Using ASCII in URLs is simple and is less error prone than “supporting” unicode via percent encoding. It is also just a convention to use ASCII for usernames in many platforms. ASCII is also supported out of the box in major OSes while some unicode characters might not. What about impersonation? And what about people trying to type in the username of someone that uses unicode? It is not logical to use unicode in this case.

Because URLs are usually in ASCII. That was a standard. Check RFC 1738 and 3986. Now, you can use percent encoding, but why use that. It just complicates things.

You won’t get non latin usernames anytime soon. But you can change the display name using non latin charactets

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If that were to happen, the receiving end wouldn’t know who sent which vote, thus making spamming extremely easy.

I guess you could buy merch if you want to support them?

Umineko VN.

It has about 100+ playtime and excellent story. The anime sucks ass though.

Why use that site for tracking anime? MAL, AniList, Kitsune, aniDB, etc. exist, y’know.

And maybe it’s time for you to also sail the high seas.

Unfortunately, this tracker will need to rely on centralized databases such as MAL, anidb and anilist as I can’t really seem to find an easy way to curate new animes without them.

1. I am not very sure about this point honestly, as previously discussed in this thread, having a database that is only maintained by the community has its own disadvantages that definitely outweight its advantages. For example, you would need constant moderator approval, which is slow.

2. I am not sure what you mean by the ability to share them privately. Do you mean like whitelisting certain people that can view your animelist? Like how MAL has a friends only thing?

It’s mostly Sync users. Some of them seriously pay 110$ for Sync Ultra lifetime lmao.