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this version should work through cloudflare

Parsing of favourite pages in Flipper is currently down due to migration to cloudflare FFN performed. I am in the process of investigating what kind of solution I can provide and it seems there's at least a few. Stay tuned.

Meanwhile if you already have your recommendation lists you can use flipper for now, it's only ffn page parsing that is fucked, my own server is okay. Alternatively, you can use chrome extensions to fetch your favourite links manually from your fav page and feed them into flipper directly in "new list" menu. Yet another alternative is to use the bot in the discord below. It uses the same recommendations algorithm as Flipper but since it's on my own PC it was simpler to fix parsing for it so it's currently working.

If you want up to date information about this situation, join my discord: https://discord.gg/mHpeHMtsQC

UPD 2001/01/04 : Seems like fixing the parsing of fav lists will be a part of a bigger infrastructure upgrade I am doing rn. I expect it to take a week or two at least.

Adding a new sorting mode: gems. Mode will sort fics to pull up ones that have barely any favourites on the site but a significant amount of metascore in flipper. The idea is: such fic may be hidden unnoticed gems by the nature of the metascore they achieved in recommendations algorithm (or they can be horrible trash someone faved just out of amusement)

Added a bit of polish to fandom lists functionality:

• active list names are displayed in green
• freshly added fandoms have yellow background
• you can press Enter when you are typing in the combobox to add current fandom to list
• if a list has all "exclude" fandoms already, newly added item will be an exlude, otherwise include
• on item addition list is resorted so that includes come first

This release introduces the ability to create fandom lists that allow you to flexibly include/exclude fandoms from your searches. This functionality replaces old ignore list in favor of passing it to a new fandom list called "Ignores"

TLDR: You can now say "only show harry potter and game of thrones but not crossed over with mass effect" and stuff like that. Fandom lists work in descending order so if the same fandom is present in more than one active list, the lowest one takes priority.

This is a mirroring release to match the changes in the server code with the intent to better create initial recommendation lists for people.

This update generally polishes user interaction all around.

Bugfixes:

1. Fixed snoozing. It was working for "until next chapter" but nothing else. Also, "Snooze" is no longer a tag, but an entirely separate mechanism so sorting on tags no longer brings up snoozed stuff unless explicitly desired with "Snoozed" checkbox.
2. Tags are properly cleared when recommendation list is created. Previously tags just got decolored but were still selected which produced inexplicable results on next list creation.
3. Fixed saving of fic notes. the were saved when user navigated out of the fic, but not on save button
4. Fixed crash at the start of the first run in the Mint version.
5. Flipper will correctly reinitialize RNG sequence when tag selection is changed while random searches are done. Previously it was stuck on the first tag set used during the session.

New stuff:

1. Flipper now has initial setup dialog so that the user hopefully enters main window with recommendations already created.
2. It's now possible to select what is displayed on application start in "settings: Load on startup" The choice is between nothing, top of your recommendation list and random fics from your recommendation list.
3. Added a new button to reset filter to defaults to reduce confusion when certain button presses set not entirely obvious filters.
4. Added a shuffle button next to page navigation to displayed shuffle fics in place
5. User tags, snoozes, notes and ignores are now periodically backed up to Appdata/Roaming/Flipper/backups. Flipper will also verify user database integrity on each startup and if it's broken will make a backup of the current one, then offer to restore from latest backup
6. Flipper now displays the latest database update date on the status bar below.
7. A new checkbox to display fics from liked authors. "Liked authors" are ones you've tagged with "liked" and "rec". Initial recommendation list automatically assigns "liked" to its sources so this mode should be working from the beginning. It was possible to do this through tags tab earlier but it was a bit too out of the way.
8. Added a new combobox that allows user to select whether they want to see source for current recommendation list on refilter or not. see tooltips for "Source fics" next to recommendation list selector for details.
9. It is now possible to see how much fics are assigned to each tag. See "Display Tag Sizes" checkbox on the tags tab.
10. It is now possible to purge all fics from a tag with "Purged selected tags"
11. A new "Spoiler" quick tagger for stuff you'd like to read after you've seen the source material
12. A new algorithm adjuster that will lower the scores for fics based on your dislikes. This will only work when enough dislikes have been accumulated. To be specific - you need to tag fics as Disliked and Hide. Once 100 of those have been accumulated this adjuster will start to work. Otherwise it will do nothing.

Improvements:

1. Reworked the recommendation list creation widget to maybe make more sense. It is now cleaner visually, has less confusing options and is separated into distict modes for easier perception.
2. Changing recommendation list in the list selector updates the scores of currently selected fics to ones in the new list without refiltering.
3. A bunch of renames in the sorting UI to better reflect what each of them means. Rec Count is now called Metascore. FavRate is now called Trending.
4. A new Settings tab to control the behaviour of the application, It's now possible to display the position of the fic in the whole recommendation list (see settings: "Displayed fic is is")
5. LOTS of tooltips everywhere. You can hover over most of the elements for explanations
6. Replaced message boxes with labels where possible, less annoying windows to close
7. Deleting a tag will no longer make fics tagged with it unrechable because unless it was also purged it will always pop back on the next relaunch
8. Now you can recreate recomendation list with Refresh button to the left of it's name and it includes all the params of the list to reacreate. NOTE: only for lists created with the new version of Flipper.
9. Added a checkbox to toggle id search on/off without clearing the edit
10. Modified layout a bit to allow the filter part to be minimized to a greater degree
11. It's now possible control the display of comma in wordcount, detected or original genre, and display of author name on a fic in settings.
12. Some elements were moved to places where they are more organically located
13. Added a section with contact information

Retired elements:

1. Retired "Fic list compare" until I have a proper m. page parser or FFN shows more than 500 faves.
2. "Own profile" check is retired in favor of explicitly setting the profile id on the first run of the app and setting it later via settings tab if needed.
3. Retired "Always pick at:" in recommendation list creation becuase it was useless

Flipper will now try to adjust which sources to use for recommendations creation automatically which hopefully results in better tailored recommendations. Even if the generated lists will be somewhat smaller.

Note that mint client needs to be run with flipper.run and it will crash on the first launch. The second onwards should be fine

What it says in the title. Flipper will be able to read all of your fics to create the recommendation list instead of just 500. If you also set "assign liked to fics" you can then filter on "Liked" tag to see your whole favourites The caveat is that flipper still doesn't know anything about fics not in its database so it may lose a couple from your faves

Expanding on the previous release, I've made selection an actual subsystem in Flipper. Here's how it works now:

Whenever you are clicking on any control on a fic, this fic gets "selected". It's not shown, but flipper will remember it. Afterwards, if you refilter and this fic is again in the new list, you will be able to press a new "crosshair" button at the top of the list to center the view on that fic.

This is especially useful when you are doing retagging on your favourites and need to remove fics you've already processed by refilter. Click on the next "unprocessed" fic. Refilter. Press crosshair. Continue doing what you were doing.

Also, if you navigate with back/forward buttons, list will be centered on the last selection that happened on that history frame and that fic will be highlighted until the next operation happens.

One notable moment: if you click on fic's summary or any other non-control element the fic will ALSO be selected and WILL receive the green frame highlight.

In essence: if you click on a control, the fic is selected but not highlighted. If you click on a non-contol a fic is selected and is highlighted. Motivation for this is that when you click on some control, a fic more often than not is no longer relevant and having it highlighted will just pointlessly draw attention to it. However when you click on a summary this essentially expresses your desire to mark this fic for subsequent refilter.