This is the thread regarding the collection system:

http://swfchan.net/collections/

Suggestions or opinions are most welcome!

>>17673
Hehe, didn't even notice my trips. Typical mod get! Looking forward to your see your collection. What kind of integration were you hoping for here on .org?

Also: How can you delete posts from a collection?

Sounds like a whole lot of effort, so I go with:
Just needs a way to delete files from the collection as whole.

If you're having problems determining the flash index number of a swf file you have on your computer you can try to search for the number of bytes of that file. For example if you search for ">7 966 524" you will only find flashes that has been seen with a file size of exactly 7966524 bytes. That should narrow things down.

Concerning deletion... yeah it's not possible yet. Haha, pretty basic stuff I know but it's a planned feature. Kinda rushed to get this collection thing out there even before everything was implemented. I plan to have checkboxes for each flash, if checked the flash is "hidden" (counts as deleted). That way you could create a "hidden bundle" by just making a regular bundle and then set every flash in it as hidden. The bundle will count as empty and won't show up outside edit mode. I'll probably make it so that if you name a bundle "Hidden" the flashes added into it will default as being hidden.

Creation of new bundles from edit mode is also one of those planned features, by the way. As is swapping places of the bundles.

I'm not planning to support bundles within bundles at the moment as it would require a bit of re-coding. But it's not impossible to arrange something like that in the future, maybe, if more people need it.

Another feature I'd like to get in is bundle links at the top of a big multi-page, multi-bundle collection which will give you the ability to browse only a certain bundle in the collection if you want to. A simple little filter for searching in the existing collections and their bundles might be useful to add later as well, if the number of collections grow plenty.

tl;dr - a great way to have your own Flash Collection, always accessible.

By the way, you also haven't added the collections to the bottom of the .com page yet ;)

An option to make your collection not appear in the collections list would be nice. I want mine to be more complete before it being showcased.

Also, yeah, a delete feature is needed.

This almost feels like added your own favorites.
This is perfect now I can find videos that I can collect and convert them into mp4 when the time comes

I LOVE YOU BULMA

>>17800
Ah you mean on the flash's home page. Didn't understand your request at first. Sorry but I won't add any file names that haven't actually been seen for the flash. It's easy enough to just rename the flash yourself, isn't it? Just double click on the flash's ID number before you click any of the links leading to eye.swfchan.com and press CTRL+C to put its ID in clipboard.

>>17828
I think the order numbers will remain global for the whole collection, complicates things a bit if they aren't and it doesn't add that much of a benefit.

What do you mean by "increase the Order number by an extra digit"? Do you mean that when a new flash is added the order number is increased by 100 instead of the current 50?

fyi: My system would look like this,
First digit is bundle number - then two digits sort number and an extra digit if you have to squeeze something in between or if flashes are connected in a way (or if more than 100 swfs per bundle yo).
But this way would then only allow for 5 bundles.

So, there is no maximum order number, just that you need to increase the order number by 50 at a time (60000 can be used if you have 1200 flashes in your collection).

It's now possible to hide flashes in your collections, just check the box next to the "hidden" text and it won't show up unless you are in edit mode.

If you make a bundle called "Hidden" all flashes added to it will default to being hidden.

To permanently get rid of a flash in your collection you simply put "del" into both the description field and the comment field. It will be removed immediately after you save.

I want to move the swf to the bundles I made but I get errors for saving them. Please give us instructions on how to use it.

Just wanna add I will be adding my last bundle of mlp that I liked and and downloaded

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In order to prevent the menu from looking too cluttered only "C" is printed out instead of the whole "COLLECTIONS" word. It would bring the text too close to the main logo otherwise. Two • were added to make it more eye-catching plus that I thought it looked pretty ugly to only have "C" as the link. Tried to see how it aligned as "COLS" or "COLLS" but I think it looks better this way, even if it seems weird at first glance. I'm open to suggestions though if anybody can think of something that would fit better as the link text.

I've changed the layout of the collections so that two columns are used instead of one. Since most people doesn't use any kind of description this will cause there to be a lot less empty space on the page. It should give a better overview at the cost of some people maybe missing a flash if they aren't looking thoroughly while scrolling.

The number of flashes per page has been increased from 100 to infinity as well, it makes it more pleasant to browse through a collection when subsections aren't cut off in the middle. Since some collections have hundreds of flashes I might try to improve thumbnail load times down the road by bundling them together into a single image and using CSS to split them. Right now though each thumbnail is downloaded separately as normal.

