Thread 42471539

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: >>42401283

FloorB!

- Any news on the clickable line numbers on PonePaste?
- 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

FloorB!

Some images which failed to import from derpibooru to twibooru are not possible to upload. It gets stuck during the post request, no error, nothing.
Example: https://derpibooru.org/images/3616039
I managed to upload it by changing the file hash (removed the exif data) and it worked afterwards: https://twibooru.org/3591087

Slow start.

>>42471552
I managed to upload that fine; I think you may have been trying during a period of ~6 hours earlier when the server's disk was full.
Speaking of which, I'm slowly working on migrating to a new server with more disk space. There's a lot of data to copy, it's been going for about a week so far.
>>42471549
I didn't finish the former yet because I've mostly been busy at my day job. The FoalFetch question is interesting - its data source *is* FimFArchive, so I'm not sure why it would be missing data from it. That example is good to work from, though - I'll try to look into it when I have the time. If you have any other examples, please do link them here.
https://github.com/neetpone/foalfetch has the process I use for importing the data in the README - if anyone can see anything wrong with it, please let me know.

Quarterly reminder that you should mirror iwatchitfortheplot.
Also one SSD is slowly going bad and I don't have money specifically for server maintainance right now so let's see how long it lives.

>>42471953
Nah, most of the shit is already available somewhere else or worthless.

>>42471917
>I managed to upload that fine
No. You uploaded the one with the watermark, it's not the same.
>disk full
I saw that other images were uploaded fine, even larger ones than this. Here is the one which failed: https://files.catbox.moe/81f6p6.png
>>42471953
Don't let it fail pls. It's extremely valuable, there are many many things that can't be found elsewhere.
I don't have 200TB to mirror it :(
Last time you said you have backups of everything, isn't that still the case?

>>42471953
>Also one SSD is slowly going bad
I think you jinxed my SSD. A couple month old 8TB spontaneously died mere moments after I read you post. Doesn't show up at all. At least it should still be under warranty.

>>42474055
This is why I don't use SSDs. When they break, they just suddenly stop responding. At least a HDD gives you a warning when it starts making odd noises.

>>42474457
I generally use HDDs (mainly for cost effectiveness), however I specifically got this drive to mess around with hosting my own personal booru. And while I am probably a ways out from doing that still, I figured I would work on downloading a copy of PonerPics now. I had just fixed the scraper I made earlier today and was running on a RISC-V SBC downloading to this drive when it died. Looks like my pony backup will be delayed again until I get the new drive back in the mail.

>>42474457
SSDs typically fail read-only. I've seen plenty of HDD failures where it just suddenly stops responding.

>>42474764
Depending on what caused the failure. SSDs that fail on power outage do in fact just spontaneously die by the way always disable built-in encryption so that you don't lose data on power surge. But so do HDDs, so the difference is in wear-and-tear failure - HDD will make noises and start showing you bad sectors long before it fails completely, SSD will go read-only.
>>42474055
>couple month old
Are you familiar with the bathtub curve?

>>42474864
>the bathtub curve
I am well familiar with it. Sometimes I wonder if my good luck with refurb drives has to do with skipping the beginning curve. I do keep two copies of data I care about.

>>42471953
I don't even back up my own mares.

>>42471953
>you should mirror iwatchitfortheplot
Tell me more about that, anon.

>>42471953
dude don't you know that if you're running a pony archival site you are legally obligated to keep it online with 100% data availability and integrity 24/7, even if it requires you to be homeless and suck cock for server bill money?

>>42472880
I have a mirror, but if the server ssd dies then it's another problem which leads to like 2 months downtime to restore everything and leaves me with less space.
>>42475366
I never ran an archive for a community, only because I feel like it and pay for it on my own.

>>42475366
>suck cock for server bill money
You'd like that, wouldn't you?~

>>42475702
>ssd
How large of an ssd are we talking about?

>>42475366
>Waaaah
If you're not going to put in the effort don't even bother because you will be doing more damage than actually contributing to the archival of pony media.

>>42475954
7,68TB

>>42476178
Ah enterprise ssd. Best price I found for a used one (Samsung PM883, 100TB write and 1000 day of in operation time) is 330 euro.

