Thread 42401283

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.

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.

>>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?

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.

>>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.

>>42414775
I just came on the filly.

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.

>>42422450
If that was true there wouldn't have been any EqG threads on /poner/.

>>42422429
The joke won't work because there's nobody on /mlp/ anymore that was alive when sites looked like that.

>>42423007
I didn't notice any.

>>42423045
They're literally still on the catalog.

>>42423048
>2 character generals getting shat on
>1 general made afterwards
That's all? No one likes EQG kek.

>>42423077
Exactly. So there's no reason to ban it. Again, it's only a problem on here because mods play favorites.

>>42423096
There's no reason to ban it because EQGfags won't follow us, they are normies and will happily bow to daddy government.

>>42423101
Yeah, most likely. Considering they're mostly third worlders anyway.

>>42422450
Why don't they just make their own site?

>>42423123
You think they have any talents whatsoever?

>>42423140
nope

Meanwhile this is how an alt site's traffic looks like.

Dunno what happened in the past week. Maybe school started or something.

>>42423728
Do you have numbers for these colors?

>>42424085
Look at the bottom left corner. But yes I do.

>>42423728
Why is Ireland dark blue compared to the UK's medium-light blue? How odd.

Why are there suddenly so many pedo pride flag uploads on Twibooru?

>>42424586
Your guess is as good as mine. I don't log anything. All I have is the statistics provided by cf.

Meanwhile I found the option to export the data:

name,requests
US,42873
IE,33437
JP,19218
GB,8487
AU,8133
SG,5630
NL,5159
CA,4101
FR,3224
BR,2938
PT,2687
RU,2389
DE,1910
FI,1488
PL,1462
MX,1061
IN,801
HK,678
KR,676
SE,648
AT,559
ES,526
CO,524
VN,494
AR,468
ZA,445
MD,430
TR,374
UA,362
LT,282
PE,248
ID,208
PH,200

>>42424769
CN,186
CL,173
BD,152
IQ,127
IT,113
SA,113
KZ,106
HU,104
RO,98
UY,94
VE,92
MA,91
BE,90
NO,90
RS,84
CZ,76
DK,76
GE,71
PK,71
CR,70
UZ,68
EE,68
EC,67
LU,66
IL,66
TW,51
CH,49
PY,45
KE,43
JO,40
MY,33
EG,29
NP,27
AZ,27
JM,26
TN,25
BY,23
DZ,21
AG,21
BO,20
PA,18
AL,17
GR,17
IR,16

>>42424623
It's likely a reaction to the mass importation of Manebooru pics, which tend to have a bit of an ideological bent to them.

>>42424773
OM,15
HN,15
AE,15
MV,15
KG,14
BH,14
BG,14
BA,13
BN,13
LB,13
HR,12
ET,12
DO,11
NI,11
SN,10
GT,10
SV,10
TH,9
AO,9
CI,9
NZ,9
TT,8
IS,7
SY,7
GA,7
PS,6
MK,6
LV,6
AM,6
LY,5
MM,5
BB,4
MZ,3
TZ,3
NG,3
QA,3
CG,3
TG,3
MN,3
UG,3
KH,2
XK,2
RE,2
FM,2
SK,2
GY,2
ZM,2
LK,2
LC,1
SR,1
GH,1
ZW,1
MG,1
KW,1
BF,1
SI,1
LA,1
SO,1
BQ,1
BJ,1
YT,1
CV,1
CD,1
BZ,1
RW,1
LR,1
CY,1
CU,1

>>42424773
>IL,66
Delightfully demonic, datanon.

>>42424780
Could be also bots. Don't know if CF counts them as requests or not. I have set up a firewall rule to block all known bots and bot IP ranges, despite this for example 99% of the request from putinland are bots (yandex bot). All others get successfully blocked or respect the robots.txt.

>>42424774
But none of them are imports, they're all specifically uploaded to Twibooru by some anonymous user(s). And considering the response to 3581479, it seems to be some tard's way of trying to "own" the site?

>>42424803
>the response
That's just me shitting on the staff because half of them are into foal and loli.

>>42424902
Uh huh. And I'm sure the person you're responding to is not your Discord buddy from Derpibooru.

>>42424902
Yes, and?

You know, they'd probably take you up on that offer.

>>42425254
Would you like it rare, medium or well done?

Which moderator is it that's waving his dick around in the comments on Twibooru to prove his point right now? Especially funny because he knows he can't back his argument up with facts.

>>42425525
>>>/furpibooru/

>42425525
>he's STILL acting like nobody else is capable of checking what he's talking about

>>42425555
>I have no argument so I need to put on my moderator badge to reinforce my point

>>42425563
>I think everyone that isn't agreeing with me is samefag

is there an archive for CYOA's theres one I read a very long time ago and I can't find it.
it was horror based as i recall, the pony protag raised spike from the dead partially with a potion.

>>42425567
>Use our terminology or I'm going to flex my moderating powers
Is this what Floorb meant with being a haven of free speech here? >>42407355

>>42425579
There's an archive of anonpone.com up on Rome's archive:

https://iwiftp.yerf.org/Pony/Website%20archive/Fan-made/www.anonpone.com/warc/

>>42425606
ooh thank you i'll take a look

>>42425584
>I think everyone that isn't agreeing with me is samefag (2)
My guess would be a preemptive response to ensure furry tagging doesn't get any worse.
Given it's already a big problem, i expected more, actually.