The description was always dark red though, the bundle/subcollection title is orange (as well as the lines leading down from it). The "comment"-text below the red description is plain black. I might move around those lines later since it could be a little confusing right now which link belongs to which thumbnail. And I plan to make URLs put in the comment text clickable someday.

Also still waiting pretty please on possibility to edit:
* the order of subcategories (I mean you COULD just move ALL the files in one and rename it , but...)
* and also mass edits of files, because I want to keep a peculiar number order and don't want to edit every single one, save, scroll down again, repeat...
maybe even make it remember the screen position after an edit?
* number order without any limits (like when the number is too low to the next one, etc.)

Also, I encounter some problems with my passphrase every now and then (doesn't recognize it, then I reload some times and it works, pretty randomly), but only on the add button; never on the edit on collections one, for some reason...

As always though, all efforts are apreciated!

Although looking at the timestamps it must (might?) not be your collection after all since it was created before you made that post. Where exactly do you get the "Flash ID is missing" error? I think you can only get it when visting flash.asp with no ID number in the URL, have looked through all code related to the collections themselves and the string "miss" was missing.

Couldn't find anything wrong, new collections can be created and new flashes can be added to them afterwards.

Anyway, I took this opportunity to finally change the layout of the collections again. It doesn't look as unorthodox now.

The list of collections have also been changed a little bit, layout-wise the fields now have fixed width. Also, henceforth 3 instead of 4 flashes is needed in order to appear on the list. This makes a whopping 43 new rows appear on the list and although I still think three items doesn't make much of a collection most of them did seem to be genuine attempts.

For the record: Right now there are 73 collections with just 2 flashes in them and 664 with a single flash, many of which are simple tests but oddly enough there's plenty of those that appear to have a legit theme or thought behind them. 4 collections have 0 flashes, meaning the owners hid/removed all flashes from them.

After today's change there are 276 listed collections and 741 unlisted ones.

>>41783
The "number order without any limits"-issue have been taken care of, ordering numbers can be freely used up to 2000000000. I agree that the other two issues you pointed out would be nice to have taken care of as well but that would take more time to do than I have for today.

The only real problem I still encounter is as listed in >>41783 the problem with getting the passphrase to work. It's quite an endeavour sometimes.
I don't really know what causes it.
The best way to describe it: it just works randomly.
>So when I go to a flash get page: there's the "collect" button.
>I press it and type my pass and then the "-->-" button.
>Sometimes that's just it.
>Most of the time though it says "No collections are associated with this key."
>I then reload the page.
>click collect and -->-
>repeat (no changes to password)
>Then it finally recognizes it after a varying amount of attempts.
>I thiiink it works better when I already accessed it once per session.
>It never works with just trying the "-->-" button again. I have to reload the page.

If this doesn't work I have one more idea that we could try.

Same behavior persisted in a private window.

I tried one last thing of disabling ad blocker and for some reason that worked. I don't know how the ads or the ad blocker are interacting with your collection framework to produce the redirect to that empty though.

It doesn't explain why æ haven't had it working before though, since he mentioned it working randomly in >>41783, which was before the easylist issue. Hopefully æ sees this soon and can tell me if he still has problems or not with the last change. Since it doesn't seem to crash for him I don't think his adblocker (if any) is the issue though and it might be more of a security thing in his browser. My next idea is basically just to change the password field to a regular field.

>>51274
I've been trying to contact easylist for three weeks now without any reply back on any of their contact addresses, using two different e-mail accounts to send just in case.

Honestly it's pretty obtuse to block a key part of someone's site without even listening to what he has to say for himself. Ironically it hasn't actually hurt the site's income either since people need to turn off their adblockers now, which should be the opposite of what the people running easylist would want you to do.

I really can't fix issues caused by easylist myself without replacing the whole subdomain and while this doesn't hurt the site's income I'd much rather see more people with adblock than less without adblock. In the long run it's not good for the site's exposure, especially in these days of dwindling flash support. If easylist don't answer me soon I'll be making an announcement asking people to help out nagging them to whitelist eye.swfchan.com again, I'm coming to my wits end.

I've changed the script now to use a plain text field instead of a password field. The field is thin and the letters are big to give similar protection as before from potential prying eyes. The browser is also instructed not to remember anything that is typed into the field.

Please let me know if it works better now.

But more important: Nope. Still nothing about the behaviour changed, sorry.
I only tried it quickly with one single flash, but it looks all the same.
And that new text field entry looks very unaesthetic. It might be best to get rid of it again (not able to see amount of characters entered and all).

