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Risky !RISkQqf4EMCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 12394Locked[View]

why did >>>/oat/41962587 get put on autosage? do not kill the pony thread

Macaroni !RevGiOKgRoCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 12399

Ask Mikie?

RiskCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 12400

>>12398
I didn't make it Anon. How about you stay out of this.

>>12399
Exactly what I'm doing!
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New /site/ order PezzypezzpezzCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 12388Locked[View]

Elect me as your new admin. I'll do next to nothing and complain about how autistic people are. Let's bring back the old ways!

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Ponychan's allocated space. Macaroni !RevGiOKgRoCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 12358[View]

How much data can the site host, until we get issues?
Is this classified?

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/pic/ Macaroni !RevGiOKgRoCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 12352[View]

Bring it back; we have alot of Image Exchanges on /chat/, so a board just for them would be an idea?

Chewy [Element Of Fortitude]!MUSIC.FbVYCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 12354

>>12353

this, why would you want /chat/ to be even slower?

Elicoor13Country code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 12356

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>>12352
it would be slow as shit, also it would drive traffic away from /chat/.

i mean, if over half the board was pic-dumps, maybe. as it stands, that, serials and chewy's music thread are the only things keeping /chat/ from becoming /dis/ 2.0.

State of /oat/, /chat/ and politics. Fen!!Shining Armor ## ModCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 10280[View][Last 50 Posts]

There's been many concerns about the state of both /chat/ and /oat/, particularly in regards to political topics and their place on the site, as well as concerns about the status of the discord server.
This thread will be used to discuss and decide a solution to those concerns, along with clarifying the distinction between /chat/ and /oat/.
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Starshine!Laura/wmXMCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 10871

>>10869
Coolio, makes sense.

Macaroni !RevGiOKgRoCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 11609

These issues don't feel totally resolved, to say the least.
/oat/ is mostly clean now, yet /chat/ still sometimes feels like it's just the dump for the couple threads that still happen.
Suggestions have been made, yet little has happened outside of Mikie's decisions.

Macaroni !RevGiOKgRoCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 12339

Who bumped this?

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/ef/ = /chat/ - /pol/? AnonymousCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 12335[View]

/ef/ and /chat/ have almost literally the same policies / guidelines. Could someone clarify the difference, aside from trying to divide a tiny group even further? Is /ef/ not going to be a dumping ground for incendiary /pol/ threads? Is that the difference?

I don't mind if /chat/ is going to be the new /pol/. I just want to know what's what.
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AnonymousCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 12338

>>12336

thanks...

🐈🐈Katicus🐈🐈!FGiFL0EclsCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 12357

You shouldn't make /chat/ threads without a topic

Chaptor!Mongol6T0.Country code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 12359

/ef/ is rightful mongol clay.

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Chewy [Element Of Fortitude]!MUSIC.FbVYCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 12331[View]

yo, what happened to the way the names look? it's suddenly all weird.

Macaroni !RevGiOKgRoCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 12332

Try other themes?

Chewy [Element Of Fortitude]!MUSIC.FbVYCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 12333

>>12332

well, it fixed it, but I really like the theme I've always used :(

I've been using Cloudsdale literally since I was originally on MLPchan

I think this has something to do with a Firefox update I just got, it's actually happening on other sites too.

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On thread movement. Macaroni !RevGiOKgRoCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 12103[View]

Please stop sending two-dimensional shitposts to /chat/ instead of /trash/, please?
Nothing of quality is being kept this way.
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Macaroni !RevGiOKgRoCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 12328

>>12326
All of /oat/ is #NoPol and #NoLewd.

Chewy [Element Of Fortitude]!MUSIC.FbVYCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 12329

>>12328

but people don't seem to treat it that way. recently multiple threads have had to be moved to /chat/ from /oat/ because they veered into politics.

Macaroni !RevGiOKgRoCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 12330

>>12329
And maybe /trash/ and better self-moderation is needed...

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Error 524 AnonymousCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 12239[View]

I've been having a lot of trouble the past 48 hours trying to post to Ponychan.

Anyone here seeing the same error message regarding timeouts?

Here's what Cloudflare Support says...
https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200171926-Error-524-A-timeout-occurred

Thanks for looking into this!

