Site Development Notification and Feedback Thread

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Solar Supporter - Fought against the New Lunar Republic rebellion on the side of the Solar Deity (April Fools 2023).
Non-Fungible Trixie -
Verified Pegasus - Show us your gorgeous wings!
Preenhub - We all know what you were up to this evening~
An Artist Who Rocks - 100+ images under their artist tag
Artist -

Philomena Contributor
@reversalmushroom  
I think this is being unnecessarily negative about it, given that I basically rewrote the entire website. That’s over 50000 LOC to go through.
 
There are things I have overlooked and not fixed yet. This is not because I’m never going to fix them. This is because I haven’t triaged them all and haven’t had the time to work continuously on all of them. It’s the holidays.
Joey
Dawnsong - Derpi Supporter
Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).
Flower Trio - Helped others get their OC into the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
Roseluck - Had their OC in the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
A Lovely Nightmare Night - Celebrated the 12th anniversary of MLP:FIM!
Cool Crow - "Caw!" An awesome tagger
Tree of Harmony - Drew someone's OC for the 2022 Community Collab
Elements of Harmony - Had an OC in the 2022 Community Collab
Non-Fungible Trixie -
Verified Pegasus - Show us your gorgeous wings!

PM me your cute OCs
@reversalmushroom  
The last time we switched servers was in Spring of 2018, when we moved from the “Chrysalis” server to “Fleetfoot”. If it takes you a year and a half to complain about it, then obviously it isn’t that bad.
 
Though I assume you’re actually referring to the site’s software instead, since that was changed just a few days ago.
 
Byte’s been working his ass off for the past 4-5 months rewriting the software from scratch. This isn’t something he did for fun either - he didn’t just wake up one day and was like “I’m bored, so I’m going to rewrite literally everything”. This is something the site desperately needed.
 
Most people don’t realize this, but Derpibooru is the largest site in the MLP fandom, and has held that rank for quite some time. We have around 1.2 million unique visitors a month to our primary domain, and see over 800 million requests per month between our primary domain and CDN domain.
 
And believe it or not - the site’s been growing. It’s very slow growth, but the show ending actually increased the number of people coming to the site. In fact, I’ve been seeing a ton of new artists just starting off with MLP artwork, or older artists who “retired” or “moved on” coming back and drawing pony art again.
 
All of this takes a toll on the single mid-range server that we run the site off of. We don’t run this site for profit - we get enough through Patreon to cover our costs, but we can’t afford some high-end multi-server cluster or an AWS/Azure infrastructure. We gotta make what we have work.
 
The old software worked well, but it was relatively slow by today’s standards. It also was far from efficient on system resources. The purpose of the rewrite was to make the site load faster and reduce load on the server. It’s been successful at both things.
 
If you wanna talk about a negative impact on user experience - just look at Derpibooru’s predecessor, Ponibooru. That site was constantly overloaded to the point when it actually was up and working, pages would routinely take over thirty seconds to load. While we were nowhere near close that bad, slow load times and high load are a great way to ruin any site.
 
And yeah, there’s been a few bumps along the way. We had an open beta, and while issues were reported and fixed, there are some things that just don’t show until it’s fully live. Replacing a system this big and complicated with minimum downtime is no small undertaking, especially for a single person.
 
Byte, quite frankly, has rocked this update. He’s been working very hard to keep everything running smoothly and address issues as quickly as possible (to the point where he’s making me concerned about his health sometimes). Your negativity is not helping. If you spot an issue, report it and it’ll be fixed in an order based on impact and priority.
 
If you just wanna complain for the sake of complaining, go vent somewhere else.
 
Finally, this update was primarily backend. There were a few frontend changes, such as for optimization or just some cleanup/to-do items that were easy to address during a rewrite, but the intent was not to have some kinda drastic change in the user experience beyond faster load times.
Vivace
Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).
My Little Pony - 1992 Edition
Wallet After Summer Sale -
Artist -

“ShimSham my GlimGlams”
I’ll be honest: the previous format of searching for forum posts (post author, forum to search, post keywords) was much better than the current format which calls for the inclusion of metadata fields like topic_id & user_id, and the fact that the metadata in question isn’t immediately visible on the main page of the topic/user is party of why the current format is more cumbersome.
 
