Add GagaOOLala to lists of services

I only had 3 available but used them here 

heads off to take some votes back from other suggestions...

The homophobia runs deep here, so I doubt it will happen after years of asking, but you have my remaining votes anyway!

 Saeng:

So, are the rumours true?
I don't know.
But the silence is deafening.

Thanks for the research Saeng. That's more damning than I realised. Really hard to chalk that one up to a lot on their plate.

Meanwhile they're pilfering snippet synopses from GagaOOLala, probably because it's least effort. It does means "GagaOOLala" is a helpful search string for finding some of their originals, but come on. In a month, Thailand will join Taiwan in equalising marriage. That's two of MDL's 7 with equal marriage. Join us in this century devs.

Just adding a few observations:

 Saeng:

With 63 votes, this suggestion should have been added to the List of Suggestions months ago, and would now be in the "medium priority" category.

We are now, on the last day of May 2025, at 108 votes. In February, we were at 77 votes. (Thank you, Yuri Offenborn!)

That's a growth of a bit more than 10 votes per month, even though the suggestion got pushed back by newer suggestions. (It was on page 5 before I wrote this comment.)

Inspired by this sentence in the thread for adding Vietnam to the database:

 Jakksen:

I'm pretty sure their traffic for LGBTQ media is FAR greater than any other traffic.

Since the beginning of the year, I semi-regularly (once every week or every two weeks) checked the "Top Airing Shows" on the main page. Unfortunately, I didn't think to make screenshots, so I can't prove it, but here are my findings:

• Taiwan usually only has a handful of watchers -- unless it's a BL, then there are often about 1000 to 5000 watchers for the BL drama.
• Similarly,  for Japan: It has usually around a hundred or three hundred for  two or three of the top airing shows, only on very few occasions more than that -- except, you guessed it, if there's a BL drama, then it unvariably goes up to more than 1000, sometimes even scratching the 10 000 mark for this drama.
• Shows from Hong Kong and the Philippines don't even reach one hundred in most weeks.
• Thailand usually is in the range of 8000 to 20 000 watchers, occasionally even about 22 000 or a bit more -- and it's very unusual for a non-BL drama to even appear in the list of top airing shows for this country.
• South Korea has often about the same range of numbers of watchers as Thailand -- occasionally it goes into 25 000. Above-average BLs sometimes make the list, but South Korean BLs usually don't reach the quality of other countires (yet).
• We don't have to talk about China, because of their homophobic politics. But just for comparison, their numbers are often a bit lower than the range of Thai watchers.
  (Edit: I forgot that there have been Chinese BLs recently, there's even one at the last spot of the "Top Airing Shows" for China right now, with 2142 watchers!)

I'll leave you to your own conclusions.

Feeds have been dominated by C-Dramas in the last months, but it's not unusual to find about three posts about BLs per day.

So, I guess owners/admins are in a bit of a quandary. They can't ban BLs / LGBTQI+ content outright, or they'd lose much of their traffic (and maybe more than a few paying users); they can't shadowban LGBTQI+ posts because the site's programming isn't sophisticated enough for it; they (probably?) don't want to add GagaOOLala to their database, but can't officially admit to it or else they'd risk losing users (see above).

The intransparency of MDL owners/admins about their decision making processes and the continued silence about long asked for additions like this one (I'm also thinking about adding other countries e.g. Vietnam) as well as the lack of a roadmap for future development (or at least an official list of planned features / rejected suggestions) are the main reasons why I find myself unable to consider giving money to the site as of now, even though I think it's an incredibly useful site.