Sharing what you have

Finding and downloading are anonymous — pushing a subtitle back isn't. You need an account token: create one on the server (see Browsing and registering), then either set it in Settings or export MOANDROP_TOKEN (the CLI's --token flag works too). Settings' token wins when both are set, so a CLI user's existing environment variable just works in the window without any extra setup.

From the window

Once you've matched a video, the results list ends with a Share what you have section: MoanDrop looks beside the video for subtitle files already sitting there (the same <stem>.<lang>.srt sidecar convention it writes on download, just read the other way) and lists each one with its own Share button. A Share a subtitle… button is always present too, for anything that convention didn't catch — it opens a file picker.

You can also drop a video together with one or more .srt/.vtt files onto the window at once: that pairs them explicitly, so an unconventional filename still shares correctly instead of being skipped.

If Settings hasn't set a token yet, sharing prompts for one on the spot rather than failing. And if what you're sharing turns out to already be on the server, MoanDrop says so calmly — "already on the node" — not as an error; the server never stores identical bytes twice.

From the command line

moandrop push "Some Scene (1080p).mp4" "Some Scene (1080p).en.srt"

MoanDrop fingerprints the video locally, the same way it does for a match — the video file itself is never uploaded, only its hashes and the subtitle text. The language comes from the subtitle's own filename (.en.srt means English); pass --lang if the file isn't named that way. Along with the subtitle, the push sends the video's filename stem — the one piece of naming a non-Stash user reliably has, and what lets someone else's copy of the same scene, with no perceptual hash of its own, still be found by name.

What pushing gives others

Once it's on the server, anyone else's copy of that same video — a different rip, a different container, a renamed file — can find your subtitle through its own fingerprint. If it's byte-identical to a subtitle already on the server, MoanDrop reports it as a duplicate and nothing new is created.

What happens to it after that — how it's ranked against other subtitles for the same scene, how people vote on it — is the server's side of the story: see Votes and stash-box, or Voting and settings for voting from MoanDrop itself.