This setting automatically added the `-status:deleted` metatag to all searches. This meant deleted
posts were filtered out at the database level, rather than at the html level. This way searches
wouldn't have less-than-full pages.
The cost was that searches were slower, mainly because post counts weren't cached. Normally when you
search for a tag, we can get the post count from the tags table. If the search is actually like
`touhou -status:deleted`, then we don't know the count and we have to calculate it on demand.
This option is being removed because it did the opposite of what people thought it did. People
thought it made deleted posts visible, when actually it made them more hidden.
Disable cropped (square) thumbnails on mobile. Use regular uncropped
thumbnails instead.
This is for a few reasons:
* It made it harder to support multiple thumbnail sizes or file formats,
since we need a cropped and uncropped version for every size and format.
* The cropping algorithm wasn't that great and sometimes cropped out
important parts of the image.
* The thumbnail type (cropped or uncropped) was automatically chosen
clientside based on the user's screen size, which made certain things
like adjustable thumbnail sizes more difficult because we didn't know
which thumbnail type the user actually had.
This may return again as an option in the future, but for now it's disabled.
Make private favorites and upvotes a Gold-only account option.
Existing Members with private favorites enabled are allowed to keep it
enabled, as long as they don't disable it. If they disable it, then they
can't re-enable it again without upgrading to Gold first.
This is a Gold-only option to prevent uploaders from creating multiple
accounts to upvote their own posts. If private upvotes were allowed for
Members, then it would be too easy to use fake accounts and private
upvotes to upvote your own posts.
Make upvotes public the same way favorites are public:
* Rename the "Private favorites" account setting to "Private favorites and upvotes".
* Make upvotes public, unless the user has private upvotes enabled. Note
that private upvotes are still visible to admins. Downvotes are still
hidden to everyone except for admins.
* Make https://danbooru.donmai.us/post_votes visible to all users. This
page shows all public upvotes. Private upvotes and downvotes are only
visible on the page to admins and to the voter themselves.
* Make votes searchable with the `upvote:username` and `downvote:username`
metatags. These already existed before, but they were only usable by
admins and by people searching for their own votes.
Upvotes are public to discourage users from upvoting with multiple
accounts. Upvote abuse is obvious to everyone when upvotes are public.
The other reason is to make upvotes consistent with favorites, which are
already public.
Adjust input boxes to fit the screen better on mobile, and to use
consistent sizes throughout the site (no ad-hoc overrides to make
certain input boxes a bit bigger in random places).
On desktop, this makes most input boxes a bit taller and narrower. On
mobile, it makes input boxes the full width of the screen.
This most notably affects the tag edit box, the comment and forum
post box, the wiki page edit box, and the commentary box.
* Set the default comment threshold to -8. This means that comments are
hidden at -8 or lower and greyed out at -4 or lower.
* Reset the comment threshold to -8 for anyone with a threshold greater
than -8. For reference, only about ~3100 users had a non-default
threshold. About 1600 of those had their threshold reset to -8.
* Change the comment threshold to a less-than-or-equal comparison
instead of a less-than comparsion. This means that a threshold of 0
before is the same as a threshold of -1 now. Since everyone's
thresholds were reset, this only affects people whose thresholds were
already less than -8, which is so low that the difference shouldn't
matter much.
* Set the maximum comment threshold to 5. For reference, less than 1% of
comments have a score greater than 5.
* Set the minimum comment threshold to -100. For reference, the most
downvoted comment has a score of -60.
This option was originally added in issue #1747. But only ~350 users
ever disabled autocomplete, only ~120 of these were seen in the last
year, and only 9 new users who signed up in the last year disabled it.
Users wishing to disable autocomplete can use this CSS:
.ui-autocomplete { display: none !important: }
or this Javascript:
$("[data-autocomplete]").autocomplete("disable");
Remove the enable_post_navigation option. This option was originally
added to disable the next/prev post navbar beneath posts. It was later
repurposed to disable keyboard shortcuts.
Users who don't want keyboard shortcuts are advised to not press random
buttons on the keyboard like a caveman.
Only ~1200 users disabled this option and only ~600 were seen in the
last year.
Remove the enable_sequential_post_navigation option. This option was
used to disable the next/previous post navbar below posts.
This option was originally added in issue #674 because of people
complaining about the navbar when it was originally added. Also there
were complaints about URLs being uglier because of search params in the
URL (e.g. /posts/1234?q=touhou). There were also various minor bugs with
it at the time, such as keyboard shortcuts not working correctly, or the
page not remembering your search after a tag edit.
These complaints are irrelevant nowadays because a) people are used to
the navbar by now (and more often complain about it *not* being there
for order:score searches), b) post URLs always contain the search now,
this option hasn't disabled that for years, and c) the initial bugs with
it were fixed years ago.
Only ~1000 users disabled this option and only ~600 were seen in the last year.
Users still wishing to hide the search navbar can use custom CSS instead.
* Show a banner if the user is restricted because they signed up from a
proxy or VPN.
* Add an option to resend the confirmation email if your account has an
unverified email address.
* Move emails from users table to email_addresses table.
* Validate that addresses are formatted correctly and are unique across
users. Existing invalid emails are grandfathered in.
* Add is_verified flag (the address has been confirmed by the user).
* Add is_deliverable flag (an undeliverable address is an address that bounces).
* Normalize addresses to prevent registering multiple accounts with the
same email address (using tricks like Gmail's plus addressing).
- This allows for the note boxes to be easily resized
-- Now resizing the note container resizes all of the note boxes
-- The z-index and position values had to be adjusted for this
--- So that the note/preview boxes were still visible
--- So that the image was selectable with right clicks
- All of the inner box styles have been moved to the outer box
-- Now the inner box is only a container for the note body
- The always resize image option has been removed from user settings
-- The value still exists on the model for future rename/reuse
- The max width is set at 100% for responsive mode to fit the screen
Few people used dmail filters (~900 users in 5 years) and even fewer
used them correctly. Most people used them to try to block dmail spam,
but usually they either blocked too much (by adding common words that
are present in nearly all dmails, causing all mails to them to be
filtered) or too little (blocking specific email addresses or urls,
which usually are never seen again after the spammer is banned).
Nowadays the spam detection system does a better job of filtering spam.
* Rename 'privacy mode' to 'private favorites'.
* Make the private favorites setting only hide favorites, not favgroups
and not the user's uploads on their profile page.
* Make the favgroup is_public flag default to true instead of false and
fix existing favgroups to be public if the user didn't have privacy mode
enabled before.
* List _all_ public favgroups on the /favorite_groups index, not just
favgroups belonging to the current user.
* Add a /users/<id>/favorite_groups endpoint.
* Remove 'Change password' and 'Delete account' tabs.
* Put 'Change password' under the Basic section.
* Put 'Deactivate account' under the Advanced section.
* Add help text to various settings.
Mark all tag <input>s with a `data-autocomplete` attribute, instead of
hardcoding a list of html IDs to autocomplete in javascript.
This way should be less error prone. It fixes autocomplete in several places:
* Autocomplete for the search box on /posts didn't work in the
responsive layout. This was because /posts has two search boxes that
both have the id `tags`: one in the normal sidebar, and one in the
responsive tag list. $("#tags") only initialized autocomplete on the
first one.
* Autocomplete didn't work on the aliases or implications pages. This
was due to selecting the wrong html ids.
