So to make a long story short Zerospace asked that we move thread over here to just talk about possibly creating something new to bring us as a community into the 21st Century, and to leave the ugliness of that other thread behind. Also Beta's forum while antiquated is a much better place for a discussion as we can reach out to each other privately much easier than on RS, as the Gallery Feedback button sometimes doesn't work.
Here are her thoughts which I think personally are spot on, she gives credit to those of the past and speaks about how we should be looking toward the future!
I am just going to say I would be 100% behind this, and I think it is a good thought. Right now the way things are, we are just going to get quiet if one of the active members has to take a break. When both me and Sensei got quiet this summer due to injury/illness it just about died over here. We need to move forward make a site that works well with social media, maybe even start breaking our galleries out of Rubberslug. RS is a great free service, KUDOS to Jason, but it does not allow for a lot of personality come through with the design choices that are available.I wasn't going to post here, but after reading the ugliness that this thread has become, I'm going to step in and say something grossly unpopular: Rubberslug needs to and should be replaced. RS has been a great site for the community, but as life has taken its toll on Jason, it's probably about time to say goodbye. You cannot demand that he work on it or demand that he pass the reins over to someone else. RS belongs to Jason at the end of the day. I offered years ago to help him, as I code in open-source cousins to the languages he uses, but he declined (politely).
What people here don't seem to grasp is that the community has no claim to Rubberslug or the code behind it. I realize how that sounds, but it is the truth. It belongs to Jason. He wrote it. He poured blood, sweat and tears into building and rebuilding this site over the years, and it should not be taken from him unless he is willing to give it. And even if he is willing, the undertaking that is de-constructing someone else's complex code is as massive as writing your own. It would be best for the community to start fresh and clean.
I have written web gallery software that is even more capable than what RS provides in terms of image handling, detailed information, category sorting, etc. That in itself was a massive project. I've spent years making it better after taking almost a year to build the original in my spare time (though admittedly, I keep intending to work on it, and I've made small changes and notes, but not updated it in awhile). I've thought many times about turning it into a community site. I never have in part because of threads like this one. The thought of being responsible for everyone's gallery data is scary to me. I sometimes find it hard to believe that people RELY on RS to store that information without having it stored anywhere else. (Crazy!!)
I would propose something different for a Rubberslug replacement, though -- perhaps it is time to ditch the free curated galleries model. Make Rubberslug's replacement a social hub for the community that links to images and collections curated on sites and services designed to handle the massive amounts of data (there are other ways to curate an image gallery than here on RS, ya know!). The modern web is all about social media. Everything is about sharing -- most services have ways to hook into data feeds from other sites. Let's use it! Link up to Facebook groups. Link to Anime-Beta (as in, pull data feeds from these sources). The community should get together and create something totally new!
I'm willing to lend my web expertise to something new. I might even be willing to code and host something, so long as it isn't just a replacement for Rubberslug. I'd like to see the cel community advance into the modern web era, because it's been stagnant for far too long. Let's move forward, people, not take a giant step sideways.
I can volunteer for Testing and I would have to work out how much money but I am in monetarily as well, this discussion needs to happen and those interested should post here.
Anyone who is against this please don't post here, we don't need another fight and I would prefer to have an interesting discussion of how we should go about this and put together a project team of sorts! Instead of dealing with Drama! Thanks so much in advance, and I am super pumped about this project!
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. My profile pic is of my dog. 
I have the account so I can save some mobile game data to it. Heh. 
. I never intended for the original discussion to get out of hand; however, it is inevitable that in discussions such as this that some things can be misconstrued or taken out of context. Either way, it was very informative!
. I don't know about you, but everything I've suggested is something that's well within my programming skill set. I use JavaScript (hate it, but use it), PHP and MySQL mostly, and I currently have my own virtual private server at my disposal, at least for the development process (where this new site is hosted ultimately, I don't care). Perhaps we should be working together, unless you have a problem with that? I don't, provided we're working in the same languages. My personal preference is to plan out my project, slice it up into logical chunks, and then build each piece and start assembling them as they are finished and ready to test.
. I prefer to work with a somewhat non-standard version of PHP called suPHP or PHPsuexec, but I can work with it in any form. I just like suPHP if I'm going to be dealing with file uploads and writing to directories on the server (helps me keep file permissions at a minimum). A lot of shared hosts use this form of suPHP, but be careful on that front, too. Shared hosts tend to oversell server space and resources, which results in a lot of downtime and issues for sites. Just saying... do your homework!