the date of this posting . We may move this to another page in the future but until then, this thread will suffice. This post will be updated to reflect the current state but replies will be made when the thread has any updates. Use the Subscribe button at the bottom of this post for notifications on new site updates. A link to the sites changelog can be found here. Bugs to be fixed: Browse/search not returning results when certain filter options are enabled When switching between your anime/manga list pages and trying to reorder lists, it may display the other groups lists Workaround: Refresh the page before reordering lists Unable to post a review on an entry if you have previously posted a review and it was deleted by yourself or moderators Workaround: DM a moderator Airing episode notifications not being sent out if the air time ends in a 5 Workaround: The site will be listing these as airing at XX:X6 until further notice New anime/manga and other notifications for entries not being sent out if an entry is on too many lists Forum replies can disappear or get listed out of order When updating multiple episodes/chapters for a single entry in quick succession , instead of properly merging, it may create multiple new statuses. If this happens please be mindful of where comments/likes are before removing one of them Entries may appear multiple times in your list Workaround: Record any relevant dates, scores, of rewatches, notes, etc and then remove both entries from your list and readd the entry with any relevant information. Access token expiring quicker than intended when trying to make submissions Error: "unauthorized Access token is missing" Workaround: Record the data changes on an external document and try refreshing the page or open the console in your browser and paste this code: window.open.addEventListener}

This thread is meant to explain various functions of the site and to answer questions that users regularly ask. Data & Submissions **How can I make a submission?** Please refer to the site guidelines for information on making data submissions **How can I see if my submission was accepted?** The submissions tab on your profile shows the status of your submission and any mod notes left on it. **Can I edit a pending submission?** Unfortunately not at the moment. If you feel that any additional info is necessary, please mention it in the "submissionsupport" channel on our Discord. Duplicate/empty submissions may be rejected as multiple people work on our queue and may not get to see both. **Why can't I find so and so entry on the site?** First, try searching with the native name. If it looks like we do not list it, please doublecheck to make sure it meets our anime criteria/manga critera and check the frequently rejected titles anime/manga, and search the forums to make sure the certain title hadn't already been addressed. If it meets our criteria and you cannot find it already mentioned, feel free to make a submission with as much info as you can Instructions on how to make a submission can be found here. **Note**: Adult Content is hidden by default but can be enabled by checking the “18+ Content” option in your media settings. To search for it, you have to also enable the “Adult” option in the advanced search settings on the Browse page. Using the quicksearch only requires having it enabled in settings. **MAL/Kitsu/AnimePlanet/Other listing sites list something you don’t/lists this differently, can you fix it?** We aren’t them. By having different criteria, we aren’t a 1:1 database. We may list things differently, but that doesn’t mean either is wrong. **I've found a tag that seems like it doesn't belong on an entry, how can I remove it?** Unfortunately with the way the tag system is set up at the moment, people like to 'troll' and add irrelevant/offensive tags to innocent entries but they can easily be removed by a moderator. Feel free to make a submission with the tag to be removed mentioned in the submission notes, or send a message in our 'submissionsupport' channel on our Discord and we'll get it resolved. Account **How do I export my list?** Douki Fern MALScraper **I forgot my login email/password and can’t access my account.** For accountrelated issues, please contact matchai , TehNut , nazo or using our contact email: [email protected] **When I try to reset my password or log in from a new location, I do not recieve a verification email.** First, check if the email was sent to your spam folder. If you tried requesting more than a handful of times or for whatever reason the email bounces, our email system will flag your email to prevent spam. Send a message in the sitesupport channel on our Discord so a mod can lift the suppression. Certain providers will temporarily suppress our emails entirely as spam, in which case you will have to whitelist as not spam/add [email protected] as a contact or wait until the restriction lifts on their end which usually takes a few hours. **I received a message saying I was banned from the site and the page isn’t loading, what did I do?** AniList bans do not stop you from being able to view a page and if a ban message did not come as a message on the site from an account tagged as a community moderator then you are not banned from the site. In some instances CloudFlare may limit traffic from your region or some thirdparty apps may incorrectly say your IP has been banned, in both of these cases you will need to simply wait and try again later. **How can I claim a username from an inactive account?