What is Hydrus Network? Hydrus Network is an image storage database for people with lots of images. How does Hydrus Network work? It works like a booru like Danbooru. Why use Hydrus over file explorer? It was designed for to be an easily searchable image database, where you can add your own tags share tags and images with other people, and is a lot easier to search.
>Introduction to Hydrus
hydrusnetwork.github.io
>Hydrus main page
hydrusnetwork.github.io
>the current year
>not using Hydrus
Hydrus user here. Tell me about the degenerate fetishes you gained after realizing you could sort porn as autistically and effortlessly as you wanted.
Also I really hate grouping images. I first tried using the "title" namespace since it showed above images by default, but I hated flooding it arbitrarily, so I created an arbitrary "pool" namespace. It still sucks since the only way to tag them is by making it occupy infinite horizontal space as you copy paste your tags into it. It's ugly. Is there really no better way? Also Is there a better way to sort by artist upload date besides creating an entire tag for it, and manually numbering them like a caveman? I'd like to just paste everything into a calendar-type page, and have everything numbered sequentially for me. This would also make sorting hentai and manga completely automatic, besides arbitrary tags you'd add for each page.
Hydrus is fucking useless and can't tag anything.
It's also bloated and slow to hell and back.
>t. retard who can't use it
shitpost all you want, but I tried it and it couldn't even tag more than 5% of my entire images folder. What a useless piece of shit.
Unless you have over a billion images, you're a fucking retard. People have literally tens of millions of images on hydrus tagged.
Show me one person with 10 million images in Hydrus.
1 person.
Go. I fucking dare you.
Will you elaborate please. Are you the user who injects their tags directly into their images as meta data? I don't mean to bully- I just mean he said he couldn't stop mentioning it, so I figured it might be.
archive link to the post (though 4chanX must resolve 404'd links anyway):
archive.rebeccablacktech.com
Also kind of irrelevant, but I noticed the thread itself was from an /sqt/ post here:
archive.rebeccablacktech.com
I responded to the guy to introduce him to Hydrus, but he said he wasn't having it since he feels too dependent on it, which sound fair to me.
I have only 89642 images and hydrus could tag barely any of them.
Tell me again about how I'm just a retard.
Using hydrus is easy m8, just import your images and download the fucking tags from the server.
It's slow as FUCK but it's easy. Despite being easy, it's also absolutely fucking useless because it can't tag shit.
Why don't you go enlighten me then and show me the "proper" way to tag images in hydrus huh? Since you seem to be so smart.
Oh wait you can't because you don't actually know what you're talking about.
>Are you the user (Dead)
No
I tried hydrus some time ago in hopes to finally organize my structureless tagless images folder, but it could only tag a very small amount. Basically useless.
>The hydrus client's workflows are not designed for half-finished files that you are still working on. Think of it as a giant archive for everything excellent you have decided to store away. It lets you find and remember these things quickly.
>And although the client can hold millions of files, it starts to creak and chug when displaying or otherwise tracking more than about 10,000 or so in a single gui window. As you learn to use it, please try not to let your download queues or subscriptions or general search pages regularly sit at more than 10 or 15k, or you'll start to slow other things down. Another common mistake is to leave one large 'system:everything' or 'system:inbox' page open with 70k+ files. For these sorts of 'ongoing processing' pages, try adding a 'system:limit=256' to keep them snappy. One user mentioned he had regular gui hangs of thirty seconds or so, and when we looked into it, it turned out his handful of download pages had three million files queued up! Just try and take things slow until you figure out what your computer's limits are.
Dumb nigger. Read the Hydrus faq
>half-finished files that you are still working on
describes none of my images
>It lets you find and remember these things quickly.
If that's so then why can't it actually tag anything?
Good. My 2d folder is fucking huge
did you fully sync with the PTR(public tag repo). it takes like 3 days to finish because of how big it is.
Don't bother, it won't be able to tag them.
