ANIMdb Release Notes

I have added some improvements to the Archive Needs system. Previously this was for staff to add missing full albums that were having a hard time finding, but that was mostly it.

It has now been upgraded using data from the albums to automatically post a listing by the system when either of the following are needed:

• Tracks are missing that need fulfillment

• Track Quality is lower than FLAC or lower than highest released format (for old content).

When either of those are true it will auto-post an archive needs listing, set the type, and highlight the tracks that are missing or need quality upgrades. The album page itself also has a note about an open request, and the missing tracks will be darkened / locked.

Additionally some misc bugs have been fixed:

• Added more formatting checks for auto parsing files to disc / track numbers.

• Changed guard rail that was preventing partial track or disc removal after asset ingestion attachment.

• Added better filtering, and tag colorization, and content alignment for the archive needs page.

• Fixed bugs around custom collection category overrides not showing up at all on the collection page and not being selectable for edits.

• Fixed it saying “Unknown User” or “Member” on the activity feed or archive page when the system opened a listing.

• Fixed some database ownership related migration scripting and added some additional security enhancements.

We have added two new systems:

Search Hints

We have added a search hint system, this allows us to fill out additional fields on albums that help you find the album easier not only by its English name but also its Japanese or Chinese glyph name or even the Romanji version. This does require staff to manage though, so if you see search hints missing feel free to let us know and we can add them to make them more findable in global search.

Tagging System

We have added a tagging system set into two parts:

• System tagging: These are tags set by staff members that we feel are the most “standard” representation of the album.

• Community Tagging: This works like Steams suggested tagging system, the community can now also suggest community tags on albums that will go to an approval queue with the staff. This could be to tag works like “Studio Ghibli-Like” or “Funny” or whatever the community natively comes up with on it’s own. In the future this may be expanded to auto-approve community tags that reach vote threshold but for now its a bit more manual.

• The tags show up as a new box on the album page left sidebar, you can click any of the tags to be redirected to a search page with that tag filter applied showing you all other content with the same tag.

Other: Some tokenization issues were fixed in the theme system causing a lack of color in system drop downs and other various fields.

As mentioned several change log posts ago I implemented the first version of our transcode worker control plane that allowed devices to act as remote transcode workers for the server to help spread out the workload. However the process was a bit wasteful bandwidth wise and I have added some additional worker type options..

• Original: Worker only waits for jobs, downloads assets, processes, uploads.

• Local Directory: This allows a worker to pre-process files that are already local to its storage service, and this version can process loose files (non-zipped).

• Local Zip: Same as above, but it is for processing zip types.

When the ingestion job is created, you can choose any of these modes, it is not locked it can switch around.

Secondly a bug has been fixed in the dedupe mappings tool, there was a typo in the schema table.. and also it now handles more situation types.

I have now added hover cards to usernames, anytime you see a person username around the website you can hover your mouse over it to see a quick hovercard of their stats and a button to view their profile.

In the future I plan on adding some customization around this, but for V1 it is set how it is.

Groups have been updated to have ranking, this way even if you are in multiple groups for permission reasons, your highest ranking group will be the one that shows on your profile, and also the effect that styles your username.

• Groups now support CSS inline styling.

• Groups now support Solid color styling, plus gradient styling.

• Groups now support special effects such as rainbow, sparkle, glow.

• Group now support icons next to the names, either system emoji or uploaded icon.

A new style component for usernames has been added, and replaced all of the various username placeholders around the website so that they will now display your groups styling prominently.

Profile comments have been added, their at the bottom underneath the stats area. Uses our global component editor from the timeline comments so it has threaded replies, emoji, @ mention, etc.

Any comments left will notify the profile owner via the notification tray, as well as send an email trigger letting them know.

Similar to the main activity feed of the website, there is now a widget on user profiles that show the 10 most recent activity entries for that user. If you click view all, or the new “Activity” tab in the right side of the profile it will bring you to the full activity feed past the 10 entries from the widget.

As more features get added to the website, more entries will be picked up there.

I have added an initial pass of the reputation system, which displays prominently on your profile on the left hand side in a reputation score widget.

• You can gain Reputation by just using the website features, leave a comment, leave a review, leave a reaction.

• You also gain reputation when people leave reactions on your content, follow you, subscribe, etc.

• There are some daily caps and rate limiters in place to prevent abuse.

• Negative reputation is not enabled currently, but is a possible thing.

In the future additional features will be added around the reputation system.

Modeled after Discords version, We have added an initial pass of a react and emoji system. All components have been updated to use the new global component, and search and category support has been added to the emoji/react picker window.

Currently there is just 1 category of emoji’ but in the future we plan on having multiple emoji packs, and letting people unlock their favorites with website points. (Free points you earn from commenting, reviewing, etc.)

Animated emoji will also be added in the future.

An initial pass has been completed of the embed system. This allows users to embed the album, or a track version of our player on their own website, blog or any other content form that accepts i-frame.

Current Features

• Only signed in users can create Embed code snippets.

• Embeds are bound to the signed in users account; also a valid hostname must be added to their account settings before it is allowed to be created.

• Strict CORS policies are enabled, if the embed is attempted to be used on a domain that does not have the host name whitelisted, it will not work.

• Unique Analytics tracking has been added to the embed player to capture player stats from an embed perspective and is separate from play data on the website.

• Embeds are treated as Guests, and so their not allowed to serve songs past a 128k bitrate.

• A throttle system, and request limit system has been added. Depending on your user group depends on how many you can whitelist and create at a time.

• Embed staff tools have been added, embeds and hostnames can be revoked and disabled. Permission nodes can also be removed from groups or users to prevent creation.

• A responsive version and fixed style version is available in the code snippet copy.

TO-DO

• Add our theme system to the embed system, so that there are more options to match your website than just our default dark theme.

• Add some additional options flags, such as an even slimmer version of the current one.

Deep Linking has been added to tracks, this way we can support scrolling directly to track numbers on the album detail page.

• Tracks now have a deep link ID that can be anchored to.

• All widgets that show stats or data related to tracks have been upgraded to deep link.

• The “Share” button on the context right click menu / 3 dot menu has been updated to use the track deep link.

An initial pass has been completed for adding the JSON waveforms as the seek bar, as well as timeline commenting.

• Markers appear in the timeline if comments are left at that time stamp.

• Comments will appears and disappear as toast notifications as the song scrolls through them.

• A new comment icon has been added near player controls to open the full timeline comment view.

  • The icon will show a badge number for how many comments are on the song.

• Add “Like” and reply to threading to timeline comments.

• Add moderator controls, and various permission nodes.

Additional tooling has been added to the Album Disc and Track management:

• Bulk import from CSV style, or Break Line Style

• Add Regex to detect various disc/track style formatting.

• Improve Unicode formatting in the parser tool to correctly normalize Japanese.

• Fix parser bug causing duplicate tracks to appear due to previous Unicode formatting issue.

• Quick set imported language as primary.

• Fix bug in ingestion guard that was treating track additions as replacements.