Feature suggestions and discussion [READ THE FIRST POST]

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@TexasUberAlles  
Sure! That’s a great idea - artists could make an “Ask [character]” thread, upload the resulting artwork here, and link it in a reply in the forum using the >>[id]p format.
 
That would totally work.
cheezedoodle
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TagZombie: AC15, Atk +8
I always thought some kind of user-toggleable and managed “journal” visible on your profile would be interesting, following the same rules as the forums. Basically a place where people could ask questions or address comments to someone publicly.
 
 
Of course trolls would probably instantly render it unusable.
Damaged
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Fine Arts - Two hundred uploads with a score of over a hundred (Safe/Suggestive)
Perfect Pony Plot Provider - Uploader of 10+ images with 350 upvotes or more (Questionable/Explicit)
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.
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Wallet After Summer Sale -
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Magical Inkwell - Wrote MLP fanfiction consisting of at least around 1.5k words, and has a verified link to the platform of their choice
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@cheezedoodle  
If it were able to be set between:  
Off  
Logged in only  
Anon allowed
 
It would at least be able to be somewhat controlled. Perhaps have it act like how fimfic do with userpage comments, and give the owner moderation rights on it.
Lead Pie
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My Little Pony - 1992 Edition
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Magical Inkwell - Wrote MLP fanfiction consisting of at least around 1.5k words, and has a verified link to the platform of their choice
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Not a Llama - Happy April Fools Day!
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This is a box.
@Damaged  
@Lefthighkick  
However, site staff has always been against giving regular users/artists these kinds of powers. The site had always been built around being able to use it anonymously. Which is a very valueable thing in my opinion.
TexasUberAlles
Duck - If report count was a score, he'd have the biggest score
Silly Pony - Celebrated the 13th anniversary of MLP:FIM, and 40 years of MLP!
Shimmering Smile - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of Equestria Girls!
Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).
Roseluck - Had their OC in the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
Flower Trio - Helped others get their OC into the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
King Sombra - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of The Crystal Empire!
A Lovely Nightmare Night - Celebrated the 12th anniversary of MLP:FIM!
Princess of Love - Extra special version for those who participated in the Canterlot Wedding 10th anniversary event by contributing art.
Tree of Harmony - Drew someone's OC for the 2022 Community Collab

The new Poll Thread feature is great, but would it be possible to add the ability to view the current results of a poll without having to vote in it?
 
@Lefthighkick  
If it were possible to not allow background ponies if the artist so wanted to, then I think the trolls won’t be too bad
 
As strongly as I disagree with Derpi’s site policies about anonymous users, those policies are well-established and more or less consistently applied, so I’m-a take a wild guess that this would be a flat non-starter. Aside from that, there are actually a lot of normal people who post without an account for a variety of legit non-jerkwagon reasons, and it’s not really worth excluding them just on the off chance that jerkwagons might roll in too; that’s why there’s a Report button.
Zaknel
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Wallet After Summer Sale -
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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.

Mods-Ezekiel 33:11
My understanding is that in the ‘recent posts’ section of the sidebar, anything labeled NSFW in the title is excluded from the list. Can we add a feature that allows us to toggle that on and off?
alexi148
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Twinkling Balloon - Took part in the 2021 community collab.
My Little Pony - 1992 Edition
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Wallet After Summer Sale -
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.

über
In response to the recent chaos on the current featured image, I recommend implementing a system where drama/out of topic comments are moved into a specific forum post dedicated to that image instead of clogging up the comment section with deleted comments.
 
Maybe have a message at the bottom of the comments that links to said forum post? Don’t know if it will work, but having tons of deleted comments on an image kinda ruins any hope that a discussion will stay on topic.
Joey
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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
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Verified Pegasus - Show us your gorgeous wings!

PM me your cute OCs
@alexi148  
From a technical standpoint, that’s not easily possible, as comments and forum posts are two different tables in the database, with slightly different structures
byte[]
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
@Joey  
I think you underestimate the power of a relational database. You know, one that can bring multiple tables together to get things done.
Joey
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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
@byte[]  
I know how a relational database works. He’s talking about converting comments into forum posts.
 