>>42425584
>the furry predictably starts pissing and crying when told that he must, in fact, do in Rome like Romans do
That reminds me, another pass on stripping "feral" from furfag-uploaded images that don't involve bestiality is overdue.

>>42425615
There was no need, because you could've just pointed to the definition of the "pony" tag to prove your point. You wanted to flex your powers to silence wrongthink.

>>42425636
>I think everyone that isn't agreeing with me is samefag (3)

>42425636
>the guy who thinks that nobody else has access to information also thinks that he has perfect insight into thoughts and motivations of other people
Many such cases!

>>42425626
Nuking the tag entirely would be the best option. "feral+bestiality" is redundant, especially since the bestiality tag already implies "animal".

>>42425730
It's not the best option. All images with the tag are mistagged by definition, and if you nuke it, you lose a convenient way to go to them and fix the tags.

>>42425730
>>42425754
P.S. Another reason to not nuke "feral" outright is that there's a few legitimate uses for it in its actual meaning.

>>42425730
>>42425754
P.S. Another reason to not nuke "feral" outright is that there's a few legitimate uses for it in its actual meaning.

Bump.

Can somebody link me the pony poll website? I forgot what its called.

>>42426502
https://poll.horse

>>42426511
thank you anon!

Slidefagging happening again.

>>42428535
>6 threads got archived from my thread watcher in 2 hours
yep a lot of slidethreads
but if you complain you get a warn

>>42428846
One of the jannies or mods is one of them. He deleted my post >>42246713 and banned or warned me (don't remember) when I said slidefaggotry is the most pathetic shit imaginable. That seems to really sting for him.

Fixed all issues on pone.rs earlier today, let me know if you encounter any.

whoever runs altboorus.org, update your cert

bump

>>42431013
Yep, doesn't work for me either.

>fimfetch down
>foalfetch cert error
Floorb!

Is there a specific place you guys normally post your art? any particular booru besides derpi?

>>42433272
I only upload on twibooru because Twilight Sparkle is the best pony

>>42433278
Sounds like a wonderful place.

I used to draw pony way back in the day and I'd post on derpi despite all the retards being there. i'll check out twibooru for sure then, thanks anon.

>>42433295
You're welcome, bugfriend!

Manebooru pet peeve #42: they keep tagging consentacles as either "dubious consent" or "implied rape".

>>42433434
>rape
>by an entity that has no sapience and thus cannot even comprehend the concept of consent
Isn't that just like calling a dog humping your leg "rape"?

>>42433434
>consented rape
It can't be helped. These idiots over at Manebooru are ideologically blinded. Terminally so.

>>42433455
you could say the same of african migrants.

>>42433547
Why do you think Shitted is as popular as it is? It's like Orcs porn for women.

>>42433434
>Manebooru
>pukes

>>42432746
Floorb!

Why do people hate Manebooru?

>>42435408
Dunno, I've never even opened the site. But hating things if fun so I go along with them.

>>42435408
They're unironic political activists of the ultra left kind. Don't go near them.

>>42422429
How do I get to see the Music folder?

>>42422429
Didn't there used to be more access options?

Alright, which one of you jokers did this?
https://manebooru.art/images/4013021

>>42437452
>Not venturing over there, sorry.

I found a nice chinese aggregator for mlp sites
https://www.canterlot.site/mlp/

>>42437770
>has Mane, Pony and FiMFetch but no Twi, Poner, nor FoalFetch
Free Tibet.

>>42437452
What am I supposed to be angry at?

Good morning, saars.
Please redeem niggerpics, it's dead.

>>42435408
Altboorus sprung up over derpi's actions and censorship. Manebooru only disagreed with derpi's actions and censorship in that they believe both should have been far more extreme.

>>42437312
Yeah, he took down the onion address because it's suddenly "not needed".

>>42438636
pupper needs to solve that shit already
i prefer ponerpics and am used to it, but i might have to move if the downtime isn't solved

Is fimfetch dead ?

>>42438922
Raped by fillies.

I just noticed two desuarchive bugs:
> "[This won't be visible on from desu.]"
And this will be in italics.

Weird.

>>42439459

Ok, it seems there is something more to it. Let me try a few more times.
> Line one
"[Line two! Yes! No!]"
"[Line three. Ok. Hi.]"
> Line four
"[Line five?]"
> "[Line six.]"
> "[Line seven!]"
> "[Line eight! Neigh! Neigh!]"
> Line nine.
Line ten.

This is fucked up, I'm trying to reproduce the issue: https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/42265534/#42344150

>>42439474

> Word word, word, or word, or even word. My word, your word. Word word, and word.
> Her words, calming words.
"[Both words wrong,]" she worded.
> "[What?!]"
"[Both your words and mine were wrong! They are all stupid! It shouldn't word! There's plenty of words!]"
> The words didn't know how to answer that, so he word.
"[I was word, too! I'm words, you know? I don't words.]"
> Please this be italics.

