Of all the various things we've done though, the oldest and longest lived of these is the Bronibooru image boards, which I know many of you have enjoyed using for nearly 10 years now. Unfortunately, all good things come to an end. As the internet and society has marched on (not to mention my own interests), many of you have noticed that it has become increasingly difficult to keep Bronibooru alive and well. While the rest of the mods and I have discussed several options for trying to preserve it in the past couple of months, the reality is that there is no realistic path to continuing to host Bronibooru in its current form given my continued absence and the myriad technical complications involved in transferring that site to someone else (unfortunately this is much harder than restoring the forums was).


My hope is that this advance notice will assist those of you who might wish to save specific images and tag libraries.
Please note that this does not mean that the images will be gone forever. I am currently exploring several options to ensure that the site and its images are preserved and accessible to the world in another form, and I will have more to say on that topic as we get closer to the shutdown date.