I’ve just added two new “quality” options for Quality Preference:
These options are useful when following a show/subber that has both a 720p and a 1080p release.
Please note that if you select one of these options then files that do not specifically specify 720p or 1080p will not be matched!
I’ve also added identifiers similar to the Hi10P/8-bit identifier that appears next to series names.
Enjoy!
I’ve written a scraper to make setting up new season pages quicker =)
Unfortunately I still need to find images manually (not yet done…). Please contact me if you’re willing to help find images for this seasons shows. Note: All images need to be such that I can crop/resize them to 500x280.
Happy New Year Everyone!
Just a quick update - It appears there was a (nother) bug in our big follows update that I only noticed today. If you have get any subber checked for any follow, then a release with the correct subber would not be prioritised over the original file (unless it was also better in some other way).
Since I generally only follow specific subbers and do not use that option much myself, I did not notice until now.
I have rolled out a fix and also re-processed a few thousand releases (since the new follows code was rolled in) to retroactively resolve the issue. Any missed releases should now be in your RSS feed.
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Well, it took a lot longer than expected and resulted in thousands (?) of lines of rewritten code. But we’re done. And deployed.
Things to take note of:
So: If you have any issues then please let us know!!! We’ve done our best to test all cases but need your help to find any other issues!
Any other questions and comments (or feature suggestions) are as always: welcome!!
*edit* Due to a fuckup on my part; any follows with “any subber” checked, were not migrating properly. I have done a full database restore and re-migrated everything with the data fixed. Apologies for the down-time and for those of you who will end up with random torrents in your clients (if you connected to the RSS while this bug was live).
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Hi all.
I’d promised to get Hi10P support in ASAP. Unfortunately we ran into a bunch of issues to do with complexity that have prompted us to decide: we’re going to re-write how the follows system works (not all of it… just a bunch of it…).
It shouldn’t be a huge undertaking so I expect we will roll it in in the next week or two.
To buy us a little more time we’ve implemented some preliminary support for Hi10P and 8bit releases. You’ll now notice that if we can determine what kind of release it is; it will say “Hi10P” or “8-bit” next to the title for each release.
The overhaul will allow you to choose a preference for Hi10P or 8bit releases. Obviously it won’t be perfect (since for many releases, we simply don’t know… in those cases you will have to do a bit of subber research yourself ;) )
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The latest set of changes are mostly pretty boring fixes (with the exception of one long sought after feature! See the last dote point). Though in exciting news we did ban 3 IP ranges spanning about 200,000 IP addresses (read of for details).
The new Anime season has begun and with it, many new shows are being released in Hi10P. This raises 2 issues. First, how to play them back; luckily, there are many ways. This site has some good info. Though if anyone has a solution for people using Mac OS X Leopard (10.5, not Snow Leopard), please let me know =(. Second: how to differentiate between them in Shana Project. I’ll try to come up with some solutions, but any ideas are welcome; so please leave comments if you have an idea.
Anyway, here are the changes since the last post in order of implementation:
I hope you all find the changes useful. Please let me know if you encounter any issues (particularly with the new edit follows, since its kludgier than I’d hoped…)
\o/
- Taiga
Update: I was hoping to have the new follows system in (supporting 10bit/8bit) by tonight… Unfortunately the problem is proving far far more troublesome that I’d ever feared =(
I do have a solution, its just gonna take a little longer still.
I haven’t got a lot done the last few months… But enough to warrant a new post now.
We’ve recently had a massive influx of users (yay), however they’ve all happened at the same time and none of them support javascript or have any follows… that means they’re bots (boo).
What this means is I’ll be deleting any users who haven’t changed any settings or added any follows (or downloaded any files etc etc). Essentially any user who doesn’t have a database presence (aside from having registered). To ensure you won’t be deleted in our cull, you just need to make sure you’ve done something on the website such as download something or follow something (or even visit the RSS page will do it). Of course this means only users who have no information to lose will be deleted ;)
And now, the changes:
Thats all for now. I’m looking forward to the new season! Are you?!
The Summer 2011 season has officially started!
Check out a nice roundup of PVs of some of the more interesting looking stuff over at Sticky Jellyfish. We’ve also got our Summer 2011 Season page up!
As for features. Some very minor stuff:
Enjoy the new season!
We hit 400 commits (to our code repository) just yesterday which seemed like a good idea to mention whats changed lately =)
There haven’t been a lot of changes since the last update, but they’re still worth pointing out.
We’re still working hard on many other features as well as getting next season’s season list ready for you.
As ever, please let us know about any issues you might have (you can ask a question at the top of the page!) or any ways you think Shana Project could make your life easier!
I’ve made a number of changes over the past few days. So here’s what we’ve been doing since the start of the month :)
Here is the list of bugs resolved and features added in no particular (but mostly chronological) order:
With regards to the new direct search button: The default behavior of search is to find any release that have a title that matches the text you’ve input (or that matches the subber). Clicking on the new search button will instead take you to the Series page (or Subber) for that title (which is what happens when you click on a release title).
If anything is unclear or you need some help, please don’t hesitate to comment or fire off an email (to taiga.anime@gmail.com).
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