** Go to the Account section in your settings and where you can change your username there will be text underneath “User name you want is taken by an inactive user? Try claiming it”, this text is a link to submit the request. Username requests are granted for inactive accounts that have had no activity for 3 years. To check when the account was last active, go to the account’s profile and hover over the time stamp on their last activity, ex. where it says “3 years ago”, this will give you the exact date and time the activity was made, as the “3 years ago” is only an estimate. If the account has no activity you can hover over their profile picture to get the account creation date. It is possible the user took action within the past 3 years that may not be readily apparent such as following another user or updating private list entries, this could be why you cannot request their username even though it appears they have been inactive for 3 years. Profile & Lists **How do I add an image to my post/bio?** You can read a markdown guide here **Why does my activity history have a hole in it?** Activity history is updated periodically and it reflects the number of public activities on your account wall. List activities, statuses, and public messages all contribute to it but if you have your merge timer set to always or other high merge times this will remove activities on your wall and result in gaps in your activity history. Activity history is also based on the timezone set in your Settings. **What is ‘Activity Merge Time’?** It is the amount of time that can pass between list updates on a single entry that will result in your previous update being merged into the new update. The intention of this is to reflect a user watching/reading a cluster of multiple episodes/chapters in which they may want comments to just be for those episodes/chapters and so their profile works as a timeline of when they watched various episodes. Some users they may prefer to not have any activities merged so each activity is just for that episode/chapter while other users may want to always merge their activities so all comments they and their friends have made are all in one place. When merging activities, any comments/likes from the ‘old activity’ are applied to the ‘new activity’. Please note that if an activity is merged into a newer activity, then the old activity will no longer contribute to your “activity history”. **Why does a show not show up in “Airing” or “Anime in Progress” sections on my homepage?** Only 20 anime are listed between the “Airing” and “Anime in Progress” sections. The 20 are the 20 most recently updated entries on your list. You can expand this by clicking the icon in the top right of the section or by going to your actual list to see the full list. **What is the difference between ‘Average Score’ and ‘Mean Score’ on an entries page?** The ‘Mean Score’ is simply an equation that takes the total of the scores for an entry and divides it by the number of users who have given it a score. The ‘Average Score’ is the same but it is weighted for entries with low amounts of scores as a means to reduce a small group of users highly rating a lowpopularity title and causing it to become a highly rated title on the site. **Do score systems like ‘3 Point Smiley’ and ‘5 Star’ influence an entry's score?** Yes, all scores are converted into the 1100 score system. ‘10 Point Decimal’ and ‘10 Point’ both directly convert but the ‘5 Star’ system uses 10, 30, 50, 70, and 90 for the stars and the ‘3 Point Smiley’ system uses 35, 60, and 85 for the different smileys. **I want to customize my rating scale/score system.** You may rate using any of the following score systems: 100point decimal, 10point decimal, 10 point, 5 stars, or 3point smiley. As mentioned here, we’re not planning to add new rating formats/scales. **I see some users have lists for anime that aren’t just ‘Watching’, ‘Rewatching’, ‘Completed’, ‘Dropped’, and ‘Paused’, how do you do this?** In the Lists page of your settings, there is an option to create custom lists for your anime and manga lists. To reorder these lists you can go to your anime/manga list and you’ll see 2 arrows in the sidebar next to ‘Lists’ that say ‘Reorder List Sections’ which clicking will then allow you to reorder your custom lists. **An entry is not showing in my list but when I go to the page it shows as being completed, where is it?** This is likely for 1 of 2 reasons. The first being the entry was set to private, if you open your list editor you should see a checkbox for private, if you uncheck this it should reappear in your list. The second is that there is a hard limit of 11,000 entries in a user’s list. This limit exists for load times and from our experience is typically only an issue when someone either breaks the rules by using a script to automatically add entries to their list regardless of the user having watched/read them or if they place thousands of entries into their planning list. This limit is intended to be removed in the future. **Why do my stats not reflect my current list?** Stats updates happen every couple of days automatically, more frequently if you donate to the site. You can force a stats update with the “Update Stats” button in your list settings. Social **How do I make someone unfollow me?