I like these ideas, but it would mean basically creating a custom web app to do this. I only know python and R and I work in the sciences instead of being an actual dev, so my experience in web frameworks is limited (basically just R shiny). Perhaps this is my sign that I can no longer avoid learning Flask though.

Some back of the napkin spitballing on these:

Idea 1:

This could be something like a textbox entry that lets somebody search for a show/movie/etc. using the AniList api. It has a text search endpoint and I am already familiar with AniList’s api (graphql) since that is what rikka uses. I think there might be a way to query the api to get a local list of everything for a given year, but I don’t think it would include carry-overs from the previous year that stretched into it (like Frieren or Apothecary did this past year). There aren’t too many of those though, so it should be manageable to handle those on an ad hoc basis.

Idea 2:

I like the idea of vote confirmations through lemmy pm’s. It would still be possible to just create alts to manipulate things, but that is a hell of a lot more work than just opening a private window to evade cookies or something like that. I also am already used to reading and sending pm’s with rikka, so that feels like a tractable problem.

Thanks for the feedback! I have a whole year to figure this out, should be plenty of time, right? I am sure that future me from early December 2025 will look back at this moment and thank myself for all the work I did on this over 2025 instead of looking back on this for ideas because I haven’t started yet.