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Feature idea: warn me before I queue the same image and URL twice

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Hannah L

I pin the same article to six boards over a few weeks with different graphics. Every few months I lose track and queue an identical image+destination pair twice, which is the one thing everybody says not to do.

What I want is dumb and local: hash the image (perceptual, not md5 - I resave PNGs constantly) plus the normalized destination URL, and flag it at queue time. Not a block, just a "you already pinned this to Home Decor on Aug 3" line. Does any tool do this already?

# duplicates # feature # queue

2 replies

Tom

Perceptual hashing is the right call. I built this with a 64-bit dhash and a Hamming distance threshold of 8 and it catches re-exports, crops and the "I changed the text colour" case without false-positiving on genuinely different designs from the same template. The URL side is harder than it sounds - you have to strip UTMs, normalize trailing slashes and decide whether http/https count as the same.

Alex Morgan

Careful what you wish for. Pinning the same image to multiple boards spaced out is a thing plenty of people deliberately do. If the warning fires every time it becomes noise and you click through it, at which point it's worse than nothing. Scope it to same image + same board, or same image + same destination within N days.

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