** You can cause another user to stop following you by softblocking them. Soft blocking is when you block another user and then immediately unblock them intending to make it so they no longer follow you. To block another user you can go to your Account Settings, scroll down to the Blocked Users section, search for that user name, click Block, then find their name in your blocked users list, and unblock them. You can also go to their profile, click the dropdown arrow on the right side near the “Follow” button, and block/unblock them. **Why am I unable to see somebody’s profile when I go to their page?** First, please make sure they haven’t changed names if you are accessing their page via URL. If they are still using that name, then it means they have either set their profile to “Private” or have blocked you. **Note**: While it may be frustrating to have found that another user has blocked you, it is against the rules of the site to attempt to circumvent this, even if all you’re doing is trying to ask them why. **Why doesn't my list of activities appear in the Global feed?** List activities need at least a reply to appear on the Global feed. This is to prevent making the feed unusable with our increasing number of users constantly updating their list. List activity will appear in your followers 'Following' feed regardless of replies as long as your privacy setting it set to 'public/semipublic' **I've found something a user posted that shouldn't be allowed on the site, how do I report it?** To report a status, mouse over it and click on the 3 dots next to the timestamp. To report a status reply, click the exclamation point next to the like button. To report a message, mouse over it and click on the 3 dots next to the timestamp. To report a thread, click the exclamation point next to the timestamp. To report a thread comment, click the exclamation point next to the like button. To report a profile , click on the dropdown arrow next to the follow button. ****When you click report, you will be prompted to provide a reason.** **Do note that not every report may be actionable, if you would rather not interact with a user, feel free to block them by going to their profile and clicking on the dropdown arrow or add a block in your account settings.** **How do I appeal a ban?** Please message a community moderator on our Discord . Do note that creating additional accounts to evade a ban will result in an extension of the current ban and permanent suspension of alternative accounts. Any moderator disputes can be handled by the lead community mod matchai . Miscellaneous **How can I make a feature suggestion for the site?** We are glad to hear ways to improve the site If it's not already mentioned on our roadmap as a planned feature, please feel free to make a forum post under the category "Site Feedback"

These guidelines are at the interpretation of the mods and admins of the site. Ignoring any of these guidelines may result in content being removed, locked, or even your account being banned from AniList. We may alter these guidelines from time to time without an announcement. However, in most circumstances, any changes will be announced to the community beforehand. If you have any questions please refer to this thread for frequently asked questions. For any additional questions or suggestions regarding our guidelines, please create a topic with the “Site Feedback” tag or ask in the sitesupport channel on Discord , and we will get back to you. A list of planned additions to the site and a changelog for the site can be found here and a list of identified bugs can be found here. General Site Guidelines Copyrighted content: Linking or guiding others to illicit copyrighted content is prohibited. This includes streaming websites/apps, torrents, direct downloads, etc. Mature Content: Media classified as “Ecchi” must be shared in spoiler tags and must be labeled as such outside the tags. Media classified as “NSFW” is outright disallowed from being shared on the site. **Ecchi** images contain pantsu, lingerie, underwear, or other questionable content. The following list is not allencompassing but should give you a general idea: **Underwear or lingerie**, both fully or mostly visible. A tiny glimpse, such as the top of a bra cup, bra straps, or the top band of underwear, is generally fine. **Clothe outlines** that can not be distinguished from nipples. **Fetish content** such as bondage, latex, armpits, feet, etc. **Sexually suggestive poses/framing**. **Undressing to nude** or mostly nude. **Excessive** “sideboob”, “underboob”, or cleavage. **NSFW** images are considered **NSFW** if they contain real graphic violence or explicit nudity of any kind. The following list is not allencompassing but should be a general idea of what to avoid: **Detailed Clothe outlines** such as cameltoe, areolas that can be distinguished from nipples, or a crotch bulge clearly distinguished as a penis and balls. **Depictions of sexual acts**, regardless of nudity and including partial/cropped images, even if no genitals or other erogenous zones are shown. **Bodily fluids** such as semen, precum, vaginal discharge, fetishized lactation, fetishized blood, realistic feces, realistic vomit, or realistic urine. Any fluids meant to be intentionally mistaken for the others and used in a sexual context will be treated as the liquid they are attempting to imitate. **Nudity** such as exposed pubic hair, pubic regions, exposed female nipples/areola , bare breasts , or bare buttocks. **Clothed crotches** that take up the majority of the frame. **Sexual or sexually implied images of childlike characters.