Danbooru, the original Cardboard Box gallery, and other Danbooru-like boards
BioPhoenix Date:Aug 6, 2013 9:23 AM(Edited:Aug 9, 2013 2:38 AM)Title:Danbooru, the original Cardboard Box gallery, and other Danbooru-like boards
AGNPH has upgraded to using a Booru-type imageboard for a gallery (which, by the way, is awesome), and various comparisons to e621 have followed. However, e621 was hardly the first Booru-type imageboard out there. Here are some others, including the original Danbooru whose lead all others followed. Be aware that the advertisement content is most likely explicit on several of these sites, particularly Danbooru and Gelbooru.
Danbooru: The first Booru-type imageboard, and the one which both popularized the format and gave it its name, Danbooru is one of the largest repositories of anime-style art on the Internet. Its innovative user-editable tagging system means that specific images can be found very easily on it. The name means "cardboard box" in Japanese. Its rules prohibit furry art, though.
Gelbooru: Gelbooru is mostly a Danbooru mirror; however, it allows you to search for more than two tags at once and look at certain content that Danbooru keeps behind a paywall, and it allows furry art. The disadvantage is that its ads are significantly more obnoxious than Danbooru's.
Safebooru: Safebooru is another Danbooru mirror; however, unlike the two above, it is designed specifically to not have sexual content anywhere. It's convenient for looking up anime-style images when you can't be seen looking at porn.
e621: Among those Booru-type boards which are predominantly furry-themed, e621 is one of the larger ones. It is paid for has some level of assistance from Varka of Bad Dragon, who also pays for AGNPH, and one of its lead administrators its former lead administrator, now adviser, is retired AGNPH admin Psyco Charmander. It runs the same software as AGNPH's gallery, the Ouroboros software.
WildCritters.ws: Another furry Booru-type imageboard. Its focus is on images containing characters with cute, small-ish, chibi, and/or cub-like designs, but it is fairly lax about this, unlike the older WildCritters.net imageboard (currently offline) from which it branched.
Flygon Date:Aug 6, 2013 12:24 PMTitle:Re: Danbooru, the original Cardboard Box gallery, and other Danbooru-like boards
e621: Among those Booru-type boards which are predominantly furry-themed, e621 is one of the larger ones. It is paid for by Varka of Bad Dragon, who also pays for AGNPH, and one of its lead administrators is retired AGNPH admin Psyco Charmander.
DancingChar Date:Aug 9, 2013 5:23 AM(Edited:Oct 26, 2015 9:32 PM)Title:Re: Danbooru, the original Cardboard Box gallery, and other Danbooru-like boards
That's one of my favorites, I often visit there. I also like going to e621 and looking up my own art for the comments. You get more honest comments when people don't necessarily know who made the picture.
Date:Aug 6, 2013 9:23 AM(Edited:Aug 9, 2013 2:38 AM) Title:Danbooru, the original Cardboard Box gallery, and other Danbooru-like boards
Danbooru: The first Booru-type imageboard, and the one which both popularized the format and gave it its name, Danbooru is one of the largest repositories of anime-style art on the Internet. Its innovative user-editable tagging system means that specific images can be found very easily on it. The name means "cardboard box" in Japanese. Its rules prohibit furry art, though.
Gelbooru: Gelbooru is mostly a Danbooru mirror; however, it allows you to search for more than two tags at once and look at certain content that Danbooru keeps behind a paywall, and it allows furry art. The disadvantage is that its ads are significantly more obnoxious than Danbooru's.
Safebooru: Safebooru is another Danbooru mirror; however, unlike the two above, it is designed specifically to not have sexual content anywhere. It's convenient for looking up anime-style images when you can't be seen looking at porn.
e621: Among those Booru-type boards which are predominantly furry-themed, e621 is one of the larger ones. It is paid for has some level of assistance from Varka of Bad Dragon, who also pays for AGNPH, and one of its lead administrators its former lead administrator, now adviser, is retired AGNPH admin Psyco Charmander. It runs the same software as AGNPH's gallery, the Ouroboros software.
WildCritters.ws: Another furry Booru-type imageboard. Its focus is on images containing characters with cute, small-ish, chibi, and/or cub-like designs, but it is fairly lax about this, unlike the older WildCritters.net imageboard (currently offline) from which it branched.
Date:Aug 6, 2013 12:24 PM Title:Re: Danbooru, the original Cardboard Box gallery, and other Danbooru-like boards
Date:Aug 6, 2013 5:09 PM Title:Re: Danbooru, the original Cardboard Box gallery, and other Danbooru-like boards
Apparently my information was out of date. :-\ I have rectified this.
Date:Aug 6, 2013 8:12 PM Title:Re: Danbooru, the original Cardboard Box gallery, and other Danbooru-like boards
The reason e621 is compared to the new software is because they both run Ouroboros, a proprietary Danbooru branch.
Date:Aug 8, 2013 5:16 PM Title:Re: Danbooru, the original Cardboard Box gallery, and other Danbooru-like boards
Thanks! Rectified.
Clearly I am clueless with regards to e621.
Date:Aug 9, 2013 5:23 AM(Edited:Oct 26, 2015 9:32 PM) Title:Re: Danbooru, the original Cardboard Box gallery, and other Danbooru-like boards
I also like going to e621 and looking up my own art for the comments. You get more honest comments when people don't necessarily know who made the picture.