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Rating
Ratings for a few popular boorus and links to the page that outlines their definitions. These rat...
File Look-up
MD5 Queries: This will allow you to find tags for files you already have (if the hash value ma...
Copyright
The copyright: namespace, while used on danbooru and e621, is not recognized on PTR. Use series: ...
Pool
Say you have a group of images that you want to represent as being "together" in some way. Either...
Bad Tag Shaming
This document exists entirely to shame some of the dumb tags that we have seen pushed to PTR. The...
PTR
# PTR for Dummies or ## Myths and facts about the Public Tag Repository - [What is the PTR...
Getting Started: Installing
If any of this is confusing, a simpler guide is here, and some video guides are here! downloadin...
Getting started: Files
If any of this is confusing, a simpler guide is here, and some video guides are here! a warning ...
Getting started: Tags
If any of this is confusing, a simpler guide is here, and some video guides are here! how do we ...
Getting started: Downloading
downloading The hydrus client has a sophisticated and completely user-customisable download syst...
thoughts on a public tagging schema
This document was originally written for when I ran the Public Tag Repository. This is now run by...
Getting started with subscriptions
Do not try to create a subscription until you are comfortable with a normal gallery download page...
Filtering Duplicates
duplicates As files are shared on the internet, they are often resized, cropped, converted to a ...
Reducing program lag
hydrus is cpu and hdd hungry The hydrus client manages a lot of complicated data and gives you a...
Advanced usage: General
this is non-comprehensive I am always changing and adding little things. The best way to learn i...
Advanced usage: Tag Siblings
quick version Tag siblings let you replace a bad tag with a better tag. what's the problem? Re...
Database Migration
the hydrus database A hydrus client consists of three components: the software installation ...
Program Launch Arguments
launch arguments You can launch the program with several different arguments to alter core behav...
Client API
client api The hydrus client now supports a very simple API so you can access it with external p...
IPFS
ipfs IPFS is a p2p protocol that makes it easy to share many sorts of data. The hydrus client ca...