June
As promised, June is packed with many features just like May was. I am super excited to introduce Premium Pro, which brings with it Personal Recommendations, Customizable Discovery, and Animated Banners!
Check out the Changelog for the full list of changes ->
📋Changelog🤖 Personal Recommendations
I am thrilled to introduce the best-in-class Recommendation System, simply called Personal Recommendations. Unlike any other tracker out there, Kenmei is the first to leverage the latest AI advancements to truly understand your preferences.
This isn’t just about simple tag matching. By combining descriptions, tags, content type, content rating, and more, Kenmei's Recommendation System offers suggestions that genuinely match your interests.
And this is just the beginning. As Kenmei continues to grow, both in the breadth and quality of its data, the accuracy of its recommendations will only improve. Creating something like this has always been a dream of mine, driven by my dissatisfaction with the "recommendations" from other trackers, that always missed the mark.
⚙️ Customisable Discovery
Another exciting feature we’re introducing is the ability to customize Discovery to fit your needs!
While the default settings are designed to be broadly useful, we know many of you want more control. Maybe you only want to keep an eye on Manhwa series, or perhaps you have favourite sites you prefer for updates.
Everyone has their preferences, and now there are countless ways to customize Discovery to make it just the way you want!
🖼️ Animated Banner
This functionality is the final cherry on top → we are now the second tracker ever to support animated banners! Moreover, we are the only one to offer built-in cropping, making it incredibly easy to set up.
As you might expect, making animated banners look good and perform well isn't easy. Cropping and adjusting animated images is computationally intensive, and GIFs in particular tend to be very large.
There are still a few issues to iron out—especially with GIFs that have a very large frame count, which can be challenging to upload. However, I plan to completely resolve this in the coming months.
Nevertheless, the animated banners look fantastic already and I think really makes profiles stand out!
💵 Premium Pro
If you haven’t seen the new Pricing page yet, go check it out! I am quite pleased with how it looks now, featuring detailed information on both plans.
For the past two years, I’ve been conducting surveys among our Premium members, and the majority continue to be satisfied or very satisfied with the value for money that Premium provides. In fact, 83.4% of surveyed participants believe that the Premium Lite price is great value or even too cheap (!!) for what it offers.
Time will tell, but after conducting a Pro pricing survey, I think I've landed on a fair price again.
In a year’s time, I will conduct another survey to see how things fare. Nevertheless, I will continue expanding the functionality of both tiers to ensure you always feel that you are getting the best value for your money.
📈Progress Overview
And so the busiest month of the year has come to a close. I am really proud of everything accomplished in June, especially considering how much was shipped in May.
With that in mind, July is going to be very quiet. I will be taking the first half of the month off, and in the second half, I will be moving to Japan to live there permanently, which means I’ll be busy settling down.
As a result, I’ll be focusing on fixes and minor improvements. Additionally, I am planning to add another person to the Data Moderators team, so make sure to join our Discord, if you haven't already, in case you want to apply for this position.
Here's the updated list of priorities:
Project XHotfixes for new functionality
New Supported Sites
Expanding Data (e.g. new tags and classifications)
Erotica Moderation Improvements
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