Chewy [Element Of Fortitude]!MUSIC.FbVYCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 12240

>>12239

I think it's just you, I'm not seeing this at all and I've been lurking constantly

AnonymousCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 12242

>Cloudfart
>Chicago

Think we found the problem.

Seriously, had this been a local issue, I wouldn't have asked about it. Everything else I have bookmarked is working perfectly.

Country code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 12246

>>12242
A lot of places use CloudFlare (like gochan), but you wouldn't know it because it's usually pretty reliable.

Using the Ponychan Development Tools tense!q6YrzPVCcsCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 11962[View]

The ponychan development server utilizes a workflow built around Vagrant and VirtualBox. This provides an OS-agnostic development environment where one can safely test software deployments on their local machine before pushing it to the live server.

My instructions assume you're using Windows, but outside of the steps for opening the command line the instructions are the same.

Requirements

Install the following tools on your OS:

Virtualbox -- Used to execute a virtual OS installation.

Vagrant -- A script-friendly toolchain used to provision a virtual machine (i.e. VirtualBox)

git -- A revision management tool.

Installation
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AnonymousCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 12195

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>>12134
I don't know about that. If I were stumped, this place might be one of the places I would look. It would be a choice between that and Google. Either way, we're not really hurting anyone with this thread's existence.

Anyways, I got my environment set up. If you get any complaints from node about an internal error involving the package 'fs', just delete the node_modules folder somewhere in your appdata directory. It will give you the path in the error. If you're on a linux distro, it would be under /lib/.

!!Babs Seed ## DeveloperCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 12211

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Dev posting again, as there seems to be more interest than I expected in just coding in Windows. Since many people, including myself seem to be ignoring my warning, I'll elaborate on how you might set up your VM on a Windows platform.

I would suggest that you get a good package manager, preferably chocolatey. I don't know of any other package managers that are stable, other than the one that ships with Powershell on Windows 10.

Install a good terminal. I recommend either Cmder or ConEmu. As long as it's not the default Windows terminal (the one used for cmd.exe), then you're fine. You might also want to consider running your terminal as administrator by default because you'll almost always will need it.

There's also a special way you have to get vagrant to communicate with Virtualbox, and to do that, you need to install Git, configured so that ssh.exe is exposed in the path variable. You can do this via chocolatey by running the command:
choco install git --params "/GitAndUnixToolsOnPath"

Then you'd cd to the directory you want to download the source code and clone the repo with:
git clone [email protected]:ponychan/ponychan-tinyboard.git

Then install the dependencies:
choco install virtualbox vagrant

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!!Babs Seed ## DeveloperCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 12222

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>>12213
>commands to vagrant just seem to be ignored
What happens when you just enter `vagrant`?

>compile js
These are just the first steps to setting up your machine. Normally on Linux you wouldn't have a problem just following through with what the readme says, but on Windows, one of the dependencies in node would complain because it can't find a bunch of things outside of node, such as Python and a C++ compiler.

I just took a second look at the module list and it looks like that dependency isn't there anymore. If the package 'node-gyp' has been phased out by its dependents, this is major progress. Maybe Windows users no longer need special treatment on these steps.

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!!Babs Seed ## DeveloperCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 12203[View]

Last year, I quit developing on ponychan. I didn't make a public announcement, but I explained my reasons to the mod team were due to both school and work tying me up. Although I later admitted that the internal drama with Macil also didn't help.

Circumstances have changed since then. One of the admins asked for me to come back and I decided to take him up on that offer. So, apologies for never making that resignation announcement. Have a reinstatement thread to make up for it.

I'm an anon poster, but most people call me shutterbox.

tl;dr - I'm rejoining the site's staff.
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!!Babs Seed ## DeveloperCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 12209

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>>12207
>sounds good, but Zeke isn't going anywhere, right?
Correct. I'm an addition to the team, not a replacement.

Chewy [Element Of Fortitude]!MUSIC.FbVYCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 12210

>>12209

cool, cool

Chewy [Element Of Fortitude]!MUSIC.FbVYCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 12214

>>12212

shit my bad I forgot you lol

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DEMANDING MODERATOR POSITION ToiletchanCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 12150Locked[View]

Make me a fucking Mod and you won't regret it.

