- You must make the `etiquette` package importable by placing it in one of your lib paths because I have not made a setup.py yet. Rather than actually moving the folder I just use filesystem junctions.
- Run `python -i etiquette_repl_launch.py` to launch the Python interpreter with the PhotoDB pre-loaded into a variable called `P`. Try things like `P.new_photo` or `P.digest_directory`.
- Note: Do not `cd` into the frontends folder. Stay wherever you want the photodb to be created, and start the frontend by specifying full file path of the launch file.
You may notice that Etiquette doesn't have a version number anywhere. That's because I don't think it's ready for one. I am using this project to learn and practice, and breaking changes are very common.
Ideally, the backend should be frontend-agnostic. Even though the Flask interface is my primary interest, it should not feel like it must be the only one. Therefore I place it in this folder to indicate that other frontends are possible too. Every folder here is essentially a completely separate project.
This folder represents the flask server as somewhat of a black box, in the sense that you can move it around and just run the contained launch file. Subfolders contain the HTML templates, static files, and site code.
- Add some way to support large image albums without flooding the search results. Considering a "hidden" property so that a handful of representative images can appear in the search results, and the rest can be found on the actual Album page.
- Make the FFmpeg path configurable. Some kind of global config? Or part of the database config file? It's not like every photodb needs a separate one.
- When users have '%' or '#', etc. in their username, it is difficult to access their /user/ URL. I would prefer to fix it without simply blacklisting those characters.
- Currently, the Jinja templates are having a tangling influence on the backend objects, because Jinja cannot import my other modules like bytestring, but it can access the methods of the objects I pass into the template. As a result, the objects have excess helper methods. Consider making them into Jinja filters instead. Which is also kind of ugly but will move that pollution out of the backend at least.
- Perhaps instead of actually deleting objects, they should just have a `deleted` flag, to make easy restoration possible. Also consider regrouping the children of restored Groupables if those children haven't already been reassigned somewhere else.
- Add a new table to store permanent history of add/remove of tags on photos, so that accidents or trolling can be reversed.
- Photo thumbnail paths should be relative to the data_dir, they are currently one level up. Or maybe should remove the paths entirely and just recalculate it by the ID. Can't think of any reason to have a thumbnail point elsewhere.
- Fix album size cache when photo reload metadata and generally improve that validation.
- Better bookmark url validation.
- Create a textbox which gives autocomplete tag names.
Here are some thoughts about the kinds of features that need to exist within the permission system. I don't know how I'll actually manage it just yet. Possibly a `permissions` table in the database with `user_id | permission` where `permission` is some reliably-formatted string.
- Preventing logged out users from viewing any page except root and /login.
