One of e6AI's admins, DRLa, just announced on Discord that e6AI was updated to include a new feature in the user settings, a feature labelled "Export Data" with the following description listed for it:

"Downloads your profile text, avatar, favorites and sets, including private ones, as a JSON file."

This link will take you directly to this new function in your user settings.

It is recommended that you download this file and keep it safe and at the ready for when the team launches floofgens.net, the upcoming spiritual successor to e6AI that will be spearheaded by the staff from here. Make backups of this file if you have to. You must export this data before e6AI shuts down. This file will be used on floofgens.net so that you can restore the mentioned data back to your account that would be made on there.

To clarify in case of potential confusion, this does NOT save the actual relevant image files themselves to your device, just the configuration that lists the post IDs and info tied to your favorites, sets, and avatar. This would restore your favorites and sets lists, profile avatar ID, and the other mentioned data. This data is pretty lightweight so there's no real worry of taking up drive space with this file. For reference, mine was around 64KB, but yours will be different depending on how much of this data is tied to your profile.

Thank you very much to Autistic Satyr who developed this feature!

I highly recommend doing this. It only takes a moment.

Very cool. Thanks!

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Thanks dfY6C!

I got 700 bytes. Is that OK?
It should be correct, considering there's not much data in my account, but I'd rather double-check just to be safe.

pat_furring said:
I got 700 bytes. Is that OK?
It should be correct, considering there's not much data in my account, but I'd rather double-check just to be safe.

Taking a quick look at your profile, that seems about right. No profile text and very few faves, so it makes sense that your data would be quite small indeed. The bulk of the information for most people would be large favorites lists, and rarer than that would be large profile descriptions like sergalbutt's.

Mine's about 15kb.
Thanks for that ! <3

Well that was almost painless, I felt a slight twitch in my finger

dfy6c said:
Taking a quick look at your profile, that seems about right. No profile text and very few faves, so it makes sense that your data would be quite small indeed. The bulk of the information for most people would be large favorites lists, and rarer than that would be large profile descriptions like sergalbutt's.

Can confirm, my file was 113KB 😝

1.291KB

Thanks for this great feature!

Does this mean that everything on e6AI will be migrated over regardless if it is on someone's favorites or not? Will that mean all you need to do is plug & play that JSON file to continue?

riderofbeasts said:
Does this mean that everything on e6AI will be migrated over regardless if it is on someone's favorites or not? Will that mean all you need to do is plug & play that JSON file to continue?

Pretty much, yeah.
The new site will pretty much be a clone of this one when we get there, because why fix what ain't broke?

sergalbutt said:
Can confirm, my file was 113KB 😝

194kb... D:

vermo said:
1.291KB

Thanks for this great feature!

You must've hit favourite on everything... :P

Mine is 592 kiB. BOO-YAH!

Thank you!
If able, I think this should be shared as a news post so everyone would have a chance to do it before shutdown.

Or even better, if able, sharing the news about shutdown and successor + maybe json export via email? Because everything happened so fast that I think a lot of people would miss the window.

beerwolf said:
You must've hit favourite on everything... :P

I just used the “Favorites” section in a way that wasn't quite intended. I marked all the works I downloaded to my offline collection on my PC as favorites. In a way, I created my own backup of e6ai, but only with works that meet my own quality standards.

A couple of extra optional recommendations from me as we get closer to the shutdown:

If you've uploaded stuff here to e6AI whether they were your gens or someone else's, you should be aware that your uploads will almost certainly not show up on your profile on the new site as the public scraping that allows this site's archival does not contain private user data, which decouples these posts from you (along with having to make a new account on that site anyway as the blep transfer has shown us). If these uploads are something you want to preserve, there is at least something of a workaround you can do. You can make a new set here and add all of your uploads to that set, and then when you export the user data using this new feature mentioned in the thread, you will have this set transferred to the new site. This would give you a reference of your original uploads there in the form of a set. Staff have mentioned that there might be a path to giving people back their uploads to their profiles, but that's more of an uncertainty. Staff have said in the past that re-ownering posts is generally a cumbersome task. Having this set may at least help with identifying someone's posts though. I vibe-coded and tested a userscript today (I'm not a programmer) to help anyone who might want to do this. It will fetch the post IDs from the uploads of a username or user ID (presumably, yours) and sort it into a list that is exactly in the format that makes it easy to paste the post IDs into a set's post list. The UI for the userscript has instructions that mostly mirror some of what I said here (make new set -> put your fetched upload IDs in there -> export user data) as I tried to make it easy to use and understand on its own. You need to have a userscript browser extension installed such as Tampermonkey, Violentmonkey, or otherwise and you can download the userscript here. You'll see a floating blue button labelled "Post IDs for e6AI Uploads" on any page on e6AI when the userscript is installed. Click it and follow the steps. When you're done with the script, you can uninstall it from your extension's settings.

One other thing, for re6AI users: I recommend that you export your settings from re6AI in preparation for a re621-like alternative for floofgens. Go into the re6AI settings by clicking the wrench icon near the top right of most pages here, then go into the Utilities tab, expand the Import/Export section, and then press Export. Keep that file for when a potential "reFloof" comes out so you can import those settings.