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@The Smiling Pony
@Background Pony #0F89
This filter should work for most artist neames, https://derpibooru.org/filters/206594

Unfortunately not for names that use non-latin characters.

@Background Pony #0F89
It’s not because of an alias (there isn’t one), it’s because the colon isn’t registered as an actual character but a magical namespace separator.

Either or both:

*One could make a hiding filter that exempts every artist tag, of which there are more than 150000, and keep it up to date, but that’s silly and I also think that would result in 50X errors.
Whoops. Not only isn’t it aliased, I knew that it isn’t and somehow got confused. Also, the search works properly.

@Litrojia
Kinda agree with this, although the graphic style is cute :(

@Red-Raptor
I’ll tack my concerns onto this post
I can’t say if it’s a virus or not, but I feel like it’s too lewd of an ad to appear under safe-rated images

@The Smiling Pony
Okie thanks 👍🙂

@☬ ᏝᏆᏁᏨᎾᏝᏁᏰᏒᎬᎳᏕᎿᎬᏒᎱᎯᏁ ☬
I’m fairly certain there’s no “virus” and that’s just that guy’s machine acting up.

@Red-Raptor
I just saw that ad but thanks for the warning! Kinda sad though :(

That is an excellent idea.

If no source is provided, the uploader should be prompted to answer yes or no on whether the upload in question is a Derpibooru exclusive. If they choose “yes”, then the derpibooru exclusive tag will automatically be added.

@Red-Raptor
What system did you play it on?

I dunno where to post this but I thought I needed to say it somewhere. The Pony waifu sim game advertised on the site below images etc is a virus. It’s not legit. I messed around with it for a minute, it never loaded and crashed with the application icon disappearing; I had to manually remove files and run all manner of scans after my anti-virus and stuff started going off immediatly afterwards. so WARNING: THE PONY WAIFU SIM IS A VIRUS!

@JP
Thanks.

@Awkward Segway
It’s already supported: source_url.

Try this, for example.

Suggestion to allow searching by source url - make it so that if a url is entered in the search bar, it will instead display results for images that have that url in its sources instead of searching by tags.

This would make it easier for people to avoid accidentally uploading an existing image, in case the reverse image search doesn’t work. Of course, if an image has multiple sources and that url isn’t used as one of them in an existing upload, it wouldn’t prevent a duplicate upload, but between the reverse image search and searching by source url, it should help reduce them.

@Blissful690
Or just add/remove it automatically

Another tagging feature we should include is a warning if the tag count (not including the rating tag) is 50 or over and should include the wall of tags tag.

@LemonDrop
Checking codecs would be nice. MP4 and MKV containers can hold various formats, but at least some of them either have patent grants or the patents have expired.

Is Derpibooru a commercial website? I thought it isn’t. AFAIK it’s not earning money for the owners and it’s not charging the visitors.

A quick search suggests that using h.264 for freely accessible content does not require paying:

@Background Pony #2A5F
Pretty sure the reason for this is just unclear legal stuff (or that’s what I was told at some point). MP4 (or more specifically the H.264 codec commonly in MP4s and which may also be inside say a MKV container despite it being an open one) requires royalties to be paid if used on commercial services. Codecs like VP8 or 9 though on the other hand inside Webm are royalty-free so they can be used safely.

I’d imagine VP8/9 in a MKV container would be fine too but that’d require checking the actual codec and stuff which is just more work I guess compared to just storing it in a Webm container and only supporting that. Might be a nice thing for the site to support though in the future.

@PUBLIQclopAccountant
AFAIK Derpibooru does not support MP4 nor MKV, only GIF and WEBM.

This is of course problematic because sometimes the original format cannot be uploaded without reencoding into WEBM.

@Background Pony #2A5F
Why WebM over mp4 or mkv?

@PUBLIQclopAccountant
Mobile Firefox lets me download WEBMs, no problem. If this truly is a 3 second video (as opposed to 5 frames spanning 3 seconds), then I’d say WEBM is the better choice.

@PUBLIQclopAccountant
sort: https://derpibooru.org/search?q=*&sf=duration&sd=desc
search: https://derpibooru.org/search?q=animated%3Atrue%2Cduration.lte%3A10&sf=duration&sd=desc

Is there a way to search+sort GIFs and videos by duration? I don’t see duration as a valid field in the search syntax documentation. I have a 3-second GIF that’s 19.1 MB and I’d like to benchmark it against comparable GIFs to see if there is additional compression I can do.

Alternatively, some automated way to download GIFs converted from MP4, WEBM, and other “traditional” video formats would be appreciated. GIFs seem to play better with browsers (especially phone browsers), letting you download them as images. The MP4 of the same GIF is under 6 MB. I’m not sure what the proper balance between storage space and CPU usage is for this site.