Membership and Contributing

This section is about a multi-user (online) installation — a site where several people keep their own lists. On a single-person install there is no sign-in at all, and nothing below appears there.

Signing In, Registering, Account

Browsing the catalog, reading anime details and searching need no account. Signing in is what unlocks your own list: watch statuses, notes, Personal Synopsis, emotion marks and personal preferences.

Creating an Account

A site runs in one of two registration modes. In invite mode (the default) creating an account needs an invite code; with a code in hand you fill in the code, a username and a password on the "Register" page. In open mode no code is asked for. The username must be 3-32 characters (letters, digits, underscore) and the password at least 8; e-mail is optional.

Requesting an Invite

Without a code you can use the "Request an invite" link on the registration page and leave your e-mail with a short reason. If the request is accepted, a code is sent to you. When the quota is full, new requests may not be accepted.

The Account Page

Once signed in, the "Account" link at the top right shows your username, e-mail and role; the same page is where you change your password (current password + the new one twice).

Roles — Who Can Do What?

There are four levels. Each level can also do everything the one before it can:

• Visitor (signed out) — browses the catalog, reads details, searches, suggests corrections.
• Member — keeps a personal list (watch status, episodes, notes, Personal Synopsis, emotions), saves preferences, and submits an anime that is missing from the catalog.
• Moderator — curates the catalog: reviews incoming additions and correction suggestions, manages the genre and sentence vocabulary, adds and removes chronology markers.
• Administrator — on top of that, looks after user management, invites and site settings such as the registration mode.

Adding an Anime and Approval

To add an anime that is missing from the catalog you (once signed in) use the "Add New Anime" form. Your entry does not go straight into the catalog list: it lands in the approval queue and waits there until a moderator reviews it.

Suggesting a Correction

At the bottom of an anime detail page the "Suggest a correction" box takes whatever you found wrong or missing (for example "release date is wrong", "a genre is missing") and sends it to the moderator queue. You do not need an account for this. To keep abuse down, the number of suggestions that can be sent in a short period is limited.

For further questions: more detailed technical information is on the project's GitHub page.