suggest features for swfchan even if they're unreasonable

1. add a button or something that checks if a flash you are viewing the archive is part of a visible collection
2. assuming that the flashes are scanned/decompiled when firstspotted, download any flashes that load through a Loader object or are fully hyperlinked
3. data dump: allow other people to download chunks of the database so they can scan it for metadata if they so desire.

2 and 3 would take a lot more work to implement so I'll put that on the shelf for now. To be honest it's probably not going to happen, maybe a lite version of 2 that simply let people know that there's code in the flash that tries to load other flashes however I won't put in any auto-downloader because it opens up possible ways to easily flood the site with spam swfs. It's probably very rare anyway for flashes to have absolute URLs that they try to load instead of just load relative filenames.

Once upon a time I had plans for a kind-of version of 3 in the way of .org's search engine: It would have indexed all the info pages of the flashes to make ActionScript, metadata and things such as MovieClip names searchable. That would have completed the search capabilities of swfchan since all three domains would have had one unique search engine each. .com for names/sizes, .net for wikis (threads) and .org for content inside the swf itself.

Alas the way things are it will probably never come to pass. At least I still have hopes of finally adding AS3 support to the info pages. Someday... Btw these "wiki" pages that now only list threads were initially supposed to work like editable wikis where people could add information about the flash for easy lookup on who created it or what music is in it, plus any other trivia. It's another thing that probably will never be implemented on my list of stuff that would be cool to have. Info about a flash can at least always be added by mentioning it in a thread but that doesn't encourage people to do it as much, nor does such info get neatly organized for display as it would on a proper wiki page. Saves a lot of potential moderation work tho.

I can understand why you wouldn't want to do 2 since it might again result in spam attacks and I guess figuring out the full url from a relative link would cost too much cpu time. The indicator is a good compromise.

For 3, that's a lot of work to do, especially if many of the flashes need to be redone again for the as3. I'm sure there's also a bunch of other housecleaning that could be tacked on if you're going to do a full look through all of the flashes if it ever happens.

I can think of one more feature I though of (besides the other collections specific ones that should be in http://swfchan.org/6622/) which might not be too difficult to implement: make the search engine consider flashes that aren't in any category to be in the uncategorized category.

>>57242
I've thought about ways of making it possible before and what you're describing is the easiest one. However then it works on .org and not when the flash (and sub-flashes) enters the archive. Of course it is possible to also rewrite how the archive handles flashes to make it able to support multi-swf flashes. Problem is it would take a lot of time to do all of this. I've come to realize that time is something there's too little of in this world... Besides I don't really want to support the idea of "it's OK to make multi-swf flashes", personally I really dislike the concept of non-standalone swfs.

Guess that may sound weird coming from me, it's just that single swfs are so great for spreading all over the web. I've actually tried to make a program that auto-combines several swf files into one single master swf but so far I've not been successful. I'd very much prefer to archive multi-swfs that way, by merging them into a single large flash file. Easy to spread, easy to store.

There are, nonetheless, two things wrong with the message, so I thought I'd let admin know:
>Although some invalid flash files plays fine (and may appear to be valid) the system is strict on only allowing truly proper flash files to be uploaded in order to avoid (and discourage) spreading broken ones.
>If you think the flash file might be repairable you can start a thread about it on /fla/ if you want to.

Firstly, I believe that "some invalid flash files plays fine" should be "some invalid flash files play fine".
And secondly there isn't any /fla/, or at least not any longer.

If you do have a ZWS flash and want it on swfchan right this moment you can use tools to decompress it and recompress it into a CWS file, or leave it as uncompressed FWS if it isn't too big. It won't change the content of the flash itself. JPEXS supports decompressing ZWS flashes.

If you don't have a ZWS flash, sorry, I shouldn't have made the system so strict. Can't be sure if there's a false positive bug in there too. Problem is I wrote a little program to extract all the info from a flash file, such as dimensions, meta data etc and it also validates the flash. So I can't simply turn off the validation all together without losing info extraction, I'd have to re-write some stuff. I'd still want some kind of validation afterwards too so that broken files can't be uploaded intentionally.

You can always try uploading the flash to /f/ or if that's not possible you can try hot-linking to the swf from a thread on /f/ and swfchan's spider might pick it up. I've updated the error message here on swfchan to suggest 4chan's /f/ as an alternative and I've removed that bit about posting on /fla/.

2. Idk if there is an actual list, or at least Admin doesn't want to make it public. You can always request a domain to be added and SWFAnts will consider it.

>>63824
1. its possible there probably is a way to do it but idk how
i saw that one swf has that been seen many times
but only has a few threads
2. admin probably keeps it hidden

>>63885
There are only two official places right now and that's here on swfchan.org and boards.4chan.org/f/. I've had many more throughout the years but either they have become inactive or they have become much more diligent at preventing spiders from crawling their pages so I can't archive them efficiently anymore.

