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I had a great week mostly working on a new tool for tag repository janitors.

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

normal stuff

If you use the 'Dark Blue' stylesheet, check out the new '1.1' version this week, created by the original author.

There's a new 'shimmie' downloader, thanks to a user. It has better tag, file, and hash parsing tech. By default, for our purposes, this means r34h and r34@paheal downloaders work better and more efficiently.

I wrote some new tech this week to scan the database for tag filters more efficiently. This now works in the 'migrate tags' system. If you try to do a 'migrate series: tags' or similar, the setup time for that job should now just be a couple of seconds, whereas previously for something like the PTR it could be several minutes.

janitor stuff

There's a new 'admin' menu on all tag right-clicks.

If you have 'change options' permission, you will see which files are blocked or not blocked and can directly edit the repository's tag filter right from the menu.

If you have 'resolve mappings petition' permission, you will see a new 'purge tags' command. This launches a new window that lets you select certain tags to be completely deleted from the repository. No more searching in 'all known files' and then doing a laggy ctrl+a->f3 thing--you can just search up the tags and then fire off the job and it is all done in the background with a custom 'migrate tags' job that queues up the petitions for you, usually in a few seconds. Take care, and let me know how it works out!

Also, there's a new command under services->administrate services, 'purge tag filter', which lets you do this 'purge tags' command on the current tag filter, so there's now an easy way to retroactively sync a tag repository to whatever you have blocked right now.

All this tech works clientside, no need to update the server. I expect to add some bells and whistles in future like showing the current tag count in the 'purge tags' list and offering some sort of 'replace what you delete with tag y' hard-replace tech, and I think I'll provide a similar version of 'purge tags' for normal users so they can queue up big deletes/petitions (i.e. local or repository) all the easier.

next week

I want to make the sidecar UI nicer to work with.