Announcing Anime-Planet anime and manga community challenges!

2 Questions or otherwise suggestions:

1) How do we change the 4 Anime it picks for the banner, it literally picked like 2 Anime and their OVAs? Was hoping to pick some titles with good artwork imagery for this. An option to select/checkmark the 4 it shows perhaps?
2) It randomly added 1098 anime to my challenge list which seems to be the same (or is the same?) as my want to watch list. How can one remove additions to create only a list for more relevant stuff? I wouldn't want to play with my want to watch list since I spent hours researching for stuff I want to see eventually rather than finding a new Anime every few days. So maybe an option to create the list like you would a custom list?
 
WolfAngelus said:
2 Questions or otherwise suggestions:

1) How do we change the 4 Anime it picks for the banner, it literally picked like 2 Anime and their OVAs? Was hoping to pick some titles with good artwork imagery for this. An option to select/checkmark the 4 it shows perhaps?
2) It randomly added 1098 anime to my challenge list which seems to be the same (or is the same?) as my want to watch list. How can one remove additions to create only a list for more relevant stuff? I wouldn't want to play with my want to watch list since I spent hours researching for stuff I want to see eventually rather than finding a new Anime every few days. So maybe an option to create the list like you would a custom list?
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I was ready to reply with 'this is covered in the first post' for the second question, but as it turns out it's not! I blame that on xenforo eating the announcement thread when I was 85% done with it, and I then had to recreate it from memory. Must have left that extremely crucial piece of information out the second time :(

I'll edit this into the first post later, but the short answer is that no, at this time you can't change what shows up there for feasability reasons (on the implementation end). The 'plans to complete' section automatically shows titles marked want to watch or watching - the only time this ends up looking a bit strange is for the yearly challenge, if you're a person like me (or you) who marks a looooot of things want to watch. For seasonal challenges, or the upcoming monthlies, the titles to choose from are limited so it wont look as strange.

The half glass full way of looking at it is that you can potentially clean up that W2W list :) some have mentioned this, how it's been a great spring cleaning opportunity. I personally am going to do that with mine, as tons of these have been on W2W/W2R for 10 years.

For the first question, the banners display the most recently updated 4 titles as part of the challenge. So, those are the 4 you marked most recently. The images are cached so it will recreate itself frequently.
 
sothis said:
I was ready to reply with 'this is covered in the first post' for the second question, but as it turns out it's not! I blame that on xenforo eating the announcement thread when I was 85% done with it, and I then had to recreate it from memory. Must have left that extremely crucial piece of information out the second time :(

I'll edit this into the first post later, but the short answer is that no, at this time you can't change what shows up there for feasability reasons (on the implementation end). The 'plans to complete' section automatically shows titles marked want to watch or watching - the only time this ends up looking a bit strange is for the yearly challenge, if you're a person like me (or you) who marks a looooot of things want to watch. For seasonal challenges, or the upcoming monthlies, the titles to choose from are limited so it wont look as strange.

The half glass full way of looking at it is that you can potentially clean up that W2W list :) some have mentioned this, how it's been a great spring cleaning opportunity. I personally am going to do that with mine, as tons of these have been on W2W/W2R for 10 years.

For the first question, the banners display the most recently updated 4 titles as part of the challenge. So, those are the 4 you marked most recently. The images are cached so it will recreate itself frequently.
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Thanks! I have had that happen to me too when writing reviews, I will write the review, hit submit and get "error" because it decided to randomly log me out WHILE writing the review, having to re-write the entire thing, grrrr.

I tried my best to read through before asking and bugging you. Well, it's not a big deal then. I definitely wouldn't want to delete my want to watches just for it not looking like I'm some crazy Anime person who watches 24/7. Being an indecisive person myself, and incredibly organized, I prefer to devote a few hours a few times a year to "stocking up", as it just takes me way to long (sometimes hours) to look through my list even and just pick my next Anime from stuff I narrowed down to actually wanting to see.
 
