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I think there's some confusion in terms of site names and URLs, so allow me to clarify for those still confused:

- Ponibooru (ponibooru.org) was the fandom's first mainstream booru website, operating from 2011 to July 2012. The person who owned that site was essentially the only staff member, and they shut it down after they grew tired of running it and didn't want to entrust anyone else with the site. When the shutdown was announced, they (along with EqD) encouraged everyone to start using Derpibooru instead, and here we are today. Currently we own the ponibooru.org domain, as they transferred it to us after the shutdown was complete, but the domain's not in active use.

- PBooru (pbooru.com) is the one that just shut down a few days ago. It was a more obscure/lesser known site, but was preferred by some because of their more "lenient" content polices compared to Derpibooru. However, it also had a lot of spam issues. Some people referred to it as Ponibooru because of the URL, but to my knowledge it was not affiliated with the original Ponibooru.

- New Ponibooru (poniboo.ru) was an attempt by two people to recreate the original Ponibooru in 2016, four years after the original one was shut down. I believe they stated the reason was because they wanted to recreate Ponibooru's community (Ponibooru was a bit more lenient on moderation than Derpibooru is). Unfortunately for them, that attempt failed due to several reasons, and the site shut down within a week. Based on registration dates, I believe they let the domain expire, and then someone else bought it and redirected it to >>5458. To the best of my knowledge, the two people who originally created the site, as well as whoever owns the poniboo.ru domain now, have no affiliation with the original Ponibooru.

@No dice
Be careful staying up til 1AM and not thinking or knowing what day it even is. If you do that enough times you end up becoming an administrator of a My Little Pony imageboard where you try to put out fires and then the site developers react by plastering gifs of fires all over the website.

Speaking from experience.

@s8wc3
Windows 2000 was fucking awesome and probably the best OS (for it's time) that Microsoft has ever made. I will fight people on that.

@TexasUberAlles

@Background Pony #9C7C
If there's any functionality lost, it'll be over at 0001GMT. Just… unplug your phone from the 144k modem for a few hours and complain to AOL tomorrow if it's still happening.

Honestly, probably a little later than that. We normally start at midnight UTC and end around Midnight UTC-6 (+/- a little bit because sleep). Just so everyone gets to enjoy the fun regardless of time zone.

@No dice

I also do not like the design. Is it intentionally or did some hacker group just shit all over the site?

Intentional. Check your calendar.

@TexasUberAlles

The Times New Roman is feckin' murdering me, by the way. It is THE WORST TYPEFACE.

Could be worse. At least it's not Comic Sans.

@theawesomeguy98201
Those were good phones — I used to use them

@pixel
May I interest you in a superior series of novels?

@evan555alpha
I think half of it is that people don't realize that Derpibooru is a European website, meaning we operate 5-8 hours ahead of the continental US.

@Boxless
Thank you for your feedback

Look at all these plebs running Windows 95 while I'm running the truly superior operating system:

K

@MellowinsomeYellow
Generally, deletion requests are only honored if they come from the original artist. We typically to not delete images at the uploader's request unless the uploader is also the artist.

We can always anonymize an upload though, so that you no longer would show as the uploader and it wouldn't appear on your profile anymore. You can request that by reporting an image with the "other" reason. We generally honor such requests so long as you're not abusing them.

@TheGlitchedWolf
Generally, the artist of the image is the owner of it. Even if it's a commission, or an image of someone's OC, copyright law dictates that ownership of the image normally remains with the artist unless there was a specific agreement to transfer ownership or the image was created under employment. That is an extremely rare occurrence. I've only seen such requests maybe 3-4 times in the 5+ years I've been moderating this website.

Also, OP was talking about if they were the uploader, not the artist. Please allow site staff to answer these questions as our deletion policies are surprisingly complex, and can vary based on context/situation.

Hello everyone!

We hope everyone is staying safe during these troubled and chaotic times in the world!

As several conventions (both MLP and otherwise) have recently been forced to either be cancelled or postponed for the year, we wanted to make an announcement letting everyone know of two events online happening to help alleviate the burden (and boredom):


PonyFest Online is a one-day virtual convention taking place this Saturday, March 28th, with the events kicking off at 2PM UTC (10AM EDT). They have already announced several major VIP and community guests, and are planning on having online gaming, panels, musicians, a virtual vendor hall, and more!

You can check out their website at https://ponyfest.horse, or join their Discord server at https://discord.gg/nSDGJCg. You can also follow them on Twitter for more announcements at @PonyFestOnline


Support Vendors is a large online, virtual vendor hall with over 50 shops, mostly comprised of vendors from pony and furry conventions! They are a place to buy prints, physical goods, commissions, and more!

You can join their server and check out everything available at https://bit.ly/SupportVendors

^{Disclaimer: This post is being made as a courtesy announcement to help spread the word for these two events. Derpibooru does not have any relationship or affiliation with either Ponyfest Online or Support Vendors.}

You mean >>2304296?

It says you clicked the hide button on it

@Rain Sunburst
@Derpy Whooves
Solidarity MAP was amazing and I loved it. And Doors is also quite great!

Though the Anthology series will always be #1 to me

@MysteriousW
The missing descriptions, while not 100% intentional, is not really an oversight either. The badges are temporarly named with a "AAA" prefix to keep them at the very top of the list, to make awarding them a lot faster. However, the site doesn't pull the description for them automatically.

I have a way to automatically mass-fix them all in one fell-swoop though, so any badges missing the description will get them in the near future. There's just so many to award right now that it's designed to be as quick as possible.

Also, I do need to give credit to Bigshot232 for drawing this year's submission badge as well!



I actually was going to go with something else, but when I actually started working on it, it looked like shit when scaled to 16x16, and the one he drew was similar and still quite fitting, so I rolled with that.

@TheBathWaterHero
I hope to see her in the next one too!

@Hecadeximal
Yeah, this is nothing new. There's been badges for submitting characters to the collab every year.

@Slipstream95
Done

@TheBathWaterHero
I always love seeing her in the collab! She's one of the few whose been in every one since the first one

@The Smiling Pony
Hah!

@Slipstream95
Please post a link to the image

@SolarHEclipse
Need a link to the image on the site please

@Background Pony #FA0B
@Slingring
Oh, wait, I remember your name now — you're that guy who keeps flooding threads and sockpuppeting.

Your OC was not in the collab, so you don't get a badge.

@Background Pony #FA0B
Log into your account and post a link to the submission of your OC

@Background Pony #F617
They linked the wrong image, but a quick look at the OC's tag shows they were indeed in the collab

@TheGlitchedWolf
Telling people not to backseat mod is still backseat modding

@Wheatley R.H.
They're added now