AniList

AniList is, personally, the best anime/manga tracking website around currently. Some people may prefer some others for various reasons, but even then AniList is a strong contender. It boasts strong social features, powerful search and browsing, active (if a little slow) development, custom lists, alternative rating systems, alternative titling systems, and plenty more, all wrapped in a modern website design. It strikes an excellent balance between social elements to keep up with or make new friends while still keeping a focus on being an informational database and list tracker. Compared to other website offerings: MyAnimeList, Anime-Planet, or Kitsu, I find AniList to have the healthiest balance between these features and the smoothest design. It's already great and it gets better with time.

If you're looking to switch over from MyAnimeList, there are features that MAL has that you might miss here, some of them being: profile and list customization are less powerful, there aren't any clubs (yet), and there's less of an established history and database. The lack of history is one of the biggest losses here, meaning you sometimes have to visit MAL to view a fleshed-out character list or see plentiful reviews. It's up to you to figure out if that's a deal breaker, but I would encourage giving AniList a try. You might just find you like it.

I can't give a good rating to Anilist. Conceptually it's a great site and it has potential. Unfortunately it has corrupt moderators. I'm sure that most moderators on the site are doing a great job but two in particular make it their life's mission to make everyone else's life really hard and it completely detracts from the enjoyment and usability of the site.

Standards are extremely strict, including minimum word counts, you have to use specific LGBT terms despite prevalence across the Anime community. So good luck finding relevant content that you enjoy. These terms are obscure and you will only find out about them when they give you a ban.

Moderators will publicly post personal messages to one up users, despite lack of relevance to the conversation. They will publicly accuse members of lying and trolling without any evidence. They're the staff.

There is no realistic appeals process. If you attempt to appeal, the punishments are increased.

Attempts to submit corrections based on publicly available data including with sources, if it doesn't match the often incorrect sources they use, they will reject them.

The terms of service are neither complete, nor accurate, most people won't bother with them, but if you're one of those people that do but don't actually use the sites forums for the reasons above, you're in for a rough ride.

This way of running the site has basically lead to a complete dearth in user generated discussion, most threads on anime discussions are ancient and haven't been posted on in years. The forums themselves are filled with spam forum games and little else because of the culture of fear the staff breeds.

AniList could be a friendly place, it clearly attracts friendly people but sadly it is managed poorly.

website is good and has a more updated look unlike myanimelist but the mods (taluun) make it much worse, adding bias into posts where it is not needed, mod abuse, and much more etc.

There is no export functionality for your list, so I can't make any backups to be safe. Setting anime status as private does nothing - it's still publicly visible on the profile. The minimum length of review is 2200 characters, which is ridiculous. It's 500 characters on MAL.

Good UI, rich stats, custom lists, few different rating methods, great API, and many community-made mobile apps, but that doesn't matter in the light of mentioned missing/broken features

Anilist.co is a good anime/manga tracker, with a good UI and API but big flaws.

Both technically and in terms of usability, the platform is very advanced and fun to use. Of course, there is still room for improvement here and there, but compared to other providers, Anilist.co is already very far ahead.

1. The community itself is stagnating and is represented by a very toxic woke part, as well as some very extremist woken moderators. This does not really invite sharing opinions or discussions, which is why most users stay away from the community, and this lowers the offer and quality of Anilist.co. For more details, just Google, Reddit or actively follow the Anilist forum, but honestly, it's not worth the time.

2. However, my biggest and often-ignored criticism of AniList.co is that the database is unfortunately RACIST and RESTRICTED in terms of offering manhwa, light novels, and webtoons: the platform focuses exclusively on Asian creations. This means that works from NON-ASIAN countries, such as the USA or countries from the EU, are not included, regardless of their quality, popularity or appreciation. The most common excuse is that they would have to include comics and don't have the capacity to do so (neither of which is true).

Accordingly, if you're looking for a full anime/manga tracker, you'll unfortunately miss a lot of good light novels, webtoons and manhwas on Anilist.co. But hey, it also has an advantage: "If the title is not on Anilist, you know it's not an Asian author/artist!" ;)

Especially, most of the current Asian productions often suffer from a lack of new imagination and use the same scenarios, tropes and stories over and over again. Non-Asian works often stand out when they use similar ideas and styles, but break out of the boring tropes and trends and usually know how to surprise with better characters and storylines. This doesn't mean that all Asian work is bad, but just the origin shouldn't dictate if some not non-asian is not good enough.

After using it for years, I noticed it has become a very woke community mod. if you disrespect a man user it's okay, but if you disrespect a woman you will get banned and get called toxin.

In the process of becoming open source!

Proof: https://anilist.co/forum/thread/3878

Edit: Apparently, according to other users, the forums are politically biased, with hate comments targeting certain groups of people not taken down.

Im removing two stars.