DO YOU WANT FUN?

DO YOU WANT CONTROVERSY?

WHAT ABOUT MEMES?
IT'S PROVEN, AUTISTIC CHILDREN ARE DRAWN TO MEMES AND CONTROVERSY!
WELL GET READY TO CALL YOUR MOM A NIGGER CUZ MOD!Shitter IS YOUR NEWEST AND ASS SPANKING-EST MODERATOR AND I'M READY TO CHEW ASS AND KICK BUBBLEGUM
AND I'M ALL OUT OF ASS.

The Person Who Posts As Fluttershy (Element of Self-descriptive Usernames)Country code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 12177

But I like this thread :c

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Donate to Support the Site AnonymousCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 11731[View]

Does the site require donations to stay afloat?
Is the site well financed for the foreseeable future?
Do y'all have a BTC, ETH, LTC, or other crypto address for donations?
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Macaroni !RevGiOKgRoCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 12097

>>12090
He has steady income, at least?

Chewy [Element Of Fortitude]!MUSIC.FbVYCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 12099

>>12097

he said in another thread that the site only costs like 30 dollars a month to run

AnonymousCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 12126

>>12099
That's the nice thing about *chan-style imageboards. Since the content is ephemeral and the search features are all implemented as javascript front-ends, the server requirements can go pretty low. I think the big chunk of CPU usage just goes to rendering image thumbnails.

Also, we don't use Cloudflare's premiums anymore, I don't think.

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🅱oseph 🅱oestar!ScyphTlOY6Country code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 11928[View]

Oh gee I sure hope dom gets his trippu~ :^)
Loooooooooks like I was right about Ponychan not having a mod board. Until today that is.
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🅱oseph 🅱oestar!ScyphTlOY6Country code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 11990

>>11948
So when Mikie and Flutters took over...you guys deleted the old mod board and made a new one? Cuz that invisible image was linking to post #83.

AdmiralCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 12012

>>11990
The mod board is slow

thonCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 12015

>>11990
it was made a few months ago

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tense!q6YrzPVCcsCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 11790[View]

Discussion thread for ponychan's workflow.
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Lisbon!StarMyMnaoCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 11969

I have provided tense's Discord information to Mikie. Praise be to Lisbon!

Starshine!Laura/wmXMCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 11970

>>11969
What about the parsnip carnival?

!RISkQqf4EMCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 11976

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>>11969
PRAISE

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Stepping Down ## ModCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 11816[View]

To cut right to the chase and get the initial message out of the way:
I've decided to step down as a moderator of Ponychan.

There is... a lot that I'd like to say. A lot that I should say. But I'm not really sure how to say it. I've been with Ponychan since 2011, and I've been a mod since around the middle of 2014. Being here has been one hell of a ride, and I'm endlessly grateful to every single one of you for being here with me, no matter how long, on such a wonderful site.
I've made friends that, even if they don't still post here, I still keep up with off-site. I've learned, changed, and grown as a person. I've been through highs and lows. And I have all of you to thank for that. And... the issue, I suppose, is that I'm not the only one that's changed.

If I were to really try to sum up the reason for all of this, I'd say it's because I'm tired of lying to myself. Tired of lying to all of you. I've been in denial for a long time, and I've been trying to push past it all, but it just isn't working. This site is still Ponychan, yes. But the Ponychan that I fell in love with, the Ponychan that I feel passionate about, the Ponychan that I could put endless hours into without batting an eye...? It's not the same Ponychan we have here today.
Now, that's not to say that the site's bad. It's just... changed. I've grown less passionate about the community, the posts, the things going on. Coming here to lurk, to post, to moderate... it's gone from being something I look forward to doing to be something that I have to force myself to do simply because it's my "job." I rarely find threads I want to participate in, and I've simply run out of ideas on threads of my own to create.
And, in the end, a user who isn't passionate about the site, who feels little to no reason to participate, and contributes only on rare occasions does not deserve to call themselves a moderator.

