How Ani fits together
Ani is four things that work together: this website, the Discord bot, the dashboard, and Shelf. This page says what each one does and where to look when something doesn't match.
The four parts
The bot is what runs in your Discord server: search, schedule, theme songs, your lists, AFK and moderation. Each command has a slash form and usually prefix shortcuts, all on the Commands page.
The dashboard (dash.anibot.org) is where you set up welcome, goodbye and boost messages — including the image-card editor — and choose which channels get which news sources.
Shelf (shelf.anibot.org) is the shared anime and manga catalog, your lists and the saved news archive. The bot's search and list commands read from it.
This website is the reference: commands, the changelog, the team and the legal pages. Status shows whether everything is up.
A bit of history
Ani went through a lot of changes at once — a new dashboard, a rebuilt API and a pile of new commands landing on the old ones — and some things broke. For a while the bot ran a deliberately small set of commands instead of leaving broken ones online. Those commands have since all come back; the Updates page has the details.
Why the site and the bot can still drift
The Commands page reflects what has shipped, but it isn't a live readout of the bot. If a command is mid-redeploy, or a source such as Shelf or Jikan is having a bad moment, the site can't know within the same minute.
If something here doesn't line up with what you see in your server, the bot's own /info is the closest thing to ground truth, and the status page tells you whether a service is down.
Reporting something
If a command doesn't respond, a welcome message doesn't fire, or the dashboard saves the wrong thing, that's worth flagging. Bring it to the support server or use the report page.