>>42439490
This worked!
So, what was it?
"[This?]"
"[This!]"
"[This.]"
"[This, this!]"
"[A'b this?]"
"[A'b this.]"
"[This, this! A'b this?]"
Another test.

>>42439508
As of posting this post, the previous one is still not archived by desu, but there are many newer posts which are. Something is seriously wrong with desu.

>>42439555

> Yep something is fucked up. The "[ something which I have not figured out yet ]" triggers a bug in the crawler it seems. I hope it's a display issue and not an archiving issue.
"[And if you have not yet figured it out, this is also a test post! I'm trying just the sentence, which triggered it last time? Don't look at the punctuation.]"
Italics?

Also when I posted >>42439555 it immediately archived >>42439508 too. So seems like if the last post is triggering the bug it skips the archival. I'm posting this so >>42439565 gets archived.

>>42439571
I wonder if you're gonna get a response on /desu/. It seems abandoned.

>>42440065
>It seems abandoned.
That's not good at all.

>>42440065
Maybe I should send a mail about it. Luckily it's not a bug which affects a lot of posts (but almost all of AWF's Barbarians green).
We really really need a desu alternative. But we cant really make one as they don't offer db dumps, even when asked. And besides desu, I don't know of any other comparable mlp archive.

>>42440132
>I don't know of any other comparable mlp archive
Well there's arch's attempt at it
https://arch.b4k.dev/mlp/

>>42440104
Definitely not good. I reported several posts for dox and even one for CP several days ago and still no action has been taken. If normies find out about this the site could be seized for hosting illegal material.

>>42440146
And no, I'm not going to link the posts to make it easier for bad actors to get involved.

Anyone have any luck contacting 4chan staff via irc? I came home today to find my range blocked, though I can still post via Kuroba it seems. Do you think they could exclude a single IP? I have a relatively stable address. Or how long should I wait to see if it just goes away in a few hours? /mlp/ is one of the few places I spend any time anymore.

>>42439323
Hope it comes back. Even with the deletions it still had some old stories that are missing on foalfetch.

>>42440160
Does fimarchive have them?

>>42440156
Consider passu

Another Desu oddity: >>41538492 shows up in the ghost view but has no ghost posts.

>>42440174
I havent downloaded that thing to check. Do I have to get it as a torrent ?

>>42440181
Even if I wanted to, BTC is such a pain to acquire anymore due to the 5 million layers of KYC needed to purchase. I used to just mine it because I didn't need that much but it just doesn't seem that practical anymore. Also, the previous pool I was using started requiring KYC and I haven't gotten to finding a good replacement yet. The warn message did say it was temporary. I also think I remember hearing some anons talking about getting similar bans just by posting on multiple boards with the same ticket (or something like that)? I have made a few posts on /g/ lately which is a bit out of the ordinary as I usually only post to /mlp/. But I don't know how true that is. I know last time I tried contacting staff I was unsuccessful but I've heard some people make it through with success. Hopefully it just goes away on it's own. It really sucks being stuck phoneposting.

>>42440187
>fimarchive
You can direct dl from the fimfic. blgpost or use pinkone.ltgc.cc (go to settings and set the max number of stories returned to something other than 0, else it will not return anything, odd protection to deter normies...)

Jesus christ, desuarchive is being slow as shit today.

>>42440206
> pinkone.ltgc.cc
How do I search the story by its title in this thing ? The one Im looking for is unfortunately named "boner" and that one will show up in literally every nsfw result.

>>42440251
Dunno.

>>42440205
I'm not advocating giving Hiroshima any of your money, but it's trivially easy to swap XMR for BTC or ETH, no KYC involved.

>>42440251
Found out how to do it, but Im not seeing anything from this author showing up. Where else can I find his stuff ?
Did fimfetch have its own separate archive ?

>>42440319
I know such exchange systems exist. But is there any good place to actually buy XMR, etc. without KYC? I've never actually purchased it before, only mined it. I've debated asking Twifag if he would sell me some BTC if I send him some cash in the mail (with a very healthy commission fee of course).

Also, pic rel is the message. I don't know if the "temporarily" part of the message actually means temporarily, or if it's the standard range ban message. It's been a number of years since I last saw one of these things.

>>42440376
Depending how much you need I could probably help
t twifag

>>42440376
See >>>/biz/60747979
To any ban-happy forfrees lurking here, this is Twibooru's donation address.

>>42440634
Maybe around $200? And I'd give you a $100 commission/donation for helping me out. It may be a little ways out and I'd check with you beforehand. But it would be good to know that you're open to that. I also pay for some (very cheap) hosting services via BTC and I've been coasting off BTC and ETH I mined years ago. I've been wondering how I was going to acquire more without submitting KYC.

>>42419366
You're a lifesaver, thank you.

>>42440376
Just use cucker (kiwi dot st) it's free.

>>42440233
See >>42439459 and >>42440146. Something is seriously wrong over there in general. And that's a reason to be worried.

>>42440326
>Did fimfetch have its own separate archive
Yes.

>>42440787
Ok give me a heads up and we can probably arrange it offboard

>>42440156
Just use a VPN or TOR.

>>42441095
Especially worrisome because they don't make database dumps available anymore. What's the chance the host has already been seized and some three-letter agency is currently running it in an attempt to get dirt on "those evil 4channers"? Considering the sharty and the hack, this could all be part of some elaborate plan by psychopathic politicians.

