This is the general thread for the alternative fan sites of the My Little Pony fandom. Discussion, development suggestions, and criticisms are all welcome here.

>Why alternate boorus?
The absolute state of Derpibooru has led to the development of various alternatives. Many altbooru staffmembers are present ITT, listening to comments and answering questions.
Note that this is NOT the Derpibooru drama general. Please keep posts about Derpibooru in the mlpg.co thread.

>Why alternate text sites?
Pastebin.com has been deleting pony pastes. FimFiction does not allow stories in the greentext format. FimFetch purges foalcon and other material deemed to be "unacceptable".

>General purpose boorus
ponerpics.org by Lotus [!!WYvH32WjaoR]
ponybooru.org by ZizzyDizzyMC [!DizzyMC4pc]
twibooru.org by Twifag [!twifag.HOY] and Floorb [!!H3PJaMJmY66]

>Specialized boorus
booru.foalcon.com by Pathos [!!arjIjTdCTdq] (underage)
lyrabooru.org (hot glue)

>(Green)text and other fanfiction
ponepaste.org managed by Floorb

>Dedicated archives
horsewords.org
a0346f102085fe9f.github.io/IAS2
foalfetch.net by Floorb
iwiftp.yerf.org by Rome

>Video sharing
pony.tube

>File sharing
pone.rs

>Latest Developments:
*Ongoing comment and image spam on various altboorus
*Security issue on Ponepaste which allowed for anyone to view private paste titles, their authors, and tags (but not text contents) patched
*FimFetch escalates its ongoing purge of content deemed "unacceptable" (mainly foalcon) by hosting a list of accounts from all around the fandom (FimFiction, Dicksword, AO3, Derpibooru, etc.) claimed to be associated with said material leading Floorb to create foalfetch.net--for an overview, see https://ponepaste.org/9926
*TPA/Ponybooru server restoration completed, Hobune instance also updated
*Ponerpics image back-forward buttons broken (again)
*Brief Foalbooru server issues resolved
*Floorb finally bulk-imported missing images onto Twibooru, image processing queue bloated due to such.
*Total Spammer Death solution put in place on Twibooru
*Twibooru duplicate queue is reduced to two pairs of unmergable videos
*Ponerpics duplicate queue has several hundred reports awaiting an update to Derpi metadata handling
*Twibooru importer disrupted by Derpi API change; fix implemented and missed images retrieved (and again)
*Twibooru is bulk-importing images from Manebooru

Previous thread: >>42302368

Obligatory reminder that all flutterfags are retarded, psychotic, and deseve death, Inshallah.

>>42398296
Because they're autistic and thus like everything contained within neatly labelled boxes. They also like nothing demanding them go out of their comfort zone or endure even a single negative emotion, hence that site's rules.

Twibooru's thumbnail generator broke, new pics are not shown on the front page for more than 3 hours now.

When will foalfetch import/update stories? There are a few missing which can be found in the fimarchive. Eg.: https://foalfetch.net/story/432386/chapter/2

Any news on the clickable line numbers on PonePaste?

Just found this: https://all.pony.directory/
To edit, navigate to the main site https://pony.directory/ and make your edits there. The all subdomain one does not work for some reason.

>more alt right seething in the comments on twibooru
Might as well rename it chudbooru

>>42401499
GOOD MORNING SAAR WILD MANES IS VERY BETTER THAN MY LITTLE PONY

>>42401499
Too stupid to use filters?

>>42401539
>more alt right seething
Go back to manebooru.

>>42401614
If Manebooru is free of poolitics I'd gladly use it.

>>42401545
Great idea, I added "imported from manebooru" to my filters!

>>42401617
>>42401539
Bait used to be believable.

>>42401283 (OP)
what's happening at twibooru?

Up.

>>42401865
Just chuds chudding as usual

>>42401830
Why are you saying it in a way like it's some gotcha to anyone here? That's exactly what you should be doing. Nobody cares what you look at or not.

Is nothing sacred to these Manebooru mongrels?

>>42402860
Of course not.They have no shame and no conscience.

why did twibooru suddenly reupload a ton of stuff?

>>42403666
From what I've heard, these are dupliates which were created because the site started to import from several new sources.

