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A thread to suggest featured images? And hopefully one that is actually looked at.

I would love a Pinned-Thread where changes in Site Staff are listed (with reasons if possible).  
I saw Raptorshy left the PR department (today?).  
Would be nice to know when that happens and if possible, with a reason. (With the option of course to keep it private if the Staff-member wishes the reason for thier departure to be private)  
It could also be a lovely place for the Staff-member to say thier goodbyes to the Community if they leave for good.  
Optionally it could also be posted within the Mod-Logs.

Some kind of “average processing time” counter would help.
 
There’s images on the front page that were uploaded an hour ago that have already been processed but a drawing I uploaded last night is still missing.
 
Need some way to know if I should report images that seem to have failed to process.

I think the “site down” page should be like Derpi’s, overriding the content instead of redirecting to URL/502.html. Right now it messes up the navigation and doesn’t (or didn’t if you made it redirect to root) even work on the images because root/images/502.html doesn’t exist.

@marredpink
 
Its in the works.

An api would be nice.

@HotKinkajou  
I have come into this thread to suggest exactly that.  
Ditto for validation codes; I think the site should be able to set up name and its shorthands to be used for that purpose.

@HotKinkajou  
Because the system’s already struggling to keep up with the current level of activity. Adding more onto that might not be a good idea.

@Officer Hotpants  
Why wait?

@HotKinkajou  
I’ve actually been doing that when I save pics from here.

How about a list that displays the accounts currently banned from the site at any given time? It wouldn’t display inactive/previous bans, just active bans. If done right, you could totally make it completely automated, all the info it would need would already exist, it would just get to grab it. I image it looking similar to the comment section, with a user’s icon and name + the ban length and reason. Imo it would be a great way to be transparent while requiring little up keep after being set up.
 
@HotKinkajou  
This is a really good idea.

@HotKinkajou  
This seems like a good idea. Might want to hold off on implementing it until the archive is fully copied, though.

When Depri was The site to go to for pony pics, a pony image with a numeric id name could reasonably be expected to have come through there. You could then use this short id to quickly find more information about it.
 
Ponybooru, however, doesn’t have the luxury of being The pony site.  
I propose the addition of a prefix (or suffix) in the filename for an image download without tags.  
For example, 133391.png becomes pb133391.png or 133391.pb.png

Feature request: tag diff  
Basically take two images, highlight the tag differences between them, and have a convenient interface to merge the tags from one image into the other.
 
This would make tagging image sets a lot easier. Let’s say someone uploads five variants of the same image, poorly tagged. You find one and add a dozen tags, but then realise the outher four are still barely tagged, and you forgot which tags exactly are the ones you just added to the image you fixed. And since the variants are slightly different, it’s really not convenient to just nuke the old tags and replace them with the new ones. So you either copy-paste the raw tags into an external text editor and diff them yourself, or you go through the tags by hand to figure out which ones are missing and which ones should be added. Or you give up and let four variants sit with terrible tagging.
 
A tag diff from A to B would show which tags are missing from B and which tags are extra on B. Then you could easily transfer the tags you just added to A over to B, while taking care not to transfer any tags which might not apply to the variant B, and also you’d look over the tags B has extra and keep them (or, if the author mistagged the image and you fixed it on A, that’d be highlighted on B and you could fix that).

@Officer Hotpants  
If you let your pastebin remain inactive for too long, or if you nuke your account, they’ll usually recycle it (the free ones, not the lifetime ones). It’s also ridiculously easy to hack an inactive account.

@Officer Hotpants  
>Wait, what? They just sold people’s accounts?  
Source: a hacker known as 4chan told me.  
However, expiration of old accounts is absolutely real, and leads to data loss just the same.
 
@stardust-pony  
That is suboptimal. Inconvenient and bulky. Like thread screencaps, this is a workaround at best.

@HotKinkajou  
Well they could adapt .PDF right technically it’s some kind of hybrid of picture and writing document  
And anyone can make that kind of files
 
And any author could post or transfer their existing content easily

@HotKinkajou  
Wait, what? They just sold people’s accounts?

@Anonymous #C75D  
Greentext does get written though, and there is no real good archive for it right now. Most people use pastebin for this, but free pastebin accounts can be - and were! - deactivated, purged and given to paying customers. I don’t know if anything of value was actually lost this way, but that’s only because people are aware of the problem and backing everything up.
 
If a booru provided means to archive text documents, the problem would be no more.

@Mitchy  
Should be in here.

@phoenixFromTheTrashes  
Where’s mine?

How does one get a custom badge? Or is that possible?

Ability to have multiple different-rated avatars (SFW/NSFW, shows one depending on current filter). Some sites have that.

@Zaknel  
The Liberty Belle serves that purpose I believe

Maybe a badge for people who joined within the first two weeks of the site?