>>42441779
>>42441026

>>42441763
>unironically paying trannies who hate this board just to post here
shiggy diggy

>>42439571
Some more testing:
"[I test test test]"
Another line.

>>42441925
Hah found it! The
"
[
I
]
"
character combination (without newlines) is the one triggering the issue.
"[I this won't be visible on desu.]"
This is italic on desu.

>>42441934
Even written with line breaks it is still triggering the issue.
Here are the character codes in hex: 22 5b 49 5d 22
And with fillers to probably avoid the issue (only the first character matters in every line):
"X
[X
IX
]X
"X

And a special message to desu devs:
"[I Fix it.]"

>>42440376
And it looks like it's gone now. So that's a relief. I guess it really was temporary. Now I just gotta pray to Celestia that it doesn't come back.

>>42441997
>Now I just gotta pray to Celestia that it doesn't come back.
Or you can stop sucking mods dicks and become free from their tyranny ^:)

>>42441782
That would be a touch out there if you ask me, but I won't deny that this could be possible.

Why do some comment deletions on Twibooru not show up on the mod log? I don't mind that it doesn't, but it seems a little weird when the page itself claims "Staff cannot hide themselves from this list."

>>42442579
Boxless doing boxless things again?

>>42442579
Nuke button for comments probably has it disabled now to prevent logspam.
You can blame the cbat spammer for this.

>>42442970
Hmm. Filters for the modlog when?
>>42442966
Rent free.

>>42442974
Yell at Floorb about it.

>>42442976
But yelling is rude ^:/

>>42442982
It is the only thing he is motivated by, in my experience.
That and homofaggotry, and i'm still not sure about that one.

>>42442970
Makes sense I guess, considering there's so much comment spam recently. Can't seem to go a day without it showing up in the recent comments list.

>cbat
What the fuck does that even mean anyway? Is it just some obsessed autist again or is this sharty fuckery?

>>42442989
Obsessed autist or obsessed autist? Surely, you can guess at this point.
It's been going on long enough that the first few bans for him- year bans so the IPs aren't clogged forever- have been expiring and he's been cycling back through on them.
I've yelled at Floorb to clone the Ponepaste rangeban to Twibooru but he's a lazy nigger.

>>42442989
Iirc cbat is a reddit song/composer. But how is that related to ponies, I have no idea.

Floorb can you please improve foalfetch's search with a "deleted stories only" filter ?

Are Ponepaste dumps available?

>>42443465
https://ponepaste.org/dumps/
Sadly it does not go back far.

PonerPics is dead.

>>42443803
At this point I may as well start uploading to derpi again.

>>42443811
Spineless. Sad! Wonder who ripped it out?

>>42443821
As a backup you dolt. Ponerpics has had 5 years to fix its issues and most of them still remain. Ponybooru is on its deathbed and was a more retarded derpi anyway. Twibooru works fine and fulfills the role it was made for, but it's not what I'm looking for in a booru. If that gets your panties in a twist so be it.

>>42443847
>Ponerpics has had 5 years to fix its issues and most of them still remain.
Like which?

SAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRS
REDEEM THE NIGGERPICS NOW

>>42443858
Like the previous/next image buttons Lotus&co never cared to make them work.
t. not that asshole

>>42443880
Do people actually use those?

>>42443894
If I remember right, the related button was also broken.

>>42443811
There's Twibooru

>>42443894
It's good for reading comics or sets

>>42444321
So long as there are no out-of-order pages, at least.

bump

i prefer ponerpics over any other booru and don't mind that some things don't work, because i don't use these
but lately, though not down while writing this, the downtime is frustrating. i used twibooru as secondary so much i might as well export my filters there at this point

did pupper ever explain it? maybe ddos?

Any news on anonpone.com ?

>>42446080
Dead. Lazy faggots had total drive failure and lost all images.

Pony hugs?

Wow. I cant fucking wait for Ponerpics to shit itself. AGAIN. Jesus Christ Lotus thinks he's so tough by running an altbooru. What's the point of even having a fucking booru if its down most of the time anyway. Fucking Ponerpics ruining itself. It should be shut down.

>>42443880
It's not just that, "Related" button STILL doesn't work and I think "Gallery" might not be working too. Seriously, Lotus should just give this site away to someone competent at this point because he clearly doesn't care.

>>42447325
Also, I don't know WHAT the hell has been done to Twibooru, but it seems like it refuses to open in Librewolf for some reason as you can see on pic. Ungoogled Chromium still works.

>>42447336
Actually, scratch that, Ungoogled Chromium is weird in that it connects to the site but can't load it in completely.

>>42447336
>>42447346
Works on my machine. Are you running some sort of VPN?

>>42447351
No VPNs here. Speaking of... TOR works perfectly fine.

>>42447361
If you are >>42447336, then please check picrel - I looked up that Ray ID (thanks for sharing it, that's very helpful, anyone else who has connection problems please remember to do so.) Either you forgot you had your VPN on, or you are unknowingly part of a botnet being used to run a VPN. In this case, you were blocked because your traffic is coming from a network that sources a lot of abuse/attacks towards Twibooru.