Really do appreciate the effort! I get what you did, but it looks like it doesn't work and will affect other users.

I've restored the field to a regular password type now. I really want to get to the bottom of this sometime, how it just randomly works on and off. Maybe there's some unusual character in your key that Firefox encodes differently from time to time? Let me know if you want to change key if you think it could be the root of the problem.

Oh god, I didn't think anyone would actually browse this collection.
Man, I hate the fact that I wasn't able to think about typing in ⁄ f ⁄, just created it on a whim in mere seconds.
It's supposed to be a full collection, not something that updates regularely (like f.e. z0r). Everything is so messy and inconsistent. I only update it very randomly and sporadically, when I come across something that isn't in it already, though I seem to abuse it more to just be my personal collection due to lack of interest.
But, thanks, I guess.

Btw, I'm always open to suggestions, but best keep that in another thread.

Also, Ants, still waiting for the ability to move bundles. (*´_ゝ｀)
Cool feature though, with such a simple way of spotting new flashes.
Now everyone will notice when I forgot to add that one very basic classic to the collection! :P

Anyway sorry about the delay, you can now move bundles up and down!

Also, that's a relief, so it didn't even matter what I typed in. It's not a problem, better to keep it simple, just thought that maybe ⁄ instead of / would have worked.
I hate it how on /f/ the parser filters out all special characters too these days. No more zalgo, but still...

Hmm, I wonder if my collection will ever become 10x that big :x
Recently went through my old files I had on a harddisk and I was astounded how many I already collected over the years, just from memory. Not a lot to add anymore, but maybe I'll still pick up a few here and there. And hey, it's not like there wouldn't be any new flashes anymore. One can still dream of fresh new OC :P

I had several things planned with the collections, for example the ability to scan your computer's local swf folder with a Java program and then create/sync an identical collection online. Or having the ability to copy abandoned collections so that work on it may continue. But Adobe's announcement on 25jul2017 about ending flash support kinda zapped away a lot of motivation from me. So until further notice collection owners must create their own /disc/ thread if they want feedback, and link it from inside the collection. An example of this being done can be seen in http://swfchan.net/collections/Minus_8k--736/. It's not out of the realm of possibility that I some day implement what I mentioned above with the auto-threads, however with the diminishing user base I have to wonder how much purpose it will serve.

>>78937
I have no plans of taking the site offline. I hope to make the archive available for as long as possible.

>>78965
Not the thread to discuss this, we are on a tangent here. There have been /disc/ threads on this, as well as every other /f/ thread.
Atm it looks like nothing might happen if we lucky. Just download a projector, or better a non-shit browser.

Regarding the collections system, I'm not sure if it's possible but I'd like to do some research for future reference to see if the javascript updater can be replaced by an swf. It's most likely possible with a combination of the AS2/3 file reading abilities coupled with net messages to the upload server. would be awesome to run it entirely in flash.

Other than that the idea seems great, one other possibility for the future (which I floated to Tom Fulp at newgrounds and he seemed to say the banks were all controlled by anti-hentai people so it was impossible) that I'll now float to you is eventually adding a system for the monetization of flash "collections" by the creation of a SWFChan coin/points system: where users can buy points with [insert payment service] and then donate them to collection owners.

The Idea is that the money goes to the site not directly to users so it's not directly goign from [insert payment service here] to hentai, the site could take a cut (to help fund SWFChan) and then payout the remainder to the users who claim points (pay to thier paypal or such) by that amount of points worth of currency. The idea is to replace the increasingly toxic hentai-hating crowdsourcing companies like patreon. especially because they'll probably try to kill off flash projects. Replacing them with a system right on the actual flash host site.

Not sure if this is asking you to bite off more than you can chew.

This is getting pretty off-topic now though, so please use the designated /disc/ threads.

19512 >>>78931
i think admin expanded /disc/ i will take some time before we get 14 (i looked at archive.org)

19511 >>>79518
dunno about the 400 sheckel drama

offtopic but what if someone hacks into my collection and deleted all my stuff especially the text (is that a part of the backup as well)

If someone figures out your password he can delete everything in your collection and it's erased from the database as well, however I do keep long term snapshots of the database so I would probably be able to restore the collection if it was really good. It would be a pain in the neck to do though so it would have to be REALLY good. But surely you haven't used a weak password, right?

Every single backup isn't kept forever and there's of course some delay between snapshots, so if you add a bunch of text to the collection and you get hacked tomorrow there's a chance your latest additions are lost. Keep in mind that you can always take manual backups of how your collection looks by using web.archive.org or archive.today.