Hello, and welcome to our first — of many — Kitsu Release Notes. We’ll be writing these up when we change things, to better keep you in the loop.
Normally, our releases aren’t quite as big as today’s release was. This was the kind of release you’d want to get a doctor to checkout. Large, unexpected and at times a little painful.
Site Announcements, for the people.
We’ve spent time with some of the worlds leading scientists, psychologists and zoologists to craft the ideal means of sharing news, updates and bad jokes with the community.
This little widget in the sidebar is the fruit of our labor:
A leaner, meaner Header
We’ve tightened up the header, as previously it was a smorgasbord of links. Now it’s nice and neat!
Feeds get a facelift.
Our previous feed design was, well, bloated. Things were just too big, and we all know that a bloated fox isn’t a long-lived one. Our operation to slim her down was a complete success.
Groups have also been moved to their own activity, separate from the “following” feed they used to reside in.
Better URL Embedding
Linking to articles, videos, tweets and so on has always been met with mixed results. Those results being a mix of bad and terrible. Today we’re releasing new embeds that are like 1000x better. We’ve also fixed that nasty bug of Twitch and Dailymotion embeds autoplaying with audio.
We now support three rating systems
In our last release we introduce Simple and Advanced rating, but dropped the traditional 5-star rating system. With this release, we’ve brought the 5-star ratings back. You can change to your preferred rating system from your settings page.
Sync your Kitsu Library to Myanimelist in real-time
We get it, a lot of your friends have trouble embracing change. You’ve tried to explain that all things are better when you have Kitsu, but they’re stubborn. Or maybe you are one of those stubborn friends, and while you want to give Kitsu the ol’ college try — it’d be such a pain to update two websites at once.
Well, have I got good news for you. Head on over to your settings page, connect your MAL account and we’ll keep it up to date for you. When you update your Library on Kitsu we’ll update your MAL at the same time, automagically.
Note: Kitsu has some media on our database that MAL does not. Including anime influenced titles like Avatar and Manwha such as Tower of God. In these cases, we’ll display an error saying that individual title failed to sync.
Following (and unfollowing!) Posts
Another much requested feature has been the ability to follow certain posts. If there’s a post created by someone else that you want to get notifications of new replies — you should be able to do that. As of today, you can.
Browse Pages get some love
The anime and manga pages now allow you to sort by Popularity, Average Rating or Date.
Media Tooltips become sexy AND informative
We’ve cleaned up the design a bit and also added in a shows popularity / rating score.
The Media Widget gets more depth
A common complaint seen with the Media Widget we previously introduced was that it became cumbersome to do less common activities like dropping, placing on hold and rating prior to finishing a show. We’ve added a lot more depth to the media widget so that all of these things are easy and accessible.
We’ve also added some color so they’re not the bland grey they were previously!
That’s it. You made it to the end! As you can see, we’ve updated quite a lot. While we’ve done a lot of testing of the above in our staging environment, bugs are still expected. In the event that you encounter any of the nasty critters, be sure to report it on the feedback page.