>>42402716
Try harder next time.

Up.

>>42404588
>88
Checked

Ponies?
https://twibooru.org/tags/oc-colon-timpani+%28dragon%29

>>42405940
Reports?

>>42405991
Take my post as a report, I'm too lazy to open the site again.

>>42405940
Debatable. Looks like an Ember recolor with boobs.

>>42405243

A lot of derpy domains are up for grabs.
derpy.email .shop, .wiki, .club, .us, .cc seems to be reasonably priced.

Are the owners of Chudbooru just going to let these alt-right trolls keep shitting the site up with their racist bullshit, or are you actually going to delete these goddamn off-topic poolitics posts?

>>42407282
>He doesn't know

Actuallly, how hard would it be to implement filters for comments? Twibooru-xt when?

>>42407282
Typically I don't really care if people make a few off-topic comments on an image; the site is meant to be a haven of free speech where people can express either their love OR their hate for art, its artists, or the themes of the art. If something goes on for multiple days and veers way off topic, I'll usually step in and tell them to cut it out.

>>42407282
>>>/manebooru/

>>42407282
You're bad at this, dude.

kinda insignicant but why was the "ukraine" tag on ponerpics changed to "the ukraine"? nobody calls it that aside from ESL ziggers and boomers (actual ones) who remember calling it that back in the 90s and prior

>>42407711
"The Ukraine" is how pro-russia people call it, as it implies Ukraine is a region that belongs to russia, like "The Urals" or "The Midwest"
Whoever changed that was making a political statement, either because they're ztard or for the trolling

>>42407723
yeah more likely both, as I can't imagine someone anti-russia in any way merely doing it for teh lulz

>>42407711
True, my dad keeps calling it "the Ukraine" (he's almost 70). I keep having to remind him it's just "Ukraine", but he's too stubborn to listen.

>>42406834

>>42407711
Same reason as the Netherlands, the Bahamas, and The Gambia.
>>42407815
Based dad rejecting newspeak nonsense.

So, since a bunch of governments are "coincidentally" pushing for internet censorship at the same time, it's a reasonable possibility "use a vpn" or "move your servers elsewhere" may be rendered useless. What are the boorus' plans for this potentiality? Out of all of them, only Ponybooru has made any statement (and that statement being it'll give up and shut down if censorship laws pass in the country it's located in)

>>42408363
There are ways for us to continue as a private site, just depends on what I have to do to ensure the pony archive's safety. Even that is at risk now.

>>42408363
I've been worried about this shit as well. What states do you think will hold out and be safe to host in? What methods could we use to decentralize pone access?

>>42408363
I thought the brony holocaust was just a meme...

>>42408654
Onion services could offer considerable protection from government meddling. Right now, every booru can be accessed via Tor (though Derpi doesn't allow registration) but none have a functioning .onion domain.

>>42408654
>What states do you think will hold out and be safe to host in?
Tor.
>decentralize pone access
There isn't many of us with enough storage space and bandwidth to provide truly decentralized services. By truly I mean that an arbitrary number of host going away not disturbing the service. For example to hosting youtube channel backups needs a lot of storage space. Even if 10000 anons run the service, each anon would need to chip in something like 50-100Gb to make it resilient enough.

>>42408701
Storage is fairly cheap these days. If we had something going, I'm sure Anons could probably dig up some storage laying around somewhere. I've pulled working drives from DVRs people were just throwing away for example. But how would we accomplish such a thing that would be relatively easy for Anons to access? Something with IPFS?

>>42408981
Ok, tell this to 10 thousand other Anons. Most people use only phones/tablets/laptops. It's pretty hard to put a 3,5" HDD into a laptop. And the average laptop only has ~500Gb of storage space in total. Giving 10-25% of that up for decentralized pone isn't something what most will do. Nor do they keep it running 24/7.

Best we can hope for is many more large archive sites, having 100+ TB content, mirroring each other. Some maybe not even on the clearweb, or just a hidden backup until needed.

>IPFS
That's a joke.

>>42409016
Is IPFS really that bad? I've always found it interesting, just never got around to actually messing with it.

