Danbooru

Pool Classification

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Godel

First of all, I apologize if this has been posted before. I did search before hand but there's no way to know if you refer to your ideas the same way, or if you're looking back far enough.

There's no way to find the kind of pool you're looking for at all without knowing the name of the pool itself AND its contents.

The way pools are organized now is, frankly, unhelpful.
There needs to be a way to classify pools (which is sortable and searchable) in a way that actually makes the pools function actually useful for finding a set of images rather than discovering pools while searching for images.

Pools are mostly these 3 main functions:

  • Group image series or sets (manga/comics/CG Sets)
  • Subjective/Opinionated grouping (ex: Disgustingly Adorable, Hot Legs, and everything else made with non-objective selection)
  • Objective/Factual Grouping (ex: Female Villains, everything else based around facts)

So:

  • Organize pools into categories like CG, Manga, Subjective, Objective, and maybe some more.
  • Possibly display the top 3-5 tags for the pools when searching pools.

Basically, the goal would be to be able to search POOLS for images, rather than having to search through loads of images to find pools you're interested in.

Anyone have any opinions, additional contributions, or rebuttals to make?

Updated by jxh2154

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Godel

Log said:
I believe the ability to tag pools was already brought up for danbooru 2 but you'd have to check the thread to make sure. forum #34926

Darn, I knew something like this was posted somewhere else

Though, I didn't see any mentioning of classifying pools as I have mentioned here (though I didn't check all the pages).
I think it would be a valuable addition to at least be able to know if a pool is a manga/cg set or just a jumble of images related by the pool topic before actually opening the pool.

Also, another addition I think that would make pool browsing easier is to have the links to the pools lead to redirect to "/post?tags=rating:*" rather than "/pool/show/*" and have the pool description off to the lower left as the wikis used to display when you would do a single tag search.

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