@byte[]
How much you want to bet some artist at DeviantArt that never even contacted DerpiBooru staff or added themselves to blacklist complained to DA? I wonder if that’s why they banned the scraper. I never used it personally, but it’s still a very “meh” and “bleh” situation that it’s gone, on top of all the other broken or missing site features here lately. (Not criticizing. I know you mods work hard for no pay around here and appreciate it all the same.)
I remember seeing someone claiming to be the artist get really mad at people randomly as a background pony here telling everyome in a comment section on some old appledash image. I think I believed them, because they were linking their DeviantArt and telling people to go there instead of here and to stop uploading their images here, instead of, you know, actually reporting the image and adding themselves to the site blacklist.
Because some people are dumb.