Bronibooru! (Rules Updated 10/18/2011)

[ArtificerGoes well with All Natural Milk Naturally Flavored with Natural Flavors.]

It is pretty funny though, on a good chunk of the hits when you google bronibooru, it will come up because someone's making a comment about how terrible ponibooru is and how everyone needs to go to bronibooru instead.

VINDICATION

We should sure as hell keep it up. Suppress that which should not be seen. :ponycensor:

[SlateSlabrock]

Time to start sellin' them fritters.

[ComradeCosmobot]

Alright, Bronibooru should be up again for reading again, and is now distributed across two servers. I haven't tested uploads however. If uploads appear to be broken once uploaded, please let me know.

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Alright, Bronibooru should be up again for reading again, and is now distributed across two servers. I haven't tested uploads however. If uploads appear to be broken once uploaded, please let me know.

A distributed array of pony servers.

[Warp]

Alright, Bronibooru should be up again for reading again, and is now distributed across two servers. I haven't tested uploads however. If uploads appear to be broken once uploaded, please let me know.

Yep, uploads look to be broken at the moment. It's timing out when I attempt to put an image up.

[Westy543]

Yep I get failbooru when I try to upload. Also, this.



E: Yeah I'll make sure to imgur anything and everything if I want to embed something that's on broni in the future. Also, yeah as Warp said, I'd be willing to pitch in to keep bronibooru free for everyone.

[WalrusWhiskersGummy cuts a mean rug.]

Preview images seem to be broken.

[ComradeCosmobot]

Try shift-refresh. The DNS changes may not have propagated.

For example, the following three images should display the same thing:

[ComradeCosmobot]

Uploading should work now maybe.

[ArtificerGoes well with All Natural Milk Naturally Flavored with Natural Flavors.]

Uploading should work now maybe.

Confirmed to be working. If a bit slow.

[Warp]

Ahyup, it works!

[WalrusWhiskersGummy cuts a mean rug.]

Tried shift+f5, ctrl+f5, but preview images are still broken for me. Am I the only one having this issue?

[Meridian]

Tried shift+f5, ctrl+f5, but preview images are still broken for me. Am I the only one having this issue?

Nope, I'm getting it too, but I just attributed it to server silliness. It doesn't bother me that much because unlike ponibooru I don't have a good chance of clicking something horrible if a thumbnail is broken

[Westy543]

Yeah uploads work fine, Shift F5 doesn't do anything for the thumbnails, tried a cache clear & refresh (aka ctrl fF5), no go. Can't a DNS take up to 72 hours to propagate?

Edit: Something is definitely up. I'm seeing swapped thumbnails.

[ComradeCosmobot]

Yeah uploads work fine, Shift F5 doesn't do anything for the thumbnails, tried a cache clear & refresh (aka ctrl fF5), no go. Can't a DNS take up to 72 hours to propagate?

Edit: Something is definitely up. I'm seeing swapped thumbnails.

Aha! That's the key I think! I think the program which is supposed to translate the addresses is responding with the wron order. Some get several responses, some get none, some get swapped due to timing.

[ComradeCosmobot]

I added a RewriteLock directive. Let me know if that fixes the problem (at the cost of a little speed).

[Warp]

I added a RewriteLock directive. Let me know if that fixes the problem (at the cost of a little speed).

Yep, thumbnails are working just fine for me now. Thanks Cosmo

[ComradeCosmobot]

Then the issue was that my European internet was just too slow (while you guys, who are closer/have multiple connections open to the server, had two almost simultaneous connections, enough to confuse the poor script). I'll try to speed the script up so I can remove the lock, but it still probably should need it.

[Che Delilas]

People were talking about the direct linking possibly generating more forum users - if you want to facilitate that, you could add a link to the front page. Maybe a little caption under the big "Bronibooru" reading "The image repository of mlponies.com" or something. I know it's got the same TLD and everything, but people don't necessarily look at the address bar much when browsing.

[Warp]

EDIT: Nevermind

[MochaBean]

I think Warp broke the 'booru again.

[Warp]

I've been gone for the past 5 hours! I swear I didn't do iiiiiiiiiiit

[Westy543]

I think Warp broke the 'booru again.

^ This. Is there a way to make an image for the "Failbooru" screen? It'd be cool if we could stick an image of Derpy Hooves derpin' it up on there.

Maybe like this. I could detext it and make actual failed text, but, eh. I don't have photoshop on my laptop.

[Redeye]

Alright, you guys, I have an announcement.

Our runaway success has caught up with us--those frequent outages are us ramming headlong into our bandwidth limit and shutting down. Soon enough, our current hosts might not be sufficient to handle the booru at all.

We are considering solutions to this, one of which is switching to Amazon's cloud image hosting. This would solve all our database problems, but would also cost quite a bit--50 bucks a month.

To that end, IN THE FAR FUTURE, we may begin holding donation drives to keep the booru running IF WE TAKE THAT COURSE OF ACTION. It is still up in the air at this point what we will do, and Cosmo and I are looking into all our options.


For now, please do your part and refrain from enormous mass uploads so as to make life easier for our bandwidth.

[Warp]

For now, please do your part and refrain from enormous mass uploads so as to make life easier for our bandwidth.

Yeah guys, seriously. Knock it off

[Scuderia FerrarityWhy?Because Twilight Sparkle. That's why.-- Twilight Sparkle]

You can count on me. Ain't nothing going to happen to your cloud while I'm on the case.



