Thanks for writing that up, it’s super helpful! I agree, you can learn in all sorts of ways and people should use whatever approach is best for them. I know that for me personally, if I watch with English subs I get very little out of it… I get sucked into the story and I just want to know whats going on… so my eyes inevitably dart down to the subs
But you’re also much more advanced than me and have different tendencies, so I’m sure it’s very different for you.
For now though, I lean pretty heavily towards keeping the situation as is wrt only allowing english subs to it’s own status. I really do want people to treat the things they mark ‘watched’ as serious Japanese learning experiences, not a simple AniList catalogue. The whole purpose of the site is to help you ‘learn natively’… learn through native materials.
I totally agree that you’re use case is valid and the way it’s set up might filter people like yourself out. However, I think it also filters out a lot of people who wouldn’t treat watching w english as a serious learning experience.
I’ll continue to think on it though! And i’ll keep that feedback in mind, really appreciate you sharing
(I haven’t read the entirety of the discussion in detail, sorry if I missed something )
I am definitely with brandon on the “keeping ‘watched’ and ‘Watched with Eng sub’ separate” thing, mostly because I think grading them shouldn’t be allowed. Perhaps the site is missing out on a few relevant gradings, but a lot of irrelevant ones get filtered out while the users aren’t really restricted by not being allowed to grade.
Coming to my point with that: What features exactly is it that you are missing from the separated watched lists for different sub options? Because I’m positive there is something that could be done about the few limitations
E.g. allowing for the inclusion in the stats on an individual user basis doesn’t seem impossible.
Fair enough! And thank you for taking the time to read about my specific learning setup - and more importantly, thank you for all your hard work on this incredibly useful site.
Not much to be honest. It just slightly bothers me that Watched with English subs is so separate, as if it doesn’t count, when in my mind, and for my specific needs, it certainly does. But that’s totally okay. I’m allowed to rate (although I’m asked if I want to change to having watched without subs), and presumably I’m allowed to review (haven’t tried). I think I might be able to offer useful gradings to the community later on, which I’m not allowed to do, but that’s okay. I don’t feel confident doing that yet anyway.
Regarding this… This setting also gets reset by opening the page of a book/show. I’m guessing that’s not intentional?
(Perhaps I should have made a bug report after all… )
Ah, yeah. I meant because I mentioned the same thing happening to the ‘Me/Following’ setting at some point (It’s sticky unless you open a book page), but, being me, never logged it properly…
When marking a movie as finished it has “Current Min” set to 0. Currently it needs to be manually set to something other than 0 when trying to edit something like the finish date, else it says “Current_minute: Must input positive number”
I feel like it should be the same as the total runtime when set to finished by default?
Resolved this session time calculation issue. I fixed the 33 previous bad instances of this calculation, so everything should appear right. Interestingly, the bug was that it was summing up time from other user’s watch data on the item in the calculation, so it was only getting worse
As it was a simple calculation, no data was impacted.
(FYI, i will use “Audiovisual Update” going forward so you can search the thread for these announcements)
(hopefully this is the right thread… )
I would love if this “in progress” section in the dashboard was split into two(ie separating the books and the audiovisual things) by default , or even an option to do that.
Also on safari on iPhone when I go to the generic search I only get the books search come up. In fact the only way I found to search for videos was to click on the link in the original launch announcement. It worked as it should when I went to an iPad.
So it seems anyone can just edit the data on TMDB, so i think this should be fixed now
I don’t know if this will sync automatically now or if you need to re-import it, but if you do, I’m here to tell you that you should be able to do that now that it’s fixed.
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