Is there a setting to enable me to see the number of images I've set when viewing an artist even if a part of them are blacklisted? Instead of seeing about 25 of them and then having to go to next page, so it would work like in the main "Posts" tab (no matter how many are blacklisted I still see 100 images on a page)?

No, because the blacklist is implemented client-side, not server-side. The server doesn't do anything with your blacklist. It sends you 100 images, and then your browser hides the ones that match your blacklist.

If you browse e621 on a slow computer, you can see this happening: the page initially loads showing all 100 thumbnails, and then some of the thumbnails are hidden.

Technically it's possible (eg. via a client-side extension that does its own pagination, loading additional server pages until it compiles 100 non-blacklisted items.). But I know of no actual implementation.

savageorange said:
No, because the blacklist is implemented client-side, not server-side. The server doesn't do anything with your blacklist. It sends you 100 images, and then your browser hides the ones that match your blacklist.

If you browse e621 on a slow computer, you can see this happening: the page initially loads showing all 100 thumbnails, and then some of the thumbnails are hidden.

Technically it's possible (eg. via a client-side extension that does its own pagination, loading additional server pages until it compiles 100 non-blacklisted items.). But I know of no actual implementation.

wouldn't it have to save where it is though? and you couldn't skip pages.

Well, yeah. It also wouldn't be compatible with order: metatag, IIRC, since before_id POST parameter (needed to get all items properly with no omissions or dupes) forces a particular order.

It still would work OK for most of the browsing I've done in the past.

also you'd have to remove the toggle for the blacklist because that depends on it being client-side. you'd have to refresh, and there's the question of how to get to the right page yet again.

kamimatsu said:
also you'd have to remove the toggle for the blacklist because that depends on it being client-side. you'd have to refresh, and there's the question of how to get to the right page yet again.

Uh no. It would still be client side -- I specifically said that -- , so blacklist toggle could work completely unmodified actually. The total number of images shown when blacklisted items are made visible would be irregular, but getting to the right page is easy given a before_id -- and before_id is always by definition known if you are not on the first page.

You could even jump to arbitrary pages -- it would just be slower than normal.

savageorange said:
Uh no. It would still be client side -- I specifically said that -- , so blacklist toggle could work completely unmodified actually. The total number of images shown when blacklisted items are made visible would be irregular, but getting to the right page is easy given a before_id -- and before_id is always by definition known if you are not on the first page.

You could even jump to arbitrary pages -- it would just be slower than normal.

jumping to different pages would basically be removing the tag limit altogether.