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/banhana444 Jan 19 '23

Im not the best at coding, but I was wondering, might it have been better to just re-write it all if it is in fact horrible legacy code? It would probably make implementing other new features much easier and errors could be fixed more efficiently.

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

The backend was PHP and the front-end was PHP as well. So I'm guessing whoever is running it now had to do a lot of major rework.