Ah, little lad.
My collection is beyond what you can grasp.
Seems to work just fine for everyone else
Yes.
And yes it took a very long time. Not because it's big, but because the software is inefficient as fuck, which is to be expected of software written in python.
What kind of images do you have? Ones from boorus? Because those are going the be the ones that mainly get tagged.
If it's random memes/normie shit dont expect it to be tagged.
quality > quantity
Brag all your want about all those images you have, but it means nothing if 95% of it is trash.
All my images are hand picked to meet my standards.
You're not supposed to update the PTR in one go, its it is huge. This guys just bashing software that he doesn't understand how to use.
>another shitty general craving attention
*SNAP*
yep, this is going in my filter collection.
You know there's a such thing as keeping a personalized hand picked collection and an 'everything' collection, right?
Something you thought was bad some months ago could be more appealing later. Best to scrap it all. Hell, maybe someone else could want it if you plan on sharing in the future.
Think outside the box brainlet.
>If it's random memes/normie shit dont expect it to be tagged.
Will images I download from Jow Forums get tagged?
99% of it is anime stuff.
Stuff like anime screenshots, artwork, stuff from /e/ (which come from boorus), directly from boorus, etc.
I'm pretty sure at least the majority is taggable, but it couldn't even tag more than a few hundred which is a massively underwhelming number.
>You know there's a such thing as keeping a personalized hand picked collection and an 'everything' collection, right?
Sorry, I don't want trash wasting my storage space, or even on there at all.
Not unless they came from a booru. Most Jow Forums images are cropped and modified though, so it'd totally screw the hash up
>anime screenshots
That's not going to work. Hydrus isn't image recognition software. Someone, at some point, had to of already seen that image and tagged it.
>t couldn't even tag more than a few hundred
Then download a tag archive and sync with it. I have tag archives from gelbooru, e621, etc. You can also scrap these sites and make your own tag archive, but that might be too advanced.
Here are my tag archives.
>That's not going to work. Hydrus isn't image recognition software
I know, but anime screenshots are a small minority of all my images.
>That's not going to work. Hydrus isn't image recognition software. Someone, at some point, had to of already seen that image and tagged it.
We can always add it to the Public Tag Repository. The more people that do this, the more likely images will be tagged in the future.
Ok, I'll try those.
I only sync'd with the main public one.
I'll reinstall hydrus and sync with those, and see if I can get at least the majority tagged.
For the rest, I've been thinking of downloading illustration2vec and using a simple script to classify and organize them, but that's really slow.
should post it on Jow Forums and get those fags and weebs adding anime tags so that the public repository grows quicker
IIRC hydrus has neural network tagging. Is it good? I'm looking for a new ML project and it might be fun to try to improve it.
>IIRC hydrus has neural network tagging
I wish
Anyone know how I can add tags to the otr? I'll start adding tags for random Jow Forums images.
>Neural network tagging
What's that?
Hydrus is awesome but the dev REALLY needs to learn how git works instead of pushing blob updates.
This is why he is the only one who can develop and contribute.
There's a discord and a 8ch. Boadd where people contribute
so is there a Linux client or not or what?
Yes, not that I've ever used Linux though.
there is and it's not hard to find
Make it then
This is the Hydrus general, man. Don't be rude. By answering, especially this early, it makes it so people from this point onward don't gave to look it up themselves.
Here you go bro. I should have included this in the general, it was stupid of me not to include it in the OP
Collecting images has to be the single most cringey thing I've ever heard.
Y'all need to have sex more regularly than once a decade, you'll forget about this useless shit when you aren't quite as frustrated.
You're just jealous of my armpit folder.
>kantai collection
why is this so popular
t. puff
I don't get what this means. Is that a tripfag from a general here? Tbh I'm just a random user that's been shilling Hydrus every chance I get (only in /sqt/...), since it changed the game for me.
