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April / May 2025 Update

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Brian Pepple
Brian Pepple
Founder of the Metron Project / Code Monkey

Monthly Statistics

During April the Metron Project added the following to its database:

  • Users: 49
  • Issues: 3,051
  • Creators: 709
  • Characters: 1,288

And during May the following were added:

  • Users: 46
  • Issues: 3,398
  • Creators: 208
  • Characters: 1,222

Thanks to everyone that contributed!

Metron-Tagger

A couple of new releases of Metron-Tagger were made in April. They primarily consisted of the following new features from Adrian Petrescu:

  • If passing more than one comic when using the --id option it is assumed the id number is the Metron Series id. For example if you ran the following, it would assume all the issue in that directory where of the same series and improve the odds of a match:

    metron-tagger -m --id 9513 ~/Comics/DC\ Comics/Metamorpho\ -\ The\ Element\ Man/

  • Added a --accept-only option to automatically accept single valid matches, regardless of the cover phash hamming distance.

Documentation

Currently, the documentation for Metron is using Django's flatpages, which isn't great since it's very bare-bones, and I'd need to muck around with account permissions for regular users to edit them.

So, I'm planning to add django-wiki to the site to handle the documentation, since it fixes the short-comings of using flatpages. Unfortunately, to have it not stick out like a sore-thumb compared to the rest of the site, I'll need to override the templates for that app. To make matters more difficult, django-simple-bulma still uses v0.9.4 instead of v1.0.*, so that will need to be updated first (since I don't want to override django-wiki's templates twice). I've started working on doing that, but since upstream's (and mine) free time is fairly limited there isn't an ETA when that will happen. 😥

Trade Paperbacks

Tying into the above topic, one constant source of confusion on the site is the handling of Trade Paperbacks (which is mainly due to the industries inconsistent handling of them over the last 30+ years). So, until better documentation on their handling is written, adding new TPB series has been temporarily disabled. I don't have an ETA when they'll be written (truthfully, I don't have much interest in TPB's), so if you'd like to help out writing them, contact me.

Miscellaneous

  • Translator was added as an option for a creator role.

OpenCollective

If you would like to help the project, we have an account at Open Collective to defray the servers costs and help with increasing future server capacity.

Anyway, that's all I got for this month. Take care!