>>42447627
>or you are unknowingly part of a botnet being used to run a VPN
Scratch that, I just realized there wouldn't be a PTR record if that were the case.

Ponerpics is back yay

>>42447627
I know for sure I run zero VPNs nor do I think I'm part of any botnet. The most I've done is run a DPI bypass utility.

>>42447688
Well I guess I run an extension that I'm running in conjunction with the utility to access sites I'd be having issues accessing otherwise.
PS. Turning it off doesn't change anything, so there's probably something else at work here.

>>42447688
CGNAT?

>>42447688
The "DPI bypass utility" is likely a VPN.

>>42447702
If it was a VPN, I would've been able to bypass geoblocks which I cannot do.

Up.

>>42448263
Such a happy pony.

looks like ponerpics got a logo revamp coming soon

>>42450005
>>42450019
site's probably down again but damn this is good.

>>42450857
>site's probably down again
Works on my machine right now.

Suggestion for Twibooru: delete all uploads that are just edits of existing pictures with a pride flag changed (such as the recent pedo flag uploads). It's clearly some fag's idea of trolling and the pictures have zero worth.

>What about edits of hate
If the pride flag is removed or changed to a flag not related to pride (such as the Equestrian flag, confederate flag or even the nazi flag) it can stay.

DAY 3
GIVE IT UP FOR DAY 3 OF PONERPICS BEING CONSISTENTLY UP

Is there an archive of ponychan.net ?

Bump.

>>42450005
It doesn't need a logo revamp, it needs a code revamp much more.

>>42451219
Probably not going to happen since Twifag just restored some of those deletions.

>>42451219
>political edits i agree with are valid expression, political edits i disagree with are bad faith trolling and should be deleted
Listen to what you sound like

>>42452342
Not really. I don't care what the flag is, whether it's straight or gay, as long as it's an edit and the only thing that changed is a change to another pride flag, it's worthless.

Are you really going to tell me you'd miss these images? The edits, not even the originals (though they're worthless by itself - but that actually is just my opinion).

>>42452342
Given how half of them aren't even pride flaggot edits and are just 'i shoved this pony on this flaggot background', this does not apply.

>>42451219
I just wish he'd get the middle stripe's width right.

>>42452403
Isn't that the correct width

>>42452428
flutterflaggot's image is a demonstration of the 'accurate' design, not an example of a (flag-based) fuckup.

>>42451390
you jinxed it you fucking nigger

>>42452326
>Virgin Seething Pozmod vs. Chad Free Speech Twimod

>>42450019
>>42450005
Use case for a new logo?

>>42452722
>Free Speech
Privately owned website.

Looks like ponerpics turned off its api or turned cloudflare's protection up more aggressively.

>>42453279
They did turn up the cloudflare protection, though not to the degree Twibooru has(seriously, things were fine before)

>>42453382
Also, because of that, ponerpics embeds are now broken which sucks because derpibooru is now the only site that truly works without issue unlike it and twibooru.

>>42453382
i think i'm out of touch here, what is the reason for the increased protection and on what level is twibooru's cloudflare?

>>42453524
Spam allegedly in case of Twibooru, and it doesn't open for me at all, but I can still view directly linked pictures. No idea what's up with ponerpics, maybe it's related with the outages it has.

>>42453668
>it doesn't open for me at all
Weird, I haven't had a single problem opening twi from a tor browser for quite a while. Which browser/vpn are you using?

>>42453668
For Twibooru, the reason was an ongoing attack, not spam. All direct image links and all API endpoints under /api/ have Cloudflare protection turned off, so that scrapers and such don't get blocked - the attacks don't hit the API, and even if they did, none of the API endpoints are slow enough to bring the site to a crawl.
>>42453507
Derpibooru has their own in-house attack prevention. I might look into implementing something like that on Twibooru, but that takes energy I don't have.

>>42453703
>Which browser/vpn are you using?
Librewolf and only using a DPI bypass utility and a proxy that acts like a VPN minus geoblock bypass. Tor works just fine.

What happened to ponybooru ponerpics and pone paste I can’t find it anywhere

>>42453895
Maybe it's just your isp being a nigger and straight up blocking some cuckflare ips? like mine does Or are you getting a "Sorry you're blocked" cloudflare error?

>>42453905
What do you mean? What are you looking for?

>>42453916
Ponybooru

>>42453918
The site https://ponybooru.org opens just fine for me.

>>42453922
Oh nvm then

>>42453905
>I can’t find it anywhere
Their URLs are literally in the OP, Anon.

>>42407711
Kek, really? I didn't even know that happened. It's probably either because we have an older tag, or out of effort on behalf of our Russian users, or maybe one of the new mods did it and I didn't notice it.

The Ukraine was referred to with a definitive article for most of my life. It wasn't until after the coup in 2013 that there was an effort to redefine that nation and drop the definitive article in the name.

>>42438782
>>42453279
>>42453507
Pupperwoff, our primary dev, has been out of town and unavailable for something like 3 months now. The website has been basically DDoSed for several months by what I assume are AI crawlers which has artificially increased traffic by 5 to 10 fold and has caused most of the problems, on top of possible hardware issues. I'm trying to fix the problem as best I can in Cloudflare.

