[X] My Assistant

0.17.0

Tag Flagging

Tag flagging has been modified in the following ways:

- Tag Flagging III no longer increases the number of tags per flag. Instead, it unlocks a second set of good/bad flags.

- Tag Flagging IV has been added, which adds a third set of good/bad flags.

- Hovering over the tag flag will now display all tags that were matched during the tag flagging - this includes those assigned to other flags, that were overridden.

- The priority for flags is now as follows:
-- Any "bad" tag will override any "good" tag
-- Each level of flag will override all levels after it. So the Blue "good flag" will override both the Green and Purple "good flag", while the Green will override the Purple.

Favorites

- The window that pops up for favorites, expunges and renames has been made somewhat larger. There should also be enough spare room to zoom in one step (in Firefox anyway) without losing anything.

- The number of favorite categories has been increased to 10. The length limit for the favorite category name was increased to 30.

- The favorite counter on the gallery screen will now update correctly whenever you favorite/unfavorite something.

Layout Tweaks

- The "New" icon has been moved to make stuff line up better, which also stops the icon from being hidden for particularly long names.

- Long gallery names should no longer bump the rating/tagflag icons to a second row on the front/search page when running in 1280x or higher.

- Vertical sizing of the thumbnails on the gallery page has been improved.

- Fixed some overflow glitching on the popular pane.

- Fixed a layout problem on the front page for unregistered visitors.

Changes for private galleries and deletions

- The rules for when a gallery can be deleted have changed. The deletion limit has been removed, but you can no longer delete galleries that are published and older than three days (same as for making it private), unless the gallery has been expunged or is private. There are several reasons for this:
-- 1. to avoid having people recycle galleries to get past the misc limit. If they do, it will now be publicly traceable through the "parent gallery" stat.
-- 2. to prevent "slow rage quits", as there now has to be consent that a gallery should be deleted.
-- 3. to reduce the "members to PM before remove" drama, as this is no longer a possible way to remove older galleries - albeit, you can still do this for newly added galleries.

Note that this change is experimental. If there are unforeseen consequences, it might be revised. Feedback is grudgingly accepted.

- To combat certain forms of abuse that's been taking place recently, there are now some requirements to make a private gallery. Unless you meet one of the following conditions, all future galleries have to be assigned to a public category. You must either:
-- have a Bronze star or higher, or
-- have at least 100 posts on the forums, outside of FSZ/Spamhaus/Test

This does not affect existing galleries, unless you modify them.

Misc

- Fixed a bug where allowed short tags (well, "3d") could not be used to exclude results.

- Optimized the method by which the popular pane is generated and cached.

- The maximum allowed resolution was increased to 20,000 x 20,000. But why anyone would bother scanning something that high is beyond me. You'd need to stack up 200 1080p HDTVs, 10 wide and 20 high, just to see it at 100%.

- The voting correlation detection for the review system which prevents people from excessively singling out reviews from specific members was made slightly less sensitive for the situation where there weren't actually that many votes for the reviewer in question.

- Fixed a bug where the first authenticated pageload could fail for newly registered members if the page was somehow loaded twice in quick succession.

- Tags can now be added to galleries that have been deleted.

- Whenever a gallery has been fully expunged, the expunge link on the gallery screen will now be titled "Show Expunge Log", and drops you directly to the log.

- You can now click "Expunged" directly from the manager to pop up the gallery's expunge log.

- The anti-abuse mechanism on the Archiver should now play nicer with proxies and anonymous networks like Tor.

- The Archiver now supports multi-threaded downloading of a single archive. Instead, a limit of four concurrent downloads (threads) per user is now enforced.

- You can now change your rating of a gallery.

- Added a check to avoid idiots spam-reporting a gallery.

- The system now supports having periods during the day where the "discount" for archiver costs/image limits is negative. This is now used to set +25% normal cost from 14:00 to 17:59 UTC.
-- The period between 20:00 UTC and 06:59 UTC is now -25% cost instead of normal cost.

- Bounty accepts now expire, and are removed after 30 days.

- Fixed a bug where completed bounties could sometimes enter an invalid state and become invisible.

- The bounty screen now shows the correct values for minimum additional rewards.

- It should no longer be possible to get a "Tip of the Day" while you're in a popup.


As usual, report any problems in this thread.

Were people really slow rage quitting?

I mean, it was a huuuuge pain in my ass just to do it all in one day, I dunno how someone would do it over weeks.

Also, still having the same problem with the expunge window not fitting anything.

I think it's my browser, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how/why and I'm using firefox, fully updated.

Were people really slow rage quitting?

I dunno. At least now it won't be an issue.

Also, still having the same problem with the expunge window not fitting anything.

I think it's my browser, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how/why and I'm using firefox, fully updated.

Try hitting Ctrl+0 to reset zoom. Most likely you're zoomed in more than one level.

- The system now supports having periods during the day where the "discount" for archiver costs/image limits is negative. This is now used to set +25% normal cost from 14:00 to 17:59 UTC. -- The period between 20:00 UTC and 06:59 UTC is now -25% cost instead of normal cost.

I think the way it was before devalued GP far too much, causing inflation. Galleries were dirt cheap to purchase, and it's dumb to redeem with credit when it costs nearly 4 times as much versus redeeming with GP. And the exchange to Credit and the typical selling prices for Hath both rose a lot. So I think this might help a bit in getting the inflation under control, or more might just wait until the discounts come into play.

Whoa, big improvements.

