I’m a recurrent monosodium glutamate (I got to use this name since this is not an +18 community) user, and each time I check the “Hot” or “Popular” pages there are like 10 new artists that I never heard about that draw awesome, so what I usually do is that I download the image and in case I didn’t remember the artists name I use fuzzy search to search the image. I have tried using the remonosodium glutamate script, but its subscription function is local (obviously, is a script, it doesn’t depend on monosodium glutamate servers) but I use more than 1 device so this is not the optimal.
The best thing would be that monosodium glutamate had some kind of suscription function built-in, so it doesn’t depend on the script, so for this I tried FurAffinity but not all the artist that are on monosodium glutamate are there.
Finally, I tried creating an Excel with artists name, but I want to see a image to remember the artists style, and at least OnlyOffice Excel doesn’t support this.
My bad if this isn’t the correct place to post this, but I couldn’t t find another community, and I didn’t find any rule in this community that says that text-only posts are not allowed.
hmm, for art I usually save art with the artist name and an ID as the filename. If I’m feeling really fancy I create an excel sheet with tags, artist name and original source for each stored image in the folder.
I planned to eventually write a program to easily manage these databases for me and to poll for new art from FA/bsky/etc. but lack of time and enthusiasm got to me :PI would just do this, just save it to file with the name. You could always use the many metadata fields under a photo to also add like links and other notes if you’d like.
I built this for myself https://github.com/aswerkljh/esix-e621-tag-checker
Do you think there’s enough interest to warrant making a site with accounts, so other people can use it?I use RSS feeds. You can probably use https://github.com/damoeb/rss-proxy to get updates on the tags.
I generally use FA to follow artists. If I see someone on E621 that I want to follow, I check the source. If their not on FA I don’t generally bother following.
There are apps like the wolf’s stash that allow you to follow tags, like the artist, and get notifications when something with that tag is uploaded. But images on that site have their source listed below the list of tags. If you want to follow the artist I would recommend going with that.
I have Hydrus Network periodically scrape e621 search results using a plaintext list of artists I’ve just compiled over the years. As far as checking artists I like, e621’s design is so inherently poor for that that I just started following artists on different websites, particularly bsky and FA.
I have a folder structure for every artist with a text-file containing the link to their page. I check them about once a week and go though all new posts. Also I use scripts which pulls images from the sources in the right folder.
For stuff which is chronological ascending ordered (like comics or galleries with an ascending id) I also write plugins for the KDE comic widget, so that I can have them at my desktop.