We now feature capacity on demand!



Srusly: maybe write a script that - upon upload - will convert to a lower quality / res jpeg if an image is deemed to be too large. 1.5mb PNG vs 100kb jpeg and provide a link to the original uploaded file?

this doesn't need to be 200 Kb
http://bronibooru.mlponies.com/post/sho ... awforfood1
Most people are just browsing and quality isn't quite as important.

I'm good for a fundraiser if it ever comes to that.

[ComradeCosmobot]

So Bronibooru supports MPO displaying inline in the 3DS browser! (Pretty easy fix, actually!)

Check it out, by going here and tapping and holding your stylus on the image!

[Henry Plainview]

Ouch, I was hoping blocking hotlinking would mostly resolve this. Just to be clear Redeye, are you referring to the number of images uploaded over a short period of time, the total number of images uploaded, or both? If it's more the latter, I would be willing to contribute time to a filesize/quality purge of the archives. Although, barring Scuderia's automatic compression idea, a systematic attempt to kill oversized file sizes and raise the minimum quality bar in Bronibooru v2 would itself probably take a lot of bandwidth...

Also, at what resolution should the highres tag be used? And what is the over/under on file size under our new austerity program?

Yeah guys, seriously. Knock it off

Also, pages 228 to 234 seem to have nothing in them. The earliest post on page 227 is image number 4, so I guess maybe it has the extra pages because of accidentally keeping space for deleted images?

[Warp]

Also, at what resolution should the highres tag be used? And what is the over/under on file size under our new austerity program?

I've just generally been tagging anything above ~1700 as highres, I don't think we have an actual number for it at the moment. And as far as filesize goes: Unless the image has transparency I've been trying to save any .pngs I download as .jpgs, at whatever quality is just before noticable artifacting occurs (generally this is high in photoshop.) It cuts the filesizes down a ton.

[Henry Plainview]

I've just generally been tagging anything above ~1700 as highres, I don't think we have an actual number for it at the moment. And as far as filesize goes: Unless the image has transparency I've been trying to save any .pngs I download as .jpgs, at whatever quality is just before noticable artifacting occurs (generally this is high in photoshop.) It cuts the filesizes down a ton.

Thanks. Yeah, and I don't know how much of a difference there is between the Photoshop and GIMP compression engines, but I could even cut some .jpgs down. Can you tell the difference between this image and Bronibooru's? I can't, but the first one is 250kb instead of a megabyte. Or this:


The second one is a seventh of the size of the first.
Unfortunately, you do have to pay attention: the big Luna in the stars drawing from a little while ago can't stand any compression because of the gradients. But while nobody wants to compress a thousand images manually, we could see some real bandwidth savings in the long haul by re-uploading compressed versions of some old images (although Dr Whooves should probably be turned off during that effort).

And I don't know if anybody still clicks them so they use bandwidth, but you could easily save some storage space by deleting most of the images tagged meme or macro without even having to get into the potential drama of retroactively deciding a drawing isn't good enough for bronibooru. If someone wants a screenshot with Impact on it, they can burn with ponibooru.

[Westy543]

And I don't know if anybody still clicks them so they use bandwidth, but you could easily save some storage space by deleting most of the images tagged meme or macro without even having to get into the potential drama of retroactively deciding a drawing isn't good enough for bronibooru. If someone wants a screenshot with Impact on it, they can burn with ponibooru.

Shush you, I love macros. They're not all just screenshots with text on them. As far as image compression, you have to look at it on a case by case basis. Sometimes, a png will be a lot smaller than a jpg, it just depends on how simple the image is color-wise. If we are going to do a resizer script, I feel that'd be most efficient because I don't see us deleting 4-500 images just to reupload. What about having an ad type dealio on the page of some sort?

[W.T. FitsSpoilers, you say? Well, in that case, I suppose I should avert my eyes.]

A week or two ago, my stupid anti-virus software decided to delete all my cookies that leave me logged in to various websites, one of those being Bronibooru. And now for some reason I can't log back in; the password I have written down is not working, and whenever I try to do a password reset, it tells me my account does not exist. Who do I contact about getting this matter cleared up?

Edit #2: Nevermind. Managed to figure out what I was doing wrong.

[brightman420 Party err'day.]

Edit: Nevermind, was thinking of someone else.

[Kein]

Cosmo:
Can we have featured_image errr... feature?

[Westy543]

Cosmo:
Can we have featured_image errr... feature?

This would be pretty cool. I've noticed that a lot of our stuff that gets a lot of comments / upvotes tends to also be featured concurrently at ponibooru.

[Warp]

A featured image feature would be pretty great to have. Then we just need a userbase that actually bothers to VOTE(UP AND DOWN) AND COMMENT AND FAVORITE THINGS

[Gruekinda magical]

Well, normal users cannot upvote, what's up with that?

[Westy543]

Their favoriting also does not confer an additional upvote. Probably lazy permissions since Comrade assumed everyone who wanted to partake would ask for a proper account.

[Daionus The 23rd:3]

I got an account and the most I can do is favorite something.

[Kein]

Also, it would be really nice to be able to link and suppress dupes with updated version. Like on pornibooru: it leaves all the comments, rating and favs, but changes the uploader and the entry (picture) itself.