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hydrus network
Apr. 15th, 2022 09:33 pmorganizing images has never been pleasant if, you happen to be like me, and have a metric ton of random art and sakuga animation clips saved across from deviantart/pixiv/twitter/tumblr/random design blogs/etc. you probably want to be able to pull them up quickly for art inspiration, multiple windows maybe, with a non-lovecraftian tagging system that Just Works.
enter the hydrus network.
(screenshot of me slowly mass-importing pixiv bookmarks. one of the cool features is feeding it a URL and it'll mass download - doesn't work on pinterest tho)
caveat: it's still got the potential to be very quirky as it's one dude and an army of volunteers still building it, but "stable" enough that I've been importing my image library. capability to work across windows/ubuntu/macs.
what it is: a booru on your local computer, bam.
(if you're not an eternally online weeb like yours truly - "booru" type of sites (sakugabooru, danbooru...) are sites that are basically giant search engines for images, predominantly with an anime (and nsfw) leaning towards them. they've matured a pretty sensible way of tagging and collecting a truly massive amount of images, so for a localized image-library program, it's not a bad place to start.
given i've been reasonably familiar with boorus, the way it Just Works has been honestly light-years beyond what my jaded self was expecting xD I was also really really pleased with the "principles" section of the main software writer - maximum privacy, no hypocritical censory shit (extra important when everyone and their baby loves to censor nsfw, let alone when dealing with my library of naziexploitation-adjacent works >_>).
I would not recommend this for a total beginner (you should feel comfortable backing up your stuff at minimum and sending bug reports. put another way: if you've fucked around with Wine (no not the alcoholic drink) successfully, you're good here), but for somebody moderately comfortable with computers and desperately needing a way to tame an image library? hell yes.
enter the hydrus network.
(screenshot of me slowly mass-importing pixiv bookmarks. one of the cool features is feeding it a URL and it'll mass download - doesn't work on pinterest tho)
caveat: it's still got the potential to be very quirky as it's one dude and an army of volunteers still building it, but "stable" enough that I've been importing my image library. capability to work across windows/ubuntu/macs.
what it is: a booru on your local computer, bam.
(if you're not an eternally online weeb like yours truly - "booru" type of sites (sakugabooru, danbooru...) are sites that are basically giant search engines for images, predominantly with an anime (and nsfw) leaning towards them. they've matured a pretty sensible way of tagging and collecting a truly massive amount of images, so for a localized image-library program, it's not a bad place to start.
given i've been reasonably familiar with boorus, the way it Just Works has been honestly light-years beyond what my jaded self was expecting xD I was also really really pleased with the "principles" section of the main software writer - maximum privacy, no hypocritical censory shit (extra important when everyone and their baby loves to censor nsfw, let alone when dealing with my library of naziexploitation-adjacent works >_>).
I would not recommend this for a total beginner (you should feel comfortable backing up your stuff at minimum and sending bug reports. put another way: if you've fucked around with Wine (no not the alcoholic drink) successfully, you're good here), but for somebody moderately comfortable with computers and desperately needing a way to tame an image library? hell yes.
