PRODUCT UPDATE : Added Season Split Requests, Update on Audiovisual
So this is a short update, but it’s been a little while since my last one, so figured I should write one!
Requesting TV Season splits
As I’m sure that many of the people who’ve explored the new audiovisual portion have discovered, TMDB has some pretty strong and unfortunate opinions on how tv series should be split into seasons. Namely, if a series keeps sequential episode ordering across seasons and the publishing company doesn’t specify separate seasons, then they do not split seasons.
Unfortunately, that’s a very frequent occurrence for many anime series and the resulting TMDB season organization is in direct contradiction to most platforms you can watch the series on, which causes a lot of confusion.
As a result, I’ve enabled a process for you to split seasons into multiple seasons! Simply go to the top of the episodes section on a desktop computer and click the ‘+ Request Episode Split’
As you can see, you can specify the episode range for each season, a title and an image if you have one. I also ask that you submit some sort of evidence for your split.
Do note that if I approve the split, then I do my best to update your user items as best I can. So if you’ve marked all the episodes complete, then I will add that season to your library as ‘finished’ with the same date finished as the original season. If you had the season marked ‘in progress’ but all the episodes in season 1 are finished, then I mark that season finished for you…
However, I’m still working on getting the activities sorted out, so your TV watching sessions may not appear on the right season. Hopefully coming soon.
Where are we at with Audiovisual
We now have over 8300 comparisons! However, we’ve definitely started to slow wrt new comparisons and requests for new audiovisual items, so we need to do more outreach and showcase it more (it’s very hidden currently, only really prominently shown in the activity feed).
I think I want to do another 2-3 weeks of work though before any outreach. I want to complete the ‘Upcoming’ tasks I talk about below.
Dark Mode
This is purely a vanity project as I spend a lot of time in the dark (i’m part vampire).
We’ve been discussing this in the dark mode product request, but now I can announce that there’s a secret alpha version if you’re dying to enable dark mode like me. Click dark mode or back to light mode.
Honestly, I probably shouldn’t even share it as its still so broken, but i’m using it and will slowing be improving it in my spare time. You can of course use something like Dark Reader too.
I won’t really be fixing bug complaints and this will be a purely side initiative for now, so use at your own peril. The contrast is still a little wack too, but it’s there if you want it 
Upcoming
It’s still all Audiovisual for the next month or so. There are a few major product items I feel are critical to figure out before moving on :
- Make sure we get tv episodes & seasons updating with TMDB on a regular basis, important for ongoing series.
- Figure out how we want to handle ongoing series. How does grading work? Only a few episodes required?
- Work on TV Stats a bit more, there are still a few unresolved questions on how to calculate tv episodes date finished vs tv sessions vs tv seasons finished / start dates
- A host of little things - bugs, ui improvements (dashboard in progress), genre filters exclusions
I hope to get all that done in about 2 to 3 weeks, but we’ll see. Lastly, wrt removing the ‘??’ on all the audiovisual items, I think we’re about there. There is a discussion we need to have around how we want to standardize the TV series / Movie / Book rating systems, as they are all completely separate rating systems at this point.
At the very least though, I think I’ll make it so all new additions to the video library go through the normal temporary rating system. Right now, if you’ve finished it and submit it at a level, it skips the temporary system, similar to how the initial ‘Audiovisual seeding’ thread submissions were handled.
If you have any questions/concerns/suggestions, of course respond below!!
Happy Reading & Watching! 
Edit: Fixing tons of sleepy grammar mistakes.
