Reposting because new thread.

>>43228102 (You)
>>43228141
>>43228339 (You)
I switched cables back to the previous one. Cleaned the ends as best I could. I didn't clean the inside of the ports as the connectors are way back there. I tried re-reading the same tape from the other day and got I/O errors again, at exactly the same place. That would be very suspicious if the problem were the card, the cable, or even the drive. If it's failing at the same place it would suggest something's up with the tape, though the drive does not report any errors with it.

Although perhaps, if there was an issue with the card or cable during writing at this spot? But then would Linux report it as an I/O error? It seems odd. I think I will have to write a second tape and see if the same thing happens. Maybe I'll also try writing the files that it's failing at to another tape and seeing if somehow the contents have something to do with it. But I really doubt that.

>>43229456
It's going to take a while to get used to the new image.

I used Ponybooru as an alt for years and barely noticed much beyond the site functioning less and getting weirder.
With is demise and essentially 'Nigel Farage' reveal of being the same as the other shitheaps, where shall I go?
Who's the freedom of speech and art bastion who will stand by anything within accepted legal limits, including the fantasy foal stuff etc out of pure principle?

>>43229598
>accepted legal limits
>including the fantasy foal stuff etc out of pure principle?
Ponybooru, after all only something that's illegal got deleted

>>43229477
Another question I have: What's the deal with fiber channel and SFP? I'm trying to find a new cable to buy and I'm having a hard time trying to figure out what the compatibility is between fiber channel and SFP. The cables I bought previously were explicitly advertised as for fiber channel. But will any SFP direct attach cable work? What rating do they need to have? Most are sold with base 10 speed ratings, whereas my fiber channel card is indicated to have a 16gb connection?

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>>43229598
Currently, you have two choices: Twibooru for a pure pony archive, Ponerpics for a more community-focused experience with less strict rules about pony-relatedness.

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>>43229477
>I've got all these tapes to write
>Now is the time that I start getting errors

>>43230168
Oh boy. This will take a while, I reckon.

>>43229598
That's gonna be Ponerpics. Twib is a mess of aislop and fucked up tags.

>>43230364
doesn't poner import all the ai stuff from twi?

>>43230610
Yes. With the exception of mp4s.

>>43229860
>>43229477
You may want to move your discussion to /pts/, it's veering into way off-topic territory. This thread is not meant for tech support.

>>43230610
Yeah, that guy is just another mindbroken retard.

I need to get back to backing up all Catbox files linked on /mlp/... but it's getting more difficult now that Catbox is constantly shitting the bed. Unfortunately, I don't have the disk space required to back it all up right now, I'd need to hook up a different system first. And also first update my vibe coded (because I'm a codelet) script to account for every transmission error that now undoubtedly will pop up.

Anyone else already have an operation to back up Catbox links from /mlp/ underway before it will inevitably shut down?

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It's not joever yet

>>43229860
That's a whole fucking can of worms. I've only used up to 8Gbps fiber channel. You can use a regular 10Gbps Ethernet SFP in place of an 8Gbps fiber channel SFP, at both ends. I do not know what the situation is for 16Gbps. However, if I recall correctly, SFP DAC cables are not "smart" in any way. They literally just directly connect some pins of the SFPs at both ends. I doubt the cable is your issue in this case though.

Why is Twibooru's featured image an image with the text "God loves you"? Aren't the owners of that site fags? That message does not apply to you.

>>43231335
Anon... literally the entire point of Twibooru is "letting people post things the owners don't agree with"

>>43231080
I suspected it was a simple cable, but even there you can have different specs like cat 5, 6, etc for ethernet.

I doubt it's the cable as well, I think it's the card. I've had similar issues with SAS HBAs in the past. I've purchased a new one and it's on the way, but I do find it suspicious that it failed in the same place twice. So while that's on the way I'm going to write another tape see if that exhibits the same problems. Another thing I've read is that I should check dmesg for more info. I'll do that when/if I get another failure.

>>43230739
There wasn't much else going on in the thread when I started posting about it. I probably won't have too many further posts. I'm hoping I'm near the end of setting this up.

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>>43230614
Poner imports MP4s as WebMs because Philomena is quarter-baked garbage that still hasn't added MP4 support. Even fucking Yotsuba managed that.

>>43231840
MP4s have legal problems.

>>43231848
>what is the DMCA
this is why you don't rely on spineless cucks for your software.

>>43231335
this is to rechristianize the booru and damn that's working!

Up.

>>43231514
Well, I have written another tape and read the whole thing back without any error. This really makes me think that it was the other tape that was the problem.

However, this does raise it's own questions. The tape drive did not report a tape error. From what I read, the tape head is supposed to verify data as it writes it. If the other tape was written without any reported error but there was error in reading it back, that really brings that verification into question. I think at this point I can start actually making my tapes I should just read them back first before calling them done. At least for the first few, as this brings the time to complete a tape to 14 hours from 7.

Other notes: I do wonder if something went wrong with the other tape. When it arrived, the case was cracked even though the shrink wrap was still intact (I ordered a few singles from a couple different sellers before I made a big order from one of them). So perhaps it sustained some internal damage in shipping, even though it seemed to start out fine. That particular tape does sound nosier now and it fails at the same place every time. I will also note that this other tape I just wrote is a metal particle chemistry rather than the BaFe all the others are. So hopefully the drive doesn't have an aversion to BaFe. But I don't think so.

I'm also happy to report that drive temps are still looking good. I had the fan down at a level it was still decent to be in the room with (about 2/3 speed) and temperature is still good even after 14 hours of continuous operation. 39C.

