GiantessBooru has moved to its new home at SizeBooru.com to signify its new ownership by Pete from Giantess City. The new website will remain free for the community, have similar policies in effect, and I’m happy to announce that he has a new site for it in the works for everyone as well. If you would like to know about the problems leading to the closure on my end, the ultimate solution to keep the site alive as you know it and in the community, what’s to come, the name change, GiantessBooru’s history and more then please enjoy the read.
Problems Leading to the (imminent) Closure
- I could no longer host GB since I needed to detach my business from it. Legal concerns arose recently as a result of changes observed on websites that host adult-oriented content. GB was a potential risk to my business, so I took proactive measures to protect myself by transferring ownership. It came up as the best solution to keep the site running very similarly to how members knew it. The only other solutions would have dramatically increased my running expenses or fundamentally affected the site and its contents.
- I reached a breaking point with my workload and no longer had time to manage both sites as a single entity, so something had to change. My main website was always a priority, as it was my income source and it paid for the server without running foreign ads from outside of the community. GB, however, needed volunteer moderators, who were incredibly sparse and hard to find this year. The only active mod was doing nearly all the work, just as the previously most active mods did until they got fed up and left. A solution could have been to hire out, but GB had many errors and requests that would have required a new site project to get it running much better. I wanted to do it earlier this year, but the amount of work it needs is more than I can handle alone to meet my production goals going forward.
The Ultimate Solution: Change of Ownership and What’s to Come
The same day the notice was posted, the owner of Giantess City reached out asking if he could help with anything. We talked about my concerns of which were why I didn't reach out to begin with. I learned that he would in fact be the perfect fit that GiantessBooru needed to survive and thrive. Pete has been in the community for 25 years and is the well trusted owner of Giantess City. He's a highly experienced programmer and helps to manage other websites as well, out of his love for the community. You have his word that the site will remain to be:
- Free to the community
- A safe, happy place to visit
- Run with similar policies in effect
- Exclusive for size change enthusiasts
Additionally:
- Any ads will be non-interfering and exclusive to size interests (like tall women) or size change interests (like giant and giantess)
- Pete will be able to handle the lack-of-moderators issue and he already has a new site in the works. However, since the initial launch of SCB is based off a full backup of GB, you may have to deal with some of its known issues (with staying logged in for example) until he is ready to migrate everything to a shiny new site in its place.
- I've shared my list of needed fixes and website enhancement ideas with him. He has my mind and creativity at his disposal for the continuation of the site and I will continue to help as my time allows.
With that said, the site is getting very close to launching on his end at SizeBooru.com, after which I will be taking GB down on my end.
My dreams for the new site were to make the site feel more welcoming to all size change enthusiasts. giantessbooru.com sounds too exclusive to the Giantess fetish despite the fact that we’ve always allowed Furry, Anthro, and Giant as well. Thus I think most of our submissions were Giantess Fetish images. (It also didn’t help that “Hide Giant” and “Hide Furry” were slapped on the front page, which may be moved to a new location) SizeChangeBooru was one of the ideas he pinged back at me and I loved how as I was typing it in it felt like I was doing so to change my size! So, I hope the name change is well accepted and even appreciated by the community as a whole, helping new uploaders of all size interests feel welcome to the site. NOTE: Afterwards, Pete was able to secure the SizeBooru.com domain name! 🤘🥳
As for the domain name giantessbooru - it has sentimental value to me. One of my biggest fans, MarkM, was the top most active moderator for years, getting promoted to admin for helping me and the GB community so incredibly much. He played a huge part in helping grow the site, and it even had higher traffic when he was active. At one point it was even my biggest traffic referral. He really kicked *** at the site and I loved providing it to the community out of my love for the fetish. It was a way of contributing to the community, as was my careful decision to transfer the site to Pete to keep it in the community. After the new site for giantessbooru is launched I will be doing a redirect to this blog post so that its traffic is informed of the changes directly from the previous owner of the website and so that a domain name that I own is not redirecting to a site that I no longer own to help prevent any confusion. Please use the new site’s name instead of relying on a redirect.
History of GiantessBooru
I acquired the site from a fellow community member in late 2010. With the help of my ex-partner, who was a programmer, we revamped the design and made some adjustments before relaunching it. We ran it together for about two years until we parted ways in early 2013, and then I took over the site for the next 10 years. During that time, I had the support of over 100 moderators, as well as a new programmer who helped make some improvements for the site back when he was available. I am immensely grateful to all the members of the site and the community for making the site a success.
I would like to give a special shout-out to the top three active mods who tagged and approved over 10K images and performed their duties diligently:
MarkM: 24,429 ❤️
EmmaGear: 18,866
GTSWriter: 10,369
You are phenomenal! 🎉
I would also like to commend the moderators who have tagged and approved over 2K images and made a significant contribution to the site:
Bbaass: 6,846
Chuck: 6,370
Giantess-Katelyn (hello!): 5,996
The-New-Dalek-Paradigm: 4,558
Penguinvulture: 3,516
Tinyman76: 2,710
Oktober: 2,710
Rooster: 2,491
Captainshaman: 2,270
Alman001: 2,145
You are part of the site’s legacy, and that’s why all of you, as well as the mods who approved over 1K images, have earned the “Former Moderator” title or the title requested at departure. Thank you also to every other moderator who helped at the site, I appreciate all of you and all of your efforts! When I closed the site on my end, it had reached a staggering 100,300 images!
Going Forward
If anyone would like their moderatorship reinstated or if anyone new would like to help moderate at the new site then please check for such information at the new site or here once it’s launched.
Congratulations to Pete, the third owner of the site in the ~15 years it’s been alive. Please give him a huge thanks if you have a moment because the site’s continuation as you know it would not be possible without him. The website has so much more potential than what my schedule allowed me to do with it, and I am excited to see where it goes from here.
Original post date: December 21st, 2023