To be honest I don't really care for it or any other source; it takes a great deal of effort for me to be arsed to source a pic to a booru and copy its series source, since I only know how to do it manually, and I really don't care- I only do it cause it's useful. I usually only barely tag the series, since I recognize the characters and what they're from since they're drawn so often. I don't have any biases to them, so being able to sort by them is useful in a backwards way, since it means I don't have to deal with a lot of distinction that means nothing to me.
Every time I find a lewd (sometimes non-lewd even) image I like I lookup the source with iqdb and get the artist tag from a booru. I then I add that artist to a text file, and over time (I'm a lazy piece of shit about this part) I go through it and add the artist(s) to a booru subscription in Hydrus. Hydrus then scrapes every image tagged with that artist on the booru along with it's tags, and then periodically re-checks the booru for new images. I currently have 640 out of 3291 artists added to Hydrus. I'm getting around 100-200 new images every day from subscriptions with total of 200,000 images in the archive, all of which are fully tagged. I have a long way to go, but it's a pretty good feel so far.
and to how many of them have you fapped to?
about tree fiddy
I don't have anything to contribute besides avatarfagging with my modestly-sized Hydrus. But I'm so grateful for Hydrus. I mention it whenever I can. I have a lot of complaints with it, even in my superficial use of it, but even doing things manually helps so much over no infrastructure being there to do it at all.
You let an AI go over your images and assign tags to things. This is actually not too hard, there's been a lot of development in the past few years to make it good.
Sounds like there's a positive response, so I'll look into grabbing the dataset and chatting with hydrus-dev on 8ch
Sorry your net neutrality thread was killed.
How are people here too stupid to tag their collections? I've done it with hundreds of thousands of pics at one point, it's very easy.
Is it possible to set up a slideshow in hydrus?
Anyone willing to say what a GUI should look like for this page?
If nobody has ideas I'll draw one myself but I'm historically really bad at this sort of thing.
Does it work for webms and videos though? Also where is my mobile version?
It does, however I right click to open externally in mpv for a more optimized player anyway. However the frame counter is nice and it even shows up on gifs.
>170MB release
>claims to value anonymity and freedom
>is only able to be contacted on non-free social platforms like discord, twitter, tumblr, and cripplepot or gmail without an encryption key given
Has anyone actually audited the codebase?
infinitychan is nonfree?
A honeypot run by untrustworthy individuals that logged and stored userdata for all posts is somehow user respecting?
Sounds like pedo paradise
Let me contact the authorities
Yet people come here every day.
Not an argument.
you solved a google captcha to post this
>Current Year + 3
>Not using the correct platform to talk to the dev kek.gg
Infini broke their own GPL license so yeah.
The dev should have used matrix like matrix.to
Also not an argument.
Unless it has cp it's irrelevant.
Don't start a pitch with a question.
>1500 items on the todo list
have you faggots heard of feature/bug bounties?
>6039 items
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
I no longer autistically collect anime pictures, thus there is nothing the Hydrus Network can offer me.
It was fun dicking around with it back when I cared.
If it's not too much of a bother, could you tell me how you got these files, I'm particularly interested in the sankaku one
I used it extensively for a year or so, but stopped using it. The main reasons are
>for some reason it's even slower on linux
>There's not distributed syncing or something close to it. You have so handle that yourself with a bunch of scripts and shitty hacks
>rather unstable, I got my db corrupted multiple times, and the only thing able to save me at that time are my backups
>otherwise tracking more than about 10,000
i had a similar issue when i wanted to write a image viewer. problem is scaling of images and thumbnails, the bigger the thumbnails the more detail, the more detail, the more memory usage.
ideally you' calculate your grid layout to present the images in a way that it loads according to scrollbar position. that way you minimize memory consumption, lags, intensive computation spikes for scaling, etc.
sounds like someone didn't think a step ahead
How do you live without Hydrus? And what does a corrupted db look like? I lose all muh tags?