>>42476329
Anon you cant just say shit like this and no provide a linkl

>>42476396
380 euro: https://hardverapro.hu/apro/micron_5300_pro_7_68tb_2/friss.html
330 euro: https://hardverapro.hu/apro/samsung_pm883_7_68tb/friss.html

Local pickup only sadly (but I could have arranged shipping), plus it seems like both been sold (at least someone put in the intention to buy, thus the seller "froze" it, buyer have not yet picked it up).

>>42475348
>I don't even back up my own mares.
That's a crime.

How many hard drives can a pony fit?

>>42477669
Yes.

>>42472880
Rome, got a non crypto way for me to donate? I'll pay for an SSD if you think that'll do the trick for a while. Working on getting TPA up to 200TB usable by end of year. fwiw the expensive failure mode is why I've done everything on HDD's so far.
>what if we put it on tape
Mind if I put the entire iwftp on tape? You chill with a 200TB pull? I could do it via rsync if you want. Reach out to me.

bump

>>42478174
That looks painful.

>>42478174
what drove someone to draw this?

>>42471549
PonePaste now has clickable line numbers. Let me know if any display stuff is weird anywhere.

>>42478491
>these ugly ass animations
Did some jeet bit you or something?

>>42478503
That was in the original code from before my time, it's always been like that. It was just never activated.

>>42477884
You can download whatever you want so go ahead, I have 30TB fair use traffic.
Realisticly at least two SSDs are needed because I run out of space anyway.

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>>42478491
Awesome! Now It is much much much easier to bookmark where I left off reading stuff.
Thanks

>>42478698
>No option for Spongecoin

Up.

>>42478440
There was some subtle joke to it but I forgot what it was.

>>42479681
Same.

Has there been any good news lately?

>>42480454
We're still alive and nothing has died?
No news is good news in this case.

do boorus break even on expenses paid to maintain them?

>>42471539 (OP)
not sure if this is the place buuuuuut...
Do we have a dedicated pony AI image generator website?

Quick pony.tube update
After Mare Fair, I plan to start working on ameliorating the swiftly approaching running out of storage issue
Anyone know where I could lease a bare metal server with like 25 TB of storage? lol
Or other (reasonable) suggestions?
Examples of things I'm unlikely to do:
- host it out of your house (lol lmao)
- colocate server (I don't have the initial investment needed to do this properly)

I could go to a S3 style bucket setup but I think it'll double my monthly costs and I'll still be running on some pretty old hardware
(When pony.tube started it was actually hosted this way using some kludgy shit, but now peertube supports this natively)

>>42480672
Kind of? Purplesmart.ai, I think. I mean it's Discord/Derpi shit, but it allows you to gen pony stuff.

>>42481548
I gave my e mail and the only thing the page says is ""You're in - stay tuned!""

>>42481659
They're trying to make bank off PDXL 7, without even realizing they took so long they lost any momentum they had. There's lots of models now that rival or surpass it, without doing retarded stuff like taking out artist tags to appease a group of people who will never accept you anyway.

>>42481688
>Purplesmart.ai
so basically I gave my email for a site that it's still work in progress?

>>42481534
>colocate server (I don't have the initial investment needed to do this properly)
How much are we talking here?

I see Racknerd has a 160TB special going on for bare metal servers right now. Though that's probably a bit excessive and a bit more than the current cost of PonyTube at $480 a month. They don't seem to have any in between sizes. They say they offer custom specs via quote so maybe you can ask them. Maybe half the storage for half the price?

>>42481534
You can host it out of my house in the middle of cornfields :^)
The cost of ownership and peace of mind will always outweigh rental. I am willing to give a VPS with 25TB attached to it as part of TPA's support of pony sites, but you'll find bandwidth to be lacking.
>hardware?
I have several older V4 systems and will be retiring 60 6TB hard drives later this year after mare fair. If you want I can setup some hardware and you can colo it, but V4 xeon servers are expensive to colo now days with rising power costs and datacenters getting priced up higher by AI. There is a good reason I am decommissioning them.

