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>Turns out this was an attempt to set up a clone of the old ponibooru. The main booru in the fandom before Derpibooru. A good bit of the site's content turned out to be directly imported from there.
that could explain the lack of upvotes on any images that I clicked so what we are talking about is just its mirror/shadow extended.

>it was a bit of a chaotic place that was shutdown when the owner couldn't afford it (or mentally couldn't handle it. Or he freaked out oddly. One of those).
certainly the background story doesn´t sound really comforting.

>I even found some art most of which was rather lower tier that unless it wasn't properly tagged certainly wasn't on Derpi either.
well, the tagging aspect was a mess and if there are users who are entirely dedicated to tag properly Derpi´s images and still they come with flaws, imagine a site in which the uploader doesn´t even tag the picture except for the basic tags (character) and sometimes, not even basic ones like solo or explicit appeared all the time. It shouldn´t impress anyone because that lack of tags makes the search more difficult to find that particular picture and archive it (unless you compress the entire thing in one folder)

>I think most of the art and general pony memes are safe but it's a shame that the last records of what was once a prospective pillar site of the fandom may have been lost.
I can confirm that with the SFW pictures I found. Those are safe because of Derpi or the DA that haven´t decided to delete its material but sadly, one cannot deny the lost of an archival place implies that if the content was exclusive to that site alone without any backup behind...it is lost (particularly until 2012-13)