There are a lot of technical changes listed in the article, but I wanted to highlight my personal favorite.

New Screenshots and Subtitles

The original Frinkiac dataset had some data quality issues that had bugged us for years. Subtitle timing was slightly offset from when characters actually said the lines, which meant search results would sometimes land on a frame a second or two away from the moment you wanted. We re-did the subtitle extraction from scratch to fix the timing alignment.

While we were at it, we re-extracted all the screenshots at higher resolution. The original frames were 640x480; the new ones are sharper and hold up better when used in GIFs and comics, especially on high-DPI displays. This isn’t a perfect solution as the original SD presentation avoids some upscaling artifacts (especially over-sharpening), but overall we think it’s an improvement.

Oh, and we put up every episode now that they can be easily filtered. This gives us a current count of 4,990,964 frames across 802 episodes and the movie.

    • MimicJar@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
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      8 days ago

      Since the era of Baby Yoda Disney has been pretty quiet since gif sites like these generally prove free viral advertising. Relevant Wired article circa 2019 .

      Of course they could probably sue them into oblivion, but as long as they’re not making money that Disney could be making, they ignore them. But that could change tomorrow.