Furry Art Pile

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   Comment from *carlos, 1 year ago (#23409)

   Hi,
   
   I have another request.
   
   I don't know if you have done this for security reasons, but I notice I have to re-login when I change browsers (DA does this too). Can this be changed securely to a cross-browser rather than session cookie?
   
   Thanks!

   I like mah gals like mah blueberries - the plump ones are the sweetest ^v^
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      Comment from °ekigyuu, 1 year ago (#24891)

      Fixed!

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         Comment from *carlos, 1 year ago (#24962)

         Yes, it is! Thanks mate!

         I like mah gals like mah blueberries - the plump ones are the sweetest ^v^
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   Comment from *carlos, 1 year ago (#18383)

   Hi,
   
   We could also use a text box for comments when we flag a pic. I'm sure some aren't that clear, like "mature art not properly tagged as mature" or "quality control needed" as specified under "What every user needs to know.".
   
   Cheers!

   I like mah gals like mah blueberries - the plump ones are the sweetest ^v^
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      Comment from °ekigyuu, 1 year ago (#18412)

      Good idea! I'll add it tonight.

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   Comment from ♥locoindigo, 1 year ago (#9166)

   Another feature request, not strictly a technical one. More a usability one.
   
   Loads of people are uploading boobies and cock without a mature tag, presumably by accident. Could you make it more difficult to do this? Default it to "on" somehow? The consequences of getting the task wrong would then be less severe for the site ^^
   
   Also, the site rules require a mature tag on anything nekkid, even perfectly tasteful nekkid without bits visible. Current FAP practice seems to be nude ⊈ mature, so perhaps the rules need to be updated.
   
   Total aside: I always thought that nsfw would be a better choice - in my book, it covers more than mature, presents a purely sfw experience for casual browsers, and it's way less ambiguous, so it's easier to get right in the first place ^^

   Staring at you, blinking unnervingly infrequently.
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   Comment from ×skech, 1 year ago (#7375)

   How about a block user feature, unless you already have that. I would like to have the option to block annoying folks
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      Comment from °ekigyuu, 1 year ago (#7406)

      Got it. And keeps them from tagging your stuff.

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         Comment from ×skech, 1 year ago (#7409)

         how do i find it, am sorry but i am not too literate at this stuff lol
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            Comment from °ekigyuu, 1 year ago (#7413)

            Ah! Sorry, the feature won't be available till the next update of FAP.
            
            Just a little longer~

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               Comment from ×skech, 1 year ago (#7425)

               cool i can wait and ignore the mouth breather biologically XD
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   Comment from ♥locoindigo, 1 year ago (#6827)

   Just another feature request: the ability to +Watch a tag (or a tag search pattern). Because not everyone has an RSS feed reader or knows what one is.

   Staring at you, blinking unnervingly infrequently.
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      Comment from °ekigyuu, 1 year ago (#7412)

      I've been wanting to create that feature forever. But, the messaging system I designed has some limitations that would make watching tags...difficult:
      
      • Say a user edits their work with new tags, or someone adds new tags to a work. The messaging system isn't retroactive, so people that watch those newly added tags wouldn't see freshly tagged works.
      • Each tag would increase the load time for submitting a new work as expressed by time in milliseconds = 12(number of tags in FAP + number of users). With the current size of FAP's database and an average 24 tags in the submitted work, it would take an additional 18 seconds to process the work.
      
      I've been dreaming up different ways to create this feature--18 seconds is an unacceptable lock on the table--and if FAP continues growing as fast as it has been, it would only get worse.
      
      Until I can design an efficient method for this feature, I'll allow users to save searches as AutoPiles.

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         Comment from ♥locoindigo, 1 year ago (#7551)

         Yeah, it'd have to be done as a stored search to prevent message overload. They don't need to be messages as such behind the scenes.
         