Probably not too many more posts on this unless something else happens or more problems arise. I plan on making a printout of all my scripts to store on paper with the tapes (I'm only using tools that come included with most Linux distros). I may post that when I get it together.

>>43232302
Shrug, whatever you say. I just think open formats should be encouraged at all times, no matter if you're personally affected by the law enforcing them or not.

>>43232792

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>>43233236
Encouraged, yes. Enforced, no. Transcoding video files is particularly troublesome because their codecs are almost universally lossy, which leads to quality degradation and increased file sizes even in an optimally designed system which Philomena most definitely isn't.

>>43234420
Astonishingly ignorant.

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>>43234868
I don't claim to know my way around the pseudolegal restrictions that started this argument, but the fact remains that an archive should not discard the original encoding for an open format conversion. Just look at how Archive.org handles it: original formats available alongside a variety of reencodes for those who require them.

Was going through the last couple of threads and came across >>43088250
>Ponybooru updates:
>>we ran out of space
>>updated the vm and made more space available
>>running nominal however I will need to take it down for a full reindex later.
If Zizzy was really planning the purge long before his furry friend got v& why didn't he nuke lolisho then to both free up disk space and get rid of that "legal risk"?

>>43235185
>implying any of it was actually deleted and not just hidden from public view

>>43235185
vm space = database storage and root directory (logs etc)
storage space = image storage space
tl:dr the volumes are separate and independent of each other.

>>43235745
And what about falsifying the edit dates on the rules page?

>>43235748
The page clearly says whatever odd days ago, I'm still confused what ya'll are seeing there. I had edited the page twice cause I made a mistake and I didn't like it lol. There's two pages with the same edit date till you get to the last edit like a year or whatever ago.

>>43235861
When exactly did you make those edits to the policy page, and how?

>>43236318
>still trying to reason with someone who's merely pretending to not understand

>>43236318
I clicked the edit button.
I carefully reviewed what you were talking about, there's two edits for 18 days ago, and then one 2 years ago and then it continues.
So how that works is that it shows the current revision (18 days ago) the previous revision before (18 days ago) and then the one that came before (2 years ago)
It shows the (2 years ago) one with the *edits*, stuff in red was removed , stuff in green was added. You can confirm this behavior by philomena by scrolling down to see the discrepency between 2 years ago and 4 years ago revisions. Can't explain it, just default behavior. The one 2 years ago revision is blank with no green or red, I think someone probably pressed edit, then save, without changing anything but not sure there.

>>43236572
So the records weren't tampered with, they were simply presented in an incredibly misleading way that, alongside the rest of the purge, wasn't elaborated on until you were finished making your excuses for befriending a kiddy diddler. Forgive us if that doesn't set our minds at ease.

>>43236608
I can't control what you think, that's fine you're your own person. At least you know now that I wasn't acting in bad faith.

>>43236664
Do I?

Both of you are flaggots. I trust neither of you. Fuck off.

>>43236701
An enticing offer, but duty calls.

>>43231840
Kekked at that image. Who made this?

>>43237057
Looks like Plunger's style.

>>43237057
It is as >>43237174 says: https://x.com/plunger_notreal/status/1879592992434164001

>>43237174
>>43237474
Thanks.

>>43234084

>>43238477

Slow phase again.

>>43239276
no news is good news sometimes.

>>43239492
That's true.

>>43238860

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>>43220529
>I was checking "imported from x" on several boorus at one point and did a double take when I accidentally checked the same tag on Twibooru and the description was "Wait, what?"
Speaking of

>>43239903

>>43240950
>Twi: Posts
>Pon: Images
Why is philomena videophobic?

>>43241196
What?

>>43241196
It could be argued that a moving image is still an image, and that Twibooru's terminology is yet broader to accommodate text posts and the like.

bumping

>>43242193

Bump

>>43236608
>uoooooh you knew a person before some bad thing was discovered about him
What a stupid thing to hyperfixate on, and conveniently an excuse to distract from the actual issue at hand.

>>43243972
Kindly refer to the previous thread for the full breakdown of Ponybooru's...well, breakdown. We've no need to rely on guilt by association when there is such a mass of baldfaced deceit and incompetence in the publc record.

Suggestion: add "This is not the Ponybooru drama general" to the next thread.

>>43244205
Anon, this thread is always "* drama general". The whole thread (and alt sites) were born due to drama.

>>43244028
What about you quit being a spergy retard and mind your business instead of trying to push ponybooru about what happened and the decision to save the site the staff had to make.
What again would you have done in that situation.

>>43244381
>What again would you have done in that situation
Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with you? He has an unalienable right to talk shit and ignore the consequences. It's his God-given right as a citizen of a free country to argue his point and ignore yours. That's the purpose of having an open society. Screaming in incoherent rage is an expression of pure democracy, and any government that forbids it is de facto a dictatorship. When you demand an answer to your questions, you're trampling on his rights and revealing yourself to be the fascist you secretly know you are. He doesn't have to answer you or even acknowledge you. That's what our forefathers died for. Shame on you for not respecting their sacrifice.

Lol at the PB damage control squad.

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Has anyone run the numbers of how many images Derpi and Derpi 2 (forma de Zizzy) have that altboorus haven't archived yet?

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Why is this guy running an altbooru

>>43246546
Unless I'm mixing names, only one person in that image runs an altbooru and the reason is literally stated by him in the very same image.

>>43246546
>It's a scraped archive
I still find it amusing how stupid these people are.

>>43246546
All literal whos to me except for Floorb. Enjoy seeing them seethe though.

>Your request could not be processed. Status code: 500, message: Connection lost: The server closed the connection.
cytubebros?

