August
Following feature-packed two months, this month has been about refocusing my efforts on building out our Data Moderation team, with some minor fixes and improvements along the way
Check out the Changelog for the full list of changes ->
🕵️ Data Moderation Team
In July and August, our primary focus was on finalizing the tools necessary to establish the Data Moderation Team. As mentioned in previous updates, Kenmei has grown significantly, and reviewing new series suggestions, improving covers, descriptions, tags, and more has become increasingly time-consuming.
I am pleased to announce that Kenmei now has three Data Moderators (four, including myself) who have been actively reviewing series over the past month. They have also been working on enhancing a vast amount of data, such as adding around 1,000 descriptions to various series.
Going forward, you can expect series to be added to our database more quickly. Additionally, we will expand our automatic source detection capabilities, ensuring that series from official sources are automatically added to the review queue, just as we do with scanlator sources.
While I am not currently looking to expand the team, if you are interested in joining in the future, be sure to join our Discord server to stay updated on recruitment announcements!
⚙️ Series Details Additional Info
In terms of new features, Series Details now include some additional information—such as a much-requested notice if a series contains very explicit content (Erotica).
It also shows whether a series is in the Top 100 lists for being Most Popular or Highest Rated.
One of our key focuses for the rest of the year is to make the Series Details page more informative. This will include more statistics like these, along with other yet-to-be-announced features. Stay tuned!
As mentioned last month, I moved to Japan in August, which has kept me quite busy. As a result, I’ve primarily focused on non-development tasks, such as managing the Data Moderation Team, which I’m very pleased with so far.
However, due to my move and the demands of settling into life here, I anticipate being busier than usual. This means updates to Kenmei may slow down a bit. While I’ll aim to continue providing monthly updates, they might be spaced out to every other month for the foreseeable future.
Here's the updated list of priorities:
New Supported Sites
Expanding Data (e.g. new tags and classifications)
Ongoing bug fixes and improvements
Erotica Moderation Improvements
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