6 posts tagged with "comictagger"

Monthly Statistics​

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

• Users: 52
• Issues: 1,822
• Creators: 182
• Characters: 332

Thanks to everyone that contributed!

ComicTagger​

Due to some API usage problems support for Metron was removed from ComicTagger. This was primarily done since ComicTagger was designed with Comic Vine's API in mind and Metron's API differs enough that ComicTagger was using 2-14x the number of API requests compared to other clients for the same data.

For example, someone tagging their Captain America series would be using around 4,616 API calls with ComicTagger compared to about 355 API calls if they had used Metron-Tagger. Due to trying to keep up with this additional load, we've had to upgrade our server specs twice this summer and came to the conclusion this wasn't sustainable in the long term.

So, after September 12th you will be unable to useComic Tagger to tag your comics,but if you still wish to use Metron for tagging, you can use Metron-Tagger or Perdoo. If you have any questions or concerns don't hesitate to reach out on Matrix.

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!

This is a summary of noticeable happenings during July.

Issues Indexed​

The Metron Project had a total of 10,722 issues added to its database during December bring the total number of issues to 98,684. I wish to give big thanks to everyone who has helped with the project. Thanks!

2023 Database Statistics​

We added the following number of entries during 2023:

• Users: 319
• Publishers: 33
• Series: 2,430
• Comics: 44,914
• Characters: 7,082
• Creators: 3,118
• Teams: 691
• Arcs: 521

HTMX and Streaming HTML​

I'm playing around with using HTMX and Django's ability to stream HTML to improve the user experience. Basically, we'll load the static parts (like the footer, navbar, etc.) of the page templates as soon as possible, and then load the data as it becomes available and render its fragment of HTML. Not sure if this will be pushed to production or not until I do more testing, but it's something worth looking into.

Issues Indexed​

Not much user-facing development was done in November, but 10,612 issues were added to the database bringing the total number of issues to 88,244. I wish to give big thanks to everyone who has helped with the project. Thanks!

2024 Tasks​

I've started working on a list of items that I'm planning to work on in 2024. Here's a partial list:

• Upgrade Server

  Currently, the server is fairly underpowered (1 GiB Memory, 1 CPU, 25 GiB SSD, 1,000 GiB Transfer) but is able to handle the current load without any particular issues. Based on the current user growth rate, I'm guessing I'll finally need to upgrade sometime in 2024, I'm thinking a fairly minor bump should be sufficient (2 GiB Memory, 1CPU, 50 GiB SSD, 2,000 GiB Transfer)

• Container Deployment

  Before upgrading the server it makes sense to finally set up the project to use containers (preferably Podman) when deploying the website. If anyone wants to help with this, that would be awesome.

• Look into Open Collective for Future Funding

  Eventually it will make sense to look at setting up something like Open Collective to help with future server costs. Right now the server costs around $14 a month (not including annual domain name & email hosting costs) so it's not really an issue, but down the road I probably won't want to cover all the costs of the project myself.

  Glancing at the criteria needed for acceptance to the Open Source Collective, it looks like Metron meets most of them, except having 100 stars on Github. So, if you'd like to help the project, one easy way would be to star the repository.

• Manga / International Support

  It would be nice to make a final decision on whether to support Manga and Non-U.S. issues, right now I'm inclined not to but if we do add support it will necessitate some changes to the database for things like currencies, languages, and such.

I'm sure there will be other smaller items (like tweaking the site's css and such), but these are most items I'll be looking at in 2024. 🎉

New Indexed Issues Milestone​

The Metron Project reached a milestone this month by having more than 77,000 issues added to its database. I wish to give big thanks to everyone who has helped with the project. Thanks!

Metron-Tagger v1.6.4​

Duplicate Page Removal​

Just released a new version of Metron-Tagger, which adds a new experimental feature of finding / removing duplicate pages in a directory of comics. The feature will get the hashes for all the pages of the comics in a directory, and then ask the user if the image should be removed from the comics. This is done by using the user's system image viewer to display the duplicate image. Once the user has reviewed all the duplicated images it will ask the user whether to write the changes to the comics and then prompt them if they also want to update the ComicInfo.xml (if it exists) for the page changes.

This feature most likely will work best when running on a weekly basis, instead of on a whole comic collection, since it's asking the user to review all the duplicate images before writing the changes. I'm planning on reworking this to make it more feasible to use on a large comic collection, but that is pretty far down on my TODO list (but if someone wants to work on this I'm more than willing to review a Pull Request).

Note: I've been using this for the last month and haven't had any issues, but if you plan on using this I would suggest backing up any files when using this initially, and verifying it works correctly for you since once the changes are written they can't be undone! 💣

Miscellaneous Maintenance​

The rest of v1.6.4 changes are primarily developer-side changes updating the toolsets for Metron-Tagger.

Comic-Tagger​

Comic-Tagger recently released their Metron-Talker plugin which adds support for tagging any comic with metadata from Metron.

New Indexed Issues Milestone​

The Metron Project reached a milestone today by having 65,000 issues added to its database. I wish to give big thanks to everyone who has helped with the project. Thanks!

POST API​

Been spending the last few months working on a POST API to make it easier to add/update information on Metron. Currently it's only available to users with Adminstrators permissions, but later this year I'll look at the feasability of making it more readily available.

Comic Vine ID's​

Another project I've been working on is adding Comic Vine identification numbers to the various resource items. This should help users match items between the two data sources. Currently, about 40% of the issues have been updated with this information and with any luck the majority of issues will be finished by the end of the month.

ComicTagger​

One of the developers of Comic Tagger has been working on adding support for tagging digital comics with data from Metron, and hopefully in the next couple of months that merged.