I still do occasional mass-downloads manually and put the swfs into the archive however never assume that a swf is getting archived automatically nowadays -- if any of you come across a great flash somewhere do us all a favor and upload it here on the board!

swfchan especially need help with popular community sites where artists usually publish their content. They have just become too efficient at blocking bots. Note that there's currently a backlog of older swfs that are being published in the archive, a little every day to not flood the front page, so it may appear like auto-downloading of swfs from for example DeviantArt is still working but they stepped up their bot blocking a couple of months ago so this backlog will drain eventually.

dark theme
anyone?

Now for a browser you've got a few options:
a userscript that messes with the css on a per site basis
a theme manager with a per site basis like Stylish
an extension that just inverts a page's colors on per site basis or hotkey
some combination of any of the above like Blank Your Monitor
SWFAnts might do this right away if it's simple but I'm not too sure since he said some of the site is a mess in the back.

the ability to upload flv fla sol as svg files
also how do i scrape html5 games
and where 2 upload them

1. secureSWF and mochicrypt unpacking service
2. a way to upload .unity3d files
3. add malware category
4. a way for me to see where the swf downloads its assets
5. firewall - allow me to block the swf from accessing certain sites
6. spoofer - tricks the swf into thinking its hosted on another site
(useful for bypassing sitelocks)

swfchan desktop client
also antz can we have sandbox source code plz (for science)

sorry 4 the long list Antz

that's a really good idea
>>64346
>>64345
>>64344

>>64345
>malware category
Hmm, not so sure about that. It seems reasonable at first, but it would be very prone to false claims. And then admin would have to manually remove every false tag himself. I'm not so confident in people being able to determine that, most would probably not even notice actual malware. People should rather determine for themselves if a flash is "secure". Swfchan provides cutting communication for files, and with a little common sense and peeking into the number and posts of archived threads it's not hard to determine which swfs are worth opening and which are just malware trash.
>firewall
I don't know if it's the same you meant, but as stated above, if you use the embed player on .com, option B provides disabling communication with external servers.
>spoofer
I mean, it could be a cool idea and a hotfix for sitelocks. Like a box opening and asking: "Simulate hosting the swf on this domain:" and people in the thread would recomment to put whatever.domain in there.
BUT people would still have to dig into the swf to see which site it's sitelocked to (unless it tells directly on the screen), so I'd rather people put in the extra effort and fire up a de/recompiler and remove the sitelock alltogether, like in the past. Having a sitelock free file in the archive is the better option in every regard. If you're a clever girl, you might even do that without posting the original locked version in the first place.
>swfchan desktop client
Yeaaaah, not very likely, but I'm not Admin, so I have no right to crush your dreams. I guess he did say:
>even if they're unreasonable

>>64435
thx boi

i think swfchan should be named
the ultimate /F/ board
also mind if i drop the F bomb

>>64346
>7. a way to monitor the encryption/decryption activity of swf
That sounds like a lot of work to make. Also are you talking about compression, which is how the assets are made smaller in filesize or some other thing to do with ActionScript?

how do i rip webgl and html5 content

also how do i upload zip 7z tar gz xz bz2 files
also increase file size limit plz
some anons have large files coming through
also where to upload .unity3d files

i really have lots of these .unity3d files
i got them from 85play.com
now where 2 upload
>>64466
also sorry my grammar

allow script access for the swf
so it can interact with the html
(this might be dangerous)

>>64435

>malware category
each swf file must be reported manually (by hand)
also if this gets implemented
show a warning banner if someone downloads an infected file

>firewall
the option to block individual domains
for example i want to block adloader.com and popads.net but whitelist gameloader.com and gameassets.net
also a way to check where the preloader swfs download their files [i need to all trace network activity in the swf]

>SWFants
admin i kinda need a way to hotlink several flashes
a custom SWFchan embed with a captcha is good enough for me
[i wanna see what other sites will do with it]
also again unity3d hosting will be kinda nice since i have a lot of them

>>64225
>>64435
sorry for the late reply guys

>>63957
hopefully they scrape the html as well {im quite curious}

>>64225
wish theres was a way to change the themes like in u18
it kinda hurts my eyes when i browse the site during midnight on chrome in android {which i do every Caturday}
also i appreciate SWFchan's warm yellow theme
lastly i'm quite unfamiliar with userscripts

again sorry for the long list Antz (and i feel kinda guilty for blocking the adz here)

>>66249
thx m8

i need the ability to edit and delete my posts

is that possible to export and import via the browser
i plan on switching to another distro Kubuntu keeps on crashing while i fap

also thx

>>66830
unity sites

http://www.fastswf.com [this is copy protected i think]
and 85play.com

it would be real nice
if the file size was increased to 200mb
i wanna upload this swf over here
its really good but big https://yiff.party/patreon_data/8292893/875802/ha rpy.swf
from https://yiff.party/357133

dyaboy dies.

>>68500
nice spam dude also two A's in a row nice ID:get mine is definitely AB

also a way to search by hash i have the sha256 hash of my swf files

>>68500
500th get i forgot to mention that

As for going really actually fullscreen on a Tab with an SWF - that's actually part of your browser.
On Firefox e.g. you have the option to press F11 (View -> Fullscreen) to make your current browser window fullscreen.

