The "doing things" quote was in relation to erai-raws vs Horriblesubs. I said erai-raws is doing things similar to how HS did them (simulcast rips not subbing). That's entirely unrelated to shanaproject.
That's my misunderstanding, I apologize.
I think the interface is more opaque than nyaa since they aren't really using colors and they've divided things in ways that make it pop less.
They don't need color coding. On nyaa, all Eng anime is purple. Shanaproject is only Eng anime, so everything here would come under the purple filter. Hence, it doesn't need to be color-coded unless you're asking for them to use color-coding at a higher level of granularity than nyaa does.
Nyaa also has different classes of release colored differently in other ways. Although those classes are fairly arbitrary (and I'm not saying I necessarily like the way they've done it), it still breaks things up visually. This is more a design issue than one of functionality, but it's still an asset.
Seems like it's just a RSS manager for when you know exactly what you want already.
Not really. It's all Eng releases of airing shows by major groups. You don't need to know what groups exist or what shows are airing to use this, you just need to speak English and want to watch current shows. Quickly browsing the list informs you about what shows are out this season, then you can just pick a release to follow. Most of the time, i just browse this then once I know what's actually being released I cross-reference the shows with season charts to see which ones I like the look of. At least this way you know that the shows you're considering watching are actually out, rather than having to go through season charts then discovering hardly any of it's out yet.
I suppose that's handy if you have a use case substantially different than mine, perhaps if prefer a specific subber that focuses on quality rather than speed. But this site lacks synopsis and, usually, pictures so you still need another source to go through, and then you simply come to this site to find out whether things are out yet. Otherwise it's only useful to someone who "wants to watch current shows" but doesn't actually care what those shows are, beyond that they're English-subbed anime, and current. I have a hard time imagining someone being that undiscerning.
If you already know exactly what file you want and you're familiar with the subber and how they do things, that's not hard on nyaa either.
This is slightly contradictory. you really do need to know exactly what you want before even venturing into nyaa. You really don't for shanaproject.
I don't understand why you think that. Nyaa lists all files with all info that the sub group put into the file name, including filetype and also has a description blurb if you click through, which can be filled by the uploader. It even has comments. I've just found the info button for shana, which I didn't before, but even though there's a "comment" section (not actually a comments section but a description box), it seems like they're lacking in meaningful info on this site, and perhaps also in character limit/formatting options based on what I'm seeing. Even the basic info found in the filename, although it's here, you have to click through rather than just seeing it from the get-go; far less convenient. And under a different domain name for some reason? Far less convenient, if nothing else.
I don't even see ways to add search filters, for example to only show the highest resolution available
It's not a useful idea. Shana is only for currently airing English subbed anime after all, it's already plenty filtered as a result, and it's hard to actually come up with filters that would do anything other than for sub group or title. It's as complicated as it needs to be. Considering that many releases will be in 3 quality choices and the search gives 50 things per page, searching by title or sub group alone give the last 17 relevant releases. This is plenty to work out what's out, and the options for who's releasing it, and since you only need to tag a single episode to follow the whole thing, you really don't need to manually track down all the prev episodes the way you do on nyaa.
See, you said otherwise but I still don't see how this makes any sense unless you're working on the assumption that everyone is familiar with the technical practices of the different sub groups. If it's not that you "need to know exactly what you want", it's that you are already so intimately aware of what a subgroup's releases are like that you can select based on their name alone. Otherwise, what good is showing the name and hiding all other info? I would posit that aside from big names (of which the biggest has just ceased) not many people know much about more than one or two groups, and will need other sources of sub group name. Especially since small new "groups" can crop up often, even for a single series sometimes. Just "!what sub groups exist" isn't enough info to choose which upload you want unless the answer to that is "this one here and literally no others". Of course, you can familiarize yourself with the sub groups available for a series when looking for what you want from a specific series, but why should that be necessary? Even for purely technical details, it's more hassle than it ought to be, and it's not necessarily the case that the first subber you watch will always be so good that you're unwilling to try any other later since the style and quality of translations and typesetting (the actual subs, rather than technical and video info) isn't readily discernable before watching an episode on any site.
As for whether more filtering options are useful, they may not be strictly necessary, but it's certainly handy to have less things to need to scroll through to find the correct one. Especially if you have to use the plus or the info button to find the necessary information to know whether it's the one you want or not.
Tracking down previous episodes is a non-issue in either setup, since nyaa uploads use names that are consistent within the series. Once you've found one episode, the others have the same name apart from episode number, so if you want to filter out everything except the series/uploader/etc combination that you've got, you can search appropriately. In fact, I reckon shana is worse for this too if you're looking for a file directly rather than a RSS subscription, since as I said, there's less ways to filter things, but the difference is small enough to barely matter since the number of different episode releases is a lot less after filtering by subber.
I also see no file type indication whatsoever.
click the + button to the left, and additional information is listed. I even mentioned that button in my post. Note however, that nyaa lacks any sort of indication of file type in their main search listings, so if that's something you care about, shanaproject actually wins on that point.
Nyaa displays the file's name properly, which normally includes the file extension or else specifies filetype in parenthetical. Shana obfuscates that info.
I dunno, maybe your use case and design priorities are just utterly alien to me, because none of your points really make sense to me. If you prefer to use RSS, I see how it's a convenient subscription directory for that purpose, but outside of that, it seems like compared to nyaa the site has reduced usability (obscured information and correspondingly weaker search functionality) in exchange for no significant benefit. Like, grouping releases by series isn't a bad thing, and it's not like grouping by subber is hurting anybody, but for that matter it's not really a benefit of any significance since you could always use series name as a search criterion, and in any case it by no means requires useful information to be hidden.
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