** Given the age of a character, the stated age should be immaterial; what is important is the visual design of the character in that image. **Real graphic violence** such as extreme amounts of blood, gore, or violence. User Behaviour: Trolling, harassing, or abusing users will not be tolerated. Context will always matter around a possible infraction. Conspiring with others or harassing an underprivileged class may result in harsher punishments than the reverse. Some examples of what can be considered harassment are as follows: Repeatedly sending insulting messages. Dogpiling. Any statement that is prejudiced against a group of people, such as but not limited to race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, or religion. Evading another user's block regardless of the reason for blocking. Telling another user they should kill themselves or that they should die. Sending another user intentionally disturbing images or sending them intentionally disturbing statements. Posting racist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, xenophobic, religious discrimination, or illegal content is prohibited. Making light of or glorifying nonfictional violence is prohibited. Doxxing another user is prohibited. Doxxing can include publicizing private or identifying information such as, but not limited to, names, addresses, phone numbers, work information, imagery, etc. Accounts must not impersonate other people or users. Offensive user names, bios, avatars, and banners will be removed. This typically is just an extension of our current rules against various forms of bigotry. Graphic and overtly sexual conversations should not be had in public spaces . It’s not something we want minors stumbling onto, so keep it private. This does not give any allowance to images, that would otherwise not be allowed, to be shared or linked to in these private conversations. Spoilers: All spoilers should be contained within spoiler tags and state what work they are a spoiler of . Spam Any posts or statuses deemed as spam by a mod will be removed. Some examples of what may be considered spam are below. Please note this is not an allencompassing list: Copypastas. Posts made to be excessively long by including purposeless content or padding. Repeated posts of the same or similar message with little value or the intent to annoy . Making many posts in a short time span. Sending the same message to many people. Pinging an excessive amount of people. Don't make accounts solely for posting unless permission has been given by a member of staff. Do not repost activity to skew the home page feed. Advertising: Any unsolicited text intended specifically to promote/generate traffic to external websites will be removed. Occasional status posts to share one's blogs, videos, twitters, chat servers, etc are not a violation of this rule. However, more platformed portions of the site, such as reviews and forum threads, will have lower tolerances for what is permitted and should not be used for advertising one's own work in nearly any way. An exception can be granted to users who create something related to AniList. Please use the Content Creators General thread if you've like to show off something you've created. General: Do not abuse AniList systems or features . While users are permitted to create plugins/extensions that modify various aspects of the sites , such extensions must follow the following rules: They should not interfere with general expected use of site features. Should not obfuscate what is and isn’t allowed on AniList, such as removing any links to the rules on the site. Should not interfere with site advertisements. Must comply with API Terms of use. Must use a uniquely identifiable header per plugin for API requests. Should not create large amounts of API requests or create exceptionally longrunning API requests. Should not interfere with or degrade the value of donatoronly features. Should not allow shared custom scripts or advanced custom styling that may allow for XSS, compromised authentication, personal data leaking, or other vulnerabilities. Should not allow shared unrestricted custom styling that may interfere with normal use of the site . Should not have noticeably adverse effects on the clientside performance or general loading times of the site. If you share fanart of any kind, make sure you post the source of the art. An exception to this is that a source does not need to be stated for user’s avatars or banners. In the event that the source is no longer available please state such when posting. Reverse image search engines, such as https://saucenao.com/ can be helpful in finding an original upload. Some examples where users typically share fanart on the site: Status posts and replies Forum threads and forum posts A user’s ‘About Me’ In ‘Event Badges’ AI generated images are not permitted to be shared on the site. If AI imagery is shared with the intent of commentary of some sort then this will typically be allowed at moderator's discretion. **Link shorteners** are not allowed. Please use markdown instead. Do not post **excessively fast flashing colors** or imagery without hiding them behind spoiler tags and tagging them appropriately. Claiming other people's work as your own is not allowed. This may include, but is not limited to, art, videos, and posts. **Ban evasion** is not permitted and will typically result in an even harsher restriction being placed on your account. Some examples