Szurubooru

Szurubooru (pronounced shooru-booru) is an open source web image board engine that focuses on content, ease of navigation and privacy.

For owners and moderators, it offers multiple ways to manage posts, tags and users, with convenient solutions to quickly perform repetitive operations.

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The problem

When a couple of friends want to share funny images or breathtaking photos with each other, and keep these shared memories to be easily findable in the future, a solution is to use an image board.

However, the popular existing image boards were clunky, required a lot of steps to perform simple tasks, and had questionable privacy.

  • Who owns my data?
  • Is anything I do shared with advertisers?
  • Do I really need to click so many times to tag a few landscape posts with "river"?
Comparison of rating scales: nineties versus modern.

Brainstorming

With a general idea in mind, I've collaborated on a list of features with the team. Using Adobe Photoshop, I've created low-fidelity designs for post view—the place users spend most time in—and file upload that cuts off all the needless fat.