Version Logs

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Custom lists became Custom Rankings: every ranking now has a real stored order, rank badges, optional theme tags, touch-friendly reordering, and a shareable poster surface.

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Public rankings are now discoverable beyond their owner's profile, while private rankings stay private. Guests can open public rankings on public profiles without signing in.

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Discover search now matches ranking titles, descriptions, owners, and theme tags. Ranking titles and tags are shown consistently in library cards, profile highlights, the social feed, and ranking details.

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Watchlists default to Date: New → Old, and custom rankings load newest updates first so the latest changes are always at the top.

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Ranking share images now use a 3×2 poster-card layout with visible rank badges, and the YourAnimeRank wordmark follows the active site theme, including Ember’s two-tone logo.

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Ranking owners are now linked from ranking cards and detail pages, so one click takes you to their profile.

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Ranking likes, comments, notifications, and activity updates now work reliably across Custom Rankings.

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The social feed now features recent public rankings with their titles, descriptions, posters, and theme tags.

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MAL import can bring ratings across with an optional score shift, including a safe-range check that warns before any scores would clip.

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Added the Paused watch status and unified the mobile rate chooser into a real popup that works across ranking and seasonal views.

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Improved the mobile experience across onboarding, navigation drawers, seasonal controls, ranking columns, and dialogs.

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Search results, ranking totals, and empty tiers are now more accurate, with a wider anime catalog and clearer category and type labels.

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Direct messages are live between mutuals. Following each other unlocks a chat; the person icon in the drawer lists everyone you can message, and it is the only route into a new conversation.

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Notifications moved into the messages drawer, switchable from chats with a single control, so there is one place for everything addressed to you.

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Social posts now have threaded replies with likes on individual comments, sharing the same thread system as episode chat.

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The feature board runs on real submissions with up and down voting, open and confirmed states, and a dev-updates feed showing what is being worked on.

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Every account-scoped action opens the sign-in prompt instead of failing quietly — rating, favorites, notifications, posting, messages, list import, taste match, and the seasonal watchlist.

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The rating scale now has 37 tiers, one for every quarter step. Previously ten labels were floored, so 7.00 and 7.75 both read the same thing.

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My Ratings became the Tier Check — your library sorted into the tiers you have actually used, colour-banded by score.

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Your tier list can be shared as its own public page. Anyone can open the link without an account.

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Added Transpose: shift every rating you own up or down by the same amount at once. Your ranking order is untouched, and it tells you beforehand if any scores would clip at 1 or 10.

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Smart Rate now hands you the slider when an anime lands as your new highest or lowest, instead of guessing a score at the boundary.

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Seasonal has an All Airing Anime view covering every season at once, with a new air-date sort.

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Custom lists moved into your profile and load on demand. The separate lists page is gone.

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Added a How To Use page walking through every part of the site in 26 steps.

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Rebuilt the features page with short clips showing Compare Rate, Smart Rate, Merge Seasons and the scoring system actually running.

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Rewrote the membership page with the upcoming feature roadmap, target dates, and a one-time founder offer for early supporters.

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The locked Anime Persona card is back on your profile so you can see what you are working toward before it unlocks.

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Deleting a feature request or a discussion reply now asks for confirmation.

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Profile tabs, seasonal season and year, and the feature board filter all write to the URL, so the Back button steps through them properly.

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Reconciled the database against everything production had that no migration created, and closed the gaps found in the security audit — email privacy, a missing access policy, URL validation, and admin flags that were reachable anonymously.

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Dropped a 2.3 MB background image from the default theme and made every animated background static, cutting both load time and idle cost.

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Enter now sends a direct message; Shift+Enter starts a new line.

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The compatibility breakdown fits on screen again — it was taller than the space it sat in, so its top edge could not be reached.

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Go-to-bottom now sits below go-to-top, so the lower button moves you further down the page.

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Wisteria gained a distinct second accent; its two accent tiers were previously the same violet.

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Full UI pass across the site — new themes, redesigned dialogs, restyled rankings filters, reworked onboarding, and a readability pass on colour and contrast.

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Rebuilt Smart Rate — you now directly compare two anime side by side instead of pressing yes or no.

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Manual rating is contextual: your entire ranked list scrolls live as you drag the slider, so you see exactly where an anime lands before confirming.

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Built an in-house community scoring system that filters out rage votes and skewed fan scores to surface the real consensus.

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Anime Persona breaks down your taste — the genres you favour, how mainstream your picks are, and a persona label. You can find yours before making an account.

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Merge Seasons combines scores across a franchise so it ranks as one entry instead of individual seasons.

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Added Discover, a recommendations page with For You, persona picks, More Like, hidden gems, weekly trends, new releases, and signals from people you follow.

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Recommendation matching runs across ratings, disliked genres, themes, demographics, studios, source, format, era, franchise, popularity, recency, and community activity rather than genre alone.

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Follow people with interesting taste and get notified when they rate something — what they ranked, the score, and the method used.

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Expanded profiles with genre affinity, rating distribution, watch history, reviews, favorites, custom lists, media blocks, and location.

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Added anime reviews with editing and deletion, watch-status tracking, and episode progress.

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Custom lists have dedicated pages, profile tabs, poster previews, and full list management.

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Find People suggests users by compatibility, persona, city, and follow network, opening in place rather than on a separate page.

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Every episode gets its own discussion thread, alongside persona chatrooms and direct messages between mutuals.

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Spoiler protection hides moments, reviews, screenshots, titles, episode numbers, and timestamps until you have watched or rated far enough to see them.

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Every anime page shows its full franchise in order — every season and related entry — with your ratings on each.

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Added a score distribution histogram on every anime page showing how the community spread their ratings from 1 to 10.

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Opening themes, ending themes, director, music composer, and voice cast are now on every anime detail page.

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Set your timezone once and every airing anime shows its broadcast time converted automatically.

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Import an existing anime list — watch statuses carry over. Scores are not imported, since that defeats the point of the site.

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The full site works on mobile and desktop browsers with every feature and a properly adapted UI at all screen sizes.

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Added a lot of missing anime to Seasonal, improved navigation, and made search bring you straight to the right show.

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Added anime-inspired palettes, animated backgrounds, banner fades, and profile stage surfaces.

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Reorganized Top Moments, added expandable screenshots, corrected Hot and New sorting, and reopened submission review.

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Reduced social-feed queries, cached activity between tabs, added incremental loading, and indexed the most expensive activity and score queries.

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Added back-to-top and go-to-bottom controls, consistent scroll reset between pages, and loading states that match the real layouts.

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Added privacy-aware access rules, owner-scoped notifications, social-write protections, and migration-backed validation.

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First test release of YourAnimeRank.