This includes bug fixes based on our improved logging features with 2.0 and refactoring parts of the code to be able to accomodate the increasing amount of users on the public test of 2.0 and increase in data stored in our database with the rewrite of core functionality.
We have performed some "spring cleaning" on 2.0 following feedback and observing increasing performance overhead on the website and our background jobs. In addition we have added additional RAM and disk space to our web server to accommodate for this.
We have just enabled over 150 additional avatars on 2.0, bringing the total amount of enabled avatars on 2.0 to 221. You can browse them at devola.boothplorer.com/avatars
It will take a moment for the scraper to index assets for these avatars, thank you for your patience.
As always, thank you for your continued support and patience.
We also want to give our special thanks to @catmelt.com for their amazing job on creating our new branding assets and nailing the visual identity of BOOTHPLORER with us.
We are looking to sunset 1.0 around May or June as we continue to process feedback, release updates and implement additional features. Allowing us to work on making this great and give users enough time to test, give us feedback and get used to the new website.
As 2.0 is a rewrite from the ground up and has been developed with maintainability in mind, 2.0 will see faster and more impactful updates aligned to what our users would want to see and what we have been trying to implement, but never could, since 1.0.
To focus on feedback on basic features people have come to love in 1.0, we will be prioritizing feedback on those features before enabling & working on additional features that were not present in 1.0 while expanding the indexed avatars in 2.0 and keeping up with new releases.
Hello everyone, we are happy to finally announce that the rewrite (2.0) is now available as a public test. You can try it out at devola.boothplorer.com
A subset of avatars will be available and there will be bugs; please read the 🧵 thread below for more information.
Upon initially releasing 2.0 (and 'unreleasing' it in less than a day) we have received/read a lot of feedback, especially about the UI and UX. We have and will continue to improve these and implement your feedback with the goal to move forward and get everyone on 2.0.
Initially upon being reached out by the pixiv team in February, we were not sure what their thoughts would be about the website and service. But we have been given nothing else but support and an 'informal endorsement' for making it easier for overseas users to find and buy assets legally.
Regarding booth.pm/announcement...,
Having been in contact with the pixiv team since February 2025, we wanted to ensure everyone that this announcement does not impact BOOTHPLORER in any way.
We want to thank the pixiv team for their understanding along with their continued communication with us.
:-)
BOOTHPLORER turns 2 years old on October 27th! We have been working on making 2.0 better than ever and are very excited to confirm that we will be releasing 2.0 during it's 2 year anniversary.
(Yes, for real.)
Hello everyone, we have caught up with some avatars that we haven't indexed. This applies to avatars found on the 1st to the 18th on BOOTH when sorting by "popularity" in the "3D Characters" section. In addition we have indexed all avatars requested through our Social Media DMs.
Hello everyone, we are aware of an older avatar with the same name suddenly getting a lot more items ever since this Ichigo's release; this will be adjusted next week.
Hello everyone, we just indexed Ichigo along with all her items on our website.
🔗 boothplorer.com/avatar/7328789
Hello everyone, BOOTHPLORER will be offline for around the whole day starting 14:00 UTC for the migration and release of version 2.0/rewrite.
The website will be unreachable during this maintenance/migration.
Hello everyone, the website will be unreachable during the early afternoon (in UTC) on July 7th for the release of version 2.0/the rewrite.
Another post will be made closer to the maintenance time containing estimated downtime duration and other information.
...very soon!
pinky promise.
Hello everyone, due to issues found while preparing the release of the rewrite on our staging server using the live database we have to unfortunately push back the release of the rewrite for somewhere this month.
We are disappointed, but this is the right call while keeping 1.0 up for a bit longer.
In addition, a Database freeze (no new items) will be initiated at some point during the week as progress is finalized on said migrations, allowing us to programmatically and effortlessly transfer our live Database to the rewrite with minimal downtime when we release the rewrite.
Hello everyone, over the few coming days we will be performing test migrations to convert the live Database to the new Database structure from the rewrite.
The website might be slower at times this week between 16:00 to 22:00 UTC.
While we have automated/built in this detection into 2.0, we have decided to partially apply these same detection methods where possible for items currently indexed on 1.x-- this should clean up the item list for popular avatars on BOOTHPLORER a little bit until 2.0.
Hello everyone, we have hidden over 450+ items from our website for being 'promotional items'; items that actually don't sell anything and are made as a way to promote an update, sale or anything else for an existing item from the seller.
If you are wanting to wait until our Web API is stabilized until next year then that is fine too, but the more people lock in for early access to our Web API and giving honest and thorough feedback, the better! We provide early Web API access that way as a reward for the troubles.
Want to unlock our Web API this year and are you a frequent user of Discord? Be sure to join our Discord server and opt into the "API Tester" role found in the on-boarding!
We are absolutely thrilled to collect feedback from people interested in this development using "37DKqN9Y"!
It really is easier than you think! This VICE article by Ana Valens gives a quick run-down for things to look out for, in case you didn't know (or need a refresher)!
www.vice.com/en/article/e...
With a mention to us as a way for finding content from BOOTH easier.
Hello everyone, we pushed out a couple of minor fixes to live which should speed up the loading of images fetched from BOOTH's image CDN while we prepare to mirror them to our own CDN starting 2.0.
These fixes work the best in instances where their image CDN has too much load.