• 12 million total page views (GA) +7.5% YoY
• ? million search served by Telegram Bot
• ? million API search served for 3rd party apps/bots
• 11k Web Extension users (10k Chrome, Firefox+Opera+Edge: <2k)
• 130k monthly active users, 6k daily users (GA)
• 450k monthly unique visiters, 20k daily (Cloudflare)
• 22k daily search

• New website design
• MS Edge Extension
• trace.moe API standardized and out of beta
• Rate limit and queue system
• Search quota
• User accounts for donator
• New backend infrastructure

• Nextjs
• SFW by default, video preview of all results, concise anime info
• Cloudflare Pages + Cloudflare Workers (for image proxy and title translation)
• Search traffic and search time
• Database statistics
• New status page

https://github.com/soruly/trace.moe-www

https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/search-anime-by-screensho/bkigcpancdclbiekidfbcghedaielbda

https://github.com/soruly/trace.moe-windows-menu

Linode => Vercel => Heroku / Railway

https://github.com/soruly/trace.moe-telegram-bot-vercel

• 5162 => 5604 anime series
• 29256 => 31259 hours, 21TB = >23TB
• 2.7 billion frames analyzed, 772 million indexed (156GB in size)

Analyzing all anime takes 2x3950X+1x3700X 75 hours to complete (peak ~10000 hours/day)

https://trace.moe/about

https://github.com/soruly/trace.moe-api

• Tidy up a lot 🥰
• fully containerized
• Updated LIRE, Solr, Java (8=>17)
• RabbitMQ => WebSocket
• CI tests

• Migrate from PHP to nodejs ✅
• Search queue w/ priority ✅
• Test cases ✅
• Migrate to cloud partially 🥴
• New server ⌛

• Prepare for Web Extension Manifest V3
• Index Youtube channels automatically
• Detect and store scene boundaries up-front (with Rust?)
• Better search image manipulation (like black border crop)
• Cross reference results with JCD if new server is available
• Match video to video

• https://github.com/soruly/trace.moe
• https://github.com/soruly/trace.moe-api
• https://github.com/soruly/trace.moe-www
• https://github.com/soruly/trace.moe-media
• https://github.com/soruly/trace.moe-worker
• https://github.com/soruly/trace.moe-WebExtension
• https://github.com/soruly/trace.moe-telegram-bot
• https://github.com/soruly/trace.moe-image-proxy (included in trace.moe-www)
• https://github.com/soruly/anilist-crawler (no longer a dependency)
• https://github.com/soruly/anilist-chinese (no longer a dependency)
• https://github.com/soruly/liresolr
• https://github.com/soruly/sola (no active development)

• Patron: https://www.patreon.com/soruly
• Discord: https://discord.gg/K9jn6Kj
• Telegram: https://telegram.me/whatanimeupdates
• Facebook Page (abandoned)

• Dr. Mathias Lux for LIRE Project and liresolr
• anilist.co for providing anime info via Anilist API
• Sponsors from Patreon, GitHub and Paypal
• fans who helped answering questions in various channels
• friends who reported bugs and issues to me

https://about.me/soruly