Roadmap

We're moving in the direction of Open Development. The idea is to encourage those who use Anime Characters Database to take an active role shaping the future of the site. All ideas at welcome.

I would like to enable people to submit ideas that can be put to a vote. A feature level survey could then be issued on the affected pages. Members and/or anonymous users would be given a week to vote in favor or against the idea. A positive response could mean the idea goes forward. A negative response could be addressed by revising the idea, or by testing small.

Development

The ideas listed here are projects I would like to work on. All of them require code. And many of them would benefit from your mockup examples of how the final form could look.

Adding Characters to...

• Lists
  • New List
  • Select List
• Waifu / Husbando
• Favorites
  • Rating
• Love / Hate
• Up / Down
• Character of the { Day / Week / Month }
• Have Cosplayed / Seen Cosplayed / Want to Cosplay
• Safe / Questionable / NSFW

Adding Series to...

• Lists
  • New List
  • Select List
• Favorites
• Watch / Don't Watch
• Watching / Watched / Plan to Watch
  • Rating
• Violence Rating
• Lock
• Safe / Questionable / NSFW
• Mark Completed
• Adopt

Birthdays

• Header image for each month
• Button for day of week
• Mini Buttons for selecting month
• Form for selecting day/month
• Means to filter down by day
• Alternate forms
  • Titles
  • List
  • Monthly calendar

Tag Moderation

• Would like to have a count after each tag indicating how many times it has been used. This would make it easier to approve commonly used tags, and spot brand new or hardly used tags.

Scrapper Protection

• Move to a MySQL based IP block
  • Allow mods to add, remove, exempt
  • Clear it out daily
• early detection and banning

Lounge Simplification and Promotion

• Discord model ?
• YouTube chat model?
• IRC Model?
• Facebook chat model?

Restructure Character Pages

• At top, actions people may want to take
• Followed by profile

Restructure Series Pages

• At top, actions people may want to take
• Followed by profile

Explore Characters In

• Make This more accessible
• Link from pages where it might be desired

Complete the Sandbox Project

• Way to remove characters
• Simplified list of titles with characters and not yet in the DB
• Mod action Merge Title and Characters with DB
• Improve organization .... TOC, and actions at top
• Tile listing of characters or list