Fourteen 🎉
Yup, it's that time of the year again. On this date, fourteen years ago, I uploaded the first version of this little website called "VNDB". Somehow it still exists and is still growing. Geez.Like last...
View ArticleNot Enough Animation
Let me start on a generic note: while I often see people point out issues with the database or propose high-level features and improvements (which is fine), I don't often see people willing to work...
View ArticlePeople who can read Japanese have (rightfully) complained that they'd much rather see Japanese titles in Kana/Kanji rather than romanized, and likewise many people in the English communities have long...
View ArticleThe Visual Novel Dating Boards
After many years of working on this database, it has become abundantly clear to me that what this community really needs is not another boring database of minor staff and stuff. What this bunch of...
View ArticleA New Edition
I haven't written any announcements lately. That's not to say development on VNDB has stalled - quite the opposite in fact, there've been many improvements across the site! - but each individual change...
View ArticleFifteen 🎉
That's pretty damn old, in internet years. But we also look the part so it's okay.The usual ugly graphs, to compare with last year and the years before that.- Number of database edits per day.- Number...
View ArticleA New API
It's been almost 13 years since the TCP API has been introduced and, despite its quirks and being rather unusual, even for its time, it has served us well. Still serving us, in fact. But time has moved...
View ArticleRethinking ratings and stuff
I've been mulling over how we calculate the ratings for a while (certainly since t18328), but that never really got anywhere due to lack of useful feedback. I finally found some actually useful...
View ArticleSixteen
Welp, would've forgotten another birthday if it wasn't for people reminding me. Apparently VNDB is 16 years old now. No, I still won't let you date her!The usual ugly graphs, to compare with last year...
View ArticleAn Interactive Relation Graph Toy
tl;dr: fancy interactive graphsOnce every few years I experiment with yet another way to visualize visual novel relations. So far we've always had server-rendered Gaphviz-based visualizations. These...
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