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>>43246546
>Rainbooru
Must be pre-Twibooru, it was my fav of all 4s

>Check Derpibooru
>Floorb still moots with Derpi staff
>TSP is more retarded than ever

>>43246546
Rainbooru was a passion project that ran out of passion. It was sad to see it go, especially with how obvious its faults were, and how reluctant the owner was to accept any help.

>>43246849
Did it ever get known why he got AWOL?

On the topic of alternative booru software, is Sunbooru ever going to get finished? What's the ETA, 2030?

>>43247446
It's being sunsetted.

>>43247446
Eventually. There is no ETA. I do hope to resume work on it sometime this year.

>>43247794
>There is no ETA.
And about how far are you done percentage wise?

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>>43247900
If I had to make a guess, I'd say maybe 40% done? There's a lot of big stuff done and the groundwork laid down for more. For example, even though I haven't completed the ban/moderation system I have kept it in mind keeping track of uploaders and posters elsewhere in the code. I think I did break a few search options in the last bout of work I did on the search engine, so that needs to be investigated. The performance was greatly improved, work just stopped before I got everything completely buttoned up. And I did have more ideas for optimization. I've kept a to do list of ideas I've had for the software. There's a lot of user/admin options that need to be implemented. Administration tools are very sparse. If you wanted to, you could run a local booru with the code as is. Votes, faves, comments, and even the forum are functional (so feel free to give it a try, it requires very minimal setup). I did have some further ideas and innovations, but I need to get the main body of work complete before starting on more experimental stuff.

>>43247784
Damn it, Carlos.

When the pastes were archived, were the other chans scraped for paste IDs?
Also I'm trying to process the 2016 archive and what a fucking mess it is. Holy fucking shit. Even if we hate the guy, hats off to the ponebin guy for making something useful out of it. Character encoding is all over the place. Untitled pastes received the first 80 character from the paste as a title. If it is untitled and non text type it gets the type in the title because reasons... if the same author posted multiple pastes with the same name (or untitled and the first line matches) then only one is kept at random. Because the filename is the title there can be only one with the same title. I might just contact him to get the code he used to process it.
Also, do someone know some way to determine if a paste is pony related or not? There is the simple way of having a word list and if any is there it is pony related. But if it is just a link collection to other pastes the one has to traverse the chain and check if any is pony related or not.
Or maybe should I feed it to an LLM? Due to the text being many GB it would cost a fortune. Maybe a smaller local model could be enough (I only have 4GB of vram in a 6 year old laptop gpu.)

>>43248270
I'm not too worried about pastes missing because in the end, the data is still all there on Desuarchive. If you are missing a paste, you can just search the original pastebin URL and generally find the posts that got binned right above it.

>>43247947
Thanks.

Page 9 bumo.

>>43247947
Seems like you still have some work ahead of you. Thanks for the progress update.

>>43247947
Best of luck, my fellow Katechad.

Is there a kemono alternative or a dump of it?

>>43249878
Not as far as I know.

>>43249878
Not really, guess you could scrape relevant content with their API assuming it hasn't been turned off again for no good reason.

>>43250348
The site is in a zombie state. Only the preview loads, the full res attachments or videos do not.

>>43250406
Backend ate shit again. Classy. And they killed their chan too, so there's no contacting them.

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>>43250465
At least we still have U-18Ϲhan's pony board for the odd leak. Though them dropping the "pawstika" logo in 2024 could be read as a canary in the coal mine.

>>43250465
Again? It's been dead (imports) since October or something. At least the full versions loaded until like March.

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>cytube has learned of pone.rs
Well, pone.rs guy, I hope you have plenty of storage, bandwidth, funding, and anti-cp features, because I know they've already put up the entirety of Ghost Adventures on your service, and you just know it won't belong until sharty goes after it like they have pomf and catbox.

>>43250936
>pony website has found pony website
oh no?

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>>43250946
Act dismissive now, but just wait until the dude that had like 50 separate channels full of hundreds of videos on pomf learns of it and spins all those terabytes of data back up.

>>43250964
To take your complaint more seriously I wouldn't be too worried. It's not like poners has been contained to just /mlp/ and when it was first announced catbox was dying. I have to imagine that they've atleast put some thought into this problem.

>>43250642
There are imports up to February of this year, and even some in March on particularly popular accounts. But yeah, the backend's been spotty since March.

>>43249878
Isn't that some furry site? Why should it be backupped?

>>43251134
It's a general subscription content archive, including a great many paywalled pones. Many have made their ways to the boorus already, but there's always stragglers.

>>43251167
Tearing down paywalls is always good but I doubt there's a whole lot of real pony content on there. No money to be made with that anymore.

>>43251167
>Many have made their ways to the boorus already
Except when you look into the paywalled discord channels general chats. There are a ton of pony sculpture photos which could not be seen anywhere else. Fucking closed communities.

>>43251174
>I doubt there's a whole lot of real pony content on there
There is a lot. Eg TwistedScarlett alt versions, Clopician full res/fps, Hooves-art, Yakovlev-vad monthly, Alcor's full res/exclusives, etc.

>>43251187
Oh, so it's all just shit.

>>43251187
Literally none of those are good.

>>43251201
>>43251206
Ah usual "everything is shit" responses. You know what's good? Grab a concrete block and jump into the ocean to drown.

>>43250936
I'm aware of this, storage usage has gone up a lot ever since pomf died. Not much of a problem at the moment though.
>>43250964
Unfortunately this has already happened.

