Turn deletions into soft deletions (set the is_deleted flag) instead of
hard deletions (remove from database). The is_deleted flag actually
already existed, but it was never used before.
* Rarely used (only used ~15 times in total, not used at all since 2015-2016).
* Merging topics didn't properly bump the new topic.
* Merging topics didn't log a modaction when the old topic was deleted.
* Merging topics broke the old topic. Moving all the posts from one topic
to another leaves the old topic with zero posts. This normally can't
happen and it causes exceptions when you try to view the empty topic.
* It was technically possible to merge a topic with itself. This would
break the response_count.
* It was technically possible for a mod to merge a topic into an
admin-only topic.
Few people used forum subscriptions (only around 100), and even fewer
people were subscribed to active threads. Most subscriptions were for
old threads that will never be bumped again. The implementation also had
a few problems:
* Unsubscribe links in emails didn't work (they unset the user's
receive_email_notifications flag, but forum subscriptions didn't
respect this flag).
* Some users had invalid email addresses, which caused notifications to
bounce. There was no mechanism for preventing bounces.
* The implementation wasn't scalable. It involved a daily linear scan
over _all_ forum subscriptions looking for any topics that had been updated.
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.
- Limited to Builders+
-- Moderator+ can also use as they may be too busy ATM
- Only on users, comments, and forum posts
- Multiple reports can be generated per instance
- Primarily posts to a moderator-only topic for viewability
- Secondarily has a table for searchability
-- Viewable only by moderators
* 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.
This was an alternate frontpage that contained a list of previews of the
most popular tags. This page was never linked from anywhere and it was
unknown by most users.
Remove the targeted down voting report. This report hasn't been working
for a while. The /post_votes page is a better way to investigate
downvoting activity anyway.
This was a search page that let you search for tags, aliases, and
implications at the same time. It never got much use and it's been
broken for a while now (the search form passed the wrong param to the
controller).
Remove the login reminder page. The meaning of "login reminder" wasn't
clear (it's for recovering a forgotten username) and the functionality
was redundant. The password reset page can already be used to recover
forgotten usernames.
There was also a privacy leak, since the login reminder page could be
used to find out whether a given email is in use on Danbooru.
* Replace /session/new with /login and /session/sign_out with /logout.
* Rename 'sign in' to 'login'.
This changes are to make urls cleaner and terminology more consistent.
Add a new IP address search page at /ip_addresses. Replaces the old
search page at /moderator/ip_addrs.
On user profile pages, show the user's last known IP to mods. Also add
search links for finding other IPs or accounts associated with the user.
IP address search uses a big UNION ALL statement to merge IP addresses
across various tables into a single view. This makes searching easier,
but is known to timeout in certain cases.
Fixes#4207 (the new IP search page supports searching by subnet).
Add these endpoints:
* /note_versions/1234
* /artist_versions/1234
* /artist_commentary_versions/1234
This is so the /ip_addresses listing can link to these endpoints.
Bug: links like these returned 404s:
* https://danbooru.donmai.us/wiki_pages/...
* https://danbooru.donmai.us/wiki_pages/.hack//
* https://danbooru.donmai.us/wiki_pages/ssss.gridman
Cause: by default, Rails uses dots in route segments to separate the id
from the format. For example, in /wiki_pages/ssss.gridman, the id is
parsed as "ssss" and the format is "gridman" (as if "gridman" were a
format like "json" or "xml").
We work around this by specifying the regex for the id param manually.
The trick here is to use a non-greedy match-all combined with a positive
lookahead to detect the extension but not include it in the match.
* Move search form to index page instead of a separate page.
* Merge creator + timestamp into one column.
* Add category column.
* Fix N+1 query issue.
* Remove the single alias and implication request forms. From now
on, bulk update requests are the only way to request aliases or
implications.
* Remove the forum topic ID field from the bulk update request form.
Instead, to attach a BUR to an existing topic you go to the topic then
you click "Request alias/implication" at the top of the page.
* Update the bulk update request form to give better examples for the
script format and to explain the difference between aliases and
implications.
Previously the search form on the /iqdb_queries page submitted directly
to the iqdb service (karasuma.donmai.us), which redirected back to
Danbooru with the search results.
This was different than API requests, which submitted to
/iqdb_queries.json which proxied the call to iqdb through Danbooru.
Because of this, searches on the /iqdb_queries page had different
behavior than API requests. Things like filesize limits and referrer
spoofing were handled differently.
Now searches on the /iqdb_queries page submit directly to Danbooru. This
is simpler and it means that API requests and HTML requests have the
same behavior.
Remove all infrastructure around approving or rejecting user name
changes. Name changes haven't been moderated for several years.
* Remove status, approver_id, change_reason, and rejection_reason fields.
* Remove approve and reject controller actions.
* Automatically fix all tags with incorrect counts during daily
maintenance (previously only tags with negative counts were fixed).
* Log fixed tags to NewRelic.
* Remove the ability to manually fix tag counts with the "Fix" button on
the /tags listing. This is no longer necessary now that tags are
fixed automatically.
* On posts, automatically trigger "Fetch source data" when clicking the
Edit tab, instead of triggering the artist finder button. This way we
find both the artist and the translated tags in one ajax call.
* Remove the "Artist" finder button next to the source field. This isn't
necessary given that "Fetch source data" finds the artist itself.
* Remove the /artists/finder.json API endpoint. This is no longer used
after removing the "Artist" finder button.
