BOOTHPLORER

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.

@23BeansIn_a_Jar Please switch to 2.0 which is hosted on the devola subdomain for now. x.com/BOOTHPLORER/st…

@BOOTHPLORER can you add more avayars to your search like kumaly and others that been out for a quite abit

What if you could only choose one out of these for a next update?

@ValsVirtuals devola.boothplorer.com has category toggles and some filtering options. The next update to dev will bring additional filters and a rework to searching for assets/avatars/shops with 2.0 finally being pushed to live around June.

@BOOTHPLORER AI sucks but i'm more annoyed by the lack of categories/filters to sort through it all, it's a bit messy atm

@Korvox_ @DoreiGoblin Did somebody say asset/avatar reviews? 😺

@DoreiGoblin Booth is sooo cheap and good. Like an entire outfit for 3€? or 4€ on the week sale? and all legal? Let's go! And still most of them are like 10€ or less with no sale. So good. And textures are like 1€. Only need reviews from users, that will be amazing.

Okay vrchatters and bystanders let's have a discussion of theft in the VRchat community. So let's look at FXV's new avatar Shandris. It's a wonderful and beautiful lady, this avatar is almost at 500 downloads in one week on the one site I can see download numbers on. This doesn't include the discord which is full of people who don't want to be called out on. Now let's question some other creators. How do you think someone has an Airi, Shinano, Manuka, Miltina, and Kipfel avatar. All with Hash's face tracking module. All with unquie skin textures. Every single one of them has their own unique hair and outfit. The truth is, it's easy to say "Waa 20 people used an AI trend on my timeline" while hiding the fact you steal every asset you use. The true art theft on vrchat is something no one wants to talk about because they know so many of their friends do it.

This includes bug fixes based on our improved logging features with 2.0 and refactoring parts of the code to be able to accomodate the increasing amount of users on the public test of 2.0 and increase in data stored in our database with the rewrite of core functionality.

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.

@AkiraShyFox @VRCatalogue Plum is accessible on 2.0 at devola.boothplorer.com/avatars/plum

@VRCatalogue Thankies for that ^^ Have been using boothplorer the entire time but they didnt update anything since they started working on their 2.0 version in september so u cant find anything for plum for example or the other newer avatars

After 3 months of hard work, the VRCatalogue.com Beta is live! A faster way to browse BOOTH, with translations, avatar compatibility, categories, and price conversion built in. Would love feedback, Discord link on the site! #VRChat

@AriaKitsuki In addition since you mention that website in specific, for an avatar to be enabled on our website we need to define settings for each avatar to ensure max reach and accuracy when indexing assets. This internal process for this is streamlined in 2.0; expect way more avatars soon.

@BOOTHPLORER Is it using the same dataset? There's a handful of avatars on avatar-network that aren't on bp, as well as some mistranslations (seria/Celia).

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.

@AriaKitsuki 1.0 and 2.0 are on separate servers with their own dataset, nothing is shared between the two.

We have just enabled over 150 additional avatars on 2.0, bringing the total amount of enabled avatars on 2.0 to 221. You can browse them at devola.boothplorer.com/avatars It will take a moment for the scraper to index assets for these avatars, thank you for your patience.

@_Lielii_ @KuriMoo_ No(t yet), we are aiming to ship comments and reviews (along with an account system) sometime with 2.0, there are things we have to consider to prevent basic abuse and make it an useful feature for both those who browse assets and have their assets scraped by us.

@KuriMoo_ Is it boothplorer?

The fact all the kumaly outfits im getting only has the Diet blendshapes or just default kumaly, And sometimes even no blendshapes at all (just the cloth) is insane. creators really gotta work on base blendshape variety. Yes thy're not obligated to support models blendshapes but if you cloth a base or collaborate with the creator. personally least you can do is make little effort and add the body blendshapes matter most. for for kumaly: Diet upper, Diet Lower, Pochari upper, Pochari lower, breast flat, breast small, breast big. is minimum.

@fancy_justice There are currently no mecha avatars indexed and these are based on tags and other identifications provided by avatar authors; we are looking into enabling a lot more avatars very soon on public test.

@BOOTHPLORER Absolutely unusable (Joking)

As always, thank you for your continued support and patience. We also want to give our special thanks to @catm3lt for their amazing job on creating our new branding assets and nailing the visual identity of BOOTHPLORER with us.

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.

@Dexterous_Alloy You can browse assets for Plum in our public testing environment for the rewrite at devola.boothplorer.com/avatars/7770415 - please be mindful that there may be bugs and that it is in development.

@BOOTHPLORER When will you guys add a plum avatar category for now it's still going all under chocolat, lime, chiffon.

@PiranaSushi The listing is perfect, the current/old website code simply doesn't scrape assets for bases beyond a few select pages; in the case of Halloween and with popular bases this means it will probably miss assets that get left beyond the set amount of pages. 2.0 fixes that.

@BOOTHPLORER Ah hello! Thank you so much for the reply. The link to the asset is here piranasushi.booth.pm/items/7540876

Having a bit of a hard time getting the Shinano version of the corruption asset picked up by Boothplorer. Does anybody who knows about Boothplorer know how to get an asset to be picked up and added? Many thanks <3