>>42481534
OVH has some 2x22TB HDD box for $240: https://us.ovhcloud.com/bare-metal/prices/?display=grid&range=storage, but only in Canada (and EU) right now, I don't know how acceptable that is for mostly US userbase.
>host it out of your house (lol lmao)
Is there something you could do for a website of this scale/kind that will make some variant of this idea less lol lmao? A proxy VPS with some storage for cached popular content, pulling other videos from a noisy Define 7 XL shitbox under a pile of warm Twilight plushies?
I have >100TB raw storage at home and buying that was easier to swallow, given that ongoing costs are just electricity and ISP. Works well enough for me and a few people I selfhost stuff for, but obviously I'm nowhere near whatever traffic PonyTube gets, so excuse me for bringing it up if that's totally unviable because something about PT requires storage to be in the datacenter.

>>42481726
Don't think I can host on a vps
I need something partly decent at video transcoding

>>42481725
I'll look at rack nerd, $240 isn't much more than what I pay now
How dependable are they

>>42481793
I'm not willing to accept the downtime hosting at my house would require
Internet or power outage, just needing to move things around, plus lack of space are all concerns
Plus bandwidth and I'm certain my ISP will notice and complain at the massive upstream bandwidth increase
Just isn't viable for me

>>42482089
For reference Ponybooru moved from a 40 vcore VPS with 64GB of ram on Xeon 2690v4 to a 4 core vps with 20GB of ram on our new 9950x system and is still 10x faster than before. I'd be more concerned about bandwidth, but it is an option even if you want to just mirror your data over to keep it archived. I was running a mirror for a while, and will probably set it up again before the anniversary so we don't rip your bandwidth on-stream.
>Colocation
Me building hardware for you to colo with me or elsewhere is also on the table. If you had budget or asked politely I'm sure others may be willing to chip in enough to make it a newer ryzen system rather than one of my older V4 xeons.

All in if I donated the HDD's to start with, and donated a chassis. A Ryzen board, CPU, ram, and 2 nvmes for boot would probably run you around 800-1200 depending on choices made. That would be for a 9900x based system. Doesn't have to be top end and redundant like TPA's stuff to work still. It would pull about ~1A @ 208/240v at max load even with the HDD's stacked in front. A loaded Xeon V4 system you'd be looking at around 1.5-2.1A @ 208/240v. It's why you can buy a baller V4 system for $270 on ebay right now.
Bonus points if you add an old quadro gpu that supports simultaneous hardware encoding.

>>42482089
>How dependable are they
Pretty good. I've been with them for a number of years by this point, though I've only ever used their VPS service. On average, there's maybe a few hours of network downtime a year. When my VPS was lost due to multiple disk failure following a datacenter fire they credited me a month of service. Which, while unfortunate, I can't really complain about their response. It was an unmanaged VPS so it was on me to do the backups (which I did). Their TOS page used to be great. It just had two lines: Don't do anything illegal under US law and if you're on a VPS don't rape the SSD. Since then they've added some more legalize, but nothing really changed and it all still fits on one page which is refreshing compared to many other services where their TOS is just miles and miles of legal. They accept bitcoin and other crypto which is nice. I've never had to interact with customer service so I can't really tell you how that is. But overall I've been very happy with the service.

>>42482379
Do not trust this man with your data or your servers

>>42482857
What about your dick pics?

Late night bump.

>>42482857
Should I trust you with my data or my servers?
>Update
TPA now has 2 copies on tape. 3rd copy is on the way soon.
Decommissioning of another older server in the network is underway.

>>42482379
It sounds good but rn I know I can't afford that
Also, I'm worried about downtime if you get hit by a big storm again or something
How reliable would you say your uptime could be realistically?
Redundant power/network connections?
What if something died while you were out of town?

>>42483588
I would highly recommend coloing it in a local datacenter, either to you or me. Fiberhub in Las Vegas is also pretty alright. I try to target 98% uptime for network and power, I have redundant emergency network but not redundant power. If things SHTF bad enough I will head on home from a con, but I really don't want to lol. TPA's main goal is "Data safe" rather than "Data online", this doesn't line up with some hosting situations, and that's OK.

