Derpibooru nostalgia

Anyone remember Patrick Von Drillman?  
The handyman who keeps appearing during periods of outages?

@Soarin_the_Pegasus  
was the only place with total freedom, bronybooru has insane rules (not anthro, not shipping, not comics, not tumblr pics.).

@SeraphimDawn  
 
who?

Does anyone have a screenshot/good idea of what Derpibooru was when you all were competing with Ponibooru, and I forgot why Ponibooru was shut down in the first place?

eco said fuck it, and instead of having someone else run the website, he said he didnt trust anyone to run it. thats the gist i got of it anyway.

Eco didn’t want to handle it anymore and he didn’t want to hand the site itself off to anyone because he couldn’t trust they’d run things in a way he’d have been happy with. The situation may have been more nuanced than that but it is the general gist of things as far as I know.
 
Derpibooru hasn’t really changed significantly in visual appearance since the initial site design. It has more buttons now, is all.

Well, as good as Ponibooru was, it was kind of enslaving on my computer. Derpibooru seems to be better, but I do miss Ponibooru. It will be missed.

@RIG  
The reason why it had totally freedom was because of the lack of mods. Eco pretty much had to do everything himself. Just like here, lolicon wasn’t allowed(California).

Ponibooru was fun but it was an awful disgrace when it came to any kind of moderation and upkeep. The mods here have done a great job at keeping an ever evolving, highly functional, well maintained site.
 
I will kind of miss the gif parties though. Nothing here will ever match their splendor.

@Soarin_the_Pegasus  
PB was a special case. 20% and Bronibooru were the only other two image boorus out there, and both have, afaik, a moderator queue, meaning no image macros, memes, WiP, screencaps, etc.
 
We set up up Derpi for several reasons. The main one was to prove that we could make it at all, another to serve as our own “private” image booru, and lastly to sell the idea to Eco to transition from his version of Shimmie to booru-on-rails; that is, still being Ponibooru, but using our new, actively maintained codebase.
 
Back in Jan of last year I (on my own) ran a few ads on PB to try and just get some traffic for balancing and testing; wasn’t looking into replacing PB or anything, but we needed to know how the system would fair with more than a dozen users. I think PB veterans might remember how well that went (and how any thread mentioning with us was deleted post-haste).
 
Anyways. Taking over wasn’t ever our plan; we just wanted to help Eco out by giving him a “thing” to make life easier. And then bla-bla-bla happened. Derpi hasn’t really changed much, visually from the first day, tbh. More buttons and doo-dads, but the essence is pretty much the same as it was over a year ago: show pretty pony images as simply and quickly as possible.

@The Smiling Pony
 
I can tell you, personally, that I was among the PB brethren that didn’t give this site a fair chance back in the day. You have to understand…. PB was slow, broken, and totally messed up. But it was “our” site and so we were more than willing to cut off our own nose to spite our face, as you will.
 
I think things worked out for the best.

No other Boorus were as lawless and active as Ponibooru was. It was Pseudo-Anarchy and I loved it.

@RIG  
Quite inactive, but a few artists still post their work there.

@SeraphimDawn
 
Ditto.

Remember when we had to look through all of our upvoted pictures to find the one particular picture we needed, a time before favorite buttons?

bump

I remember being able to view the site at default theme without getting blinded.

Hmm

This site was a lot less STUPID

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