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So Ponibooru is shutting down.

ZennistradZennistrad
edited 2012-06-17 17:39:39 in Webspace

Huh.


Good thing I saved all my favorite images to my hard drive already.


Thankfully, it seems we're getting a replacement.

Comments

  • nohaynicklibrenohaynicklibre
    Kichigai birthday!!

  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    welp



    fandom's over guys time to pack it up
  • nohaynicklibrenohaynicklibre
    Kichigai birthday!!

    I would now post Paffendorf but I feel it would be overkill

  • ZennistradZennistrad

    What's a paffendorf?

  • MrWMrW

    And nothing of value was lost that day.

  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    Honestly, as useful as it could be, Ponibooru was kind of a shitty site.
  • ZennistradZennistrad
    edited 2012-06-17 17:58:07

    And nothing of value was lost that day.


    Say what you will, but I'd much rather have a single site that allows me to search for images than be forced to browse Deviantart and several different Tumblr blogs.


    Fuck you Deviantart, I shouldn't have to refresh 3 times to get a single page to load.

  • MrWMrW

    Wasn't Ponibooru founded because pony fanart basically clogged up similar sites?

  • BeeBee
    edited 2012-06-17 18:31:44

    So basically it got shut down because there was no practical way to police the sheer amount of spam over the last month.  Great.

  • InsanityAddictInsanityAddict
    Diet NEET

    Needs more mods, clearly.

  • BeeBee
    edited 2012-06-17 19:33:03

    Needed mods period.  IIRC it was just the dude.  The fact that it lasted as long as it did at the scale it did was frankly a miracle of unusually well-behaved internet communities.


    One guy isn't gonna be able to keep up with mountains of Dolan spam when 4chan gets frisky.

  • Wicked223Wicked223
    We Played Some Open Chords and Rejoiced, For the Earth Had Circled the Sun Yet Another Year

    What kind of person tries to moderate a central hub for one of the fastest-growing fandoms on the Internet by themselves...?

  • CountryPumpkinCountryPumpkin
    I clench my fists and yell "anime" towards an uncaring, absent God, and swear solemnly to press my thumbs into Chocolate America's eyeballs until he is blinded, to directly emasculate sporting figures, to beat the shit out of tumblr users with baseball bats, and to quietly appreciate what Waylon Smithers being gay means to me.

    Reading what he actually said makes it seem like he was disgusted at what went on there. Isn't that place full of My Little Pony porn?


    This is official notice that Ponibooru is shutting down.

    This has been a long time coming, and is not due to any sort of external pressure, nor is it due to financial problems. The reasons are personal: I (Eco/Archive/&c) have simply reached the point where I can see no way to run the site that I can live with, nor do I have any person whom I trust to run the site in a way I can endorse.

    Here's how this is going to go down:

    Effective immediately, no new uploads or comments will be processed; the site is going read-only. At some point in the next 24 hours, humans (as opposed to spambots) who were banned will be unbanned, as, in a read-only site, they can no longer do any damage.

    Eight torrents have been provided:
    Every safe image
    Every questionable image
    Every explicit image
    Every unrated image
    Every high-scoring safe image
    Every high-scoring questionable image
    Every high-scoring explicit image
    Every high-scoring unrated image

    All above-average images (the same ones chosen for the four "cream of the crop" torrents) are being bulk-imported to Derpibooru, whose admin has assured me that the site will be able to take the load should you be seeking a new image repository to frequent.

    There is now a "Bulk Download" feature (the bugs in which we have been fixing over the past week). Whenever you do a search, there will be a button at the bottom of the left-hand menu to download a ZIP of the first 100 images that matched the search, along with a "credits" file of the same type as in the torrents. The URL the button goes to can be edited to produce subsequent 100-image "pages".
    Two months from now, on August 17th, 2012, Ponibooru will go dark. Hotlinked images may continue to work indefinitely, but I make no guarantees.

    This affects none of my other projects; the thread locator especially isn't going away any time soon.

    Thank you for using Ponibooru. I am glad that I was able to provide something of value to the community for the year and a half since its founding, and I regret that I was not up to the task of keeping it going forever.

    — Eco

  • BeeBee
    edited 2012-06-17 20:45:51

    Yeah it had loads of porn (welcome to the Internet).  If he wanted it gone all he'd have to do is just carpet-delete anything marked "explicit" and "questionable" and fuck anyone who complained about it because it's his site.  Hell, they were already filtered out of search results by default.


    I get the feeling he was more fed up with the outage at the beginning of the month, followed by the Rabid Idiot Brony flamewar that people used his site as a battleground for for goddamn weeks.  And then a badly-timed Dolan spam on top of that, and yeah.


    Looks like the new site has stuff to downvote the shit out of spam, so at least it'll be somewhat easier for a mod to just trash it all whenever he happens to log in.

  • CrimsonCrimson
    Give us fire! Give us ruin! Give us our glory!

    And nothing of value was lost that day.

  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human

    Sounds like the Ponibooru admin is managing the end of his site in a very commendable way.

  • BeeBee

    Yeah, refreshingly drama-less.

  • SchitzoSchitzo
    They're somethin' else.

    dingdongthewitchisdead.wav

  • CounterclockCounterclock
    Belief

    Say what you will, but I'd much rather have a single site that allows me to search for images than be forced to browse Deviantart and several different Tumblr blogs.




    And you're geting that with the revised "http://derpiboo.ru/"

  • BeeBee

    From what I can tell, the new site is better at least by design.  We'll see how well (if) they moderate it.


    Regardless of its creepier bits, it had some really, really kickass art, as well as the patronage of an unusually fanwork-friendly production crew.  I mean, given the general litigation-happy state of Western IP's, it seems pretty backwards to go ringing the Wicked Witch bells over seeing it gone.

  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human

    So basically ponibooru has been roughly equivalent in content type to danbooru or gelbooru--lots of creepy/sick shit but also quite a bit of really good art?


     

  • BeeBee
    edited 2012-06-18 02:14:32

    Pretty much, except it's nice enough to filter the creepy shit out by default too.  You'd occasionally get some asshole submitting porn with no rating tag, but people usually caught that within minutes.

  • InsanityAddictInsanityAddict
    Diet NEET

    Not to mention some of the creepy/sick shit is hilarious instead of the generic fetish crap you find on the weeaboo equivalents.

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