>>43251176
Kemono does have Dicksword support, too, but as with everything, it suffers from lack of maintenance: https://kemono.cr/discord/server/1080724579934285855

>>43251291
Dicksword imports is what killed that site btw. It was actually functional and didn't effectively nuke its own warrant canaries until after discord imports took over and ruined the site.

>>43251226
No, the things you listed are just all objectively shit. No wonder you care so much about that site, you have furfag tastes.

>>43251479
it's almost like gating art behind a grooming platform was a stupid fucking idea in the first place.

>>43251479
Brainlet here. Can you explain what you mean with what you just said please? Because I have no idea what you mean.

>>43251580
>he doesn't know

>>43251497
>groomschizo
That had nothing to do with the situation, retard. The site's import system was constantly broken and millions of irrelevant garbage posts and channels from discord were flooding the latest update feeds while people were waiting for months to get patreon updates working.

>>43251593
I would be shocked if there was no pizza accidentally imported because of that.

Up.

I have just pushed a couple small changes to PonePaste. Mainly, I made recovery codes a bit friendlier, and I slightly changed around the CSS for display on pastes, making the info bar with the word count, fave count, etc one line instead of two, and display better on mobile. If you're a janny and reading this, I also improved a couple things on the admin dashboard you probably don't use anyways and won't notice.
Let me know if I fucked anything up.

>>43252532
Update: if you're a janny and reading this, I might have accidentally locked you out of your account. Looking into it.

>>43252533
Update to the update: Fixed.

>>43252532
Thanks for the heads up.

>tries to upload a video on ponerpics
>Image can't be blank
>Image size can't be blank
>Image width can't be blank
>Image height can't be blank
>Image mime type (video/mp4) is invalid
>Image duration can't be blank
>Image orig sha512 hash can't be blank
c'mon pupper...
anyone had this issue before and fixed it? i see nothing wrong with the video itself and can upload elsewhere

>>43252815
>>Image mime type (video/mp4) is invalid
See >>43231840. For a self-styled "successor" to Booru on Rails, Philomena is dreadfully feature-incomplete.

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>>43252824
thank you. i should have taken a proper look at the thread
strangely, av1 doesn't work but vp9 is fine. even though it's a primarily import platform, i'd like to see pupper at least detecting the codec/container and adjust the warnings accordingly if not fixing it

>>43252815
>>Image width can't be blank
>>Image height can't be blank
Oh yeah I got that weird error ages ago too on some JPEGs. Ran them through jpegtran and the problem was fixed.

I wonder how many uploads Ponerpics is missing due to these bugs that most normalfags won't know how to fix and just give up on uploading at all.

>>43253229
I wish Ponerpics could somehow scan for missing images that failed to get scraped the first time around.

>>43253685
I don't think anyone is really working on Ponerpics anymore. Just the mods deleting cbat spam and the like.

ponepaste is kinda slow?
Also, why does it respond to http? Why not https only?

>>43248270
Now I'm trying to process 2016 sept dump. As usual its a clusterfuck. Now it contains files which I can't even decompress because the filenames are so fucked up even linux can't handle.
And fun fact, the 2016 jan dump contains some pastes 4 times because if the title changed then it got a new filename... I guess whoever made that dump ran the ripper tool multiple times while using the same folder as the target.

>>43253695
As long as the site is maintained, that's the most important thing.

>>43253962
Not everyone has access to a computer that supports HTTPS! Additionally, I fully intend to make a version of the site in HTML4 at some point, so you can read horse greens on your vintage laptop and have the layout be usable.
Also, site seems fast to me right now.

>>43254611
>Not everyone has access to a computer that supports HTTPS!
Really? I had no idea that this is an issue.

>>43254611
Use a subdomain for supporting 30 year old stuff. Keep the main site as secure as possible.
Also someone wanting to use vintage stuff will use a proxy to strip https.

>>43254705
I have known people using my sites in countries with a government that blocks HTTPS but allows HTTP, even if temporarily. If I can do something in 10 seconds to make my site a little more accessible without impact to other users, I'm gonna do it.
>>43254760
>Use a subdomain for supporting 30 year old stuff.
That's the plan.

>>43254767
>a government that blocks HTTPS but allows HTTP
Oh, because of governmental retardation then. I didn't consider this.

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Not just 4chan's captcha but ext4, ntfs, notepadqq, kate, cat basically anything shits itself. Fuck you from 10+ years in the future.

>>43254767
>please leave that vulnerability open to satisfy my petty tyrant's wishes
How about no?

>>43253685
that ought to be the role of anons posting there.

>>43230750
>Need to save Disk Space
>We should automatically convert big JPEG and PNGs to AVIF and WEBP -TSP

>>43251580
basically artists moved posting their content from straight to patreon/substar/whatever to discord servers that you can only access if you support them on said sites, so it effectively doesn't work anymore

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nhnb server mod man person admin anon
pls

>>43256695
Our hosting provider is currently undergoing a bit of extended maintenance right now. It was scheduled, I just missed the memo so it caught me by surprise as well. I haven't seen an ETA but from the sounds it it they should be back in the next day or two. The site may spontaneously start working again when they are done, or if we get a new address there may be a small additional delay until I update the domain. Soon (tm).

>>43256683
>TSP
Did he really?

>>43256683
>that ought to be the role of anons posting there.
No. Do your job properly or don't bother hosting a booru at all.

>43256988
Perfectionschizo is back at it again I see

Thank you to all the site operators who do anything at all, even if it's not perfect, because it's way better than nothing.

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>>43256713
ah gotcya, thanks for the update, was just hoping you hadn't died or took down the site. the waiting game it is then

>>43257148
Meh, it's fine as long as you don't expect me to do work for you that can easily be automated.

