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This is a quick message to anyone who reads this regarding Sizebooru:
For the past ...well over a year, Artie has graciously hosting our booru experiment Sizebooru. Trouble was, the experiment turned out much better than Phrog and I thought. MUCH better. We were getting thousands of visitors a month, and Artie's setup couldn't handle it very well: hence all the downtime and slow downs you may have noticed. Artie eventually decided to pack up shop, at least as far as his own sites were concerned (Nothing to do with us or our traffic), but as a result, we had to look elsewhere for hosting.
What we thought would be a couple week process of finding someone turned out to be a few long months. Not because there were suitors, but because of a two fold problem of the software that was used for Sizebooru, and the traffic that Sizebooru brought with it. We found a host with bigfurs, and it was brought up for a day as a test, hence Phrog nor I announced anything. It turns out people were waiting at the gates. The traffic that it met, coupled with continued software problems, brought the new Sizebooru down very quickly.
It is back up, if you notice, but this situation is temporary. Eventually Sizebooru will cost money. How that money will be paid has yet to be decided, but one of the results will undoubtedly be ads. Yes, ads suck, and are the bane of our Internet existance. But we plan on using unobtrusive banners like Danbooru. It is one of the downfalls to being too big for our britches. If we want Sizebooru to stick around (and the thousands of hits on the first day back up say youu want it), this will have to happen. I have no idea if we will also be accepting donations or special accounts, though I doubt it, as that would create a headache that Phrog and I simply don't have time for.
We'll see what happens. Enjoy Sizebooru for now though, and it won't be going away without a fight.






















