https://youtube.com/watch?v=0OmOQs0ziSU
This whole vid is great. Watching a ton of this stuff was a decent whack of my vacation.
windows
zip: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v444/Hydrus.Network.444.-.Windows.-.Extract.only.zip
exe: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v444/Hydrus.Network.444.-.Windows.-.Installer.exe
macOS
app: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v444/Hydrus.Network.444.-.macOS.-.App.dmg
linux
tar.gz: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v444/Hydrus.Network.444.-.Linux.-.Executable.tar.gz

I had an ok week getting back to speed. There's some new help regarding the new PTR accounts and I fixed some bugs.

accounts and help

If you use the PTR, you may have seen a note appear on the public account that it is now 'read only' and can now only download updates. If you would like to upload tags, siblings, or parents, please generate your own account either by clicking the popup button you get when trying to upload, or just hit up the PTR on services->manage services and click the easy button there. This pretty much completes the long project me and the guys running the PTR have been working on: moving all uploading users to their own still-anon-but-seperate accounts so the janitors can work through groups of petitions and undo future mistakes without it all being merged together in one account. I have given both of these pages a complete pass to represent the changes and updated screenshots etc... to be more modern:

https://hydrusnetwork.github.io/hydrus/help/access_keys.html
https://hydrusnetwork.github.io/hydrus/help/privacy.html

The privacy page now compiles the various conversations I have had with users over time and most recently about this account change, and my current understanding of exactly how private a hydrus repo is (really good), and what you can do to make it almost perfect, even against esoteric problems or an untrustworthy administrator (basically using a VPN is always a good idea when you are doing anything fun online, and don't tag your private photos on the PTR with your real name lol). I have tried to be comprehensive and even tried to imagine some advanced future problems, so it is a long read, but I'll try to keep updating all my thoughts to there so it can be a good reference point in future. If you are interested in this stuff, please read it and let me know what I have missed or if you have any other ideas!

Also, if you are a Linux user and get OOM (out of memory) crashes, please check the new thorough user-written guide linked in this new 'running' section here:

https://hydrusnetwork.github.io/hydrus/help/getting_started_installing.html#running
https://hydrusnetwork.github.io/hydrus/help/Fixing_Hydrus_Random_Crashes_Under_Linux.md

all misc otherwise this week

I rewrote a heap of thread-UI object interactions that should improve stability on some Linux flavours and also get rid of the 'QtDeadWindow' errors some users have seen (usually in manage tags).

The new popup message button that fills in subscription gaps would sometimes not assign the correct downloader (usually when the button was opening a new page). This should be fixed!

A variety of error reporting is more reliable and presents better text.

An odd error when loading the downloader .png files is fixed, so if you were unable to import new downloaders in the past few weeks, please try again and let me know how you get on!