Hey, thanks for your message. It seems you are one of the only few who actually appropriates what we did at The News Club.
I am sorry to say this, but the admins and myself have decided it is just not worth continuing on with updating our club, since it has not fulfilled the goals we were striving for back in January 2014. There was not enough quality discussion happening from the new members. It was only amongst the old crowd from the News Discussion forum who wanted quality discussion rather than what we have now, before the thread locking policy was put in place in December 2013: http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=516089#msg26886683.
Users on this website just seems to prefer to post in the News Discussion forum, which features ill-thought out posts, ignorance, hate posts on Japanese consumers which do not make any sense, and amongst other things. The admins of MAL just doesn't seem to care about the quality of postings in the News Discussion forum, which is why the really knowledgeable people on MAL have ceased posting on this website (i'm talking about symbv and jmal). I am still in contact with symbv, but he will not be making a return to MAL because he is also busy with work and other daily obligations.
Also, I have gotten more busy since I have started doing post graduate studies in Engineering and work, so that is another reason why I have ceased updated The News Club. Since you are keen on following sales posts, I will point you towards more websites which feature more quality posts than MAL. All the following websites are in Japanese, except jmal's website for BD/DVD sales and kuuderes_shadow's LNDB website.
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I am sorry to say this, but the admins and myself have decided it is just not worth continuing on with updating our club, since it has not fulfilled the goals we were striving for back in January 2014. There was not enough quality discussion happening from the new members. It was only amongst the old crowd from the News Discussion forum who wanted quality discussion rather than what we have now, before the thread locking policy was put in place in December 2013: http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=516089#msg26886683.
Users on this website just seems to prefer to post in the News Discussion forum, which features ill-thought out posts, ignorance, hate posts on Japanese consumers which do not make any sense, and amongst other things. The admins of MAL just doesn't seem to care about the quality of postings in the News Discussion forum, which is why the really knowledgeable people on MAL have ceased posting on this website (i'm talking about symbv and jmal). I am still in contact with symbv, but he will not be making a return to MAL because he is also busy with work and other daily obligations.
Also, I have gotten more busy since I have started doing post graduate studies in Engineering and work, so that is another reason why I have ceased updated The News Club. Since you are keen on following sales posts, I will point you towards more websites which feature more quality posts than MAL. All the following websites are in Japanese, except jmal's website for BD/DVD sales and kuuderes_shadow's LNDB website.
jmal's website for BD/DVD sales: http://www.someanithing.com/
2ch BD/DVD sales thread: http://kanae.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/iga/1424237574/
BD/DVD sales wiki: http://dvdbd.wiki.fc2.com/
Another good BD/DVD sales wiki: http://www38.atwiki.jp/uri-archive/
BD/DVD weekly, monthly, half-yearly, and yearly sales: http://www3.atchs.jp/urisure/kako/1357/13579/1357903618.dat.gz (from 1999 to 2012)
http://www3.atchs.jp/test/read.cgi/urisure/1358138075/ (from 2012 to present)
Music sales from 2009 to present (including weekly, monthly, half-yearly and yearly sales, in Japanese): http://www20.atwiki.jp/keroro00innovator/
2ch music sales thread: http://hello.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/musicnews/1424087608/
Light Novel Database (maintained by one of our admins "kuuderes_shadow"): http://forums.lndb.info/showthread.php?tid=26308
2ch Light Novel, Books and Bunko sales and archive thread: http://toro.2ch.sc/test/read.cgi/magazin/1423724873/
2ch Manga sales archive threads: http://web.archive.org/web/20120527083045/jbbs.livedoor.jp/bbs/read.cgi/music/3914/1105682256 (from 2005 to 2012)
http://kanae.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/ymag/1346844110/ (from 2012 to 2014)
http://nozomi.2ch.sc/test/read.cgi/ymag/1404977052/ (from 2014 to present)
2ch Manga sales thread: http://kanae.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/ymag/1424083844/