Danbooru

Borders around images

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Two questions regarding them:

1) The red ones are tagged "preview flagged" and the blue ones are "preview pending". What's the difference?

2) Does their presence mean that privileged users might also participate in the approval process in the future, or are they just there to let us know which images haven't been approved yet?

Updated by jxh2154

kristallimeri said:
1) The red ones are tagged "preview flagged" and the blue ones are "preview pending". What's the difference?

If a post is flagged, that means someone thinks it should be deleted. Pending posts just haven't been approved by a moderator yet.

2) Does their presence mean that privileged users might also participate in the approval process in the future, or are they just there to let us know which images haven't been approved yet?

I doubt it, especially since we're getting more and more privileged users.

I doubt it, especially since we're getting more and more privileged users.

On that point, how big do you see the site getting before the old problems start cropping up again? After a certain point there'd be too much to moderate, too many images without source, and naturally increasing costs in bandwidth.

Do you have any sort of cutoff in mind, or are you just playing it by ear?

jxh2154 said:
On that point, how big do you see the site getting before the old problems start cropping up again? After a certain point there'd be too much to moderate, too many images without source, and naturally increasing costs in bandwidth.

I do not see it getting as big as it was in the past since there's no porn and invites are a limited resource. I also think the back end is structured better so performance won't be as big an issue.

I think the tools for moderating posts are better now. It's easy to mass delete a bunch of posts from one user, and even at peak usage Danbooru never got that many anonymous uploads.

But what happens if the site gets too big anyway.

On the technical side, I've been considering migrating servers, either to Amazon EC2 or Rimu Hosting. EC2 has no setup costs and is scalable but has higher bandwidth cost. Rimu has higher setup costs and isn't scalable, but has cheaper bandwidth. I probably won't seriously consider moving until bandwidth costs outpace ad revenue, however.

albert said: I probably won't seriously consider moving until bandwidth costs outpace ad revenue, however.

Ad revenue is actually paying for the site? Wow, I thought that never actually worked out, heh.

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