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on being anonymous Nearly all sites use the same pseudonymous username/password system, and nearly all of them have the same drama, sockpuppets, and egotistical mods. Censorship is routine. That works for many people, but not for me. I enjoy being anonymous ...

duplicates As files are shared on the internet, they are often resized, cropped, converted to a different format, altered by the original or a new artist, or turned into a template and reinterpreted over and over and over. Even if you have a very restrictive ...

client api The hydrus client now supports a very simple API so you can access it with external programs. By default, the Client API is not turned on. Go to services->manage services and give it a port to get it started. I recommend you not allow non-local co...

launch arguments You can launch the program with several different arguments to alter core behaviour. If you are not familiar with this, you are essentially putting additional text after the launch command that runs the program. You can run this straight from...

the hydrus database A hydrus client consists of three components: the software installation This is the part that comes with the installer or extract release, with the executable and dlls and a handful of resource folders. It doesn't store any of your set...

quick version Tag parents let you automatically add a particular tag every time another tag is added. The relationship will also apply retroactively. what's the problem? Tags often fall into certain heirarchies. Certain tags always imply certain other tags,...

quick version Tag siblings let you replace a bad tag with a better tag. what's the problem? Reasonable people often use different words for the same things. A great example is in Japanese names, which are natively written surname first. character:ayanami r...

this is non-comprehensive I am always changing and adding little things. The best way to learn is just to look around. If you think a shortcut should probably do something, try it out! If you can't find something, let me know and I'll try to add it! advanced...

hydrus is cpu and hdd hungry The hydrus client manages a lot of complicated data and gives you a lot of power over it. To add millions of files and tags to its database, and then to perform difficult searches over that information, it needs to use a lot of CP...

Do not try to create a subscription until you are comfortable with a normal gallery download page! Go here. Let's say you found an artist you like. You downloaded everything of theirs from some site, but one or two pieces of new work is posted every week. You...

If any of this is confusing, a simpler guide is here, and some video guides are here! downloading You can get the latest release at my github releases page. I try to release a new version every Wednesday by 8pm EST and write an accompanying post on my tumbl...

This document was originally written for when I ran the Public Tag Repository. This is now run by users, so I am no longer an authority for it. I am briefly editing the page and leaving it as a record for some of my thoughts on tagging if you are interested. Y...

all downloaders are user-creatable and -shareable Since the big downloader overhaul, all downloaders can be created, edited, and shared by any user. Creating one from scratch is not simple, and it takes a little technical knowledge, but importing what someone...

exporting and uploading There are many ways to export files from the client: drag and drop Just dragging from the thumbnail view will export (copy) all the selected files to wherever you drop them. The files will be named by their ugly hexadecimal hash...

The PTR is now run by users with more bandwidth than I had to give, so the bandwidth limits are gone! If you would like to talk with the new management, please check the discord. A guide and schema for the new PTR is here. first off I have purposely not pre...

The hydrus client supports two kinds of ratings: like/dislike and numerical. Let's start with the simpler one: like/dislike This can set one of two values to a file. It does not have to represent like or dislike--it can be anything you want. Go to services->...

downloading The hydrus client has a sophisticated and completely user-customisable download system. It can pull from any booru or regular gallery site or imageboard, and also from some special examples like twitter and tumblr. A fresh install will by default ...

If any of this is confusing, a simpler guide is here, and some video guides are here! how do we find files? So, you have stored some media in your database. Everything is hashed and cached. You can search by inbox and resolution and size and so on, but if yo...

If any of this is confusing, a simpler guide is here, and some video guides are here! a warning Hydrus can be powerful, and you control everything. By default, you are not connected to any servers and absolutely nothing is shared with other users--and you ca...

ipfs IPFS is a p2p protocol that makes it easy to share many sorts of data. The hydrus client can communicate with an IPFS daemon to send and receive files. You can read more about IPFS from their homepage, or this guide that explains its various rules in mo...