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Items

In Pignio, an item is a single, atomic piece of media or non-media which the app supports for viewing, pinning to collections, and so on.

Item formats

Various kinds of items are supported, each with specified features and scopes, specified below with the corresponding formats and file extensions.

  • Images
    • JPEG (.jpg, .jpeg)
    • JFIF
    • WEBP
    • AVIF
    • Bitmap (.bmp)
    • PNG, APNG
    • GIF
    • SVG
  • Videos
    • MP4
    • MPG
    • MOV
    • MKV
    • OGV
    • WEBM
  • Audios
    • MP3 (.mp3, .mpeg)
    • M4A
    • OGG
    • OPUS
    • WAV
    • FLAC
    • MIDI (.mid, .midi) with experimental browser support
  • 3D models
  • Fonts
    • TTF
    • OTF
    • WOFF / WOFF2
  • Documents
    • Plaintext (.txt)
    • PDF
  • Shockwave Flash animations (.swf)
  • Emulator ROMs
    • NES / FC (.nes)
    • SNES / SFC (.sfc)
    • N64 (.n64, .z64)
    • GB, GBC, GBA
    • NDS
  • Text on image

Item metadata

All items:

  • title: Optional item title. If not present, the filename or item ID will be used where needed.
  • description: Optional additional text to show on the item page, no matter its type. Can contain URLs and hastags, which are automatically linkified where needed.
  • alttext: For perceptive media like images or videos, an alternative text to be shown when the media can't be loaded, or for accessibility reasons.
  • link: Optional URL specifying the external source of the item.
  • creator: Username of the user on the instance which has created the item trough the system.
  • systags: WSV list of specific words that the system applies a special meaning to.
  • langs: WSV list of languages the content is marked as being in, in the 3-letter language code format. Can be shown to the user in item pages and is needed to run OCR scans on images.
  • status: Publication status of the item. Currently supports public and silent. A missing value makes the system use the global default (public).

Text type items:

  • text: The text to use to generate an image.