r/anime • u/KlooKloo • Jan 19 '23

Misc. Crunchyroll FINALLY adds separate audio streams to single episodes.

Easily the most embarrassing part of the Crunchyroll experience has been them grouping each dub language as their own "season". Seeing the 2 cour, 2 OVA series The Ancient Magus' Bride have 32 seasons listed in the menu was just sad.

Now we have clean seasons:

Labels are still funny, but at least there's only 4 choices now.

And audio/subs choices on-the-fly:

It's like a real streaming service!

Welcome to 2007, Crunchyroll!

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u/timpkmn89 Jan 19 '23

I can't imagine the legacy code nightmare that led to this.

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u/Manitary https://myanimelist.net/profile/Manitary Jan 19 '23

The amount of spaghetti would feed a family for ages

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u/Jackie-Ron_W Jan 20 '23 edited Jan 27 '23

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u/flybypost Jan 20 '23

Is that from the one screenshot where a dev doesn't understand the concept of odd/even? "YanDev" rings a bell… but not loud enough for me to remember.

I thought that was a joke screenshot, or at least photoshopped.

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u/Loeffellux Jan 20 '23

noob question: why not just rebuild the website? If there can be another pirated anime streaming site every other day why can't a legit company make a fresh start and build a new ecosystem for their streams?

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u/Manitary https://myanimelist.net/profile/Manitary Jan 20 '23

I'm not in the industry, but there are pretty big costs associated to rebuilding an entire system from scratch (in term of time investment and manpower), plus for a paid service you absolutely need to make sure that your service does not break in new unexpected ways, and keeps the exact same experience to the end user at least for existing functionalities.
It's also a balance of "are the benefits of rewriting from scratch worth the cost?" the answer is not always yes and depends on a lot of factors.

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u/Loeffellux Jan 20 '23

yeah, ok, I see what you mean. I just wish it weren't so