         Would maintaining a user-has-seen-work table (pk(user, work)) and outer joining the stored search relation with that help? If it's a fast enough query, ordinary user watches could be reimplemented like that too: after all, they're just stored searches that return works (and blog posts) ^^
         
         Sticking a cutoff time limit in each stored search (2 months ago, say) and pruning the user-has-seen-work table to match could be pragmatic and prevent it growing too much.
         
         "seen" could mean "has crossed off", and "work" could mean "object: work or comment or blog post". Depends on how you're organising it.

         Staring at you, blinking unnervingly infrequently.
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            Comment from °ekigyuu, 1 year ago (#7616)

            Already have the time-limit implemented in FAP2, but, dude, that's a brilliant approach. I totally didn't think of that :O!!!
            
            Unique pageviews for works and users are already calculated in a table, so it would be easy enough to implement...
            ...but, creating a table listing all the "seen/has crossed off" works for every user instead of a messages-table would be (every user ever) x (every work ever) = (FA's message system). I'll stick with the current message system...
            
            See. That's the challenge now: giving message-centre functionality to AutoPiles without creating too much overhead...that's tough.
            
            We should chat sometime, brainstorm real time.

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               Comment from ♥locoindigo, 1 year ago (#7751)

               > creating a table listing all the "seen/has crossed off" works for every user instead of a messages-table would be (every user ever) x (every work ever) = (FA's message system).
               
               I don't understand what you're saying here. You'd only store records for crossings-off, so what you say only makes sense (for *storage space*) if every user crosses off every work. Which they don't; only the ones that appear in their inbox. For *time complexity*, it's driven by the crossing-off event, and that's of the order of a btree insert, ln(n). It'll be a largeish table, but you could also batch-expire old records when they're not needed any more.
               
               It's the LEFT OUTER JOIN followed by a restriction on a COUNT() of these records that makes message-system-like behaviour possible. Now that could be slow, and you'd have to analyse the query fairly carefully probably. In my head, this is a join across about 6 tables and counting, maybe more if you do sense in tag matches, so forgive me if I'm vague. It makes my head hurt.
               
               {{{This thread has come adrift from its context somehow (it should be public, in your second-to-last blog post's thread!), and I can't remember what I said originally.}}}
               
               I'm awake UK times (UTC+0000 right now: it's the cold rainy season). Can't remember if gmail has a chat, but I'm user locoindigo there.

               Staring at you, blinking unnervingly infrequently.
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                  Comment from °ekigyuu, 1 year ago (#7912)

                  Oh! Duh. I see what you mean :D
                  
                  Eh, but I think that might still be slower...I'll play around with it.
                  
                  I'll add you to my gmail, I'm ekigyuu there. ttyl!

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   Comment from *blade, 1 year ago (#6462)

   Not sure if this was something that was intended or not, but I've just discovered tonight that you can watch yourself, which may want to get fixed in the next incarnation, even if it is quite amusing.

   Please help satisfy my curiousity ^_^
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   Comment from *duo, 1 year ago (#5125)

   sketch told me to come here, when i go to upload artwork i can type in the feilds, but when i need to upload the image,, i cant click browse to find the file i need and submit X_X
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      Comment from °ekigyuu, 1 year ago (#6627)

      fixed.

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   Comment from ×skech, 1 year ago (#3961)

   sorry about this...*rubs back of head* Kamicheetah signed up and tried to log on and couldn't says she is a banned user. She hadn't even posted anything. I would hope that it is an error, since my sis is a stickler for rules and such!
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      Comment from °ekigyuu, 1 year ago (#4223)

      Fixed!

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         Comment from °ekigyuu, 1 year ago (#4656)

         Hey, no big!
         
         It's all part of my master plan to create the best furry art site ever and win the internet...so every suggestion, bug report and idea helps!

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         Comment from ×skech, 1 year ago (#4325)

         hey i really appreciate all your work
         thanks for giving us a place that is actually worth posting to
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            Comment from °ekigyuu, 1 year ago (#4660)

            Hey, no big!
            
            It's all part of my master plan to create the best furry art site ever and win the internet...so every suggestion, bug report and idea helps!

