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This page records key parts of Danbooru history in a timeline format. Currently work in progress, archived link usage to be examined.

Early Danbooru

2005-05-17

@albert launches Danbooru
http://memo.donmai.us/post/view/422

2005-05-24

Danbooru's first update is pushed, database is reset in the meantime;
http://memo.donmai.us/post/view/432
post #1 was uploaded

2007-01-19

post #100000 was uploaded

2007-03-02

Albert takes down Danbooru to work on improvements; subsequently releases original source code, spawning many booru-style imageboards to come
http://memo.donmai.us/post/view/1107 circa 2007-03-04
http://danbooru.donmai.us circa 2007-03-22

2007-XX-XX

Version updates to Danbooru's code continue, with 1.1.0 releasing 2007-03-10, setting up Trac on 2007-03-11, 1.2.0 on 2007-03-15, 1.3.2 on 2007-03-26, 1.4.0 on 2007-03-31, 1.4.1 on 2007-04-02, 1.4.2 on 2007-04-05, and 1.5.0. sometime around 2007-04-25, with some smaller blog posts here and there.
http://memo.donmai.us/ circa 2007-03-12
http://memo.donmai.us/post/view/1119 circa 2007-12-25
http://memo.donmai.us/?page=3 circa 2007-04-08
http://memo.donmai.us/?page=2 circa 2007-04-08
http://memo.donmai.us/ circa 2007-04-08

Modern Danbooru

2007-XX-XX

Danbooru is live once more; miezaru.donmai.us is initially used for the invite-only open public testing, while danbooru.donmai.us is used for Q&A, source code and links to 'booru alternatives
http://danbooru.donmai.us circa 2007-06-05

2007-05-XX

Gelbooru is live

2007-09-06

Registration becomes available once more (topic #167)

by 2007-10-16

Danbooru.donmai.us once more directs to the front page
http://danbooru.donmai.us circa 2007-10-16

around 2007-12

Standard users can't search for multiple tags anymore.
topic #473

2009-03-03

Notdanbooru.donmai.us is launched, filtering out explicit and questionable posts; is renamed to Safebooru.donmai.us two days later
topic #4414

2010-01-29

Safebooru.org is live

2012-12-21

Albert announces plans to upgrade Danbooru on 2013-02-16 (topic #8830)

2013-02-16

Danbooru receives its announced upgrade to Danbooru 2, danbooru.donmai.us directs directly to Posts now; relevant thread and forum in general is filled with bug reports and varying opinions on the upgrade

2015-07-07

Janitor level is removed (topic #11837)

2015-10-23

Contributor level is removed

2017-05-06

@evazion creates the Danbooru Discord server (topic #14030)

2018-03-21

Uploader names are obscured, replaced with Top Tagger in efforts to curb some bad practices (topic #14857, topic #15088)

2019-01-30

Top Tagger is hidden (topic #15916)

2019-11-29

UA College of C&IS researcher Dr. Brian C. Britt published an article entitled Content Curation, Evaluation, and Refinement on a Nonlinearly Directed Imageboard: Lessons From Danbooru (doi.org/10.1177/2056305119880020), discussing the site in detail, a month after invoking Danbooru in his article The use of nondialogic trolling to disrupt online communication (doi.org/10.5210/fm.v24i10.10164).

2019-12-06

Albert resigns from his position of Danbooru owner, and declares evazion as his successor (topic #16472)

evazion era

2020-02-25

Super Voters are removed along with the Curated pool. (forum #163413)

2020-05-13

Danbooru Discord server is sponsored on the main page for a couple of weeks. It jumps from around 100 users to around 4000 in a matter of days

2020-06-13

Following discussion, Danbooru's romanization system switches from a strictly Hepburn system to the modified passport system. (forum #168056, topic #17011)

2020-07-07

Paid Rewards are banned from Danbooru (topic #17092)
Some rules are rewritten (topic #17091)

2020-07-14

post #4000000 was uploaded

2020-07-15

Uploader names are back (topic #15924, forum #169413)

2021-05-22

Danbooru's 16th birthday (topic #18552)

2021-12-23

post #5000000 was uploaded

2022-05-22

Rating:General is introduced. Rating:Safe is renamed Rating:Sensitive. (topic #21277)
donmai.moe is launched by this day (forum #213208)

2022-09-25

NovelAI announces on Twitter that they have been using Danbooru to train their artwork AI

2022-10-03

A Japanese Twitter user points out that NovelAI has been using Danbooru to train their artwork AI. Some mistakenly interpret this as outright support on Danbooru's end, and the news gets traction. In the following days hundreds of artists ask Danbooru to take down their artworks for various reasons.

2022-10-30

The Contributor user level is back alongside Approver, fully replacing the "unrestricted uploads" and "approve posts" Builder permissions.

See also

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