>>42454469
>AI crawlers
I may have been running a scraper on the site the past week or two. I realized I had misplaced my copy of Derpibooru I had from a few years ago and I decided to archive from Ponerpics due to having imports from all of the alts. Now, it is not a fast scraper and I do have some rate limiting implemented. I figured it would take me about a month to archive the site, which I hoped would be slow enough to not cause issues. If my scraping is partially responsible for these issues, please let me know and hopefully I can work on a less intrusive archival.

>>42454469
i see, i understand that then and am patient
i wish the best of luck for resolving this

>>42454512
Blocking of IPs has been by country. I try to not block anything out of the US, because I assume that the automated traffic that we [i]do[/i] want is out of the US. When countries other than the US have anomalously high traffic, I implement managed challenges on them. I seriously doubt your bot is responsible for much, but I do not know

>>42454522
>I seriously doubt your bot is responsible for much, but I do not know
Well that's a relief. Of course I'm only downloading a single copy of things. And I am US based.

>>42454522
>Americans can do no wrong

>>42454635
PonerPics traffic has historically been overwhelmingly from US IPs, with maybe 70% of all traffic from the U.S., Canada usually at number 2 with a tenth if the traffic, and Germany and Russia usually in the top 5.

More recently, very significant amounts of traffic have come out of Singapore, Hong Kong, Vietnam, China, and Brazil. This traffic is obviously not from humans and are obviously bots. Traffic as a whole is 10 times what it was one year ago.

Traffic out if the U.S. has also significantly increased, and it’s pretty obvious that most of this is bots. However, I have not wanted to block bots that may be desirable like Porter’s importer bot. As I’ve stated before, I have a college degree, a graduate degree, and several hobbies, and none of that is in IT. Pupper is out of town, so I am making do with what is available on Cloudflare.

Last night I got so frustrated with the performance of the website, that I placed Porter’s IP on a whitelist, and added managed challenges to the United States, Canada, and the Russian Federation, besides countries like Singapore being being completely blocked (Singapore has 3/4 of the traffic if the U.S.). When I woke up this morning, I saw that people were saying that embedded links no longer worked. So I removed the manager challenge on the United States and added Cloudflare’s blocks of known AI scrapers. I am not blocking search engines though, though I know that Zizzy does this for ponybooru.

>>42453914
>Maybe it's just your isp being a nigger and straight up blocking some cuckflare ips? like mine does Or are you getting a "Sorry you're blocked" cloudflare error?
It's "Sorry you're blocked" cloudflare error like on ponebin, there's been former happening as well, but I already am using a workaround for that.
>>42454735
Hey, Lotus, embedded links still don't work on my end. How am I supposed to marepost on Cytube when I can't see the mareposts? Also, when is "Related" button getting fixed alongside other non-working buttons?

Just caught my first ever Derpi ban (for telling people to use a better booru).

Cucker for shitposting on derpibooru when?

>>42455239
I got banned a month ago because I kept disliking and hiding LGBT content. I just wanted to look at fanmade flags.

>>42455239
Deets? I've somehow avoided a ban despite being outspokenly against Derpi and all it stands for, so I'm curious how you pissed them off so much.
>>42455275
I'm fully in favor of downvoting flaggotry, but wouldn't filtering "pride flag" have spared your eyes from such senseless suffering?

>>42455289
I literally only said "use a real booru" to some guy who got his picture series deleted lol

>>42455275
You are not allowed to dislike art based on its content or artist.

>>42455313
>You are not allowed to dislike art based on its content or artist.
What's the use case for dislikes then??

>>42455350
Now you're thinking like a Manechatter.

>>42455239
>>42455275
My Derpi unironically has multiple bans on it, and I still have it.
The site headmin/owner I managed to appeal with by some forsaken miracle back in ~2020.
But I’ve just been watching from the sidelines, nobody even fucking talks about pony in the forums, and the site is always flooded with non pony related garbage which is kept up despite derpibooru trying to shuffle those people to “furbooru”. Do they really ban people for hiding artwork they don’t want to see?

>>42455353
How???

>>42455357
I don't have an account though, I just left a comment. I only make accounts on sites when it is absolutely necessary.

>>42455289
>filtering
I did, but some gets through the cracks.
>>42455357
>Do they really ban people for hiding artwork they don’t want to see?
It's considered site abuse to both dislike and hide artwork under rule 6. I'm not a techbro, I don't know if it causes strain or some other bullshit, but if they want people filtering stuff rather than disliking it, I don't get the point of the downvote feature.

>>42455362
They removed the downdoot button.
>>42455363
Regrettably, moderating altboorus involves dealing with outsiders, which requires a presence on their home turf.
>>42455389
>strain
Kek, a single elasticsearch query is orders of magnitude more taxing than even the most dedicated downvoter going on a spree. Derpi downvotes are mere set dressing to offer the illusion of freedom of opinion.

>>42455415
That's what I'm talking about? If downvoting based on image contents is not allowed, what's the point of having that feature at all?

Twibooru is being spammed again btw. Floorb need to create a better captcha or something.

>>42455426
The purpose of downvotes is twofold: reinforce Derpi's pastiche of democracy, and give mods an easy excuse to oust those with differing opinions.
The spam will continue until Floorb's morale improves.