>>42409044
>just never got around to actually messing with it
Once you do, you will know. In theory its great. In reality...

>>42408684
They work tirelessly to ban people from looking at porn, but for some strange inexplicable reason they never ever bother attacking the problem at the source: namely making the porn industry itself illegal. How strange. There couldn't possibly be a conflict of interest here, could there?

I've been pricing out options of how to store the entirety of TPA as cheaply as possible for anons to hang onto / use. I can do LTO8 tapes now. They sit on a shelf, last up to 30 years, use no power, and can be read by anyone with access to an LTO8 tape drive. First batch is being verified now. 3 more batches to go for Gen 1 of our tapes.
>what's on them
Entirety of the /archive/ directory of TPA minus non-pony.
>What's the plan for the Gen 1.5/ 2?
Same data + entire booru backup + software to run it + way more data we're importing from many others.
>how can I get this?
I'll hopefully have a couple Gen 1 tape sets with 51TB of data for sale at mare fair, since tape is kind of expensive.
>what about actual usage
I'm coming up with a solution for a NAS system that's pre-loaded with the archive, and a local booru. So far they're expensive af though, HDDs just aren't cheap at this scale.

Rome!
mulpwiki.batpony.party is seems to be full of spam.
See https://mulpwiki.batpony.party/index.php/Special:RecentChanges?hidebots=1&limit=50&days=7&enhanced=1&urlversion=2

>>42409112
not quite related, but:
>bring-your-own-ZFS-box copyparty panel at Mare Fair
sounds cool.

>>42408701
Tor doesn't totally answer the question though. It is an option to go around the law, but ideally you'd still want to locate your server in a place where you don't have to worry about it. Just to avoid any potential issues. Hence why I wonder what physical locations may be the best choices to host a server.

>>42409328
>where you don't have to worry about it
The issue is not where the server is located, but where the content is served to. I doubt that pornhub and any similar site has servers in the uk or any the us states where it ceased operation due to the age verification laws.

>>42409112
A working LTO8 drive is 2000-5000 dollars, so those tapes are effectively useless to 99.9% of people here.
Also, tape drives verify data as you write to them. Verifying it again yourself is just a waste of time and wears out the tape prematurely.
>>42409328
The reason it's called a Tor "hidden service" is because it's impossible* to determine where the actual server is located. It could be a box in your closet in a country with such restrictive laws that you're not even allowed to own a computer, and as long as you don't tell anybody, nobody will ever find out that's where it is hosted.
*without a coordinated, long-term attack from an actor the size of one or more entire governments.

>>42409447
I got the drive at a significant discount compared to market price. I'm only verifying the initial first tape run to ensure no in-flight data was corrupted in or out. (Why was the drive so cheap?) Tapes are rated for a few hundred to a few thousand passes, and drives are rated for... a while. Verifying 5 tapes won't hurt it, and would help give us peace of mind on the project.
>The tapes are still useless
If all hell broke loose the data is still there and can be recovered in the future. It's not about immediate restoration in this case, and buying a set is just getting another full copy out there in the wild.

>>42405991
>>42405940
>dragons are a canon species in mlp
>it's a dragon
I don't know what you're expecting. AT least it's not a pokemon with a hat.

>>42409359
>>42409447
Generally speaking, the main laws that matter are the ones where the server is located. That's how it's always been in the past. It would be insane for anything else to be the case. My point being, why take on additional risk if you don't actually have to? And it would be nice to have pony sites on the clearnet for as long as possible. For one, infinitely more discoverability than a hidden service. And two, slightly less risk of actually illegal content/spam. The day may come where hidden services are the only option, and it would be good to have something in place before that time. But my I ask my question moreso from the perspective of someone considering starting a new pony website on the clearnet and trying to determine what US state would be best to host it in.

How do you guys manage an instance of philomena without losing your mind?

Vite breaks the second you do basically anything with it, like putting the server behind a proxy or just using a domain name.

I threw up an instance just to fuck with it, but holy shit just trying to apply SSL with a self signed cert is making me want to nuke this POS off the face of the earth.

Docker's network fuckery is bad enough.
I was surprised there was basically zero documentation, now I see why, this shit is run by masochists.

