Hey all,
Sorry I've been a little MIA! My wife gave birth to our son recently, and it's definitely been a huge learning experience taking care of a newborn.
Updates will resume soon as we finish adjusting to a new life.
Thank you all for your continued support <3
2024-01-31 20:02:58 +0000 UTC View PostWith Cloudflare Bot Fight Mode finally being configurable on our api endpoints, allowing me to whitelist you guys for the API while blocking insane indian scrapers...
It looks like API is back on the menu. Stay Tuned!
2023-09-20 00:13:38 +0000 UTC View PostHey all,
We successfully have some new affiliates to help the site! Huge step up for us!
In addition to Anime Art Academy we also got into the NordVPN program. Let's hope some of the organic traffic converts. Both of these services are actually pretty good.
For the DMCA requests bombarding the site, they have successfully been stopped with nothing but radio silence from the bi...
2023-09-01 22:29:20 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone,
I'm excited to share some important updates regarding MyWaifuList and the recent developments to enhance the platform. We've welcomed several new power users to our team who will play a crucial role in moderating site quality, improving gallery moderation, and expediting Waifu approvals. These changes are geared towards providing a better experience for all our users.
<... 2023-07-30 19:13:42 +0000 UTC View PostHey All,
I've started diving into more of the social media stuff, allowing users to export things like tier lists (available under the series page), and now auto-generating the top waifus of the week into a png for posting into socials.
Tierlist Example:
2023-07-23 22:13:18 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone,
If you've been watching the site, I've been posting updates on the news area pretty frequently this year. But in the interest of keeping you looped in here, I'll be posting about some upcoming changes as well as previous changes.
First off, in April we had image quality updates go up alongside random fixes, a new mobile nav, etc. In June, I launched the tag updates wit...
2023-07-14 01:53:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all!
Really happy with the latest set of changes that have been rolling out. A new set of changes will likely go out Monday, with a host of changes meant to improve the site experience visually.
Here are all the notes that I think I've missed putting on patreon.
Hey all, polishing this new update off this weekend.
For this next update, the first stage of tag suggestions will go out. Instead of the huge mess that occurred when tags were first introduced, this is going to be a lot more user driven and should allow us to organically populate with some control. Last time the flood gates were open we ended up with a lot of tags that just contained tra...
2023-01-07 21:58:53 +0000 UTC View PostThis update has been needed for awhile and I'm happy to report I am making great progress on leveling up the entire search area for the website. I expect to have it done in January sometime.
Instead of slogging through and updating queries under the hood, the new one will be powered by Meilisearch, complete with Waifus, ...
2023-01-01 18:35:17 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone,
Lots of things to talk in this update. We'll start with the bad news: API offline again. I think at this point it's safe to say the API will be unavailable permanently due to issues requiring me to turn back on the cloudflare anti-bot. This is beyond my capabilities due to cash flow restrictions, and im sure that larger companies have resources to deal with this issue (dynam...
2022-11-25 22:28:09 +0000 UTC View PostI'm really tired so I'm going to just tl;dr this.
- likes and trashes now available again site wide, basically in all positions
- weighted scores now pre-calculated, aka, no slowness on server
- unrolled all the stupid shit i did to try to solve this problem before
- positions have been basically deprecated at this point but i have a few other things to clean up
- ...
2022-10-16 02:10:37 +0000 UTC View PostFor performance reasons some pages stopped showing the likes and trashes. Naturally, this was not preferred, but as the database was growing it became hard to actually figure out how to handle this.
This is a normal problem for mysql databases, but in order to fulfil my proper vision of the site I wanted numbers everywhere, so I solved that issue this weekend. It's not exactly my preferre...
2022-10-09 20:34:32 +0000 UTC View PostHey all, this next update is going to contain a shit ton of refactoring. I expect to roll it out sometime this next week.
Bug Fixes:
* Fixed bug submitting waifus
* Fixed bug with watchlist updates
* Fixed an issue updating waifus \ series
Refactoring;
* Updated automated tooling configuration (preparin...
2022-09-18 18:08:56 +0000 UTC View PostPatch Notes:
* Confirmation on clicking "Vote" for wars
* New image pipeline finished
* relaxed banner upload file sizes
* fixed resizing quality
* Performance enhancements for google
* JSON+LD enhancements + other SEO shit
* Fixed description under some menu items
* Access to old airing lists available via backend (/airing/fall/2...
