Elisheva:
My thought is that it might work best for some folks to make a sister site to MDL for Indian film & drama (which can include Pakistani, Bangladeshi and such). Same software if the MDL devs are agreeable, just a separate database, forum, news and Top, Most Popular etc. My concern is that adding a big film country like India would swamp everything here. There might be additional divisions which make sense for an India-centric site too, like their many languages.
Anyway, just throwing this out. I'd love an Indian equivalent of MDL but in thinking about it I'm wondering if a parallel site might not be a better way of going about it.
Yeah I totally agree with you. A sister site to MDL for the rest of the asian countries will do cuz the current data base of MDL is already so huge, and adding a country like India, MDL is gonna blow up with the amount of films India releases in a year. Plus India just doesn't have Hindi Films aka Bollywood but it has various South Indian films (for example RRR, which won an Oscar, people think its Bollywood but its not) and not to mention the number of actors, actress, directors, producers etc.
It doesn't have to be related to MDL at all. You can call it MyIndianList (MIL) if needed.TimiZero:
By this I mean if you have the human resources (web dev, admin) and money, just initiate it. Don't rely on MDL admins. Steal the concept from MDL. Imitate the listing/reviewing systems and improve it. I'm sure it would attract the people.
EDIT:
I forgot to add this. I think this new website could also include countries with similar or close cultural value like Pakistan and Bangladesh together. You can change the name to anything appropriate. It would be more niche this way than to put all Asian in 1 website because Asian as a whole is huge in terms of cultural differences and values, way more than any other continent.
turkey is a transcontinental country located at the juncture of Southeast Europe and West Asia. (wiki source)ASTER:
Sorry, but Turkey never joined any confederation, federation or union formed by Asian. I guess the country itself don't consider they are part of Asia. Their participation in NATO and EU is why I said this. Not participating in the current Asian Games would be another good example why Turkey should never be considered as Asian country.
Secondly, most (if not all) Turkish drama/movie don't represent Asian/Turkish culture. Instead they are focusing on "being western" in their media. So what's the difference of watching Turkish acting as a western than actually watching a western show?
I mean you can watch Turkey drama if you want to, but don't put them along with other Asian show. Just consider it uniquely as Turkish show. Therefore hopefully it will never be added to the site. At least not before all Asian Countries have been added. I would rather have India in this site over Turkey anytime.
Be it Asian or non-Asian, it is up to them if the site wants to expand itself.
So if the admin of MDL decided to go global than be it. But they still label this site as Asian site. Until then priority should be given to Asian countries.
we all are fans, not the professionals or experts, telling us to " build your own site." LOL
Yes, South Asian countries site . its good idea.
After giving a second thought, I think adding India to MDL might not be as bad as it seems. It might be more practical and cost effective than let say adding Vietnam.
Why? Because we have many Indian MDLers in here. We can utilize them to add the titles and artist profiles. It's also easy to pick 1 or 2 volunteers (among Indian) to do the submission check. This is a BIG advantage over Vietnam.
Secondly, many people watch shows from India apart from the usual East Asian shows. This would be a big PLUS point as they can now add Indian titles to their existing list. The happy they get the higher chance they will do donation or become VIP.
Lastly, the ability to add Indian show will attract new user base to the site. Even if they don't watch K,C,J,T,P shows, they now have good reason to join MDL. For comparison, fans of Vietnam most likely are from the same people who watch the usual K,C,J,T,P shows. In this case MDL can't attract new user base.
However the only constraint for this to actually happen is relying on the willingness of MDL admin to expand their database size, which require good BUDGET.
