When/How did you find Listal?

i typed in marth hairstyle in google images and found it.

i heard that it was a good website so i checked it out and liked it ^^
Good Job Tom.

Actually an e-mail from listal has come to me so i thought let me check i out. I wonder how and why it has come to me -.-'''

Thanks for dusting this one off, Mihail - good thread!

I joined Listal almost a year ago when I was looking for something better than recordnerd to list my music collection. I think I Googled something to the effect of "list music collection" and came up with Listal. I realized I had hit the jackpot when I noticed I could also list my DVD, game and book collection AND make custom lists! I've been hooked ever since. :)

I use LibraryThing to keep track of my book collection & in a discussion on one of their forums about similar sites to LT, Listal was mentioned. So I clicked through, signed up & am still here. Listal for me is by far the best cataloguing site on the whole of the intertubes because you can keep track of ALL of your media collections.

I hesitate to say social cataloguing site as I think the social side is what lets Listal down. Yes it's got all the social features you would expect but the site doesn't seem to attract many 'serious' or 'power' users, the sort that would use LT or Goodreads for books, Discogs & Rate Your Music for music or Flixster for movies. Maybe that's because Listal is a sort of jack-of-all-trades site but given it's vast array of features it's a little surprising the user base isn't higher.

As far as multiple categories goes then Listal is the clear winner in terms of types & breath of funtionality that users are given when listing their media. However there's a definite trend within social media for people to not only list what they're doing but also say a few words about it, microblog or micro-review activity.

At the moment Listal allows you to select a movie say you've watched it & give it a star rating. As a minimum you can watch, listen, read an iem etc. You don't have to rate or review it. Why don't you raise the bar?

If someone wants to add a movie, dvd, music item, artist, director etc etc to any personal list then you MUST rate it & MUST do a review, minimum 4 or 5 letters. Basically the user is being forced to say a few words about about whatever item/thing/person they are adding to their watched, heard, seen, used list etc. Not talking about a full blown review here. 4/5 letters minimum but something MUST be said about anything that's being rated otherwise it can't be rated. Of course give the user the option once they've done a micro-review the option to produce a full blown essay type reviw if that's what they want. Provide the option.

Anyhow just thinking out aloud above. May make sense or not but something to expand on & discuss further if folk are interested.

I was looking up create your naruto character on yahoo and on page 5 Listal was at the very bottom. I think it was 2007 that I joined.

On the bottom right for human beings/bands etc on listal is the option to add a comment, but in my experience that feature doesn't work. It could function as the shout box style feature you're thinking about. You could slip the section underneath the reviews section on movie/book etc items as well for people to have their says. The only problem with making it compulsory is that if a new member joins and is carving through the thousand or so movies they've seen in their lifetime, it might be a bit daunting.

Another possible reason listal is apparently behind more selective sites is because the onus here is still most definitely on movies. The books section is a minefield and along with music is in need of a serious merge/clear up! Though it's advertised as a multi-platform it's still biased towards movies.