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Doesnt seem like those were suggested yet.
1. Color-coding of anime titles on listing page.
Right now, if Im not mistaken bold black means that the anime has some files available to download, plain black that it has only torrent link and nothing more and red that it is licensed.
I would be a nice addition to have more colors describing the anime state, for example
Green - anime is still being aired.
bold Green - anime has one or two episodes shy to being complete.
Blue - anime finished airing but there are still some non-subbed episodes.
bold Blue - anime is completed and all episodes are available to download.
Purple - anime is getting old and soon will have its episodes removed.
bold Purple - anime has already some episodes removed.
Gray - only torrent links exist.
Red - licensed.

2. Either Im missing this in available actions for anime or in searching for suggestion, because it is hard to believe it was implemented/suggested yet.
Simply put: "Schedule all available episodes (of this anime)"
For example, Chi's Sweet Home, 52 episodes (as of today’s posting date).
I watched first episodes, it is good and all, now I want to watch all other episodes but do I really have to queue each episodes one by one ? ;_;

3. Some anime have trailer or other promotional material, which is nice but having them to download feels a bit unnatural, IMO they should moved into a separate tab (Description, Episodes, Recommendations, Discuss and Trailers?)
Even better if they would actually be streamed from the site.

All those suggestions are from a point of a person who is looking for new, completed series to watch. Right now fansub.tv isnt quite friendly in that direction as a quite a lot of browsing is needed to find what im looking for.
 
Hmmm... It sounds like a good idea from my standpoint since it sounds like it'll make it easier for me to know if a series is complete or not when I tend to overlook a series every now and again.

Although it's actually up to daft-sama himself if this is actually a thing that we could actually try and do. Besides you never know it might actually work.
 
QUOTE (4as @ Jul 21 2008, 01:11 PM) 1. Green - anime is still being aired.
bold Green - anime has one or two episodes shy to being complete.
Blue - anime finished airing but there are still some non-subbed episodes.
bold Blue - anime is completed and all episodes are available to download.
Purple - anime is getting old and soon will have its episodes removed.
bold Purple - anime has already some episodes removed.
Gray - only torrent links exist.
Red - licensed.

2. "Schedule all available episodes (of this anime)"
For example, Chi's Sweet Home, 52 episodes (as of today’s posting date).

3. Some anime have trailer or other promotional material, which is nice but having them to download feels a bit unnatural, IMO they should moved into a separate tab (Description, Episodes, Recommendations, Discuss and Trailers?)
Even better if they would actually be streamed from the site.
re 1. That sounds like the page would be a bit prismatic. Let's cut that list down to half: if you had only 4 color choices, what would be your most important colors / distinctions?

re 2. Point taken.

re 3. That sounds good as well.
 
QUOTE (daft27 @ Jul 22 2008, 04:12 PM)That sounds like the page would be a bit prismatic. Let's cut that list down to half: if you had only 4 color choices, what would be your most important colors / distinctions?
In my opinion the important ones would be:
Green: Shows the episode is still being shown and could stop people asking when a series is finishing. A bold green would give people a extra notice.
Purple: Gives people a notice when episodes are about to be removed from the servers. This is useful when a series is just about to be licensed.

That's just my opinion though. All in all this idea will benefit non-regular users more than the regular ones. Which if we think about it non-regular users make up the majority of the FansubTV population.
 
QUOTE (daft27 @ Jul 22 2008, 04:12 PM)re 1. That sounds like the page would be a bit prismatic. Let's cut that list down to half: if you had only 4 color choices, what would be your most important colors / distinctions?
Im not really good with designing and such but I surly dont want an eye-bleed fest.
Those colors were just for the sake of example and I would image some more tuned ones, like having them all look blackish but taint a bit with purple, blue or green.
But if 4 colors are a"must"? Thats a tough one
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I would probably cross out bold ones (if thats on option).
 
QUOTE (4as @ Jul 22 2008, 10:39 AM)But if 4 colors are a"must"? Thats a tough one i think its not a must =_=. but as for me, too much colours will be quite fancy confusing
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.the current anime list's system now is already okay. consist of 3 main group; black (normal), bold black and red.
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since for now we only have a column for status, i.e "Licensed" over there, how about we put other status like "Removed", "Finished", "Stalled" (or Dropped) or etc.
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and another thing we can add another column there, the number of episodes & total episodes. for example "23/26" (episode aired so far 23 out of 26, if the total of episodes is unknown..
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.. umm just put "23/??" XD), while maintaining the bold black one for those still active for downloads and normal black for non-active and red for licensed is already fine with me.
 
QUOTE (monsta666 @ Jul 22 2008, 04:27 PM)Purple: Gives people a notice when episodes are about to be removed from the servers. This is useful when a series is just about to be licensed.
I'd certainly love the purple tag, or at least the idea of a sort of warning of a series about to be licensed, although this might be a bit close to the line on copyright and might cause a bit of a mad dash for the downloads when people know its about to go off-line. Its going to make the BW usage take a few peaks each time as well.

As a new person, most of the Anime on the list are new to me, so anything that helps me decide if I should go in and take a look or not has got to be a good thing. The larger the list, the more daunting it is in a "where do I start?" kind of way. What about adding a "star" rating next to it? (Or as this is FTV, use a loli or cat girl or something!). Maybe even make it so if you vote for something with a very high vote it auto appears on your member profile as a favorite or something. This could sort of work with the Amazon like idea from above as well.

Some other things that I think would help another new-ish person, and by new I mean to the Anime this time, is knowing if its complete or how many episodes are done of the total, like a 5/10 as was said above. And also if its been abandoned, as theres nothing worse than starting a new show only to realise its been dropped after you got halfway into it
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A status line for "new" could be useful as well, that way I wont miss something thats just appeared in the list thinking I've already looked at it lol
 
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