Good websites to track movies / shows / games? - eviltoast

I like to sort the media I consume, and am currently using

  • IMDB (movies and shows)
  • myanimelist (anime movies and shows)
  • GameFAQs (games)

I love the design of myanimelist, you can easily view prequels and sequels, different seasons, specials and adaptations. I especially like that it has notifications about upcoming seasons / movies of stuff I watched. Sometimes it seems I am living under a rock and I only notice that a season 2 of some show I watched came out, long after it aired. Rarely happens with anime.

GameFAQs is not perfect, but I like seeing my ratings in a list. One friend of mine is always whining about having no games to play and then it’s time (again) to send him my very subjective list of “good games” and offer to pirate and send him twilight princess.

IMDB is self explanatory, not a good website and full of annoyances but I found no replacement until now.

What I need is: Website with some data about the media (if I get a myanimelist-like for regular shows and games I would be happy), ratings, at best some user reviews. And I’d love to just go onto the site, go to notifications and see “the show you planned to watch is airing soon”. And from time to time I want to sift through my ratings, be it nostalgia / wanting to rewatch / replay something or wanting to give out recommendations to a friend

So I am asking y’all: What are you using if you like to sort your shit like I do? A .txt document on your desktop? A great website you want to share? Some sort of launcher having this integrated? Something self-hosted? Feel free to share it all.

  • asudox@programming.dev
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    2 months ago

    Not out yet, but I will be attempting to make a federated tracking website. It might come out in a few years, so I guess look forward to it? I am still far from doing any real work, because I still need to plan how data would be retrieved and other stuff. I also plan on finishing my current projects before starting with it. If it becomes too hard to make it possible to add “plugins” so that it can be made into a track-everything tracking software, I’ll make it something like MyAnimeList, but open source and federated.