>>42409831
Honestly part of the reason I decided to write my own booru rather than trying to figure out Philomena.

>>42409855
Man, it ain't even that long of a list to get something like this stood up
>How to SSL
>How to proxy a la clouflare
>How to change the default site theme

Like... none of this exists, is broken, or is completely undocumented.
I know some alt site admins browse this thread, is it REALLY that hard to make a ~100 line readme file that says "the config for this is in this file over there"?
It would take 30 minutes.

>>42409909
SSL and Cloudflare you could set up with Nginx in front of Philomena.

>>42409926
Putting an NGINX proxy in front of Philomena breaks Vite, like immediately.

You tried it recently?

>>42409935
It's been years since I tried messing around with Philomena (and to fair, I really didn't go too far with it).

>>42409942
>Simple
>Again
>Web Development

>>42409935
Isn't Vite a build tool? Why would it be involved in serving the site? I'm wondering if maybe you are trying to run the development setup in production. The Docker stuff on GitHub is for development only, you're on your own for production.

>>42409950
>Isn't Vite a build tool
It's in the release...
>Why would it be involved in serving the site
It looks like it is part of the web app's docker container, looks like there is also caddy, vite, postgres, opensearch and some other stuff I have yet to poke at.
You basically have to dissect all of it to find any one thing seems like.
>The Docker stuff on GitHub is for development only
Gee... if only that was written down somewhere....
Where do you even get the normal releases? They come to you in a dream?

>>42408217

>>42410463

Who is this Liam Keel faggot and why is he posting clones of his shitty zoomer videos on multiple of his own channels on ponytube?

>>42409909
STOP sourcing memes from mainstream social media.

>>42411193
based anon
I’m so sick of censored words, captions that barely last for 1/4 a second before flickering off to the next set of words when watching videos. Just fucking stop, it’s shit, I hate it.

>>42411212
It's from hecking google images you sussy baka

>>42401283 (OP)
Is there a way to reverse lookup images from tumblr to find original blog or a post?

>>42408688
One of the Boorus did have a proper .onion domain (I think it was Twibooru?), but it got removed because no one was using it.
>>42411193
Found the unedited version.
>>42407711
Looking more broadly, Twi also introduced this (the Ukraine is still just an alias though, not the main tag, unlike in Ponerpics). None of the other boorus have this so far, it seems.
>>42408352
...except that all of these use "the" for different reasons. The Netherlands and Bahamas are plural (doesn't apply to Ukraine, does it?), and the Gambia was something that their government had requested (similar to how the Ukie govt requests Ukraine without an article to be used).

>>42412132
Derpibooru had an onion site for many years. Twibooru had one for awhile, but it was removed during a server migration. If there's interest, I can bring it back when I have time after doing a bunch of other stuff.
We added the alias a day or two ago so as not to break images imported from Ponerpics

>>42411193
>image
Forking?

>>42411690
As in, given a tumblr repost, find the original post? There’s https://www.tumblr.com/docs/en/api/v1

What's up with the sudden influx of images on Ponerpics? Did they add a new source to the importer recently?

>>42413246
Is it secondhand Manebooru via Twibooru?

>>42413255
Yeah, that could be it.

>>42413089
Why? It still applies, unlike Ukraine.

If you don't want to discuss the development of alt-boorus or other pony sites, kindly fuck off.

Speaking of Russian sites, does FiMFetch backup https://ponyfiction.org/ stories, too?

>>42413505
*FoalFetch

>>42413487
We are discussing development of alt-boorus, namely, dubious as fuck tag naming decisions.
In the same vein, why did oc:ukraine get aliased into oc:holhorse on Twibooru and Ponerpics? It doesn't even make sense with a portmanteau, because the word is "hohol", not "holoh", and it doesn't follow oc:marussia because Marussia is a specific character that became synonymous with ponification of Russia while Ukraine started as a ponification.
>>42412132
>>42412193
>the Ukraine is still just an alias though
Speaking of, whoever janny copypasted oc:holhorse from ponerpics (looking at you Meddle), the tag is implying "the ukraine" and implication of merged aliases has historically been glitchy.

