How often do you cuddle your plushies?

ITT, let's discuss the future of art preservation and boorus.

The long version:
After recent events, doubts have arose about the continuance of Derpibooru as the premiere image archival site for the fandom. Derpibooru recently went through a period of banning content they didn't agree with. This was brought on by accusations by journalists and twitter posters. Only after thousands of posts against the new policy and dozens of popular artists threatening to boycott the site were the changes reverted. While the offending policies have been removed, it is important for there to be competition in order to both ensure that Derpi is kept in check and that alternatives are available into the future.

TLDR:
There's other options.
-Right now Rainbooru is a good alternative to Derpi. (www.rainbooru.org)
-In the near future we can also look forward to TwiBooru, based on Philomena (from Twifag)
-ZizzyDizzyMC is working on ponybooru based on Philomena. (www.ponybooru.org)
-Another Philomena based booru. (ponerpics.org)

Specialized Boorus:
- booru.foalcon.com (foalcon)
- www.fluffybooru.com (fluffy ponies)
- lyrabooru.org (plushophilia)
- www.bronibooru.com (SFW, no shipping, no non-pony anthro, no translations)

Latest Developments:
-Improvements to Rainbooru, too many to list ^:) (www.rainbooru.org/changelog)
-Twifag and Zizzy making progress with Philomena
-People are looking for alternatives
-Derpi staff overhaul
-Rainbooru and Ponybooru are (almost) fully operational.
-Tools available to import images from Derpi

This is NOT the Derpibooru drama general. Please keep posts relevant to booru development. (>>>/mlp/derpi)

Discuss

Previous thread: >>35562142

ITT, let's discuss the future of art preservation and boorus.

The long version:
After recent events, doubts have arose about the continuance of Derpibooru as the premiere image archival site for the fandom. Derpibooru recently went through a period of banning content they didn't agree with. This was brought on by accusations by journalists and twitter posters. Only after thousands of posts against the new policy and dozens of popular artists threatening to boycott the site were the changes reverted. While the offending policies have been removed, it is important for there to be competition in order to both ensure that Derpi is kept in check and that alternatives are available into the future.

TLDR:
There's other options.
-Right now Rainbooru is a good alternative to Derpi. (www.rainbooru.org)
-In the near future we can also look forward to TwiBooru, based on Philomena (from Twifag)
-ZizzyDizzyMC is working on ponybooru based on Philomena. (www.ponybooru.org)

Specialized Boorus:
- booru.foalcon.com (foalcon)
- www.fluffybooru.com (fluffy ponies)
- lyrabooru.org (plushophilia)
- www.bronibooru.com (SFW, no shipping, no non-pony anthro, no translations)

Latest Developments:
-Improvements to Rainbooru, too many to list ^:) (www.rainbooru.org/changelog)
-Twifag and Zizzy making progress with Philomena
-People are looking for alternatives
-Derpi staff overhaul
-Rainbooru and Ponybooru are (almost) fully operational.
-Tools available to import images from Derpi

This is NOT the Derpibooru drama general. Please keep posts relevant to booru development. (>>>/mlp/derpi)

Discuss

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Enter CHADREN

TwAIlight welcomes you to the Pony Voice Preservation Project!
https://clyp.it/tm03e5en

This project is the first part of the "Pony Preservation Project" dealing with the voice.
It's dedicated to saving our beloved pony's voices by creating a neural network based Text To Speech for our favorite ponies.
Videos such as https://youtu.be/GuJKTodX1FA. or https://youtu.be/DWK_iYBl8cA have proven that we now have the technology to generate convincing voices using machine learning algorithms "trained" on nothing but clean audio clips.
With roughly 10 seasons (9 seasons and 5 movies) worth of voice lines available, we have more than enough material to apply this tech for our deviant needs.

https://derpy.me/PHsCn

Any anon is free to join, and many are already contributing. Just read the guide to learn how you can help bring on the wAIfu revolution. Whatever your technical level, you can help.
Document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xe1Clvdg6EFFDtIkkFwT-NPLRDPvkV4G675SUKjxVRU

We now have a working TwAIlight that any Anon can play with:
15.ai
https://derpy.me/vCzm2 (Training)
https://derpy.me/hdJQF (Synthesis)
https://derpy.me/YTJ94 (Guide)