Changes for private galleries and deletions

- The rules for when a gallery can be deleted have changed. The deletion limit has been removed, but you can no longer delete galleries that are published and older than three days (same as for making it private), unless the gallery has been expunged or is private. There are several reasons for this:
-- 1. to avoid having people recycle galleries to get past the misc limit. If they do, it will now be publicly traceable through the "parent gallery" stat.
-- 2. to prevent "slow rage quits", as there now has to be consent that a gallery should be deleted.
-- 3. to reduce the "members to PM before remove" drama, as this is no longer a possible way to remove older galleries - albeit, you can still do this for newly added galleries.

Note that this change is experimental. If there are unforeseen consequences, it might be revised. Feedback is grudgingly accepted.

- To combat certain forms of abuse that's been taking place recently, there are now some requirements to make a private gallery. Unless you meet one of the following conditions, all future galleries have to be assigned to a public category. You must either:
-- have a Bronze star or higher, or
-- have at least 100 posts on the forums, outside of FSZ/Spamhaus/Test

This does not affect existing galleries, unless you modify them.

100% supported (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

- The maximum allowed resolution was increased to 20,000 x 20,000. But why anyone would bother scanning something that high is beyond me. You'd need to stack up 200 1080p HDTVs, 10 wide and 20 high, just to see it at 100%.

I heard it still improves quality if someone wants to print it on professional-quality printer.

- Whenever a gallery has been fully expunged, the expunge link on the gallery screen will now be titled "Show Expunge Log", and drops you directly to the log.

- You can now click "Expunged" directly from the manager to pop up the gallery's expunge log.

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Nice updates and a big one too. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

1. to avoid having people recycle galleries to get past the misc limit. If they do, it will now be publicly traceable through the "parent gallery" stat.

Now this one is really helping the vigilante troopers.

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Try hitting Ctrl+0 to reset zoom. Most likely you're zoomed in more than one level.

I am, my eyes suck, but to see the whole expunge window I have to zoom out about 5 times past the ctrl+0 point.

Very nice updates, but damn you on forcing me to buy additional levels of tag flagging.

Please, fix missing "greater than" sign in expunge log. It breaks page in Opera.
Example.

<div style="width:99%; height:310px; text-align:center; overflow:auto">
<div class="c1">
<div class="c2">
<div class="c3">
<strong>+12 Duplicate</strong>

Please, fix missing "greater than" sign in expunge log. It breaks page in Opera.

Fix'd.

Nice update, however I've found some issues with the favorites.php window:
- Apparently renaming the first slot doesn't stick, it always goes back to "Favorites 0" for me after refreshing the page.
- In the drop-down box for the "remove/change color" actions, the icons are still those of the old seven tiers (while the text color is fine).

This post has been edited by JukanX: Aug 29 2010, 18:53

Nice update, however I've found some issues with the favorites.php window:
- Apparently renaming the first slot doesn't stick, it always goes back to "Favorites 0" for me after refreshing the page.
- In the drop-down box for the "remove/change color" actions, the icons are still those of the old seven tiers (while the text color is fine).

Fix'd both.

- Optimized the method by which the popular pane is generated and cached.

Maybe it's just me, but the "Popular Now" selections haven't changed in hours.

Thanks for the update (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

- Tags can now be added to galleries that have been deleted.

May I ask for the point of that change ?

So, I need to get a gangbang group to kill old misc limit galleries that I don't want anymore when I inevitably hit said limit? (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

I heard it still improves quality if someone wants to print it on professional-quality printer.
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No it doesn't. The set DPI (actually PPI but whatever) and the Printer's print head DPI is what ultimately sets the physical print quality, where resolution has not nearly the same . And that print quality has a a ceiling, so increasing the DPI of the image or increasing the resolution will end up being waste time... and storage space.

A 24 megapixel image (6048x4032) prints out at 13"x20" @ 300DPI (a nearly universalized DPI for "professional" printing). Going larger than that usually involves using composite images (ie more than one), upscaling the resolution, or downscaling the DPI, or both (or all three), which is what is used for jumbo sizes like trade show banners or billboards (though there are specialized cameras/scanners for jumboing things up). Also, these jumbo sizes are meant to be seen from a much greater distance compared to say a 12x18" or a 18x24" print, which is an across the room or closer kind of thing.

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Actually there are 100+ megapixel "cameras" but I digress.
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Simply put, I don't see any point in the arbitrary 20kpx x 20kpx limit, the 10kpx x 10kpx limit was fine as it was in my opinion.

This post has been edited by Spectre: Aug 29 2010, 22:26

Maybe it's just me, but the "Popular Now" selections haven't changed in hours.

Yeah, it's not just you. It should be updating again now. Funny how the nature of some bugs make them only show up in a live environment.

May I ask for the point of that change ?

So people (often me) don't have to jump through hoops to fjord a deleted gallery.

So, I need to get a gangbang group to kill old misc limit galleries that I don't want anymore when I inevitably hit said limit? (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

Yes. Maybe you shouldn't post them in the first place if they're not keepers.

Yes. Maybe you shouldn't post them in the first place if they're not keepers.

Well, they ARE keepers, but every convention that comes out, new keepers get released, so after a while you have to pick and choose from what you want to have available as you go. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/cry.gif)

Not that I am at the point yet, but I eventually will hit the cap. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

This post has been edited by Spectre: Aug 29 2010, 20:43

Yeah, it's not just you. It should be updating again now. Funny how the nature of some bugs make them only show up in a live environment.

Awesome, it's good now.

I also really dig being able to change my rating on galleries.

This post has been edited by BluMeino: Aug 29 2010, 21:31

nice upgrade

The window that pops up for favorites, expunges and renames has been made somewhat larger.

It's huge.