New year, new anime season, new general discussion thread. It is a time for new beginnings. A time to look forward to the infinite possibilities that the coming year can hold for us. A time to look forward to all the great and not-so-great anime that the winter 2024 season holds for us.
I want to hear what it is that you are looking forward to, trailers you liked, anime that you want to hype up because you loved the manga/novel. Equally, I want to hear what shows you think should be avoided or that look mid af. Check the list here for a complete list of the winter 2024 shows coming our way.
As always, remember to be mindful of spoilers. If you want to know more about how to handle spoilers in this community, check the guide here.
tl;dr: the new season’s yaml files haven’t yet been fully merged into the source code (PR here)
@chaorace@lemmy.sdf.org might want to chime in here as well as the bot maintainer, but I think I know what is going on, but the explanation is going to be a bit technical.
Shinobu is a lemmy-focused fork of the holo project. Both projects use user-curated yaml files that contain all the information for each show. As an example, you can check out Fall 2023’s yaml file here. This winter’s yaml file has not been merged into the holo project yet. There is an open pull request to do so, but it is still open. The reddit mods have clearly already merged these commits since their bot is posting, but Shinobu hasn’t done so yet. Also, the reddit bot is not a straight copy of the source code that is on github, there are clearly some tweaks they do on the backend to do things like pick up shows that shinobu can’t see, but that is a whole other topic.
I suspect that chaorace is waiting for the pull request to close and the new season’s yaml to be merged before adding it to shinobu, but I haven’t spoken with them. For what it is worth, I run a copy of holo on a test lemmy instance I host and by merging the 5 commits in the PR, my local holo was able to make posts for the winter shows (
but it doesn’t pick up Classroom of the Elite for whatever reasonpicked it up after a couple hours).Yeah, I’m subscribed to notifications for the PR and have been holding out waiting for it to get merged because it’s easier to maintain a clean git history that way. If the PR’s still not merged by this evening I’ll just bite the bullet and do it the (slightly) harder way for the sake of staying current with the new seasonals