While you could probably move the data over easily enough, stuff like IDs and stuff will change, which will break any @reply links and such.
Rudy
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Friendship, Art, and Magic (2019) - Celebrated Derpibooru's seventh year anniversary with friends
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I had a few ideas! (Hopefully any of these aren’t on the first post; I read through it a few times. My memory isn’t too great lol. If not, I gladly accept my 12hr ban.) As a person who writes HTML/codes for themself (although I may be a newbie/my HTML may be crappy) I just thought these’d be cool features that I’d add if I had my own imageboard! Some of these may not be to your liking, but to each their own, I guess. (I realize some of these ideas could be unusable/unaddable due to caching/the site itself/etc. but it’s worth a try! I’m not sure how this site functions; that’s just a guess. I might not even know what I’m talking about!)
 
  • Maybe upvotes/downvotes on comments/forum posts? Possibly with that feature you could add notifs for who upvotes/downvotes. Also, if getting notifs for upvotes/downvotes on comments gets annoying, you could add a section where it could be turned on or off. I only thought of this because it gets tedious replying to someone who quotes you/replies to you/agrees with you (basically just a small sentence like “Your art is great!” or “Also lmao your avatar very much fits [this post]”. I just feel the need to close a conversation. Might just be me, but I like finishing what I start when it comes to conversations =P) You could make the amount of upvotes/downvotes able to see publicly, and even who upvoted/downvoted (Maybe make the second part be able to turn on/off?) I just think it would be nice to let someone see that you saw their message/reply/comment without actually having to reply and take up space. This idea has nothing to do with private faves.
     
  • Tabs on the About Me/Art description section? Maybe so you could have spaces for certain things you want to share about yourself or artwork. It would save space on a profile and/or art upload page and not make it so long. Kind of like the Write and Preview tabs you are able to use before you comment or send a DM. The only place I saw this feature was on the Transformice (Atelier801) forums when I was a regular there, and I used it a lot. It made things really neat and tidy and generally worked well. I think that would be a good feature, considering how long and cluttered my About Me section is =P
     
  • Avatar database perhaps? You could look through your old avatars and choose one if you wanted to reuse it without having to dig through old files, resize the photo, etc. I thought this would be a helpful feature since I’m indecisive on my avatars and change them quite a lot.
     
  • Small, custom emoji-type things for commenting/DMS? Kind of like the ones on DeviantART that they have for commenting. I guess reaction images could count, but a lot of reaction images are really big and I don’t believe there’s a feature for scaling them down when you comment, so they just appear at the size they were submitted. It would be cute and fun for those who like adding flare to their comments. This feature could also be used for spamming, so I guess that’s a bad part to it.
     
  • Being able to delete your own comments. I think everyone’s had this thought at one point! Personally, I think it would just work better to delete my own comments like, if they had something embarrassing/a typo/something completely unrelated that got messed up in my brain and posted in the wrong forum/etc. Editing is cool, but I don’t really want people looking through my edits on my comment(s) because I could have said something stupid or unrelated that I don’t want people seeing. I think it’d just be easier to delete and redo a comment.
     
    That’s everything I’ve conjured up so far! I might add more of my ideas to a later post or just edit this one. If any mods/site developers/etc. see this, let me know what you think :) (Please excuse any typos on this post, my eyes are sore from the colors/close letters a bit. Sorry lol :D)
TexasUberAlles
Duck - If report count was a score, he'd have the biggest score
Silly Pony - Celebrated the 13th anniversary of MLP:FIM, and 40 years of MLP!
Shimmering Smile - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of Equestria Girls!
Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).
Roseluck - Had their OC in the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
Flower Trio - Helped others get their OC into the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
King Sombra - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of The Crystal Empire!
A Lovely Nightmare Night - Celebrated the 12th anniversary of MLP:FIM!
Princess of Love - Extra special version for those who participated in the Canterlot Wedding 10th anniversary event by contributing art.
Tree of Harmony - Drew someone's OC for the 2022 Community Collab

Voting on posts/comments and allowing user deletion of posts are both complete non-starters, they’ve been done to death in this thread and others and mod response has always been that both are too easy for jerks to abuse and add nothing of value to the site.
Rudy
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Friendship, Art, and Magic (2019) - Celebrated Derpibooru's seventh year anniversary with friends
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@TexasUberAlles  
That’s fair. I can see how those would be abused pretty easily, actually. Too bad people are such assholes that they’d do that though, because both seem like they’d be nice features (If they added something valuable to the site as well, ofc)
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