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World of Anime - One Month Check In

Asked by meeko on • 7 Answers
Its been 1 month since the new World of Anime went live, and I'm wondering - what is everyone thinking of it? What features are your favorites, and what are some things you think could be improved? What are some completely new features you would like to see added to the site? I am super happy to have been able to bring this new version of the site to you. It resurrects the spirit of the original site, and I look forward to growing the site, bringing new features to it, and watching it grow over time and bringing fans of anime together as a place to just hang out and chill.
meeko
The decision to not have likes or other reactions was a purposeful decision, and is one that I mentioned why when I wrote the text for the "About World of Anime" page. World of Anime is not a social networking site, it is a community web site. I don't like social networking sites, I think they are a bad thing for mental health and an overall negative to society. Having content be able to be "liked" creates an artificial popularity contest. People strive to only post things they think will be popular and people start comparing them to others in terms of "likes". In actual social networking sites, they start using the like counter to push content to people that is popular, and it creates a negative overall environment where the popular people win and the people who aren't popular lose. People start comparing themselves to others over numbers that in the end don't really mean anything. Sorry if my explanation got a bit long. Just wanted to provide an explanation for why the ability to like content is not there.
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