>>42481548
>>42481548
>I mean it's Discord/Derpi shit
Sounds like it's censored to hell and back.

>>42483518
>2 copies on tape
based

>>42484303
How bad is it? Because Desu is still working so far.

>>42484480
That's the only archive containing mlp and full size images as far as I know.

>>42483953
All online generators are censored in some form. Nobody wants the liability of accidentally allowing people to gen pseudo-CP.

>>42481534
Hetzner offers cheap dedi servers with a lot of storage, especially if you use their server auction

>>42485056
Going to point out that EU's new restrictions on consumer privacy, and upcoming regulations making things like adblocker illegal might actually shut Hetzner down in the semi-near future. Their Finland operation may be viable though, and isn't caught in as much German hot water. I used to use Hetzner but when we got bigger we needed better servers than their auction could provide at the time.

>>42485381
>upcoming regulations making things like adblocker illegal
Kek

It's so funny how politurds think they can do shit at all.

>>42481534
>update peertube already
>find some way to deduplicate files
>maybe ban that wannabe eceleb that floods the front page with 3 copies of the same video
>stop allowing the 666th reupload of the entirety of FIM
All that could help without having to change servers or hosts.

>>42485541
I didn't want to state the obvious, but paying a couple people $20 steam gift cards to go around and nuke / merge FiM reuploads might be more cost effective than upgrading servers.

>>42484591
Yes, but how deep is Desu in the crap right now?

>>42485541
>>42485686
Do we have volunteers
The funny autists vids are like 5 MB each, they're tiktok shit
I did save a few gigs deleting a bunch of lion king vids someone was uploading

>>42486745
I'd happily go around on an off day and delete every set of reuploads except one, but picking out which one to keep is 100% up to you. The other shit sounds like judgement call stuff and I ain't doing that.

>>42486678
Does not matter. It's a single point of failure.

>>42487502
We'd only miss fullsize images if Desu goes offline though, we'd at least still have all text as well as thumbs. And most content posted to this board nowadays isn't really worth archiving (and if it is it's generally already uploaded to a booru). As long as we have a database dump from about a few years back (we don't) we'd have the most important stuff archived.

Also, I'm probably in the minority with this opinion, but ever since AI started getting pretty good simple doodles have lost a lot of their value for me (unless the image has something else going for it like a funny joke or something). A picture of a pony just standing is so easy to gen in just about any style nowadays, there's not much loss if something like that isn't archived, since it takes just little work to recreate it by yourself.

>>42487502
True. It is a serious weak link.

>>42487576
>this board nowadays isn't really worth archiving
Why are you even here then?...

>>42487725
1. To shitpost the time away.
2. I was specifically talking about the images only. Although truth be told with the lack of quality greens these days and posts that don't exceed 140 characters of text the rest isn't worth all that much either.

>>42487725
>is an aijeet
>thinks human creations are worthless
Seems obvious to me his opinions are meaningless and his contributions are on the level of a shartyposter.

>>42488280
>j-jeet!
Get replaced.

That fuckin nigger who uploads spam and fucks with tags all the time. What the fuck even is cbat. What the hell is that faggot nigger even talking about.

>>42489632
>What the fuck even is cbat
Don't know. Sounds like zoomie lingo to me.

>>42489632
It's probably some joke that's absolutely hilarious to him. Remember, we're talking about literal Kimmo Alm level "sapience" here.

>>42490388
>Kimmo Alm
Who?

I think Mulpwiki’s busted again

Up again.

Gee it sure is boring around here

Okay, I'd like to make a website similar to marecon.live and mlpcon.online...
Where do I start?
What do I need to know?
How much would it cost me, in terms of money and time?

>>42494131
You start by killing yourself.

What keeps cbat retard going do you think?

>>42494688
Profound mental retardation

>>42494943
You might be onto something.

any booru specifically for 3dpd cosplaying sluts?

>>42494688
>>42495448
WHAT DOES IT MEAN?! WHAT THE FUCK DOES IT MEAN?!

>>42495591
Reddit meme. A better question is why he's so obsessed with South Park.