Is there any archive or collection for music, specifically clop?

>>43255943
Do you know what makes you start over? Noticing that pastebin pro users be able to rename themselves. FUCK.

Up.

>>43258492

>>43258054
Another day, another issue.
The chances of ID collision are near zero, but not zero... Possibly one paste got deleted (but archived before) and another new one somehow got its ID. Or the archiver massively fucked up. My bet is on the archiver fucking up.

>>43259081
>Possibly one paste got deleted (but archived before)
So what happens now? Does the deleted paste get restored in some way?

>>43259084
Both were worthless (not mlp related), I randomly deleted one (which were some kind of python code from 2012).
Issue was one was posted as a guest and one as a logged in user. And I did not want to rewrite the DB again to handle pastes belonging to multiple users...

Bump.

>>43258040
PonyTube gets PMVs uploaded to it on the reg, including NSFW ones.

>>43256713
>>43257740
We're back.

>>43260407
wb ig

>>43259098
I see.

>>43260407
No host, no business, no longer.

mulpwiki.batpony.org will be sunset Q1 next year.

>>43263404
>batponies getting sunsetted
pottery. sad, though. why?

>>43263855
You're not gonna believe this, but sites cost money to host. At a certain point the calculus goes "do I spend $10 this month on a website no one uses, or on lube for my new chance?"

>>43263855
Because its read only, the content is mirrored everywhere else, and I do not feel like it provides that much use.
If you need the content the it's here: https://iwiftp.yerf.org/Pony/Website%20archive/Fan-made/mulpwiki.org/

Since this will also affect KeeKee you can also find that here: https://iwiftp.yerf.org/Pony/Website%20archive/Fan-made/translate.batpony.party/
>>43263871
It's free hosting since the main archive needs it anyway

>>43263871
Aids is too good for you.

>>43263404
Don't you mean https://mulpwiki.batpony.party ?

>>43263404
>>43264090 (you)
Btw most of the site is broken already. Categories, threads, images, stories, memes page comes back empty.

>>43259659

>>43263965
Well, still sad, but at least the content remains.

>>43246849
A couple factors contributed to rainbooru's abandonment. First and foremost was I lost the password to the database that powered the site. Without that, I didnt have the ability to push major updates. I never had time to rewrite the database from scratch. I was/am getting my phd and I just don't have the time. Besides that, the last two consistent users were some faggot who drinks piss and some kid with an anti-natalist grudge against his dad. I ate $30 a month in server costs and $200 every year renewing the domain. Those two guys just weren't with it

>>43265371
can you at least publish the source code here for archival purposes?

>>43265371
>some kid with an anti-natalist grudge against his dad
Who, Cbat?

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>ponytube is running low on space
>look at storage prices

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>>43265371
I appreciate you filling in the blanks. I second >>43265438's request, but more than anything, I want to wish you well on your future ventures, PhD and pegasine alike.

>>43265786
Just delete all g5 shit

>>43265786
Nuke everything that includes eqg. Nothing of value was lost. You can let an AI identify it and auto-delete anything that as much as touches eqg.

>>43264090
Minor details
>>43264097
Its a direct import of the original dump, there have been no attempts to fix any internal links

>10

>>43264546

>>43265786
I heard it's probably getting even worse in this regard.

>>43265786
TPA / Z+ can help you out, what do you need in TB?

>>43267330
AI was a mistake.

>>43267433
In this thread you've talked about ending Z+ and discontinuing new work on TPA

>>43246546
what do you expect from low iq retards who live in there parent basement.

>>43267888
Trips of truth aside, what's another lie to a walking, undeservedly breathing PR disaster?

>>43246546
wtf is "rageforking"?

>>43268043
A term meant to delegitimize software forks that are created in the wake of controversy (a la Sneedacity, XLibre), being metaphorically used here to imply altboorus are somehow wronging Derpi by providing alternative venues where people may propogate if they wish.

>>43268072
If anything Derpifags should be happy for the altboorus because they lessen the load on their servers.

>>43267888
Retards need not apply, I guess.

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>>43268139
Why make it personal? Taking umbrage with someone calmly pointing out an example of your utter inability to keep a story straight won't mend your image any, even if repair was somehow still possible.

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>>43268139
>hey I can help with storage
>>but you just said you were going to end your projects you specifically mentioned?
>FUCK YOU RETARD DIE

>>43268183
I said retards don't need to apply for storage. Clearly retards can't read so they don't need any. Z+ shut down public hosting due to rising hardware costs. We still have 200TB of storage space privately owned not rented or leased. Eventually the drives will give up but no problem helping out fellow pony sites.
>>43268160
Your behavior is some of the worst I've seen on this board since cbat became a thing, pipe down. I don't see you building a datacenter to host ponies.

It really is people like (you) who make hosting literally anything of value to /mlp/ ass, all of this "We will leave ponybooru wah wah wah" crying bullshit and I've not lost a single actual donor, you guys provided nothing. All you do is take. Enjoy your free shit (it's free) or shut the fuck up.

>>43268191
Damn, he really got to you, didn't he?

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>>43268191
>call twifag a retard because you say one thing and mean another thing
>lash out at whoever flutterflag is
>continue sperging out
Really earning that old nickname, eh?

>>43268191
And you couldn't have led with that instead of calling Twiflag a retard? This isn't about decorum. You were asked a perfectly reasonable question, and instead of answering it, you lashed out and only explained yourself afterward. That's even worse than your usual silence, because it means you did have an answer and chose not to give it.
You're not an asset to this community. You are a liability.