>>42455426
A better captcha is not going to deter him, it's literally just one autist with an axe to grind for whatever reason.

Remember that this site we're on right now was spammed into the ground for literal YEARS by a single (pedophiliac) individual. Captcha did help here because it was mostly automated, but it just goes to show how ridiculously dedicated some retards are to shit up a place.

>>42455882
True, true... PoW challenge then?

>>42455899
Spam's not automated. Emphasis on >>42455882 stating 'autist'.

>>42455912
Jeety literally runs bots on pol, v and g to keep cookies fresh for shitposters to use.

bump

>>42401283 (OP)
just noticed the filename

>>42455899
There are always ways to make things more difficult for a spammer. Captchas, accounts, post timers... the point is none of this is going to stop a dedicated autist (it might even encourage him because he will see he is making an impact), while it will make the site's experience worse for the far majority of users. 99% of users don't do this shit, but you just need ONE retard without a life to piss all over the place and leave his stench everywhere.

The only thing that is going to deter these kind of people is doxxing them and ruining their actual, real lives. That's what they did with Kimmo, and it wasn't until this internet witch hunt that he gave up on spamming after literal years. These people thrive on anonymity and privacy, take that away from them and they are nothing.

Mare websites!

>>42454735
Not sure what’s going on with Singapore but I’m certainly not a bot. Not sure what can be done about that.

>>42454735
Question.
How much would one have to actually download before it crosses into not cool territory?

My perspective is that most file hosters seem to kick and scream after more than like a gig or two per day, but it sounds like these AI bots are just totally buttfucking that idea.

Does some random person running grabber or something even show up on radar compared to that shit?
Also, what the fuck are they even scraping for?
Is someone trying to train AI on sexy mares?
I mean, someone besides us?

>>42454735
>>42456988
Another question would be is the issue actually due to bandwidth constraints or is it due to the number of requests?

Also, should we be worried about Desuarchive? I know some other archives cover /mlp/ but do any others have full images?

Bump.

>>42457005
No. What makes it worse is that Desu routinely purges its older images, which further calls into question its status as an archive.

>>42456988
>>42457005
When it DDoSes the server. I honestly do not know exactly what that point is or what it is that is so taxing. I would assume that it is specifically elastisearch requests that overload the server, but I do not know. I can say that Cloudflare has blocked 840,000 requests from AI scrapers over the past 24 hours, and that and also blocking hundreds of thousands of requests out of Singapore have made a noticeable improvement.

>>42455060
Well, I removed the managed challenges on Canada, the Russian Federation, and Germany, so now all of our most popular nations are unblocked. If that does not solve the problem I am not sure what will.

>>42457352
They do? I never knew that.

>>42457420
It's all good now, thank Lotus!

What the hell is going on over at Twibooru?

>>42457716
If you're referring to the 98 images I deleted, they were low-quality crops of barbie boots. It was originally gonna be 99, but our resident white woman decided to keep the one with dogspike.

>>42457780
>low quality barbie
Is there any other type of barbie?

>>42458244
Ponified, I suppose.

>>42458252
Flut in tight shiny suits is best Flut.

>>42458440
Truke.

>>42457780
No, I meant the changes to some user (was that just spam?) and a change by Floorb to your account that doesn't say what value changed.

>>42458688
Nohooves whore (unironic) and Moderator Permissions Tweaking.

>>42458688
>(was that just spam?)
Indeed it was.
>doesn't say what value changed
Yeah, I noticed that too. >>42458780 is right; I'm not sure why it showed up as blank in the log, but everything is fine.

mutiny?

>>42459169
Obligatory Ponies needing explained.

Up.

>>42451476
Nothing?

Mare?

>>42401283 (OP)
internet is going to shit and we need a contingency plan asap

>>42460948
I agree, if we wait too long it may be too late.

>>42459169
I just don't like how things are moderated sometimes
But I'm overruled if only because I'm too busy to regularly moderate anyway
You can see in the log how little I actually do
I feel a bit guilty about it

>>42461098
>Rule #2.i- If a post does not feature any of the above, but you copy and paste something from a-g above to make it valid, it is probably not pony related
We went over this.

Okay, so I am write here to say the mods on your site are very bad people. Very toxic. They do no sense. First my art. I do not want my art reposted. I say no no, but they put it back anyway. It make me very angry. I am not happy at all. They use mean words. Like, ''freak'' and ''regenerate''. Very bad words. They say to people who just ask questions. Not bad questions, good questions. They are very mean. I am a good user. I try to be nice. But the mods are not. They are against me. Against everyone. I am very sad. I want the mods to change. Please help.

>>42461606
Lol...

>>42461606
From your ESL typing pattern, i can pretty fairly call you a diapernigger.

>>42462357
I guess being into diapers invariably involves being mentally stunted in some way.

>>42462357
/mlp/ user detect shitpost challenge 2025

>>42462701
Invariably.

What would mare web infrastructure look like?

>>42461606
do you feel wounded?
maybe you should regenerate.

>>42460245
Mare.

>>42464250
How many?

>>42461606
I struggle to grasp what Anon is trying to say here.

>>42464919
Given the timing, he's saying that people must be nice to abdl degenerates instead of calling them freaks (on a site where comments are opt-in), or else.

