BOOTHPLORER

we have made the decision to delay this build until around November 5th or 7th as the build, with all back-end changes put together, has many breaking changes which could risk the website being unusable or have major regressions in functionality for 1.5 weeks.

to make up for this we will include a rework of the searching module along with additional filters that we have been working on in the next build which will improve searching on BOOTHPLORER significantly to go with with the overhauled Asset Cards that are ready in this build.

we have made the decision to delay this build until around November 5th or 7th as the build, with all back-end changes put together, has many breaking changes which could risk the website being unusable or have major regressions in functionality for 1.5 weeks.

a new build will be shipped this weekend which includes changes based on continued feedback while pushing back-end changes to address some quirks and laying the grounds to implement big features we want to ship before the end of this year. we highlighted some here:

Asset translations: translations on Asset names haven't been processing for a day now as our service provider for that no longer seems to be functional. these will now be handled on the server, giving better accuracy and retain the context from the untranslated name.

a new build will be shipped this weekend which includes changes based on continued feedback while pushing back-end changes to address some quirks and laying the grounds to implement big features we want to ship before the end of this year. we highlighted some here:

Avatar Asset fixes: we have rewritten the Avatar <-> Asset logic to fix inconsistencies where the Assets for an Avatar is not quite right. this took a bit to get right as we want to ensure maximum coverage, especially for Shops who tend to be very lazy with their tagging.

Hello everyone, 1.0 has now officially been sunset and has been replaced with the rewrite after careful testing by our Discord community. We are very happy to finally get the rewrite into your hands and take you all with us in our new chapter.

This is the fifth rewrite based on 1.0 which has seen a lot of re-iterations to align for long-term maintainability and being able to (continue our) work on shipping additional features and quality of life for BOOTHPLORER in the future; on the website and outside of it.

✨ coming with 2.0 full release: "Reviews" With 2.0 full release you will be able to (finally) leave reviews, allowing users to recommend an asset or avatar for their exceptional quality or to warn about certain shortcomings that could be a deal-breaker for others.

And yes, we are aware that allowing people to leave reviews can introduce points of concern. We will be shipping this feature with minimal safeguards and users will be allowed to upvote reviews so reviews deemed helpful are given the most visibility.

✨ coming with 2.0 full release: "Enhanced Asset Metadata" We are putting the (ex)plorer back in BOOTHPLORER with this feature, allowing users to see AND filter by more than ever before. For now, have a look at how Enhanced Asset Metadata enriches our all-new asset cards.

✨ coming with 2.0 full release: "Avatar Groups" While bodygroups offer asset compatibility from the get go, avatar groups tell the user that most assets from grouped avatars work with a disclaimer, which will be displayed on their avatar pages in 2.0 full release.

✨ coming with 2.0 full release: "Translations That Don't Suck" Empty translations, overly verbose translations with so much clutter; we get it, it's embarrassing! That's why we completely rewrote our translation system; outputting cleaner, meaningful translations for assets.

✨ coming with 2.0 full release: "Avatar Tierlist Maker" With all features you are used to from other websites such as Tiermaker with a huge catalogue of avatars at your fingertips to tell your friends or followers your important opinion on BOOTH avatars!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.