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July 2025 News

· 3 min read
Brian Pepple
Brian Pepple
Founder of the Metron Project / Code Monkey

This is a summary of noticeable happenings during July.

Monthly Statistics​

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

  • Users: 48
  • Issues: 1,102
  • Creators: 91
  • Characters: 407

Thanks to everyone that contributed!

Bulma CSS​

The site has been updated to the latest version of Bulma CSS, so it now follows you computer's theme (light/dark). There's a few widgets that still need to be fixed to work well with the dark theme, primarily the autocomplete fields in some of the forms (Issue, Series. etc.), but for the most part users should be able to use either theme without running into any issues.

The upside of being on the most recent version of Bulma is that I can start working on adding a better system for documentation to the site, which with any luck I can get to before the end of the year. 🤞

Darkseid / Metron-Tagger​

Released new versions of Darkseid and Metron-Tagger which added support for .cb7 and .cbt comics, in addition to some code and documentation improvements.

MetronInfo.xml​

AJ recently released new versions of ComicBox and Codex that added support for MetronInfo XML.

If you're looking for a list of software that supports this relatively new format you can find a list of software here.

ComicTagger​

Just a heads-up for any ComicTagger user, if you plan on tagging comics with data from Metron for an extended time (3+ hours), you may want to refrain from doing so, since they currently do not take into account the site's daily rate limit of 10,000 API requests. Based on what I've been seeing the last few months, it's extremely likely your IP address will be banned for 24 hours or so after you exceed this limit, since you are needlessly just hammering the site.

OpenCollective​

If you would like to help keep the lights on at 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!