>>42495686
Pic related?

>>42495686
Holy shit, imagine being detained by a woman bigger than you. Either he feels so emasculated his dick shriveled up, or he develops a new fetish and is going to jack off to it in his jail cell.

>>42497046
He doesn't look like he's giving a fuck. Or being capable of giving one.

It looks like Ashes Town is shutting down. I want to archive the data, which seems to require signing in to even get the map data.
Problem: I don't have an account, and they've disabled account creation. Does anyone have a burner account they may have created in the past that they'd be willing to give me access to?
Alternatively, would anyone be able to sign on to the game through something like https://github.com/internetarchive/warcprox and then send me the WARC to see if it contains the data I'm looking for? If anyone wants to try the latter option, let me know and I'll try to give you more instructions.

>>42497683
>Ashes Town
What is that in the first place?

>>42497946
A Ponytown clone based off Fallout Shitquestria. Admittedly, it had actual gameplay and some neat things Ponytown doesn't. Dunno why it'd be shutting down.

>>42497683
Why don't you DM the owners?

>>42497683
Btw, where did you get the info that it is shutting down?

>>42498007
Their Discord group. Or more specifically, an announcement there shared with me by someone.
>>42497960
>Dunno why it'd be shutting down.
Drama. >>42497129

>>42497960
Some allegations against one team member were made, so the rest of the team and the ponytown fags with their closed source permissions-demanded sharing of some resources revoked their permissions, so the lead "has" to take it down.

>>42498054
>Drama
This kind of shit is why I don't participate in this fandom in places where I have to give a name in any way. If time has shown me one thing, it's that the people who are part of it are all batshit insane retards that should only be interacted with anonymously. Yes, this includes everyone on this board. You're all fucking nuts.

>>42498054
>Drama
I have to say, all involved parties are retarded.
>>42498129
>I have to give a name in any way
Nah, there is nothing wrong with that. You can easily be an Anon with a name. Just don't connect all your shit under the same name, as one drama and all falls like domino. Plus the issue always comes down to money and internal/external conflicts. Also having a spine or the lack of one depending on the situation.

What this retard should do is give full and complete control of everything to pony town. Clearly all actions taken by the guy was wrong. Even the way he handles the shutdown down is wrong. Just say he is sorry, he is stepping down, here are the keys to the castle, do what you wish. He acknowledged he was being a complete fag already, there is no point burning down the house too.

On the other hand, these * town servers are nothing more than chatrooms. Come to think of it, the difference between * town and second life is only ability to add custom user generated content.

>>42497683
>they didn't even turn on pony exporting
Haha, classic.

>>42497683
Update: I've got someone helping me out with this as a result of this post.

>>42498286
Good. What's there to archive? Assets? Is the source code available (I doubt you need an in game account for that)?

>>42498579
Assets and world probably, they went closed-source just like furnigger.mudhuts went and just bent over and agreed to take it up the ass with a license swap over the open source license that came with the sourcedump that furfag.cavedwellers made way back when.

>>42498611
Пoжaлyйcтa, гoвopитe пo-aнглийcки

>>42498687
You first.

>>42498687
Nyet.

>>42498286
Helping out cute nerds is quite fun ^:)

>>42498818
UNF <3

>>42498611
>just bent over and agreed to take it up the ass with a license swap
Unfortunately the CC-NC clause on the base pony assets means your only options are
1. Pay the entire server bill out of pocket (no donations or patreon allowed)
2. Completely replace 100% of the assets
3. Bend over

>>42498211
>give full and complete control of everything to pony town
I doubt the PT team wants it. More likely they'd rather shut it all down

>>42498928
>completely replace
It's fucking pixel art, it's not that hard. Especially at that pixel density where you could edit it and feasibly come out with a different product that they can't fuck you with.

>>42498928
>(no donations or patreon allowed)
crypto
>>42498933
>It's fucking pixel art, it's not that hard
lmao

>>42498943
The difficulty isn't making the thing, it's making it look like not-shit.

