AniListReviews 9

I was dissatisfied with some technical aspects of MAL, and the completely irresponsive admins who clearly don't give a s... about users and still after so many years didn't bother implementing one of the most requested features (the possibility of setting titles to be displayed in English).
I deleted my account and switched to AniList.
One day only, and I have been group-trolled by ALL mods including the developers for daring supporting a user's request of a lower minimum amount of required characters for a review (they have set a LAUGHABLE minimum of 2200 which causes a lot of unreadable logorrheic reviews).
A request in the freaking SITE FEEDBACK section of the forum! Why tf do they even bother having that section if they have to go all nuclear on a simple feature request?

Then they found some non-existent pretext to ban me.
Not that I care, I already knew I would leave, who needs a place with people like that.
The community is also quite toxic, it's clear that the average mental/emotional age is very low, it's the typical behaviour of teens in 8th grade syndrome or of socially-inept shut-in otaku whose only way to interact with the world is showing off their otaku knowledge in hyper long reviews written in ridiculously try-hard wannabe-Roger-Ebert language even when they are reviewing a stupid generic isekai, and whose idea of "communication" is proving each other wrong. One dude even asked me "then why do you write" when I told him that I have no desire to counter anybody's opinion and I simply prefer to express mine.
He was completely unable to understand that opinions are subjective and NONE is better than another, therefore it's useless arguing about it.
It's a general thing tho, not just this person.
It's really laughable, I couldn't take it seriously, but it's baffling.

I am middle aged, comics and animations are in part an old hobby and in part a professional interest as I work in the industry myself.
So I had my dose of experiences with toxic communities, which most fandoms are, and otaku ones much more (because of the average age I suppose).
I didn't have many expectations, but AniList managed to scrap them all.
Truly one of the worst websites AND communities that I have ever seen since the times of Pac Man on Commodore 64 and dial-up connections.
It's just a better looking but stinkier manure than MAL.
Do not switch, in both places you have annoying technical quirks, in both places you have admins who don't give the LESSER sh! T about what users need, but at least in MAL nobody bothers you if you want to write a review shorter than 2200 freaking characters, and there aren't so many extremely toxic mods.

I can't believe how mainstream anime is these days and there is yet to be a single anime site worth posting on due to power hungry janitors. Anilist is just MAL with a better coat of paint and the same cancer. Avoid at all costs.

Number 1 if you wanna make friends you came to the right place. The mods on the other hand is basically hitler to be blunt. Tbey force all these rules but yet they break them all Basenji is a mod and Hes racist and Homophobic. He called me a trans person said I should act more manly then you have Taluun who legit tells people to kill themselfs and stalk them like its so weird

Open source and feature-rich. I also think it's better than MyAnimeList. You can easily import your MAL lists.

The community mods ruin all the fun in interactions. They deem forums "not suited to intice a discussion" thus deleting them. Its blatant censorship and does more self harm than anthying since most of their forums are empty.

They actually act on people people who say racist and transphobic stuff. Every time I've seen someone try and claim that mods were abusing them the mods ended up showing the logs that showed the total opposite.

Bunch of salty $#*! kids

I just felt compelled to write a review that substantiates what is written within the other review on AniList because the other poster had an experience that is SO incredibly similar to mine.

The users are toxic. The mod that I spoke to was unfairly biased towards the toxic users on the platform and solely targeted me for defending myself against others and willfully ignored the posters who came into my discussion with negativity.

I would recommend that any anime fan seeking out a community of similar people to use Twitter. The users are far less toxic than the people that are on AniList.

My experiences on Anilist are more negative than positive. For one, members are constantly messaging you with insults that go from petty to outright insensitive and even racist, not caring how they deliver themselves. Their staff is on the same boat as said unruly, horrible members. There is not much difference between this and the likes of MyAnimeList besides the amount of bullying one gets from time to time therefore it is suggested to avoid THIS site and stay as far away from it as you could.