>>42464790
One per Anon.

Why is ponerporter dead?

>>42461098
You can fire cockless, you know. You don't need to keep him on.

>>42461606
I spoke with the admins out of concern. They created a video response to answer your concerns.
https://iwiftp.yerf.org/.e979c6c73d21600ba92e9c55eb061a25ebd7139fde85ad05528e1cf3b24b7131.mp4

>>42465676
Boxless is the best mod an altbooru like twi could have. Seethe all you want it doesn't change the fact. I wish jannies on this board were like him.

>>42465751
>I wish jannies on this board were like him.
You only wish that because they're the absolute bottom-barrel fucking retards and even rules-only consistency would be a blessing.

>>42465751
/mlp/ really needs another janny to randomly delete anything that triggers him.

>>42465761
What's your beef with him?

>>42450005
>>42450019
seen decals of these on my telegram group where are they available?

>>42465751
>t. boxless
Nobody but you defends your shit actions.

>>42465661
Supposedly it stops if it hits a string of 4 or 5 errors in a row. A couple years back yetanotherimporter would pick it up sometimes but it seems he's gone or that porter is broken.

>>42466898
76 should have proven that blindfolded shotgunning isn't your strong suit, Todd.

>>42465661
>>42466935
This is true. After 3 sequential failures it will abort scraping. In this case it was PonerPics itself returning an internal error.

>>42466001
He thinks that humanized oc lolicon technically humanized oc in general but the crux of the issue is loli is pony-related. Boxless does not.
So he decided to demonstrate that he is a decent, sane person and not at all a deranged pedophile (sarcasm) by trying to smear Boxless at every opportunity.

>>42468115
Sup cockless?

>>42437304
What music folder?
>>42437312
Sounds about right

>>42468115
>All art should stay!
>Except when it's art I disagree with, of course!
Your entire existence is antithetical to Twibooru's mission and you should've been booted from the staff list years ago.

"Official Tamers Threa---" shift+click

>>42468818
Just another entry to add to the filter list.

>>42468811
It was never about "all art should stay", stop trying to rewrite history. Go back to atf or something.

>>42468873
>Let me rule lawyer in something to get art that I don't like deleted!
You want to know why you have to pay for Twibooru out of your own pocket for over a year now? This is the reason.

>>42468873
>stop trying to rewrite history
You think you have any leg to stand on at all, retard? Everything what has been said has been recorded. We know what you did, and you cannot hide it: >>38108800

>>42468912
Nothing wrong with disliking something not related to the topic of the site you moderate.

>>42468811
>waaaaaaaaa pony-exclusive art archive deletes my nonpony wank material waaaaaaaaa
You might want to pick something that is both pony-related and not despised by regular people to jerk it to.
Of course, you won't. You'll keep contributing to reasons lolicon is rightfully despised by regular people with your entitled behavior, you little shit.

>>42468912
Unfortunately attempting to dangle money with strings attached doesn't work because you haven't donated before either.

>>42468955
Thanks for the admission. May your site and the people operating it burn in hell.

>>42468962
>t. pedo

>>42468970
Go back to the sharty.

>>42468974
Never been there thougheverbeit.

>>42468955
>regular people
Since when are pony boorus meant for "regular people"?

>>42468985
>"regular people"
Read: horsefuckers. Pony lovers. Bronies. Whatever. Pedophiles do not fit in.

>>42468962
>burn in hell
Unfortunately, Matthew 18:1–14. I eagerly await your march to the nearest sea with the millstone around your neck.

>>42469019
>everyone who disagrees with me is a le raider from le sharty
Autism. Oh wait...

>>42469045
Grandiose narcissism, not autism. Textbook case, at that.
By extension, Boxless is also from the sharty since according to >>42468811 it's impossible for anyone else to hold the same opinion.

>>42469098
>Boxless is also from the sharty

>>42468945
What are you talking about?
I only see 14 deleted images of oc:apogee I can find and about all are dupes, none are loli
You have any image IDs? Even derpi ones?
Maybe I'm doing something wrong

>>42469126
>Maybe I'm doing something wrong
Yes. You're listening to a pedo retard, who can't even keep his lies consistent or non-hypocritical, instead of laughing and ignoring.

>>42469126
Read the linked discussion, they were restored shortly thereafter. Dunno why xe linked that post though that little misunderstanding has been already resolved.

>>42469148
>resolved
You're still a mod, so no it hasn't.

>>42469158
I'm not a mod though. If I were, you'd be crying even harder itt.

>Everyone I Don't Like is Boxless: The Threadschizo's Guide to Online Pony Discussion
>>42468974
>>42469098
>>42469124
This would be hilarious, but i think i'd probably have killed myself before the IQ drain got me.
Some of them are half-decent at editing though, but that can also be said for a lot of the Blackedniggers (repainted edition), so that's not saying too much.
>>42469158
I've been asleep this entire time after i got back from work, i think you're just retarded Anon.

>>42469882
How convenient.

>>42469882
We really need an alternative.

>>42469887
Well, there is one, but it doesn't save full images.

Are there any dumps of /mlp/ archives?

>>42469955
There are dumps of heinessen and archive.moe

image uploads on twibooru is not working, it just loads indefinitely once I hit post