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@Orbita
It will be fixed soon, along with some other ponies that were missing

I for one, welcome our new hot pocket overlords.

All praise the hot pocket

@Mr.Tektite

@Background Pony #9E51
You’re a little late to the thread…

@Parallel Black
It wasn’t deleted for being irrelevant (R6), it was deleted for R0. AI can be discussed without adding in extra insult.

@Parallel Black
@Background Pony #D322
Smiling Pony is not deleting the posts in this thread, we have other mods online who can see reports or even be subscribed to this specific thread, like I am since I posted here.

@JP
We can delete without a report, having the reason as commenter request is just nice so others know why. Their comment wasn’t removed because of any rules, but because they didn’t want their comment up anymore. I have deleted a few of my own comments and put commenter request for this reason.

@icicle wicicle 1517
You can use created_at:year, for example, to find all images uploaded in 2015: created_at:2015

@WaynePonePone
Yes :D

@TheGamerPainter
That’s caused by the www version still being up and separated, so it is related.

@κακყഠɪი ρഠɢɢεʀട
https:// and www. are separate things, there is no renaming there. The www version of derpibooru and trixiebooru are being merged towards the non-www version of both.

@Parallel Black
Instead of manually counting a small sample size, you can use the search enginge here to easily get large sample sizes. For better data and for an actual comparison, I searched for total image uploads vs ai content uploads in january 2023 and december 2023.

January 2023
18498 total images
678 ai images
3.6% ai content

December 2023
19971 total images
1105 ai images
5.5% ai content

There does seem be a slight increase, although I think that’s likely due to ai generators being more accessible/available to normal users along with some of them getting slightly better with pony content over the year, getting more users to use and upload ai images. Keep in mind that as I only checked those 2 months, it is possible one of those months were an outlier either being higher or lower than the normal trend between months. I don’t feel like spending the time going through each month to see a more overall graph of how common ai uploads are, though if you really want to you could easily edit my search queries above to find it yourself.

As for my bias on this, I don’t like ai images either, although I don’t see much threat to them. It’s usually very easy to tell when something is fully ai generated, and I’ve only seen a few ai images that at least look ‘right’ to me. Although I don’t specifically search for them, I don’t filter them so I have seen plenty just around the site and when dealing with mod things. With all the imperfections of ai generated images, it really can take someone hours to get an ai image that matches exactly what they want and looks good. With those hours of work elsewhere and just paying an artist for your image, you get better quality without having to mess with any of the ai generators. So I don’t see any real threat towards artist commissions, at least with how the generators are in their current state. Along with the default filter here hiding fully ai generated images, and other sites like e621 fully banning ai content, there’s also plenty of encouragement against ai generated images for future use. I’ve seen worries that the generators can get even better but ai content seems to be reaching a ceiling in quality, new improvements are either slight manual tweaking or improvements to how fast they can generate.

So in short, there does seem to be a slight increase in ai content, but even as someone who doesn’t care for ai content, I see no bigger reason to worry now than before.

@Background Pony #1457
Some people may still use the www domain either for blocked reasons and didn’t switch back, or to use it for a separate account, rather than log in and out of the main site over and over.

@LightningBolt
Considering the sea pony and seapony (g4) have about the same level of difference to these, I’d be in support to split them. Would have to go back a bit to update previous dragon images to dragon g5, but searching dragon,g5 shows only a few thousand so certainly do-able. Also keep the current dragon tag as dragon still, similar to how only seapony (g4) has the generation after. Would be nice if we could do some sort of announcement for it as well, otherwise there’ll be a lot of retagging and pming about the g5 dragon before it has wider use.

@vernorexia
Yeah, an advertising bot. They make posts like this and then later will edit it to have a link to some scam service. Also having a basic first name in their username along with random person avatar.

In this case, checking the edit history of their second post, it actually had a link to their site and then edited to remove it, so maybe hoping to secretly advertise to anyone that checks edit history? Not sure, but still spam bot.

@icicle wicicle 1517
It’s a bigger size, but the other one has a lot of compression artifacts making it lower quality.

@Zaknel
Pretty hard to forget, especially if you’ve rewatched the show 2 or 3 times :p

@Cosmas-the-Explorer
I played it on xbox, was fun for a bit but I got bored of it rather quickly.

@Cosmas-the-Explorer
I have fimfiction but only for reading. On other fanfic sites I wrote fanfics involving eevee but that has been abandoned for awhile.

@Background Pony #B926
Done both.

@Parcly Taxel
They aren’t ready yet

@Melisareb
@Valuable Ashes
The 2023 collab hasn’t even started yet :P

@JP
Yeah, I was promoted like a few minutes ago :p

@JP
Done all.

@JP
Did all except body bag, the images under it don’t really fit what someone would expect from the bag tag I feel.

It doesn’t take too long, I just open each tag, make sure the images are good and then I can type in the implication. Probably half a minute per tag implication if it goes smoothly.

artist:sxe-kitty -> artist:wicked--wonderland

https://www.deviantart.com/sxe-kitty shows the account was renamed to wicked--wonderland

@JP
@Background Pony #5485
Did all except cake on assaulting with cake as it’s mostly tagged on cupcakes

@GemPainter32
The 2022 badges do not exist yet.

@Background Pony #F197
We’re not going anywhere, there will still be new uploads, especially with the whitelist system.

@Shimmering Spectacle
That, and new users.

@Background Pony #F197
It isn’t 100% manual, whitelisted users don’t go through approval queue.