mimemagic VS otwarchive

If you're curious, here's how I solved it for ruby back in the day. Still used magic bytes, but added an overlay on top of the freedesktop.org DB: https://github.com/mimemagicrb/mimemagic/pull/20

Get it directly from github commit.

[AO3-6152] - Due to a licensing incident with a Rails dependency known as mimemagic, we had to update Rails to 5.2.5 and mimemagic to 0.3.6.

I don't think mimemagic works on Windows after the drama. I opened a PR for that a month ago but no one seems to care: https://github.com/mimemagicrb/mimemagic/pull/141

"License, motherfucker"

I know the vulgarity of the statements is tongue in cheek, but this one has been reinforced lately by the "MIME Magic" debacle[1], mama mia.

[1] https://github.com/mimemagicrb/mimemagic/issues/98

it has a licensing issue

https://github.com/mimemagicrb/mimemagic/commit/749a7e59de480b7c0373acc4f8ceb4444352ba46#diff-2ea7e2364883967953ab518a8316b639e612b8a6f20eadb7b97939d91c8e2612

On the other hand mimemagic provides by_magic https://github.com/mimemagicrb/mimemagic#usage which does detection by heuristic. It's a radically different method for a radically different use case.

Anyway, I created a PR addressing new Mimemagic not working on Windows https://github.com/mimemagicrb/mimemagic/pull/141

Someone broke the internet for rails https://github.com/mimemagicrb/mimemagic/issues/98

Thanks! It came from the Image set AO3 uses. Not sure where that is actually used/if it ever actually is used though

It wasn't really "swept under the rug", it's just that none of the volunteers decided to work on it. AO3 is entirely run by volunteers, so it's not really anyone's fault that this is taking 14 years to resolve. If you think it's that serious, you can write the code yourself and submit it, but don't take it for granted that this is someone else's responsibility.

Since 5th December 2010. You should probably try to get your email back.

How to set up a dev environment: https://github.com/otwcode/otwarchive/wiki

Source: AO3-6365 Update muted users limit

Everybody who wants to complain about the horrible nightmare world of AO3 is hereby invited to get off their asses and make their own archive with blackjack and hookers. You can find the code here. You are welcome to use it.

It's Ruby on Rails. Repository

For reference, here's the post that says that a unique IP address can only add one hit per 24 hours. Here's the pull request on github. I'm not sure why the FAQ hasn't been updated to reflect that, but as far as I can tell, the 24 hour system is still in place.

On a related note, Ao3's code is open-source and they're on GitHub, so like, if you're a programming nerd and really want a feature added maybe send a pull request or something.