>>43267433
Sure, if you want to deal with an autistic spineless retard throwing a hiss fit every 2 days and being a moralpest

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>>43268160
>>43267888
>>43268160
>>43268183
What are you guys talking about. Those are two different situations.

>twitter screencap
ZIDF is not sending their best

>>43268217
Mate. It's ass. There's no pleasing these people, who want me dead. They clearly don't care about jack and shit or they'd actively work towards building up rather than focusing on "how can I tear this person down".
The good thing is, the entirety of this thread disappears the moment I click away, I don't have to listen to these jackasses who don't help, I can just work on things by myself. The draw back is I have no further help, I'm alone, I work two jobs, and I just don't have time to keep working on software when it's a full time job keeping the hardware running.
The big problem is that I can't push meaningful updates to TPA or re-enable our video download system because I have no help. Folks like Flutters or Twi here are no help in that regard, and only serve to further damage the archive's ability to perform basic functions by means of just being unhelpful talking heads.
I can just offer storage because I can just throw a couple of them in a box and send them on their way. They're not doing me any good at the moment and another pony site gets helped. But, no, it's very clear the intended community for pony tube (/mlp/) genuinely just hates good things... or is it just a few people and all of the quiet lurkers just appreciate that such things exist and stay quiet? I'll probably never know, not that it mattered. Thanks for giving a shit anon.

>>43268285
are you really so self pitying you just mistook mockery for sympathy?

>>43268290
I'll take what I want, you're not the boss of me. ^:)

>>43268285
>more drama
You really are a furfag.

>>43268304
>He thinks this is drama
Man, you really are a furry.

>>43268308
>«man» wearing dramashaped fursuit: ceci n'est pas une drame

>>43268313
It would be one thing if it was a pony lifesize, but it is literally some furfag thing.

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>>43268285
>hey I can help you with ponytube
>>didn't you just say you were shutting down the pro-
>FOOLS LIKE FLUTTERS OR TWI HERE
Why are you so adamant about shitting on people simply asking questions or owning/working on "competing" services?
>unhelpful talking heads
What a bizarre way to disparage someone who runs multiple websites and multiple conventions.

>>43268386
I'm assuming the twiflag has nothing to do with pony tube, considering if it was corp he'd just DM me on discord which is far faster and actually gets things done. I don't offer a competing service to ponytube anyway, so that point is also moot.
If the twiflag was corp, then that's on them for not reading the previous threads or paying attention to the half dozen places I've said Z+ is temporarily closing due to hardware costs. TPA remains online I just can't actively update it due to time as previously stated in archived threads.

>>43268393
Have you considered that people might have reasons to avoid contact with you beyond being "retards"?

>>43268405
No, not really. I help everyone I can and do what I can to fix things that need fixing. I'm passionate about pony projects and am still keeping everything online.
I'm basically left to assume people avoiding contact are people whom I would likely not enjoy said contact with. That's great, because that means they're self filtering and saves me a lot of time that I otherwise don't have. Speaking of, I'm outies see you guys in a while.

>>43268191
You did, in fact, lose a single donor just this month:
https://web.archive.org/web/20260505030352/https://subscribestar.adult/theponyarchive
https://web.archive.org/web/20260527225407/https://subscribestar.adult/theponyarchive

>>43268518
>can't pass the age gate on wayback's snapshots
>have to add it to my uBO filters
SS sux.

>>43268191
>building a datacenter to host ponies
YES. FUCK AI DATACENTERS. NOBODY WANTS AI DATACENTERS. BUT COMMUNITIES WILL WELCOME PONY DATACENTERS WITH OPEN ARMS.

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>>43268778
Don't hold your breath.
https://lowendspirit.com/discussion/10467/z-plus-deadpool

>ponybooru password resets & account creation completely broken
This feels like performance art at this point.

floorb
twibooru importer stuck
again

What is going on in this thread? I genuinely lost track of the happenings.

>>43268191
>>43268285
>>43268393
>>43268415
Please fuck off back to BlueSky instead of being a little bitch. Acting like a whiny retard because of your multiple untreated mental illness' doesn't give you any brownie points and not a single soul is interested about you faux victim playing and deliberate pretend to not understand things. Additional to this your inability to run a simple website, being any amount of tech illiterate, and not fucking up the service you try to provide would be a adequate start. This is without bringing up your proven financial incompetence, even with something as cheap as this.
>>43268518
Since Zizzy is eBegging again, here are some addresses anyone can donate if they feel like. The money goes exactly into Pony an no-where else:
Bitcoin (BTC): 19H2wg4oDQrWADe1m7jxLDGG7uC5ZuUncv
Ethereum: (ETH):0x835C8Be74C3dad59BB61075545946D70E3549656
Monero (XMR): 42MLsnHGqS5ihHZ5WMgNU7HRcefxqK935Aex6cPNVtjvDrYGYykbLZ3EidZYkqHTePaJ4CtJv9HQKUDW4LASmB788By6UqJ
Verifiable if you scroll down the greeter at https://iwiftp.yerf.org. I don't tend do put this in anyone's face.

>>43229456
>>Ponerpics duplicate queue has several hundred reports awaiting an update to Derpi metadata handling
somehow i missed this before. i guess it's useless to report duplicates there as of now? the only staff member i saw active was Gold Meddle, and even though he's fine i hope i'm wrong

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>>43269681
Alt-Site discussion with nominal Friendliness.
>>43269695
This only affects images uploaded by the Derpi Imported account, whose last import was nearly three years ago. These uploads include Derpi metadata, and the mechanism for transferring this metadata across uploads is not yet in place. While this does impede [Derpi Imported] -> [other uploader] merging, [other uploader] -> [Derpi Imported] still functions as intended.
With all that said, you're most welcome to keep making duplicate reports on Derpi Imported uploads: they will be acted on as soon as the software allows.
>i hope i'm wrong
In the kindest way possible, you are. For all my visible engagement, my fellow staff members have not simply vanished into the aether. As with any healthy volunteer project, they contribute in their own pace, on their own terms.

