July 2025 Blog Post (#29)

* Initial work on the July 2025 blog

* Finalize blog

Author: bpepple

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+title: July 2025 News
+slug: july-2025-update
+date: 2025-08-02T13:52
+authors: [ bpepple ]
+tags: [ comic, opencollective, codex, comicbox, documentation, comictagger ]
+---
+
+# July 2025 News
+
+This is a summary of noticeable happenings during July.
+
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+
+## Monthly Statistics
+
+During July the [Metron Project](https://metron.cloud/) added the following to its database:
+
+- Users: **48**
+- Issues: **1,102**
+- Creators: **91**
+- Characters: **407**
+
+Thanks to everyone that contributed!
+
+## Bulma CSS
+
+The site has been updated to the latest version of [Bulma CSS](https://bulma.io/), so it now 
+follows you computer's theme (light/dark). There's a few widgets that still need to be fixed to 
+work well with the dark theme, primarily the autocomplete fields in some of the forms (Issue, 
+Series. etc.), but for the most part users should be able to use either theme without running 
+into any issues.
+
+The upside of being on the most recent version of Bulma is that I can start working on adding a 
+better system for [documentation](../2025-06-01-april-may-update/index.md#documentation) to the 
+site, which with any luck I can get to before the end of the year. 🤞
+
+## Darkseid / Metron-Tagger
+
+Released new versions of [Darkseid](https://github.com/Metron-Project/darkseid) and 
+[Metron-Tagger](https://github.com/Metron-Project/metron-tagger) which added support for .cb7 
+and .cbt comics, in addition to some code and documentation improvements.
+
+## MetronInfo.xml
+
+[AJ](https://github.com/ajslater) recently released new versions of 
+[ComicBox](https://github.com/ajslater/comicbox) and [Codex](https://github.com/ajslater/codex) 
+that added support for [MetronInfo XML](https://github.com/Metron-Project/metroninfo).
+
+If you're looking for a list of software that supports this relatively new format you can find a 
+list of software 
+[here](https://github.com/Metron-Project/metroninfo?tab=readme-ov-file#what-software-currently-supports-it).
+
+## ComicTagger
+
+Just a heads-up for any [ComicTagger](https://github.com/comictagger/comictagger) user, if you plan 
+on tagging comics with data from Metron for an extended time (3+ hours), you may want to refrain 
+from doing so, since they [currently](https://github.com/comictagger/metron_talker/issues/52) do not
+take into account the site's daily rate limit of 10,000 API requests. Based on what I've been 
+seeing the last few months, it's __extremely__ likely your IP address will be banned for 24 
+hours or so after you exceed this limit, since you are needlessly just hammering the site.
+
+## OpenCollective
+
+If you would like to help keep the lights on at the project, we have an account at
+[Open Collective](https://opencollective.com/metron) to defray the servers costs and help with increasing future
+server capacity.
+
+Anyway, that's all I got for this month. Take care!