>Active Tasks
Create a dataset for speech synthesis (https://youtu.be/Bsu7mwa-QGY)
Synthbot working on story tagger for voiced greentexts (https://synthbot.ai/)
Researching alternative vocoders
Looking into an animation dataset, animators needed
Anon transcribing books and comics
Making AI creations (>>35364097)

>Latest Developments
Free TPUs from TRC
AI singing
Master file 2 contains BGM and SFX
Groundwork for video generation

>Voice samples
https://derpy.me/3TBK4
https://derpy.me/fHs3K
https://derpy.me/O1xdh

>Clipper Anon's Master File 2.0:
https://mega.nz/#F!L952DI4Q!nibaVrvxbwgCgXMlPHVnVw
https://mega.nz/folder/0UhSmYAB#WBrB-qCprQTofkAhwMp5CQ

>Synthbot's Torrent Resources
https://derpy.me/ZJNca

>Cool, where is the discord/forum/whatever unifying place for this project!?
You're looking at it.

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>>35514662

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>>35576506

TwAIlight welcomes you to the Pony Voice Preservation Project!
https://clyp.it/tm03e5en

This project is the first part of the "Pony Preservation Project" dealing with the voice.
It's dedicated to saving our beloved pony's voices by creating a neural network based Text To Speech for our favorite ponies.
Videos such as https://youtu.be/GuJKTodX1FA. or https://youtu.be/DWK_iYBl8cA have proven that we now have the technology to generate convincing voices using machine learning algorithms "trained" on nothing but clean audio clips.
With roughly 10 seasons (9 seasons and 5 movies) worth of voice lines available, we have more than enough material to apply this tech for our deviant needs.

https://derpy.me/PHsCn

Any anon is free to join, and many are already contributing. Just read the guide to learn how you can help bring on the wAIfu revolution. Whatever your technical level, you can help.
Document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xe1Clvdg6EFFDtIkkFwT-NPLRDPvkV4G675SUKjxVRU

We now have a working TwAIlight that any Anon can play with:
15.ai
https://derpy.me/vCzm2 (Training)
https://derpy.me/hdJQF (Synthesis)
https://derpy.me/YTJ94 (Guide)

>Active Tasks
Create a dataset for speech synthesis (https://youtu.be/Bsu7mwa-QGY)
AI Training/Interface/Refinement
Synthbot working on story tagger for voiced greentexts (https://synthbot.ai/)
Researching alternative vocoders
Looking into an animation dataset, animators needed
Anon transcribing books and comics

>Latest Developments
We had a panel in /mlp/con (See FAQs for links)
Anypony can train on Google Colab
Research into free TPUs from T.R.C.
15.ai

>Voice samples
https://derpy.me/3TBK4
https://derpy.me/fHs3K
https://derpy.me/O1xdh

>Clipper Anon's Master File 2.0:
https://mega.nz/#F!L952DI4Q!nibaVrvxbwgCgXMlPHVnVw
https://derpy.me/6im1i (torrent)

>Synthbot's Torrent Resources
https://derpy.me/ZJNca

>Cool, where is the discord/forum/whatever unifying place for this project!?
You're looking at it.

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>>35459053

Rainbow Roadtrip special
Written by Kim Beyer-Johnson
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7c5jqp

924-25: The Ending of the End - Part 1 & 2
Written by Nicole Dubuc (part 1) & Michael Vogel (part 2)
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7mm2j9

926:The Last Problem
Written by Josh Haber
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7mlmqy

YouTube Playlist of pony shorts
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNXV9Mb7egjF3LS1ZJYqDdI6JNzFM3o7o

My Little Pony: The Manga - A Day in the Life of Equestria Vol. 2
Storytimed here!: >>35337448

Download link
http://www.mediafire.com/file/nmbj6jdwg2faw4r/MLP_Manga_Vol2.rar/file
Get a physical copy
https://sevenseasentertainment.com/books/my-little-pony-the-manga-a-day-in-the-life-of-equestria-vol-2/

Just how much has Pinkie Pie learned since she started working with the Cakes? Her chores at home didn't really seem to include baking, but her first party had cake and such, so there must have been a book or two around the house. Still, even then, there's probably a reason she struck out with her new living arrangements. And however long she's been in Ponyville, she's been spending at least part of that baking and/or watching Sugarcube Corner.

>>35415275
Previous thread.

You guys don't actually think Twilight is a slut, right?

Or just more artist cope?
https://derpibooru.org/forums/meta/topics/the-anti-censorship-dnp-pledge?post_id=4835187#post_4835187