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Has anyone relayed our request to merge the forums with HiDive?

I’ve sent the link for their review.

Something else I’d like to add.

The AN forums are where I find out what the newest Sentai licenses and upcoming physical releases or Sentai sales are.

That is very true. In addition, I get information on what manga is getting an anime. I can keep track of it here, without searching all over the internet for updates. All the news is here so I don’t have to go to other sites. I like that about the AN forums. This place is just near perfect. Everything I need is right here! I still think connecting the forums to Hidive is a great idea.

We also get site maintenance reports, so we know when either Hidive or this site is going to be down. We get announcements on when the offices will be closed. This is important news and the forums are a perfect platform for these announcements.

I am not a social media person, so the point is I can log in here and not have to go anywhere else. I even keep the forums open as I watch my anime, so I am always up to date. I also track anime watching here - when the new episodes are up on Hidive, as well as what I have watched. If the forums were with Hidive, even better!

I consume more manga than I do anime nowadays and finding these forums has made it more so. Similar to what Wicca said, when I see there’s an anime adaptation coming out I get excited to check out the manga.

Also in the forums, I get reminded of manga series I had started a long time ago and think, “I never read any more of that one. I’m going to pick it up again.” Or maybe I give a series another chance.

This has been a great resource to help me find more manga to read. And I appreciate it and all the people who make it thrive. If we could just make more hours in a day that would be perfect. I need more hours to read all this manga.

I hope HiDive doesnt think that Twitter, Threads, or Instagram is a better place to reach people over a dedicated forum.

It maybe a great collaboration if Hidive can merge one of their social media feeds with a database forum layout. Because it seems like everything is starting to merge together, with businesses nowadays and it will attract a larger audience, connecting the best of both anime worlds

So, Hidive has launched a new site. Personally, I think it looks great, but I understand it will be a couple of months before it is complete. And with revamped sites, there are always difficulties and glitches to deal with.

In the meantime, people have turned to various social media outfits to voice concerns, opinions, complaints, or to look for help. I can only imagine how hard it is to contend with multiple sites and getting back to everyone.

If Hidive had forums attached, such comments and posts would be centralized for the people responding and would not take up so much of their time chasing down everything and missing things on other sites.

The forums were a huge help for such changes in the past and would be a valuable platform for such things in the future. It is much easier to deal with a centralized spot.

Right now, many Hidive subscribers have no idea they can come here for help, leaving them to run around all the multiple social media sites looking for answers that are not always there. Some subscribers have not taken the time to look for or understand the explanations offered and would rather just unsubscribe out of frustration. This is a shame.

Just another good reason to have forums on Hidive.

Any news from the higher ups?

Not yet, with the new HIDIVE roll-out, I’m thinking they have their hands full with that right now. As soon as I learn anything, I’ll post here.

I hope they keep this place.

Many Thanks to the TAN Team’s band of admins. Leaders and members! If thanks had a save all forums button I would gladly join the push party!

Have they made a decision?

Not that I know of. When we hear something someone will post to let everyone know. Still a lot of things going on with Hidive and its Convention season.

I too would like to see this forum continue to exist in the future, especially because it’s now running on the Discourse system (and therefore supports the “list all direct-replies to a single post” feature), unlike any other forums dedicated to anime & manga that I’m currently aware of.

I’d like to point out here that the The Fandom Post (a direct successor to Anime On DVD, run by the same person) still has their vBulletin web-forum up and running… unfortunately, though, as of a few years ago it has more-or-less become a ghost town, with seemingly only 1 or 2 people regularly posting in the subforum for discussion about current-season shows.

If this TAN forum ends up being shut down, then I suppose that would be one other place for people here could migrate to.

When is the forum supposed to be shut down?

Still waiting to hear.

I was wondering, is the TAN forums apart of a bigger hosting of other Discourse systems, if so can the TAN administrators transfer TAN members to one of their other Discoursed hosted forums.

I assume that the forums are hosted by Discourse. If they’re paying yearly, it might be a case of when they get around to cancelling the plan. If it’s monthly, depends on if they want to pay for December and bleed into January or not. It mainly depends on if they want to rebrand the forums to be HiDive’s or not (that might be the reason they’re waiting until the end of the year). Also, if the mods are paid, the reason they’ll drop the forums is that they feel they can’t get enough good mods on the payroll to keep the forums clean if it’s used on a site with a bigger user space.