I've been telling myself that I still love this site just as much as I did back then, and I've been passing that message on to the rest of you. I've been hiding behind a desire to hold on to what I used to love, but it's just not there for me anymore. And trying to hold on to that is not only dragging me down, it's actively detrimental to the site. And I don't want to sit by and let that keep going on.

Now, this doesn't mean that I plan to leave the site behind entirely. I still have friends here, and I do stop by here and the
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Macaroni !RevGiOKgRoCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 11854

>>11852
Isn't it better this way then?

Hispanon !ArepaaIqL.Country code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 11884

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>>11816

;_;

Okey.

Angela!MercyEZZBUCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 11942

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... Okay.

Sorry to see you go Nibble. You were a pretty good mod I guess.

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🅱oseph 🅱oestar!ScyphTlOY6Country code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 11829[View]

>zeke roa
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!Huponyda2YCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 11836

>>11835
Yes. The image's width and height is the thumbnail's inline style, so the "thumbnail", is actually a picture of the first frame of the full-sized video. If someone posts a 1000x4500 webm (which that is), you'll see that giant black image

!Huponyda2YCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 11847

There are still some issues with webms. The sound icon is displayed now, they are scaled correctly, but some webms will go through while others for some reason results in an internal server error, webms that previously could be posted.
Seeing you're the one with the new code, and hopefully a test environment, here's a webm that could previously be posted which now results in an internal server error, which you can use for debugging https://my.mixtape.moe/ctiebq.webm

Macaroni !RevGiOKgRoCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 11855

>>11829
>my image is there

Oddly appropriate...

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New Mod Dom The Bear!f1BearzjRw ## ModCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 11755Locked[View]

Hello! I'm Dom the Bear from /rp/, I'm going to be the new Rarity mod and the mod for /rp/. Though I might help with other things if need be!

New swim suits and shirts for everyone!
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AnonymousCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 11840

so we gave crimson's retired tag to an /rp/ mod when we already have an /rp/ admin who hasnt even appeared in weeks despite 'his' only board being destroyed? cool as hell guys

☲ Prince Ember Storm!SNowbAlLfoCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 11843

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>>11840

In all honesty, it's because Astra got the admin slot; that's all he wanted. All the power without needing to take any sort of responsibility for anything.

Guy's a cunt, he'll never do anything good for this site, but we can't get rid of him right now unless someone manages to punch a hole through that ten mile thick skull of his or he gets bored and actually steps down himself.

The other possibility would be for him to grow up, grow a conscience, and realize that he's a giant douche, but the chances of that occuring are less than the chances of me winning a lottery I don't buy tickets for, sooooo...

Dom The Bear!f1BearzjRw ## ModCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 11849

I wasn't aware that the mod tag !Rarity had been taken, and Astra didn't seem to remember that either and didn't say anything when brought up what tag I'd take, and learning that I'm not going that tag. Sorry about that.

I will be locking this thread now!
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THREAD WATCHER IS BROKEN Chewy [Element Of Fortitude]!MUSIC.FbVYCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 11791[View]

halp
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Country code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 11823

It should be working now.

Chewy [Element Of Fortitude]!MUSIC.FbVYCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 11824

>>11823

I think it is, it just popped up with all the updates I would have gotten already if it had been working earlier (basically a bunch of "new" replies I had already seen), and so far I haven't seen anymore updates...but I'll keep you posted.

Chewy [Element Of Fortitude]!MUSIC.FbVYCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 11825

alright, seems like it's definitely all set

👍

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Spam on /rp/ !pinkie78OsCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 11748[View]

So there is a stupid amount of spam threads on the /rp/ board, so much that almost every ongoing thread is now just gone.

Can someone please fix that?

Or barring that, what can be done about that?
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AnonymousCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 11796

>admin who only posts on /rp/
>the only board he goes to get spammed
>has still not appeared in weeks
>now we have an /rp/ admin AND /rp/ mod

Amazing

Remind me again why?

AnonymousCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 11798

>>11796
Because Friendship is Modgic!

It's as if you don't even watch the show...

!pinkie78OsCountry code: ponychan.png, country type: customflag, valid: 11814

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I think at this point we can reasonably assume the threads aren't coming back.

We've already basically moved on, so the mods can go ahead and lock this if they feel like it.

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