So tl;dr: Open a swf file directly, Fullscreen your browser, Taadaa

To answer your question:
Yes, the link is just a regular URL, but it's not meant to be permament. It works after GETting the Flash, but becomes inavailable after some time, where you have to GET it anew and get a new URL in the process.

Also: I've been fapping in a PC chair for almost 20 years now, so I bet you can do it too, comfy boi.

>>69603 dont be a console peasant join linux master race cuz why not (or not)
sadly i never had a console with me (meh i use PC) also thx my autistic friend has an old ps3 with him

http://eye.swfchan.com/flash.asp?id=480&n=Midna+S ucks+Wolf.swf

www.comdotgame.com/play/midna-sucks-wolf

The 1st link's background is black while in the 2nd link's background is white which looks better & there's a few other swfs on the 2nd swf site's name where the black background color is white.

>>72591
Works for me. The link DOES expire after a while, so hotlinking is only possible for flashes on .org.
>>72211
The functions are on both domains. The T/W are buttons on the html wrapper here (yes, slightly less functionality) and the details buttons on the GET page of .com.
Works pretty much the same if you just want to stretch the flash. >>72354
Still not sure what you are up to, but the bg color depends on the flash itself and your browser and only the wrapper changes it to black I think.
If you want your white bg direct swf to strech and scale you could always open it in a separate window and stretch that to your heart's content.

>>76405
Yes the [W] stands for "watch". I get what you're saying that it could be a little confusing but it's a legacy thing, the [W] was there a couple of years before I added the WIKI shortcut links and I won't change it now both because regular visitors are used to it and also because I'd have to change a bunch of hard-coded stuff and regenerate thousands of html pages. I remember thinking that it was typical that the words should start with the same character back when the WIKI links were first implemented.

also what does the ban page look like can i get a 3 day temp ban plz

create MCPE.swfchan.com basically a Minecraft server for swfchan if there isn't enough resources
use an old decent phone then host a local server via WiFi and stream it into the internet by using no-IP

play.swfchan.com basically a not Doppler clone for /gg/ hopefully this should help with the ad revenue (plz dont use captcha)
oh and dont forget to change the domain so they don't know it's a porn site (use typical flash game and adsense ads)
oh and you can also use a friv.com template and make a script that automatically adds clean games from /gg/

make a confirmation pop-up when creating a thread this way we dont accidentally clutter the board with unnecessary stuff

when creating a thread on show fap gg swf make a confirmation saying {this swf hash is already in the archive create thread?}
or {this flash is not yet in the archive confirm upload?}
this is intended for search lazy users and to prevent flooding the frontpage and killing old threads on /show and /swf/
also add the opt to disable confirmation for bulk uploads

>when creating a thread on show fap gg swf make a confirmation saying {this swf hash is already in the archive create thread?}
That's actually not a stupid idea, but I still couldn't see it happening.
Besides the point that there are still (and will with the collapse after 2020) be features much more needed, I wouldn't just support lazyness like that with more things to click through.
I mean, is it possible to just drag and drop a file, or even multiple files, to open tabs searching for that specific file? Because if not, I think that's a more straight forward way of telling which flashes are or are not in the archive already.
You shouldn't be discouraged from posting something just because it's already archived. This is supposed to be a kind of flash board after all and that comes with reposts of reposts of reposts.

I know that it can be annoying when someone dumps a bunch of flashes that most people don't want to watch and the threads will never get any replies, but I think a better solution to that problem would be for me to provide an alternative way of adding flashes to the archive without creating a thread for them. It can't be too convenient though since that would welcome abuse (if you could upload a zip with 50 flashes in it that would make batch uploading misleading file names very easy).

Adding a flash with a thread also increases the "wiki" counter, which means there's a noticeable difference between user archived flashes and the threadless ones archived by myself or my spiders. Those having a "wiki" entry can be seen as having a higher chance of being good since someone went through the trouble of making a thread for it.

I don't really know what's up with the current uploads to /show/, the uploaded flashes doesn't seem like ones someone would be very keen on making sure they are preserved... I still have a backup of almost 170 thousand flash files from Newgrounds that I haven't put on swfchan yet because I know that people would probably stop coming to the site if it was flooded with those files every day. Same problem could arise if I made it too convenient to archive flashes instead of uploading them one by one.

Though I'm not aware of how much complexity or extra bandwidth resources RSS adds to a website. Like if users were refreshing every second that's dumb but with cloudflare caching that might not be an issue?

1: a basic online flash project creator. like having SWFTools with a gui to make simple SWFs to save locally or upload.

and possibly future revisions to add in more features to the creator til we even rival CS4 or further.

2: maybe a flash decomplier script page, where people can link(from the web) or target a flash(from file) and run a decompiler script to output source files, or save it as a swfchanProject file to be loaded into the editor proposed in #1.

imagine the piracy we could achieve! imagine the nonsense we could create! imagine the insanity!