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@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.

@Background Pony #0F89
As far as misspellings and such, I would put the raw text followed by clarification in brackets. So, “he went 2 (to) the shpo (shop)”, etc. This can also be applied to translations.
I also support the idea of overlaid translations, though I appreciate that’s an entire system to implement. A user-submitted transcript is no different from the description box, with the only extra work being search functionality.
There also needs to be a checkbox for confirming if an image has no text to transcribe, so you can search for images missing one to submit.

@Background Pony #0F89
How to handle misspellings:

Silently correct these in the transcription, unless it’s a transposition error that urines the whole post

Call the raw transcription “English (dialect)” and then provide an opportunity for a clean English “translation” of the transcription

Same as above but “English (phonetic)” as the base transcription’s language tag

May I reiterate the importance of sparing a month or three of spare server downtime to run text recognition algorithms on the existing corpus of 3 million images to make this feature useful.

Yes, I’d like that, too. I’d probably call it “Transcript”, and it wouldn’t even have to be hidden (like, it could be presented as a tab you could click on aside from “Description”).

It’s something I’ve thought about from time to time…what would you do in the case of accidental misspellings? Or intentional misspellings (funetik aksent or lolspeak), or translations? I’d like verbatim, corrected-spelling, and translations to all be doable.

It’d also help in the cases where tags get phrased in the same way as memes, so you could tell between images with the word “mlem” on them vs. just that people like to use the “mlem” tag to identify licking.

Someone had asked for in-place-on-the-image translation boxes like other boorus have, and the reply said that’s not planned. However, I think simply an extra publicly-editable text area similar to the description would be enough.

@UnderwoodART
Whatever algorithm Apple uses handles handwriting and distorted fancy fonts surprisingly well. Occasionally produces bizarre results because it matched on the title of a book in a background bookshelf.

@PUBLIQclopAccountant
That’s certainly one way of doing it, but it wouldn’t cover handwritten text in comics or fancy fonts and such. Impact font memes could certainly be automated, but I was thinking more of a user submission process.