ShokoAnime
add to anidb (problems for anidb staff)
To make it clear, i am not a Shoko user, so i actually never seen how "add to anidb" interface in Shoko look. This is an issue from anidb file maintainer POV.
Since you added "add to anidb" feature to shoko UI, we are seen an influx of user using this function in a completely braindead fashion - they add thousands of files with zero info - no group/source/quality fields set, softsubs for hardsubbed/raw files, etc. They also add locally modified files a lot. This creates an ever increasing workload on anidb mods and file maintainers, because we have to manually fix all this shit. While communicating with this users on anibd we realized most of them have zero understanding of what they are doing, some not even realize that they are adding data to public database, not their local collection.
So, please, can you add some prominent warning and basic explanation that says they should not add "private" (locally modfied/self ripped) files to anidb and that they should try to fill as much info as possible on the add page (group, source, quality, release date, also check that they are not adding hardsubbed/raw files as having softsubs. Also, probably good idea to put a link to https://wiki.anidb.net/Content:Files here.
As far as I know, adding files to anidb from shoko has been around for half a decade at the minimum. When doing so you select the files you want to add, click a few buttons and are sent to: https://anidb.net/anime/id/release/add (with the ed2k hashes of the selected files copied to your clipboard). Everything else is done on anidb's end.
There has likely been an influx of new users unfamiliar with anidb in recent times. This makes adding some sort of warning on the last step before being sent to the release page sound reasonable. It would also make sense to add something on anidb itself as that is ultimately where the files are being added.
At the very least, adding that wiki link to the documentation will be done shortly.
Huh, I wonder if our user base has grown significantly. We have a new UI for adding files to AniDB, but as it's been since at least 2015, the steps are still:
- Hash File
- Check if it exists
- Show in Unrecognized (with a button to AVDump)
- AVDump files
- Link to the series Add Files page
I think our current flow has more information about the process than previously, so I would expect fewer people to carelessly add things incorrectly.
We can try to improve the documentation.
Is it a few specific people, or just a bunch of different people? I can go see if they are in our server and bonk them.
Dont know about "has been around for half a decade", but the first time we got "i just clicked a button in shoko" user was somewhere around this NY. Since then we have more and more of them, probably around 10 in the last month alone. Maybe just popularity of Shoko raising among people not familiar with anidb, idk....
@harshithmohan I believe you made some changes to help mitigate this issue, correct? Just want to document it here.
Yeah, I changed the flow so that the "Add to AniDB" dialog only shows up if avdump is finished successfully