>>43269695
Gold Meddle is the only active staff. I've been regularly attempting to make contact with the others over the past 8 months but I've not heard back from anyone else. I would have thought maybe after Lotus's April Fools day appearance he would have checked his messages, but no. It just seems so strange to me. Last I talked to them 8 months ago everything seemed fine. They had future plans for PonerPics as well. But since then it's been complete radio silence from them. The dates they said they said they had planned for development came and went without action. I was mainly just worried if something happened. Gold Meddle says they've just been "busy".

>>43269809
With "busy" being code for "not interested any longer".

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>>43269794
i see, thanks
while i'm pretty sure the rest of the staff is dormant like the anon says, it looks like the things run fine

>>43269487
>>43269487
>>43269487
>>43269487
FLOORB!!!!!!

>>43269693
Please don't recommend anyone go to the furry shithole known as bluesky. It's offensive.
For what it's worth, TPA has always costed more than I got in donations, and I went into debt to keep TPA up.
As far as tech illiterate, it's been up for 12 years I think that speaks for itself.
As far as cheap, I don't cheap out on what's important to me in life, so we own everything, nothing's rented, and we own the data. We have disaster recovery in place, tape backup etc. I've slowly been building an entire backup of iwiftp as well, so that you too have a disaster recovery option.

Your kofi has been broke for a while, I tried to give you money when I got out of debt officially in Feb. if you fix it, I got 100 earmarked for you.

>>43269131
this has been more of a pain to debug than I want to admit.

>>43270132
>"please don't recommend this furfag place"
>said the person who bid on a literal lifesize of a famous furry character
What is this cognitive dissonance?

>>43270147
My man, I bid on it cause Loona knows ball. I'm friends with the plush artist and they hate their own work and I told them if they listed it they'd get at least x amount for it. So I bid to show them not all hope is lost. Let a man buy what he wants lmao.

>>43270157
>supporting furfaggotry
Touching. Did you support him when he was getting dogpiled for making an Aryanne? Did you do anything to prevent him from swearing off on making any more White Mares?

I miss when kemono still worked, and when clopero wasnt dead. Cause aint no way im paying actual money for pony porn.

>>43270157
You artificially inflated the price, got it.

Oh shit if we're ebegging here's the pony.tube stuff (yes, we're running out if space and this is going to cost a lot to set up a second server)
BTC: 1iWyNjj7hUuihsK42gRTyzggLhzcoMmrg
Eth: 0xFFF70993C6C260315ceb3A74CE202A97d356226F
Monero: 897vZij8Hcj6FqLXAUgdaFAnsCheLk4fLQ5o9fKQAWsYADKvaEJ777MdCao2zsn8u7JirCUEdfb61UFXFn7E4scj2nF9py1
Also there's a liberapay at https://liberapay.com/PonyTube

Verify links and addresses at https://pony.tube/about/instance/home

>>43270164
>muh arytranne
fitting someone autistic and mentally damaged enough to drag out a shitty april fools joke for NINE YEARS would be the first to play victim when nobody wants a swastika horse around.

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>>43270556
no need to take a white horse so seriously, anon

>>43270556
She's cute.

>>43268285
/mlp/ is just a dying board of old fart who can't move on of s2 and s1 of the show. This place is dying and they know it they just misarable people living in a echo chamber.

>>43270157
Qt pony must be retarded why would you make something you hate.

>>43271133
>who can't move on of s2 and s1 of the show
Not our fault that the early seasons are the gold standard.

>>43271133
found the dogfucker

>>43269895
Still out?

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>>43271816
And proud.

>>43272103
Meh.

Late night bump.

>10

>>43268191
You should just sell the site to the next bidder and get a better job is not worth throwing your money away for this losers.

>>43274035
I completely agree, his site is not worth it.

>>43274045
They should sell it to a furry to make /mlp/ mad.

>>43274053
All it would do is confirm our suspicions. So go ahead.

>>43274057
You deserve worse like the burning of the entire mlp archive that it can never be recover.

>furnigger tantruming in pony archive thread that he's not allowed to shit it up permanently
lol, lmao even

>>43274067
Are you paying him if not shut up and do it yourself you lazy fag.

I don't know what Punjabi enterprise Davis hired you from, but you should know that /mlp/ has a bump limit of 500 posts instead of the standard 300, so "spam this thread until it archives" might be more work than you were paid for.

Hey Floorb,

some people over in the spanking thread found out that a specific paste on ponepaste has become inaccessible? It always returns a 502 gateway error which I find strange because the rest of the site seems to work fine. The paste itself can also still be found in the normal search and is listed as a public link. So it's not a problem with the paste being deleted or privated.

Paste in question: https://ponepaste.org/6509
That paste is the central "story archive" for that thread. It's basically just a big list of ponepaste links.


After some experimentation I also found a second paste that is affected. Like the first one its a "story list" paste that itself links to a whole bunch of different pastes. Not sure if that commonality is meaningful.
Second affected paste: https://ponepaste.org/7575

>>43274384
How odd. I'm not Floorb, so I've no clue why the gateway error happens, but both of these pastes are still accessible through /embed/, /download/ and /raw/:
https://ponepaste.org/raw/6509
https://ponepaste.org/raw/7575

>>43274434
That is actually really helpful. No idea why I didn't try that. Thanks.

i am worried about pone.rs
why does the owner enabled only permanent uploads first? temporary uploads shouldn't have been the default option? does he have unlimited space? isn't that bad?