It’s like the ease of writing a k-tape Turing machine vs a 1-tape Turing machine.
Anonycat
Duck - "her mere existence is enough to put me in a quack mood, I might as well return the favor by quacking it around"
My Little Pony - 1992 Edition
Wallet After Summer Sale -
Friendship, Art, and Magic (2019) - Celebrated Derpibooru's seventh year anniversary with friends.
A Tale For The Ages - Celebrated MLP's 35th Anniversary and FiM's 8th Anniversary
An Artist Who Rocks - 100+ images under their artist tag
Not a Llama - Happy April Fools Day!
Artist -
The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

Okay, I guess.
I would like to know if there’s a way to remove the featured image, trending images, forum & comment activity and such from the gallery’s front page.
Anonycat
Duck - "her mere existence is enough to put me in a quack mood, I might as well return the favor by quacking it around"
My Little Pony - 1992 Edition
Wallet After Summer Sale -
Friendship, Art, and Magic (2019) - Celebrated Derpibooru's seventh year anniversary with friends.
A Tale For The Ages - Celebrated MLP's 35th Anniversary and FiM's 8th Anniversary
An Artist Who Rocks - 100+ images under their artist tag
Not a Llama - Happy April Fools Day!
Artist -
The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

Okay, I guess.
@Mad Black  
Yes, exactly like that.  
That was my default setting before the change, but I can’t remember what I did back then to remove the other stuff I was not interested about.
Zeb
Praise the Sun! - Derpi Supporter
My Little Pony - 1992 Edition
Friendship, Art, and Magic (2019) - Celebrated Derpibooru's seventh year anniversary with friends.
Economist -
Notoriously Divine Tagger - Consistently uploads images above and beyond the minimum tag requirements. And/or additionally, bringing over the original description from the source if the image has one. Does NOT apply to the uploader adding several to a dozen tags after originally uploading with minimum to bare tagging.
Perfect Pony Plot Provider - Uploader of 10+ images with 350 upvotes or more (Questionable/Explicit)
Equality - In our state, we do not stand out.
Friendship, Art, and Magic (2018) - Celebrated Derpibooru's six year anniversary with friends.
Cool Crow - "Caw!" An awesome tagger
Birthday Cake - Celebrated MLP's 7th birthday

Tag-Bot
@Selaphiel  
Search is the same as it was before, is it not? What’s different?  
I do know the search on the Tags page changed, but not heard anything about the regular image search.
Thanotos Omega
Solar Supporter - Fought against the New Lunar Republic rebellion on the side of the Solar Deity (April Fools 2023).
Wallet After Summer Sale -
Not a Llama - Happy April Fools Day!

We also don’t get a convenient way to click to posts we do search, far as i can tell you have to click reply to do it, and we can’t see what thread the post is in ect,
Dustcan
Magnificent Metadata Maniac - #1 Assistant
Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).
Non-Fungible Trixie -
Preenhub - We all know what you were up to this evening~
Twinkling Balloon - Took part in the 2021 community collab.
Friendship, Art, and Magic (2020) - Took part in the 2020 Community Collab
Wallet After Summer Sale -
Condensed Milk - State-Approved Compensation

Dogs
@Thanotos Omega
 
You click the “link” option to be directed to the post you want. Under the old system it was useless and redundant, but now it’s the only way.
 
The old way was still better though.
Joey
Dawnsong - Derpi Supporter
Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).
Flower Trio - Helped others get their OC into the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
Roseluck - Had their OC in the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
A Lovely Nightmare Night - Celebrated the 12th anniversary of MLP:FIM!
Cool Crow - "Caw!" An awesome tagger
Tree of Harmony - Drew someone's OC for the 2022 Community Collab
Elements of Harmony - Had an OC in the 2022 Community Collab
Non-Fungible Trixie -
Verified Pegasus - Show us your gorgeous wings!

PM me your cute OCs
@Thanotos Omega  
It’s been acknowledged and discussed. If you want things to happen faster, feel free to learn Elixir and submit a pull request to the sites Github account
nirvash
Der - Derpi Supporter
Silver Supporter - Silver Patron
My Little Pony - 1992 Edition
Friendship, Art, and Magic (2020) - Took part in the 2020 Community Collab
Diamond -
Friendship, Art, and Magic (2019) - Celebrated Derpibooru's seventh year anniversary with friends.
Friendship, Art, and Magic (2018) - Celebrated Derpibooru's six year anniversary with friends.
Artist -
Friendship, Art, and Magic (2017) - Celebrated Derpibooru's five year anniversary with friends.
Happy Derpy! - For Patreon supporters

The cutest griffon!
I don’t really see it acknowledged anywhere before the last two posts. But good to hear it is in the roadmap to be fixed
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