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.

  • @[email protected]
    3•7 months ago

    Noticed the edit:

    For hosting images, you can go alternatives like some Lemmy sites do: Mirror everything automatically to Internet Archive.

    I think people would want to self host, because they will get all the anime/manga titles with their communities out of the box and can moderate their own sites while their users can react to any other community via federation.

    • asudoxOP
      4•7 months ago

      Wouldn’t Internet Archive be a bit slow? And also, I don’t want to stress their servers.

      • @[email protected]
        2•7 months ago

        That’s a noble concern. I just gave an example there since some communities do that but yeah it would be better if not done I guess.

        Also mentioned on other reply but you can ask this to [email protected] and probably will get an optimized answer regarding that issue.