>>42413511
Discussing OC tags is kinda useless because it's been a mess for more than a decade already. Many different OCs share the same tag.

I still have an opinion that "oc:Anon" tag is the peak of retardation. First, Anon is personification of either all 4chan users or an arbitrary 4chan user, and ponification/personification is different from "OC". Second, he is not MLP-specific, so he's just a "character", not "original character". Would you tag Slenderman as "OC"?

>>42413511
>holhorse
Isn't that a dude from jjba or something?

>>42413089
>Topics must be show-related. When discussing people, they must be associated with the show and not the fandom.
All right, cool, the jannies routinely ignore generals that get constantly spammed and derailed, but someone talks about the reasoning for tag vandalism on a booru in the booru thread and that's too far off topic
Or maybe the janny just sucks z dick, makes sense given how useless they are

>>42413845
What do you expect from the jannies? I got a 3 day ban for asking if britbongs are banned from now or not.

>>42413850
>?
wtf how do you have a question mark in the filename

>>42413874
That's the power of POSIX. Even if you're a Wintoddler, you can use 4chan X to enter most anything in the filename field.

>>42413885
Windows allows unicode too.

>>42413900
And yet, you can't even use double quotation marks, nor any of the following: < > : / \ | ? *

>>42413913
You can, it's just just not advisable. Some characters are worse than others.

>>42413913

>>42413934
>Unicode substitutions
You are a fool and will die as one. Hot pic, though.

>>42413939
Looks the same to me.

Also stop phoneposting. The triforce works on desktop.

>>42414399
>fag.png
>Doesn't use 4chanX
>Also stop phoneposting. The triforce works on desktop
Fucking amusing.

>>42413599
Are you saying Anon is not an original character but actually comes from the show?

>>42414439
Anon is on the same level as urban legend characters or mascot characters.

>>42414405
>Doesn't use 4chanX
I like it raw Anon, just like you taking horsecock without lube up your ass.

>>42414546
Is it still considered "raw" if the horsecock is in fact a silicone sheath around another nonny's penis?

>>42413934
this filly is very old

>>42414655
That's what I like about these fillies; I get older, they stay the same age.

>>42413934
>>42414655
Also this leash and collar reminded me of our now deceased dog they belonged to...

>>42414655
I just received my first one!

>>42414632
You know perfectly well there won't be a penis inside that sheath.
>>42414439
Don't encourage the faggot.
>>42414694
Care for the filly well.

>>42410953

>>42414775
I just came on the filly.

>>42415785

>>42415226

>>42416277

>>42416775

How do I mass download stuff from boorus?

>>42417307
Right-click, save as

>>42417307
I used https://github.com/Bionus/imgbrd-grabber when I wanted to get a rip of Bronibooru many years back.

>>42417307
hydrus network comes with a downloader for derpi. For any other philomena booru you just have to duplicate all the derpi network components and change the urls.
Or if you're lazy I can just give you the ones I have. I can provide a (possibly crude) downloader for twibooru as well whenever Floorb turns the api back on.

Fucking hell, twitter started to limit nsfw content in EU even in countries where it is not yet required to verify you are 18+.

>>42418123
The API isn't off, as far as I'm aware?

>>42418313
Last time I tried I believe it was giving me Forbidden errors. Though it has been a month or two.

>>42418123
Please do, anything helps. I'm preparing for the worst case scenario where pony gets censored.

>>42418304
So, does it begin then?

>>42418304
>American company believes Britain is all of Europe
Many such cases.

