Version 535 - Hydrus Network - Endchan Magrathea

Version 535

Anonymous

7/19/2023 21:55:00 No. 1510 [Preview] [Reply] 739c89

https://youtube.com/watch?v=qv6yDjtIl8k
windows
zip: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v535/Hydrus.Network.535.-.Windows.-.Extract.only.zip
exe: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v535/Hydrus.Network.535.-.Windows.-.Installer.exe
macOS
app: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v535/Hydrus.Network.535.-.macOS.-.App.dmg
linux
tar.gz: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v535/Hydrus.Network.535.-.Linux.-.Executable.tar.gz

I had a good couple weeks working on better petition-processing workflow for repository janitors. Most users won't see this, so you can ignore most of this release!

Full changelog: https://hydrusnetwork.github.io/hydrus/changelog.html

krita and SVG

Thanks to two different users, hydrus gets Krita (.kra, .krz) and SVG (.svg) support today. Both formats also get thumbnails!

These formats can get quite complicated, so if you have one that won't import right (for Krita, it'll look like a zip; for SVG, probably HTML), please send it in and I'll have a look. Same for if the thumbnails are broken, although there's a limit to how clever we can go there.

Adding SVG also exposed that I don't have a good category/pipeline for handling vector vs raster graphics. Several things like thumbnail size calculations are different with an SVG (which has no true fixed resolution), so I will be doing several waves of background updates in future to handle this and other vectors better. Who knows, we might have beautifully zooming SVG media viewer support with one day.

petitions

Ok, this was almost all of my work this past two weeks. It kind of kicked my ass, but I'm happy it is done. It changes UI that only a handful of users see, so most users can skip over it completely.

For server admins, this new tech needs a server update, and it is not compatible with older clients (nor can newer clients talk to older servers), so please plan to update your server and janitors' clients at roughly the same time. It isn't going to break anything, but the client won't be able to do janitor work and will produce some harmless errors either way.

For janitors, I've made the petition processing page handle multiple petitions at once. There's a new panel, a multi-column list, and when you click the 'fetch petitions' button, it populates with as many petitions as you like. You can see and sort by the action (ADD, DELETE, REPLACE), account id, reason, and total size (e.g. '60 mappings in 12 petitions'), and then double-click any to highlight it in the normal petition UI you are used to.

This is about speed of processing. When you process a petition, it starts uploading in the background and the page moves immediately on to the next one. No more waiting for the server to summon another petition. Also, it gives you a better overview of your queue and even lets you mass-approve/deny a set of petitions when one account or reason keeps making good or bad stuff. You can fire off twenty petitions in one go and quickly move on to the next.

Anonymous

7/19/2023 21:56:00 No. 1511 [Preview] [Reply] 739c89

There's also some quality of life improvements. There's a little layout improvement. The current petition type you are working on is now highlighted with a '*' on the respective button. The page also remembers what type of petitions you were looking at, and what you set the 'show this many files' widget to, and the new 'how many petitions to fetch' value.

Now, what works in my small testing environment may struggle at scale, especially the PTR. I dump a good amount of new CPU into selecting this new petition list, so maybe fetching 40 petitions takes too long and you have to turn it down to 10, or maybe this lags out when you get a 100,000 mapping petition, or maybe the queue order is borked somehow. This is just a first version of this new system, so let me know how it works and I'll tune it.

And there is more I already want to do. The new list could do with a right-click menu for copying account id and retrying failures, and some of the widgets (sort-by, num files) could do with some show/hide tech on petition types they don't apply to, and it would be nice to have some shortcuts working. I also think the management panel is too tall now, so maybe I'll fold it somehow into tabs, or allow a double-wide panel, or just have more aggressive show/hide or resizable layout? In any case, I'll keep banging away at this.

next week

I've got a ton of normal small work piled up, so I'm back to that for a while. Thanks for your patience.

Release Tomorrow!

Anonymous

7/25/2023 23:59:00 No. 1512 [Preview] [Reply] 7b4455

I had a mixed week, a bit short on productivity. Despite a light changelog, there's a neat fix to the 'this tag is still in my autocomplete even though I deleted it from everything' problem, and, thanks to user help, support for importing XCF and gzip files.

The release should be as normal tomorrow.

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