>>42498928
Or you can just do what the fuck you want, host it on a Russian server and accept donations through crypto

>>42498928
>CC-NC clause on the base pony assets
You are completely wrong.
CC-NC means you can't sell it, not that you can't pay for someone to make something based on it. Whatever is made from it still needs to be CC-NC.
>no donations
This is also wrong. They are not paying for the content itself, but for a service. If the content is available for free (which it was, since you can just log in without payment) then you are not in violation of CC-NC.

Comparing it to the IT world, if a thing is free and open source, that does not mean you can't provide services using it which does not sell the thing itself. Like consultation or hosting services.

>>42498988
>They are not paying for the content itself, but for a service
The language of the license is not that specific. It just says you can't use the assets for "commercial purposes", or in other words you can't use them for anything that makes you money. If you run a Pony Town server and have a patreon to help pay for server costs, you are using the assets (by running the game) to make money (by encouraging people to donate to your patreon) and thus you're in violation of the license.

>Comparing it to the IT world, if a thing is free and open source, that does not mean you can't provide services using it which does not sell the thing itself
The difference there is in the software case, you aren't distributing the copyrighted material (the software), just using it yourself. But PT servers are distributing the copyrighted sprites by sending them to the player's browser.

Ponytown made their shit closed source after open sourcing it because they were ass mad that others were collecting donations and they wanted that cash for themselves.
If you made an full open source implementation of pony town I'll host any server for free, as I was hosting their original open source servers for free.

>>42499031
Version 4 of this license has pulled out the NonCommercial definition into a separate paragraph, which reads as follows:
----
NonCommercial means not primarily intended for or directed towards commercial advantage or monetary compensation. For purposes of this Public License, the exchange of the Licensed Material for other material subject to Copyright and Similar Rights by digital file-sharing or similar means is NonCommercial provided there is no payment of monetary compensation in connection with the exchange.
----

The donations was not for making profit from the CCNC assets, but to cover the costs of running the server (primary intent) and paying artists to create more content (which by PT does too). There was no compensation required to access the server.

>you aren't distributing the copyrighted material (the software)
Anyone is allowed to distribute linux distributions for example. You can even donate to the distro makers while not giving a single cent to the kernel developers. And (a few years ago) you could pay for to access the ubuntu releases for example. They had a service to ship you the distribution on CD/DVD. You were not paying for the software itself, you were paying for the service.

>>42499053
I don't think it's something that any one autist can do alone. I've been looking at the (minified) source code and the WebSocket protocol format, and I can probably pull all the map data in an editable format, and I could probably even make an extremely basic client and server, but beyond that? Ain't got time for that.

>>42499092
If you use CC-NC assets in an advertisement for your store, that's clearly a commercial purpose, even though you aren't selling the assets themselves
If you use CC-NC assets in a freemium game (free to play + microtransactions), that's clearly a commercial purpose, even though there's no payment required to access the game
So PT's argument would be that Ashes Town was effectively being run as a freemium game. If the guy running it literally spent every dollar from his patreon on server hosting and paying artists, then he could maybe argue that the primary intent was not monetary compensation but rather supporting the community or some such thing. But if he ever kept some of the patreon money for himself, then he might be in trouble.

>>42498968
This. Stop bending over backwards to copyright trolls, whether they be big companies or a small circle of autistic losers.

Why do I have to tolerate this tard in my booru?

Isn't it always elevating to see how such projects burn down due to stupid levels of someone having a stick up his ass?

>>42471539 (OP)
Which one booru is best for human fillies in your opinion?

>>42500373
Twibooru probably. Pedo.

>>42500654
It's not like it's a secret and there's nothing on any booru that breaks US law.

>>42498928
How exactly is this different from a mod? What happened is basically Pony Town fags C&D'd a mod, that stuff is usually met with a rally of people review-bombing your game. Kinda ironic, considering Pony Town itself violates Hasbro copyright.

>>42500633
Thanks. Been using that.

>>42500654
You have no idea how funny I found that.

Up.

>>42503820
nice bump chain, delete them

>>42504250
This. Just delete your bump posts after posting them. Or bump with something substantial.

>>42500633
>the one cockless moderates to delete every image of that genre for

>>42504760
Rent free.

