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by gorb314 1201 days ago
Not a feature, but an advantage: From what I can tell (I have only used PureRef so far) is that BeeRef has a open file format. For someone with their own image tagging system, it is hard for me to export an image query to PureRef. Having an open file format would make that easy.
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app4soft 1201 days ago
> Not a feature, but an advantage: From what I can tell (I have only used PureRef so far) is that BeeRef has a open file format

Guess I should add news here: someone reverse engineered PureRef's file format[0] just few weeks ago[1,2]

[0] https://github.com/FyorUU/PureRef-format

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31lsz3JNtCU

[2] https://www.pureref.com/forum/read.php?2,2912

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gorb314 1201 days ago
I saw this post too; I didn't mention it here because it is not an officially documented file format structure. An open and documented format is almost always a better alternative, IMHO.
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app4soft 1201 days ago
Yes, I fully agree on this.

Hope, maintainer of BeeRef fork would continue its development.[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34983274#34983291

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