Threadly reminder that as a sysadmin it is your heavenly duty to rangeban the entire third world.

>>43274888
trips don't lie. i'm not a sysadmin but from all i heard, most DDoS attacks are for some reason from southeastern asia shitholes like vietnam
>>43274749
it should be an option, yeah

>>43274384
I am able to reproduce the issue in production but not my local copy of the site. Recreating the paste doesn't fix the issue. I think the issue is with the Pastedown syntax. Give me a day or two, I'll see what I can figure out. Unbelievably busy right now.

>>43275154
>>43274384
Never mind I just fixed it. Sorry about that.

>>43275158
Thanks Floorb, appreciate it.
Out of casual interest, what exactly was the problem? 502 seems like a weird error to have on only specific pastes.

>>43275184
NTA but it's probably a rendering issue caused by having so many links in one paste

Hey, i was wondering if the PP admin could make all mom, spank and sim stories public? And not unlisted? So the stories can be backed-up.

I'll re-unlist my garbage/temp stuff afterwards.

http://ponepaste.org/9540
http://ponepaste.org/7575
http://ponepaste.org/6509

Like everything public please. "Ctrl+all" type deal.

Thanks for any help!

>>43276235
You should use the contact email address from the site, he can't verify who you are like this and you could be anyone not just the author.

>>43276289
Ye, I thought about that afterwards, mby making a story on each archive would similarly work. I'm not home right now so i cant do anything about it atm. Soon tm.

Good morning bump.

>>43276330
Here, I made two stories in the archives to prove that I manage them
ponepaste.org/11931
ponepaste.org/11932

Mom didn't need any. So just the two above. Ty again!

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can't believe this thread is actually interesting as of late

>>43276867
Your penis is cute and interesting!

>>43276870
why, thank you!

Bumo.

>>43274888
Don't worry I already banned United States from all my services.

>>43277199

>>43277255
>>43277972
Orrrr you could just ban retards individually instead of entire continents. Not even American and even though the majority of them I see online nowadays are insufferable (especially on here) I've had many good conversations with levelheaded Americans back in the day (though this was way before the smartphone-ification of the internet).

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I dunno if it belongs in this thread or not; but I recently got a webring working for anons who have their own personal web / fansite to link up together; since I felt some anons may get some use out of it. https://mlp-ring.neocities.org/. If anyone wants to suggest changes to make the ring and site itself better / links that I should add to the link page, i'm all ears for recommendations.

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>>43278173
>>43278173
>>43278173
>>43278173
Why the repetition?

>>43278286
Placeholders used to test the indexing; until some sites can join in. I think having websites like the one made for /aj/ general (and hopefully websites made for other ones) plus personal sites would be cool.

Good morning bump.

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Good AMERICAN morning bump.

>>43279073
Works just as well.

What's the progress on the pools (picture sequences for comics) on boorus? From: Floorb? Lotus? Zizzy? ByteSlice?

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TWIBOORU IS DEAD

>>43279319
>Ray ID:sneed
Found your problem.

>>43279319
noooooooooooooooo

RIP Twibooru.

>WAH FUD TWIBOORU KILL FOREVER
did you niggers miss the last like, seven times this happened
it'll be fine, floorb just needs to stop being a lazy leafnigger

>>43279869
Floorbs would never fix the site if no one would say anything

>>43229456
Which one of you niggas downed Twibooru?

Kinda defeats the point in altboorus.

>>43280098
It was anon who did it.

>>43280098
If anything, this demonstrates the value of pluralism and decentralization. With two largely redundant archives, one can seamlessly substitute the other during downtime.

Oh hey. Ponybooru is still up.

>>43280198
Why wouldn't it be?

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>>43279319

>>43279319
Not just twibooru.
Ponerpics's and Ponybooru's derpi importer is also dead.

>>43280419
cuckflare gonna cuckflare.

>>43280419
The Porter importer aborts when it detects issues with it's sources (or destinations) so as to avoid creating a mess.

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It's the jews. Seriously.

>>43280618
Let's hope that fix doesn't take too long.

The alt boorus will miss a few thousand images. Again.

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>>43280750
realistically is there any reason cloudflare hasn't been shot up yet

>>43280750
ponerpics' importer remembers where it left off, and continues from that point. It's fine, there will be no holes.

>>43280901
...assuming derpi doesn't nuke any uploads made during this cloudflare outage.

Serious question: why don't we have an /mlp/ alternative to Cloudflare?
>uhhh it's too big to replace
That's what they said about YouTube. And Derpi.

>>43281216
The whole point of Cloudflare is that they have enough infrastructure to be able to absorb any amount of attack traffic.

An alternative to cloudflare? https://usips.org/products/tartarus/

>>43279319
Infrastructure provider issue. I was told it would be fixed a lot sooner than it is. It's still not fixed. I'm looking for a backup for now.

>>43281006
Most things uploaded nowadays are shit anyway, we won't miss anything important.

>>43281426
There was quite a few things uploaded I would beat my meat to in the past day. But not if its on derpi.

>>43281316
The main attractive part of Cloudflare, other than being free, is that they have dozens (hundreds?) of Tbps of network capacity across dozens of datacenters, which means that any volumetric attack traffic can simply be absorbed, due to the way the Internet works. No amount of application-level challenges will do anything if some kid can just pay $10/mo to flood the 1Gbps port on your server with 50Gbps of traffic for an entire month.