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BOOTHPLORER @boothplorer.com · 12d

:-)

BOOTHPLORER @boothplorer.com · 12d

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.)

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BOOTHPLORER @boothplorer.com · 16d

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.

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BOOTHPLORER @boothplorer.com · Aug 29

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.

BOOTHPLORER @boothplorer.com · Aug 28

Hello everyone, we just indexed Ichigo along with all her items on our website.

🔗 boothplorer.com/avatar/7328789

Ichigo (Avatar)

Ichigo is an avatar sold by はみにの立体箱 for 4000 JPY. Browse, search and filter through at least 726 items on BOOTHPLORER for Ichigo.

boothplorer.com

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BOOTHPLORER @boothplorer.com · Aug 28

Hello everyone, we just indexed Ichigo along with all her items on our website.

🔗 boothplorer.com/avatar/7328789

Ichigo (Avatar)

Ichigo is an avatar sold by はみにの立体箱 for 4000 JPY. Browse, search and filter through at least 726 items on BOOTHPLORER for Ichigo.

boothplorer.com

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BOOTHPLORER @boothplorer.com · Jul 8

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BOOTHPLORER @boothplorer.com · Jul 7

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.

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BOOTHPLORER @boothplorer.com · Jun 26

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.

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BOOTHPLORER @boothplorer.com · Jun 21

...very soon!

pinky promise.

BOOTHPLORER @boothplorer.com · Jun 3

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.

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BOOTHPLORER @boothplorer.com · Jun 11

BOOTHPLORER has been updated to 1.04.018:
blog.boothplorer.com/post/7860479...

1.04.018 release notes

A third-party item and avatar catalogue, primarily for VRChat. Everything listed on BOOTHPLORER links back to their original shop listing. Switched to DeepL's Next-Gen translation model. This is...

blog.boothplorer.com

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BOOTHPLORER @boothplorer.com · Jun 3

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.

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BOOTHPLORER @boothplorer.com · May 26

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.

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BOOTHPLORER @boothplorer.com · May 26

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.

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BOOTHPLORER @boothplorer.com · May 19

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.

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BOOTHPLORER @boothplorer.com · May 19

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.

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BOOTHPLORER @boothplorer.com · May 18

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.

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BOOTHPLORER @boothplorer.com · May 18

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"!

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BOOTHPLORER @boothplorer.com · May 18

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.

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BOOTHPLORER @boothplorer.com · Apr 29

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.

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BOOTHPLORER @boothplorer.com · Apr 29

We will no longer be using Patreon to publish any kind of blog posts. And we might actually delete the existing ones at some point; this has more than one reason which we will elaborate on in the near future.

Thank you for your continued support!

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BOOTHPLORER @boothplorer.com · Apr 29

Hello everyone. It's been 190 days since we last shared any kind of blog post about the project. The last time we did was for the release of 1.04.016.

With that said, we are bringing back the long posts! You can read more at the link below.

blog.boothplorer.com/post/7821169...

Hello World: bringing back the long posts.

Hello everyone. It's been quite some time since we wrote something regarding the website/project in a blog-like setting. As a matter of fact, the last time we did that was on October 21st in 2024 to.....

blog.boothplorer.com

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BOOTHPLORER @boothplorer.com · Apr 24

Hello everyone, the provider of our improvements to our DNS is not working for some users situated in America. As such, we will be doing this process again, switching to Cloudflare.

We do not expect any downtime as we prepare for this move. Thank you for your continued support!

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BOOTHPLORER @boothplorer.com · Apr 21

Hello everyone, we are happy to announce the availability of a status page! This gives users a centralized way of tracking current/past issues affecting BOOTHPLORER.

🌍 status.boothplorer.com

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BOOTHPLORER @boothplorer.com · Apr 21

Hello everyone, a hour ago or so BOOTHPLORER was unreachable for ~10 minutes as we have been implementing some changes to our DNS that should speed up initial load times to our website while allowing us to add additional security measures.

Thank you for your continued support!

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BOOTHPLORER @boothplorer.com · Apr 9

Hello everyone, we pushed some minor fixes to live which fixes items sometimes not being indexed for avatars and to keep our current code-base's "avatar scraping queue" uninterrupted.

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