Danbooru
This design page is aimed at explaining the approach Hentoid would take to support Danbooru.
A Danbooru is an online imageboard and tag-based image archive using a non-hierarchical semantic structure in which users are able to post content and search for images they want to see through tags and ratings. Such sites have been popularized by Danbooru and Gelbooru.
Examples : Rule34.xxx, yande.re
Danboorus are like a huge bag full of images, each of them tagged with specific metadata. What the definition means by "non-hierarchical semantic structure" is that there is no predetermined album or gallery; rather as many ways of organizing images as there are combinations of tags.
| Topic | Regular H-book | Danbooru |
|---|---|---|
| Structure | A given image is contained into a book, that has a page order | Images have no container and no given order |
| Metadata | Tags apply to all pages of the book uniformly | Each image has its own combination of tags |
| Browsing | A collection of books is usually viewed by listing books, just like a physical library | A danbooru is usually viewed by filtering images through a cumulative series of tags, just like Hentoid's advanced search |
As Hentoid has mainly been designed to download and organize h-books, the app is not good at taming the exotic structure of a danbooru. The following are suggestions to move towards that direction.
