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.

  • beerclue@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 month ago

    I track my movie and TV show watchlists with trakt.tv. it’s connected to my jellyfin and *arr stack.

    I don’t game so that’s of no interest to me. I use Kavita/mylar3 for comic books, audiobookshelf/readarr and storygraph for audiobooks. for music I use last.fm, again connected to my jellyfin server (with symfonium as a client).

  • norimee@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 month ago

    I use https://www.icheckmovies.com/ to track movies and series.
    They are based on the imdb database, but I trust them way more with my data than amazon owned imdb.

    Its a basic, easy to use website without any frill and extras. Made by some dutch guys to track their own movies.

    • tfw_no_toiletpaper@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      1 month ago

      Thanks for the reply. I looked into it but it looks very niche (not bad per se, but probably not for me). Also due to some Japanese Chinese federation (I think) so many entries were unusable for me. I’ll keep it on my radar tho

      • Chris@feddit.ukEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        Yeah the main instance is Chinese, there are English ones but not many. It’s still new.

  • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    1 month ago

    I use Trakt, MAL and HLTB to achieve what you are looking for (I don’t know what else gamefaqs delivers than HLTB, I just use the latter for adding shit to my backlog).

    • tfw_no_toiletpaper@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      1 month ago

      Hm you’re right, I probably should switch from GameFAQs to HLTB, even if its just for the larger userbase, it has the options I want.