Topic: [UPDATE DON'T GO THERE] Immigration starting now! Come check blep.art, the same place, different name

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Copy paste of Mlem's announcement in the discord
@everyone

We are no longer partnering with MakeFox

It is with a heavy heart that we must announce to our community that we will part ways with MakeFox. Irreconcilable differences between our group and theirs, combined with MakeFox's outrageous demands, has left us with no choice but to abruptly cut ties. It was hoped that MakeFox would work together with us on creating the continuation to e6ai. Regrettably, it didn't work out. This announcement was written in a great hurry.
**update**: As I finished writing this announcement, MakeFox has unilaterally reset all of our passwords on blep.art and shut us out entirely.

What happened?

On November 6th, MakeFox tried hard to get our team to sign a contract. When we disagreed, our relation to MakeFox ended. This contract would involve MakeFox having the final say in all matters regarding the site's infrastructure, all user data on it, the brand, have the power to appoint, suspend, and remove volunteers (i.e. us) at will, have 100% veto powers over us, and many more such stipulations. Essentially, we, the staff that has run e6ai for years, were slated to become 2nd class citizens at best. They would have been able to do whatever, but we would need permission on anything that isn't mere content curation, and even that wouldn't be under our control. Things were heating up leading up to this contract offer, but the contract was the final straw. We have attached said contract to this message.

Stop donating to MakeFox

If you wanted to support our staff, **we recommend that you stop donating to MakeFox immediately**. If you have donated already, please try to cashback the money. The donated money did not and will not make it to any of our staff members. This has been our greatest shame. We should never have trusted MakeFox this readily with our community's generosity. There is no excuse that we can offer. We should have exercised far more caution, and been far more suspicious of MakeFox. MakeFox is not willing to return the donations.

MakeFox's methods

Hinoserm is MakeFox's programmer. We have our own programmer, DRLa. It quickly became apparently that we have polar opposite views on how the website's infrastructure should be handled. Hinoserm believes that vibe coding is superior to human coding in every way and wished to make breakneck changes to the website at his whim, without the approval and without first telling either DRLa or our staff in general. Not only that, but he wants to upturn the site's codebase entirely and have his Claude agent swarm redo everything. He has shown no willingness to work together with DRLa. As an example, Hinoserm attempted to [remove blep.art's takedown system without first consulting us](https://github.com/DRLaDRLa/blep.art/pull/9#discussion_r4475898837). He does not understand the culture or the workings of the website. This is fine. What is not fine, is that he does not consult us before making sweeping changes. This has been a long-running theme in our short time working together. We believe that if we continued working with MakeFox, blep.art would shift away from our staff's and our community's vision against our will, either sooner or later. There was no way forward without betraying our community and essentially handing over the entire website to them on a silver platter. We tried talking it out over these last few days. We tried to have MakeFox see us as equals and value our input, but sadly this was not the outcome.

What's next?

This has all transpired in the last few hours, and we are still recovering. The dust has not settled. We do not know what the future holds for us, other than knowing that this Discord server will continue onward. From now on, we, the staff members running this very server, will no longer associate with blep.art or MakeFox. Blep.art now belongs fully to MakeFox (it was them that bought the domain name and are hosting the website). We will not be curating any more content on Blep.art, nor will we be moderating it or supporting it in any way. This server continues to be fully run by us. MakeFox no connection to this server anymore. The future of Blep.art itself is completely unknown to us. We recommend that you stop uploading on Blep.art from now on, as we have lost complete faith in their ability to run what should have been the continuation of e6ai. We are sorry for having rushed into this and to have broken your trust. There is a possibility that the website will be taken down. This is completely speculative, but it would be wise to, once again, backup anything you need from the website ASAP. We encourage you to delete your accounts as well, as we no longer have any trust in this company. Stay tuned for more information.

Old thread

https://blep.art

This is a copy paste of the announcement of the server by Jello cuz i'm lazy as fuck

Hi @everyone!

Remember how we said goodbye and everyone cried into their keyboards? Yeah, about that...
We’re back, with a new name, a fresh coat of paint, and the same weird, wonderful community you know and love. 🥳

Say hello to blep.art!

Thanks to the people at the MakeFox Group we now have a new place to call our home.
Most stuff comes with us from the old one but sadly some things are missing (comments and accounts).
To transfer your favourites from e6ai.net you can go to this link once you've created your account https://blep.art/maintenance/user/e6ai_favorite_import

So anyway... Same art, same people, same chaos. We just stuck our tongue out at the shutdown and kept going! :blep:
Thank you for all the kind words, the sad emojis, and the “please no” messages. They meant more than you know. The rug has been un-pulled, and we’re so happy to have you with us.

Go to the site, create a new account and come celebrate. ❤️ :closelook:

Common questions

Where is my account?

You have to create a new account

Where are my favourites?

Your favourites were not automatically transferred. To get them you need to go to e6ai and copy your user ID (the numbers showing at the end of the URL when you are on your profile). Then paste those numbers in here https://blep.art/maintenance/user/e6ai_favorite_import
**__This will only work while e6ai.net is still up so do it before November 13th.__**

Where is my art?

Your art is not automatically linked to your account. To get your artwork connected to your account please request to link your user profile with an artist tag: https://blep.art/forum_topics/1197

Why do I have to do all of this?

All the public data was ported from e6ai.net, however more sensitive things like account details were not possible.

Updated

Thank you so much! That's such a relief!

Hopefully this one won't get shut down... I'm a little worried

Go to the site, create a new account and come celebrate. ❤️ :closelook:

Damn straight! 🙌

I think the announcement at the top of the page should be updated with this news!

Super happy with this, genuinely thank you. I want to ask though, is it possible to transfer over post votes as well? I use votes to sort the content I want to revisit and have about 3500 posts ‘saved’ this way. I doubt it would be as easy as transferring favorited posts, but if anyone knows how or if theres a way to transfer/move over post votes I’d be very grateful.

nekaro said:
Super happy with this, genuinely thank you. I want to ask though, is it possible to transfer over post votes as well? I use votes to sort the content I want to revisit and have about 3500 posts ‘saved’ this way. I doubt it would be as easy as transferring favorited posts, but if anyone knows how or if theres a way to transfer/move over post votes I’d be very grateful.

Someone over at blep made a userscript that transfers all of your votes from here over to there. https://blep.art/forum_topics/1204

flowersylveon said:
Where are my favourites?
Your favourites were not automatically transferred. To get them you need to go to e6ai and copy your user ID (the numbers showing at the end of the URL when you are on your profile). Then paste those numbers in here https://blep.art/maintenance/user/e6ai_favorite_import
**__This will only work while e6ai.net is still up so do it before November 13th.__**

It doesn't seem to be running against the live site. I faved another 4 images after the site was frozen but before I ran the import and it didn't get any of those.

I do not really see anything wrong with makefox behavior in this topic. If I would host some site, I would also dictate the rules and not let externals say what I can or cannot do?

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nayct said:
I do not really see anything wrong with makefox behavior in this topic. If I would host some site, I would also dictate the rules and not let externals say what I can or cannot do?

I'm not saying you're right or wrong, but I question why would they offer to step in then? Like, surely you have to know the audience and needs of the community you're offering to before you even make that call. At that point, their intention was never to adopt the community, they always wanted to do their own thing and there was no reason to rug pull the e6ai and community if they wanted to do that. They could've made a booru on their own without doing any of this, including the scraping of e6AI's data while it's still public.