Pixiv whitecube redesign

Could somebody more familiar with the site (and better knowledge of Japanese) tell me if there's a way to opt out of pixiv new design? Even disregarding my everlasting hate for heavily scripted mobile-centric designs, I found it increasingly frustrating to check artists before approving aliases and mass-updates - the UI is slower, it requires additional clicks to get to artist info, and with stacc button gone, it seems there's no trace of user moniker left in the UI or page source code. That's not to mention our bookmarklet failing on new URL format.

I'm not seeing this? I can't find anything about a redesign in Google either, except for a few http://www.pixiv.net/whitecube links that redirect me back to http://www.pixiv.net.

evazion said:

I'm not seeing this? I can't find anything about a redesign in Google either, except for a few http://www.pixiv.net/whitecube links that redirect me back to http://www.pixiv.net.

Oh great, did they selectively enable it for some users as A/B testing?.. Every pixiv link I go to while logged in redirects me to http://www.pixiv.net/whitecube/something/something with a new design of "let's build everything with javascript" type. I received an email about redesign a week or two ago. Gonna try to make a new account then...

It might be a very good chance to inspect the new design, though, if they are going to apply it globally some time later.

Okay so I made a new account and it gave me the new design. I actually like certain things about it. Images are bigger, you don't have to leave the page to open posts, manga galleries are less shitty (you don't have to open a separate tab and wait forever for images to load, you just scroll down). Also infinite scrolling (like Endless Pixiv Pages) is built-in.

Anyway these are the new URL types:

• http://www.pixiv.net/whitecube/user/9948
• http://www.pixiv.net/whitecube/user/9948/illust/54290638
• http://i1.pixiv.net/workspace/img/2016/06/23/11/49/33/9948_70d72fa308ee24e8e400d76b9dad7c80.jpg <- some type of new picture under the artist's profile?

Member/illust IDs are still there, so that's good. Though we do still have code that scrapes stuff from Pixiv's HTML. That will probably break on the new design. But I'm not sure why we still do that at all though, the Pixiv API seems to have all the info we need.

@RaisingK: Heads up, this redesign broke Pixiv Image Searches and Stuff too.

evazion said:

Okay so I made a new account and it gave me the new design.

Well there goes my hope about switching back, I guess.

New design is certainly better for browsing pictures (I love that page count in manga posts previews is displayed right away), but it's worse for getting info. Artist commentary and artist info are both hidden under "click to read more", polls are under pop-up window, infinite scroll prevents you from getting to the bottom bar (where all doc links are located). And HTML scraping is out of question now, of course.

evazion said:

@RaisingK: Heads up, this redesign broke Pixiv Image Searches and Stuff too.

Well this is going to be a headache. I dread the day I get switched over to the new design...

This'll mess up the Uploader Bookmarklet even more, I fear. I've already had issues grabbing the master image under the old system I'm on based on my current account.

Does the above changes affect JSON queries...?

Webmasters should think ten times before radically altering a site. And then not do it.

The old ways are the good ways.

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Doesn't affect me since I don't frequent there; yet I was gonna say, 'at least it's not the lunatic fashionable Fat Slab Style' --- Metro/Swiss/Flat, but yes, yes it is.

BrokenEagle98: You mean JSON queries to Danbooru? I think the only things this will affect are the upload bookmarklet (it doesn't know how to handle whitecube URLs yet) and translated tags (since I think those are still scraped from the HTML page). So the only API that could be potentially affected I think is the artist finder, at /source.json?url=<blah>. This API is undocumented but you can use it to get artist info / translated tags from Pixiv URLs: http://danbooru.donmai.us/source.json?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pixiv.net%2Fmember_illust.php%3Fmode%3Dmedium%26illust_id%3D54290638.

Ah sorry, I meant JSON queries to the Pixiv API...

The Pixiv API, AFAIK, is undocumented and it probably isn't wise to rely on it exclusively.

Seems I'm stuck on this POS design now.

The new design is brighter than the sun.
My extensions don't work.
It's wayy too bubbly for my taste. What is this? A disney website?

Is there any way at all to use the previous design?

Anyone made a "pixiv downloader" compatible with this?

Does someone know how to search on the new pixv?

Old search: 東方+OR+(+touhou+)
New search: ???

Like above using 東方+OR+(+touhou+) I could find touhou post with either the english or the japanese tag, but now that one isn't working, and if I just search touhou 東方 it search for pic that have BOTH tags.

toshiya4 said:

The new design is brighter than the sun.
My extensions don't work.
It's wayy too bubbly for my taste. What is this? A disney website?

Is there any way at all to use the previous design?

Anyone made a "pixiv downloader" compatible with this?

I doubt if anything can fix the functionality [ actually devs generally claim, a la Microsoft, that broken functionality is an 'improvement' and serves you better ], but theoretically appearance might be fixed by someone creating, say, a greasemonkey script, that runs over a site, in addition. However I looked everywhere for something to fix all the 'Fat Slab' sites on the web, so I wouldn't hold my breath.

This is quite frustrating. The site has become unusable for me. The UI is just horrible and it loaded 91 images (master1200 size) when I went to the home page. This is ridiculous. I hope they make whitecube tablet/mobile only, since that's what it is "optimized" for. (Although the site is probably too heavy for mobile devices right now)
I'm having issues with bookmarklet as well, it loads the tags and artist name but the image preview doesn't show up.

Speaking of which, how should we handle standardization of URLs for artist entries...? Should we adopt the new http://www.pixiv.net/whitecube/user/14540636 format, or stick with the old http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=14540636 format? I ask because I recently corrected artist #142597 to use the older format. The format doesn't matter so much for web users since the website will redirect the user to the proper location (for now).

For program developers though, such as myself, I frequently use the artist search function with my scripts to find out if a Pixiv artist has already been created or not on Danbooru. If there is no standardization, that would mean programmers would have to start doing two API calls for those types of searches... one to search under the old format, and one to search under the new.

I'm more for staying with the old format for now, at least until/unless it becomes deprecated on Pixiv. Thoughts?

I normalize all of the profile links to the old format, so no whitecube URLs last more than a day here.

So how do I get to see this new white cube design? I don't see it when I'm logged in.