2022-08-14 21:23:32 +0000 UTC View PostHey all, the next update is nearly ready after some back-and-forth with shortpixel support on their weird ass API, lots of minor changes, and a rewritten compression pipeline. I should be deploying this this week.
I opted to not do it today as I am in intense pain from a sunburn. I finally decided to leave my mom's basement and venture out to a large body of wate...
2022-07-31 17:26:04 +0000 UTC View PostHappy Sunday all!
I'm still working on getting the API up and running and in the same update I wanted to tackle something that's been bothering me for a long time: the image pipeline. The image pipeline sucks ass, to say the least. Partly because building it basically went like so:
1. Deploy on-rack compression services and image tools
2. Google says it is not good enough
3. M...
Hey all. Here is the next round of updates:
Please expect this EOM July :)
2022-06-22 21:35:26 +0000 UTC View PostSo last Friday I woke up feeling really good. My wife had caught COVID from her trip and was down, but it was three days in and I just had an itchy throat but felt pretty decent. Better than last time, that's for sure. So, I said fuck it: lets just do the update today.
The last time I got covid there was a noticeable ramp up. It was tired, then sickly, then full blown sick. This one was p...
2022-06-04 00:35:23 +0000 UTC View PostKami-sama, can you like, stop?
My mum is out of the hospital, healing well and is on her way. During my time there I was able to clean a lot of stuff. I cannot really explain just how big of an affect depression has when combined with shopping & hoarding. I was thankfully able to convince her to throw out a lot of stuff, because her rooms were not walker accessible. I cleaned 4-5 hour...
2022-05-25 17:45:57 +0000 UTC View PostHey all,
Last week my mum was admitted to the ER after a nasty fall. We're unable to find her suitable accommodations so the hospital is, more or less, kicking her out. US healthcare I guess.
Since I am headed home where I will be busy all day, I cant deploy this update and monitor and fix for the time necessary to be comfortable with it.
Thank you for your patience and unders...
2022-05-14 21:23:53 +0000 UTC View PostI ran into so many issues building for production I ended up switching over to Vite. I did not believe that rollup would be that much faster, but building production via rollup takes about 15 seconds. Building via Webpack was taking about a minute, so something was clearly wrong. That, and the actual build output was failing to deal with some pretty ridiculous TS errors. Things were also ...
2022-05-01 19:37:43 +0000 UTC View PostHappy to report that compiling for production is now ok, including SSR support to help google stay happy with it's crawlers.
I'm tired.
More soon.
2022-04-27 01:04:39 +0000 UTC View PostThank fuck I'm done getting these tests all done.
Next up is just some backend tests & logic tests, and fixing up comments based on feedback.
I am a bit behind schedule, but yolo.
2022-04-26 01:32:57 +0000 UTC View PostToday I wrote tests. Lots of tests. Browse here, click this, click that, seed this data then make sure it shows up here, so on.
I often hear a lot of people don't want to write tests, which is fine. Depending on the scope of the product or thing you're making it makes sense to sometimes just ignore them.
But when you have a codebase with a lot of features testing can be really...
2022-04-17 23:19:32 +0000 UTC View PostHappy to report that I am entering QA mode & doing "the little things" for the site upgrade. It's been a long road, so I figured I would type up a post that can go over just how much effort has gone into things this far. This is also to remind me of all that has been done.
The next few weeks will be some serious quality checking to make sure everything is good.
2022-04-03 22:28:48 +0000 UTC
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Hey all,
Slowly but steady finishing up the backend items for our admins and mod staff. Next week ill start in on the waifu approval center. While not super difficult, it can be pretty hard to pack in a lot of quick features to keep them productive while still maintaining quality data.
I believe this is the last thing needed then it's all QA from there.
Thank you all for your ...
2022-03-19 22:00:42 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
This weekend, I finished up the editing of profile pages custom lists, and started moving to more backend operations for admins\moderators\power users.
I am feeling great about the progress so far.
My next order of business is to get wars functional and then circle back and rewrite all the cypress tests for the new update. This should only take about a day as the user...
2022-02-21 21:54:28 +0000 UTC View PostHewwo,
As of writing, the following items remain for finishing the upgrade of the user end side of things:
Thank you all for your patience and support.
2022-02-06 22:57:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Small video of the update progress. Shows off search, banner uploads, new profiles, ability to edit submissions, etc.
I'm pretty happy with the new banner upload & crop system.