>>42418750
A few notes. I'm including basic information just in case you need it. If you know what you're doing already, great:
-- I made some minor changes to the default derpibooru file page parser (and thus, the FPPs for other philomena boorus) that comes with hydrus, the main one being the "origin tags (not creator)" content parser. Without it the downloader will not get any purple tags other than "artist:" tags. I'm not experienced with regex though so it's crude and may not function exactly as expected. Change it if you know more about regex than me.
-- Hydrus to the best of my knowledge can only rate limit itself by domain, and not by parser. For this reason twibooru is limited to 1 request per second due to the enforced 60rq/min limit on the endpoint the gallery api parser uses, even though the file page parser should theoretically have no limit (in actuality, it depends on how fast hydrus processes the downloaded image file just as much as it depends on your internet speed.)
-- Derpibooru has a 20rq/10sec limit for similar reasons
-- Neither twibooru nor derpi's cdn is limited because I don't believe they have enforced rate limits. It shouldn't make an absurd amount of requests anyway. Again, it depends on how fast the file is processed just as much as it does on internet speed.
-- If you want to use "my:upvotes" or a similar search, you'll need to open/duplicate the gallery URL generator in question and add your api key to the end of the url template. It's not hard. Just add &key=YOUR_KEY. I don't believe the order of parameters in the url matters. Gallery url generators are located under Network>downloader components>manage gallery url generators...
-- If you want to use a different filter change the filter_id in the GUG to the number in the filter's URL page. If it's a private filter you will also need your api key.
-- Each booru has two post url classes to encompass both [SITE]/images/123456 and [SITE]/123456. Keep that in mind if you add other philomena boorus later.
-- I don't think I've touched the twibooru parsers in years. They may or may not need to be updated by someone more competent than me.
-- open Network>downloaders>import downloaders... and drag and drop the attached png there to add them

Is there anyone making backups of pony-related vocaroo.com audio files? There's a ton of /mlp/ stuff, and I'm afraid of losing it all.

>>42419366
Derpi absolutely have the rate limits, when I tried downloading images (ten per second), the requests became temporarily blocked after a while.

I will start a pony /t/ thread soon. Anyway, bump.

>>42418975
From what I've heard, the EU is trying to push similar shit.

>>42401331
>>42401332
Floorb?

do we have an archive of all the mlp games from newgrounds?

>>42420717
Equestria Gaming, maybe? They have a lot of games on their site.

to the anon who forwarded me instructions on setting up the warcs for anonpone - I ran into some trouble trying to get the wacz command to work:
when I navigate to the directory where the warc parts are and try to use wacz in wsl it says command not found.
I can install wacz again, then when I use wacz it gives me an error:
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pkg_resources'

I think that is a different problem, and I am not getting access to the command because of environment variables. Even though I run pipx ensurepath, I still feel like that step is the problem.

I get the same errors on wsl and a desktop running ubuntu - not sure what I'm missing. I've tried various things to get setuptools reinstalled - as that seems to be the cause of the no module error - but nothing has worked just yet.

>>42420889
Not the porn ones.

It seems like Ofcom will get 4chan banned from UK in a year or so, it doesn't seem very likely 4chan will implement ID checks. EU, US and other countries will probably follow suit, it was already taken down not long ago. VPNs wont be enough if others take it down too. Even other clearnet forums technically arent safe, so what can even be done? a very large portion of the userbase here will likely be lost no matter what...

I know there's foalfetch now but it's worth noting that fimfetch.net is now down

>>42421304
I think that it will affect a lot more than people think. I'll repost my thoughts from the other thread:

>I believe these laws will affect any site with user generated content. They're not just about porn. They're about any content deemed "harmful", something which will vary wildly depending on who you ask. Remember that it only takes two swears for a movie to be rated r and to require ID verification to see. The internet is (mostly) filled with real people with real thoughts and emotions. Which can sometimes be vulgar. And it's not just that the site does contain such content, but the possibility that it could, which is always the case when you allow people to post.

>The end result is most of the web getting ID-gated or region locked if the site operator doesn't want to comply. Even if a site operator did want to comply with these laws, it's probably not going to be feasible for anyone but an already giant website. If the site owner does it themselves, they are incurring a huge risk and burden because if they fuck up they could expose their entire userbase to identify theft. And even without that, people would be wary of handing their ID over to some random on the internet (as they should be). The other option is to use a "trusted" third party, but those aren't cheap. I think I heard Reddit was paying $1.25 per ID. For someone operating a small hobby site out of their own pocket, it adds up fast. 1000 users would cost $1250 to verify, not something the average person could incur as a regular cost. And that would be in addition to exposing people's browsing habits to a third party who will do Celestia only knows what with the data. And it's not like you could even crowdfund it either, as that would require a community to draw from, which you wouldn't even have the chance to form in the first place.