of behavior that may be considered as “ban evasion”, this list is not allinclusive: Using an alternative account to perform the limited actions. Having another user send messages in your stead. Misusing any AniList functions to circumvent the restrictions. Forum Guidelines Language: For now, all new threads and replies should be in English apart from a single general discussion thread for other languages. Titles: Please don't post thread titles all in caps. Quality Titles: Thread titles should be descriptive and accurate to the thread's content. Users should be able to get a general understanding of the thread by its title alone. Forum thread titles should be free of spoilers. All forum tags should be relevant to the thread. Thread quality: Refrain from posting “Where can I find/watch/read...?” threads. Recommendation threads should be as specific as possible and replies should be relevant. If you are just wanting titles that are similar to a specific entry, please refer to the recommendation section on an entries page. Threads should have a clear purpose for existing and aim to incite meaningful discussion. Threads with little meaning should be posted as activity posts instead. Such threads can include, but are not limited to: Arbitrary “this or that” threads. Onesided threads. Threads made just for ranting or to incite anger/troll others. Hyperspecific threads that aren’t meaningfully different from other already existing threads. Questionnaire/survey threads. Duplicates/Spam: Duplicate topics will be removed or merged with an already existing thread – use the search function before posting, and if a thread about your topic exists, please post in the existing thread instead of making a new one. Likewise, do not post in an existing thread solely for the intention of reviving it, otherwise known as “necroing”. Posting in inactive threads is allowed, so long as it adds meaningful discourse and continues the discussion. Please edit posts instead of successive posting when possible. Spoilers: All spoilers on the forums should be contained within spoiler tags unless it is within an episode discussion thread where spoilers for that episode and previous episodes are allowed. Foreign Language Threads Filipino Spanish/Español Portuguese/Português Italian/Italiano Arabic/العربية French/Français Romanian/Română Japanese/日本語 Ukranian/українська German/Deutsch Russian/русский Indonesian Hungarian/Magyar Polish/Polski Reviews Completed Works Animated works, manga, light novels, etc should have finished releasing except for the following exceptions: The work must have been releasing for at least two years. or A work may be reviewed if it has stopped releasing for at least 6 months and does not have any official announcement on it continuing. Dropped Works Reviews of works that users have dropped are permitted, in the event that they have seen/read at least 75% of it, rounding up. Reviews of dropped works must follow the other rules with regards to currently releasing titles. Spoilers: If your review contains spoilers, either preface the review with a warning or use spoiler tags. Review length: The minimum character count is there for a reason, do not pad your review to reach it. Plagiarism: Only post reviews that were written by yourself, plagiarised reviews will be deleted and may lead to a review ban. This includes using AI to generate/assist in writing reviews. Basic grammar: Please try to follow basic grammar rules. There's no need for it to be perfect, but the average user shouldn't have to struggle to understand your review. Images: Images should only be used if they support the text in some way. Fanart is not to be used in reviews. Review Quality: Do not comment on fans of a work or detractors of a work, in either a positive or negative fashion. Do not simply summarize the work. Do not criticize the score or popularity of the work. Do not advertise any links that are not directly relevant to the text of the review. The review should be a review of that specific work and not for other related works. An exception can be made if its for a work that is released in a split cour schedule or some other delayed release. You are welcome to reference another review you have posted on AniList to help elaborate on some beliefs in your review. Discord While not all the above guidelines will be implemented in discord, common sense and good etiquette should be used. Refer to the **Welcome** channel on the discord for a full rule list. Any users causing trouble can face temporary bans which can be a day to much longer, with it becoming permanent if justified. Data Submissions Submission Manual: https://submissionmanual.anilist.co/ Create New Anime: https://anilist.co/edit/anime/new Create New Manga/Light Novel: https://anilist.co/edit/manga/new New Characters and Staff can only be created through the anime and manga forms' Character and Staff subpages. This is the same whether you are submitting a new entry or editing an existing one. Existing anime and manga entries can be edited using the edit button at the bottom left of their page. Existing staff and character entries can be edited using the edit icon button at the top right of their page Please only contact moderators to ask for questions or advice, not to ask them to add entire entries for you. You can contact a member of the team on Discord. Alternatively, you can message a data moderator from the moderator page. A submissionssupport channel in the Discord is now open.