WolfAngelus said:
Thanks! I have had that happen to me too when writing reviews, I will write the review, hit submit and get "error" because it decided to randomly log me out WHILE writing the review, having to re-write the entire thing, grrrr.

I tried my best to read through before asking and bugging you. Well, it's not a big deal then. I definitely wouldn't want to delete my want to watches just for it not looking like I'm some crazy Anime person who watches 24/7. Being an indecisive person myself, and incredibly organized, I prefer to devote a few hours a few times a year to "stocking up", as it just takes me way to long (sometimes hours) to look through my list even and just pick my next Anime from stuff I narrowed down to actually wanting to see.
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For what it's worth we've been trying to come up with potential ideas on how to get around this. One floated idea is to output want to watch/watching BEFORE a challenge starts, but to change it to 'watching' only once the challenge starts. imo this might be a decent solution, mostly because we do think people will want to share seasonal challenges before they get started. I know I'd personally still have way too much of a watching list (like 99% of which are actually stalled so I just need to switch the status), but probably most people have their watching list more under control than want to watch.
 
sothis said:
For what it's worth we've been trying to come up with potential ideas on how to get around this. One floated idea is to output want to watch/watching BEFORE a challenge starts, but to change it to 'watching' only once the challenge starts. imo this might be a decent solution, mostly because we do think people will want to share seasonal challenges before they get started. I know I'd personally still have way too much of a watching list (like 99% of which are actually stalled so I just need to switch the status), but probably most people have their watching list more under control than want to watch.
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If I may offer up another idea. How about another tab called "Watching Challenges". It would be just like any others, except here you stick in stuff purely for the challenge. Then you could have the challenges list pull from that tab rather than "watch to watch". Since you have most of the work done (and I am only familiar with HTML coding), but wouldn't that be a simple alternative since making a new "watch" category would be simple I imagine, and so would asking the challenge to pull from a different list.
 
oh i just remembered you can do the studio badges and magazine badges with this challenge feature too. that would be dope.
 
Do we have list of the winter 2018 release dates? CR has not put up anything as of now, but I 'd like to plan out when this will start in earnest.
 
Is there any news as to when this will end? Because I will have a rough start, nd I'm going abroad from the 30th to the 6th, which means I will miss an entire week of anime watching
 
SandRose said:
Is there any news as to when this will end? Because I will have a rough start, nd I'm going abroad from the 30th to the 6th, which means I will miss an entire week of anime watching
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Yearly is the entire calendar year. Seasonal are the specific season.
 
sothis said:
Yearly is the entire calendar year. Seasonal are the specific season.
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It seems to have been already brought up but the initial feedback I was going to leave yesterday before I got distracted was that you should add the end date or time to the challenge page. It would probably fit nicely right under the "Starts in <x> days" message.

I still trail a season or two behind so I won't be able to participate in the seasonal challenges it seems, but overall I like the idea. Looks like a more integrated and formal implementation of the challenge things that I saw in the forums periodically (which was probably one of your goals).
 
Just out of curiousity, are there any plans to link or "adapt" some of the badges to this new challenges system?
(e.g. the Stuck in the Madhouse badge triggering when you've completed the related opt-in Madhouse challenge, having specific challenges link to the more "esoteric" badges like "...Huh?!" and "Bizzaro", maybe having new challenges that award you with a brand new badge)
 
So, I'm not sure if I am missing something or if perhaps there just isn't a good way to handle this - I found a few series that I had finished a few years back and added them to my list as having been completed, didn't think about it until afterwords that they would apply to the challenge.

Is there a way to exclude a particular item from the challenge when adding it to my watched list?
 
TheRealAlexMade said:
So, I'm not sure if I am missing something or if perhaps there just isn't a good way to handle this - I found a few series that I had finished a few years back and added them to my list as having been completed, didn't think about it until afterwords that they would apply to the challenge.

Is there a way to exclude a particular item from the challenge when adding it to my watched list?
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leave the challenge, add the stuff, then join it again. it might work.
 
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