Staff intentionally slowing down the site

Amm
Not a Llama - Happy April Fools Day!

Shoutout to Cammy
So, since the last thread reached it’s purpose, I’d like to bring up a technical problem with the site.
 
@AG-Poni  
Near the beginning of this commotion, some of the staff decided to punish people that were misbehaving and openly speaking ill of others and the policies in a disrespectful manner by causing their websites to slow down to a crawl on purpose to the point of being unusable in hopes that it would get them to leave the site without having to ban them. At first, I must admit that I thought it was a funny joke, but that’s all I thought it would be, a joke. I was surprised to see they went through with it when I saw some people complaining that their website was slow. We were told to just lie and say it must be a problem on their end… It is because of decisions like this that it is perfectly understandable and not at all unreasonable for you all to clamor for transparency from the administration.
 
What the fuck guys. Seriously?
FrecklesFanatic
Charitable Contributor - Contributed to a series of art packs that helped raise over $10,000 for charity
An Artist Who Rocks - 100+ images under their artist tag
Friendship, Art, and Magic (2017) - Celebrated Derpibooru's five year anniversary with friends.
Artist -

So that was why Derpi was so slow for some of my friends lately and not for others.  
Holy fuck, how could anyone support this behavior? Literally punishing “undesirables” secretly
Background Pony #C661
@Amm  
Look, we hear your concerns and will take them into account! So be on the lookout for the official reply in a few weeks. Maybe a few months. Ok fine when G5 comes out.
Barhandar
Perfect Pony Plot Provider - Uploader of 10+ images with 350 upvotes or more (Questionable/Explicit)
Friendship, Art, and Magic (2020) - Took part in the 2020 Community Collab
The Magic of Friendship Grows - For helping others attend the 2020 Community Collab
Dream Come True! - Participated in the MLP 9th Anniversary Event
Toola Roola - For helping others attend the 2019 Community Collab
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
Friendship, Art, and Magic (2018) - Celebrated Derpibooru's six year anniversary with friends.
Helpful Owl - Drew someone's OC for the 2018 Community Collab

(twi|pony)booru.org
I don’t seem to have been affected but I join in this.
 
WHAT THE FUCKING FUCKITY FUCK IN THE FUCK, STAFF. MY EXPECTATION OF YOU WAS LOW BUT HOLY FUCK.
 
Why were (and are, going by the rest of content of that thread) you pulling utterly childish tricks instead of doing YOUR ASSUMED RESPONSIBILITY and actually applying the SITE’S RULES, WHICH ARE CLEARLY COMPLETELY MEANINGLESS NOW?
--
Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).
Artist -

*blorp*
Ah, cool. DoSing users. What else are we gonna hear? IP banning users based solely on search habits? Using a crystal ball to divine future offenders and telepathically neuralyzing them so they forget the site? XDDD
Background Pony #5115
I remember Pony Town (an online pony game) having a controversy similar to this, where the main dev had a Nuke function to call on problem users, causing their… Something to crash. I forget the scope. Maybe just the tab, maybe the browser, maybe even the computer somehow.
 
Very auth if this is true. There was evidence for the Nuke - I wonder if we’ll find anything here.
Cammera
A Really Classy Artist - 250+ images under their artist tag
Wallet After Summer Sale -
An Artist Who Rocks - 100+ images under their artist tag
Artist -

Undesirable
@Derwol  
Yeah ditch the software altogether, it’s good but ditch it. They jsut hid too many backdoors for their assholery in this. Next thing we’ll have derpi throwing rocks at you out o the screen.
Barhandar
Perfect Pony Plot Provider - Uploader of 10+ images with 350 upvotes or more (Questionable/Explicit)
Friendship, Art, and Magic (2020) - Took part in the 2020 Community Collab
The Magic of Friendship Grows - For helping others attend the 2020 Community Collab
Dream Come True! - Participated in the MLP 9th Anniversary Event
Toola Roola - For helping others attend the 2019 Community Collab
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
Friendship, Art, and Magic (2018) - Celebrated Derpibooru's six year anniversary with friends.
Helpful Owl - Drew someone's OC for the 2018 Community Collab

(twi|pony)booru.org
@Cammera  
Don’t quite ditch, cleanroom it. The UI is the best of all boorus I’ve seen. The tagging system, both the software and the staffware parts (UNTIL LAST MONTH) were also unrivaled. Write new software that replicates those in a language that actually has more than 1.5 coders experienced in it, full FOSS, and put boorus up on it.
Background Pony #74A1
@Background Pony #B5CB  
considering how authoritarian they have acted at times, they will lock it because of an off-topic excuse or something. They have all the tools to do so and lock it for any slight thing that is legitimate criticism towards their questionable decisions.
 
It wouldn´t surprise me in the slightest.
--
Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).
Artist -

*blorp*
Seriously, though, who suggested that, and why weren’t they immediately kicked out of the site staff?
Background Pony #C661
>Meanwhile in Derpibooru HQ  
full
 
Surely satire is allowed right? I even edited out the symbol on the hat!
Cammera
A Really Classy Artist - 250+ images under their artist tag
Wallet After Summer Sale -
An Artist Who Rocks - 100+ images under their artist tag
Artist -

Undesirable
@Barhandar  
Let’s collect our data  
-few coders  
-many of whom we know to have absolutist “they are children and must be guided by their betters” philosophies  
-Written in a language that most ppeople isn’t familiar with  
-with a codebase too huge and technical for most people to work with  
This was all done on purpose.
Spectral Bolt

Princess of Frecc
This site is wonderful. It’s a robust collection of art, which forms the backbone of our fandom currently. It’s a way for so many of us to unite, to express ourselves, or to just enjoy ponies, under rules meant to be evenly and strictly enforced. But if the (overall) adminship is not reflecting this correctly, then there needs to be change.
Interested in advertising on Derpibooru? Click here for information!
Ponies Online! - April 13-14

Help fund the $15 daily operational cost of Derpibooru - support us financially!

This topic has been locked to new posts from non-moderators.

Locked

Lock reason: Thread reached its purpose.