>>42500373
Ponerpics

>>42504910
Oop

>>42505025
Is that a recent change? I remember being able to do that relatively recently

>>42504766
>hurr durr
Get into another moderation war with the site owner, faggot.

>an actual moderator who knows how to do his job properly has been deleting spam for 3 hours straight with no help

>>42505424
Man, you just refuse to put points into accuracy perks, huh?

>>42504760
"He" has also insinuated he'll tag Pestil and Shino's stuff "foalcon" even when it isn't in the future, just like he has been tagging anthro shit of ponies with literal tits and ass as "lolicon". "He" can't be trusted, especially considering "his" earlier transgressions. I'm not even into pedo shit, but it's obvious "he" has "his" own agenda.

>>42505424
Where on, Manebooru?
>>42505595
>my pedoshit isn't pedoshit if I move the breast sliders

>>42505648
Nah, looks like Meddle was doing a big purge of ancient imported bootfag spam that slipped through the cracks.
Given the brown-nosing (over an action that has had that anon flip his shit in the past no less), i suspect our local schizo might have past with Ponerpics. Maybe not good past, but a past.
>>42505595
Why are you so focused on kiddie shit, and not having it be tagged?
I think that's the first time i've seen someone imply he's a pooner, too, which is fucking hilarious.

>>42505673
I want to plap that masculine box

>>42505697
That's gay.

>>42505648
>cockless doesn't know what happens on the site he's a moderator unless it involves re-deleting what the owner of the site restored and instantly thinks "good moderation" means manebooru
You keep digging yourself deeper.

>>42505673
>Why are you so focused on kiddie shit, and not having it be tagged?
Because that's the only content that Boxless keeps messing the tags with. Nice try.

>>42505916
Oh, you're retarded.
Don't you think that something might have been done by now if Twifag agreed with you?

>>42505923
Go dilate, tranny.

>>42505923
He was lamenting his moderators just last thread: >>42461098

>>42506480
Lamentation is not action. I'd guess he butted heads with the Head Faggot Sysadmin, but that's just a wild guess.

>>42506480
He'd rather publicly post a video of him plapping his waifu than fuck any of his staff straight.

>>42506493
Fortunately an incorrect guess - we don't really talk that much, we're just both too busy I guess. He isn't really terribly active as staff unless someone directly asks him for something, but I don't blame him - he has a ton of stuff on his plate at all times.

>>42506587
Probably doesn't help that the mods try not to add to that plate, eh?

Why are the Twibooru admins so nice when the moderators are so insufferable?

>>42506596
What have you got against the rest of the mods?

>>42506608
They're just kind of abrasive. They seem to do good work, even Cockless asides from his vendetta against loli/foalcon stuff.

>>42506596
The admins don't have to regularly deal with retards while trying to play nice, i'd assume.

>>42506615
>complaining about abrasiveness on /mlp/

>>42506596
they're equally as nice once you get in bed with them.

>>42506699
Cringe.

>>42506699
>no hooves
I'd rather not.

>>42506636
This being 4chan/mlp/ doesn't mean it's acceptable for a booru moderator to claim everyone is a pedo child rapist for being against his bad moderation actions and shitty decisions or his deletion of content that if in sfw form, would be allowed here, with how strict requirements are on /mlp/, while he decides pokemon fetish art is pony enough. Just the accusations he throws out alone would mark him as a public enemy if he were on twitter or manebooru or poosky or whatever. You wouldn't go to bat for vogelfag and his schizo spam just because he posts here instead of r/mylittlepony, would you?

>>42508012
When was the last time you took your meds?

>>42508012
You need to lurk less

>Boxless
Again? What did he do this time? If there are constantly problems popping up around him, maybe, just maybe, the reason for those problems is Boxless himself? He failed to fit in like the rest of the janny-equivalents on boorus and dances on his own tune, so maybe he should continue doing that somewhere else.

>>42508540
She's not gonna smooch you no matter how much you pick on her.

>>42508540
Or more likely it's like almost every other big problem that crops up in these threads: one autist with a grudge that won't shut the fuck up about it and makes it seem like something important to the mass of people that don't really care