[Slice of Life]

You sound as if you're asking for order for the sake of having order. Where is the benefit of theoretically knowing where to find every show as long as you can't actually find it?

In my proposal, finding a thread wouldn't really be so different from before. Think of "current" as the first 2-4 pages of a common forum, and of "older" as the rest. Under both systems you can use the search function right away, obviously, which would be the sensible thing to do for older shows. Otherwise, under the old system you browse through the appropriate forum until you find what you're looking for or give up and use search. Same thing under the new system except that you'd always look into "current" (and afterwards into "older" if you're really stubborn).

Advantages: 1. You don't need to know the license status. 2. Those that browse aimlessly will find all "hot" shows at a glance. 3. Comments on older shows remain visible to those that browse the "older" forum.




If you want an alternative proposal that is more "orderly" then what about the following:

1. Anime being subbed, old or new, go first into "current".
2. There is a clean-up at a (roughly) fixed date every season where all shows that have ended are moved to "older", regardless if they are still being subbed or not.

That would be more work for the staff but still be much more efficient than constantly monitoring every show. Good clean-up dates would imho be Feb, May, Aug, and Nov 1st, i.e. 4 weeks after most shows end.