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               Comment from ×skech, 1 year ago (#4666)

               I would love to help you in any way as i am already in love with this place. And here is a suggestion, if I may, the ability to manage friends and such. I usually keep my watches cleaned up i.e. someone leaves or doesn't post for long times, I'd like to be able to take them of the list without actually having to go to their page
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                  Comment from °ekigyuu, 1 year ago (#4951)

                  Are you familiar with deviantART's friends list, thing?
                  
                  I really liked how they let you selectively watch works, scraps, blogs...and put 8 users on your front page.
                  
                  So! I'm working on something like that for FAP²! Not sure how I would make them...unwatched after a certain period of time...
                  
                  I'll play around with it and see what I can code up with.

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                     Comment from ×skech, 1 year ago (#5004)

                     well i am on DA but I meant the manage your friends page has an option to delete ppl you are watching. That is what i was talking about. if i do have any other ideas I will be sure to drop you a line
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                        Comment from °ekigyuu, 1 year ago (#5014)

                        Oh yeah, of course I'll add that...and thanks! Any ideas help!

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   Comment from *hobbes, 1 year ago (#3300)

   Does everything stay when u u[grade?
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      Comment from *hobbes, 1 year ago (#3301)

      upgrade
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         Comment from °ekigyuu, 1 year ago (#3312)

         I'm just adding new features..no worries.

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            Comment from *hobbes, 1 year ago (#3318)

            Thanks fur dat bit of info.
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    Comment from ♥locoindigo, 1 year ago (#2717)

    A possible bug: Add Favourite is not idempotent: its URL is the same as Remove Favourite. So if I open two tabs on the same Work - I do this really often by accident, I'm a total middle-button junkie - and then +fav it in both tabs, the net result is... a non-fav'd Work. Which is confusing.
    
    GET shouldn't really be used for side-effects like that; so sayeth the HTTP RFCs. What about an HTML checkbox+submit formlet for older browsers and Luddites like me, and some JS that removes the formlet from the DOM tree and replaces it with with an async PUT or DELETE call on the "joeuser's favorite thing, ID 1234" resource? Should be really fast. RESTful too.

    Staring at you, blinking unnervingly infrequently.
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       Comment from °ekigyuu, 1 year ago (#2732)

       BAH FORGET IT! I'll just use XMLRPC!

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       Comment from °ekigyuu, 1 year ago (#2728)

       Honestly, I did it because I was lazy and didn't want to roll my own PUT/DELETE solution.
       
       State change URLs (+watch, +favourite, etc...) are the same for either state to prevent state-XSS attacks. Every GET and POST request also requires a random checksum that changes hourly and upon successful requests to prevent prefetching tools like Google Accelerator from accidentally triggering a GET request...
       
       ...I should be using something server-side, like SecFilterSelective "HTTP_X_MOZ" "prefetch" "deny,status:412", now that I think about it...dur...
       
       ANYWAY. I'll probably create a more eloquent and beautiful solution for FAP²...my notebook says I brainstormed some ridiculous REST/SOAP/HTTP Binding multi-environment solution....

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    Comment from *donamer, 1 year ago (#2714)

    I have an interesting and random question...when did this site come up? Heh. I want to see how long it took me to get a login here. >_>
    Not many people have a signup date on FA before me, hehehe.
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       Comment from °ekigyuu, 1 year ago (#2733)

       You are the 793 user on FAP. We've been around since September 24th, 2006.

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          Comment from *donamer, 1 year ago (#2979)

          Haha, wow I was a lil late. Ah well, nice place you got here, though!
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             Comment from °ekigyuu, 1 year ago (#2999)

             No worries~
             
             Not like I'm giving special prizes to the first 792 people that joined.

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    Comment from ×skech, 1 year ago (#2478)

    My friend and user/arctic is having a problem with accessing her gallery and featured galleries
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       Comment from °ekigyuu, 1 year ago (#2509)

       Thanks, investigating now...

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          Comment from ×skech, 1 year ago (#2514)

          much appreciated she loves the site and wants to continue being a part of it
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