>>42421304
Use cucker, it's free, it doesn't log and you can post from tor ^:)

>>42421315
>fimfetch down
Good. Half the stories are deleted from there anyways.

>>42421304
We need a (pony) forum to discuss this kind of shit off the clearnet. Not anything related to /mlpol/ (because of politics making glowies lump us together with "alt right extremists") or NHNB (because it's even more restrictive than /mlp/). Some place like /poner/ but with thread-level IDs and politically neutral.

>>42421640
>or NHNB (because it's even more restrictive than /mlp/)
>banning /trash/-tier shit is le bad

>thread-level IDs
Completely useless unless you ban posting from vpns

>>42421647
Your purity spiraling is going to be the death of the board.

>>42421650
I know.

>>42421650
Do you have a proposal that contains the EqGfags running roughshod over the board currently?
If not, then don't be surprised that someone's taken the extreme option- which at this point is the ONLY option left to take.

>>42421661
The exodus after the hack to /poner/ proved that EqGfags are not the problem, it's the moderation holding the hand of people who use barbies to troll. On /poner/ they stuck to their few generals.

>>42421661
Ban EqG itself, don't ban ponified EqG but encourage anons to shame the faggots who post that, alongside shaming anyone posting any other foot-in-the-door shit like griffons.

>>42421674
>>42421671
P.S. Also, have patricipating in that permanently blacklist you from ever getting janny positions.
This will require having staff willing to piss off and oppose everyone, even former and now taken over by demons closest friends.

>>42421671
The exodus didn't have them follow because they already infested the moderation here.
>>42421674
I'm sorry anon, it's terminal.
>>42421677
This is worth noting, however.

>>42421687
>they already infested the moderation here
And yet jannies mostly issue warnings when I spam their threads instead of bans.

an alternative /mlp/ should have LESS restrictions not more

>>42419959
If derpi's cdn has rate limits, add the limit under Network>data>review bandwidth usage and edit rules>derpicdn.net. I am not aware of what that limit might be.

>>42421719
Use case for an alternative /mlp/? Imageboards are dead as a concept, been so for many years now.

>>42421726
I guess you don't need it if you're fine with using Xitter and Discord.

>>42421733
>implying implications

>>42421738
Don't bother denying it.

>>42421770
>implying I'm denying it

>>42421640
The reason why neither mlpol, nhnb, ponychan, etc failed is the lack of critical mass.
When ponychan (the original) / mlpchan was a thing it was working. Once /mlp/ opened and ppl flooded here only the hardcore ones remained in the other chans.
And also combine the altchans with the lack of 3rd party services (extensions, archives, etc) made them inferior.

>>42421647
>Completely useless
Anon, it's not for what you have in mind. Thread level IDs are great for general discussions.

>>42421726
Add forums to the dead concept list. In the age of 15 second attention span reading is hard.

>>42421795
>Anon, it's not for what you have in mind. Thread level IDs are great for general discussions.
Still no use case, there's a name field already.
Tripfag if you must.

>Add forums to the dead concept list. In the age of 15 second attention span reading is hard.
Imageboards are forums though.

>>42421803
>Still no use case
The use case is retards on this board are too stupid to recognize ragebaiting samefags. 90% of this board is shit up because of less than a dozen people arguing with themselves and the 70 IQ mouthbreathers who stop jerking it long enough to open a thread and get mad.
>but muh vpns
It raises the bar of entry, however slight. That's enough to deter a few.

>>42421640
Only option for this once bans hit is to pick one backup board now and get everyone to agree on it before bans hit, plaster it everywhere on /mlp/ so no one misses it.

Last time fragmentation into different forums completely separated the regulars, not to mention the anons who'd never even heard about mlpol, nhnb, etc, so they just didn't do anything.

I was on nhnb, and it fucking sucked, threads were all many years old

So is anyone archiving the altchans?

Trying out something more modern on the UX side, tell if it's better or worse. https://iwiftp.yerf.org/

>>42409168
I'll take a look later. Seems I forgot to disable sign-ups.

>>42421671
EQGfags didn't even know any altchans because they're normies, that's why the only problem was the Shimmerfag trying to stir shit between mlpol and nhnb.