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@itaku_official
Itaku
2 years
This is exactly what is for. We aren't a company, we don't run ads, don't sell services, nor do we seek or prioritize profit. The site is already 100% usable! Don't need to sign up for a hidden beta or anything like that. Of course, no NFTs either.😎
@godbirdart
tobias 🍃🎐🌱
2 years
I JUST WANT AN ART SITE WHERE I CAN DISCOVER NEW ARTISTS WITHOUT HAVING TO PVP AN ALGORITHM ON THE DAILY OR WORRY ABOUT THE DEVS TRYING TO MAKE MY SHIT INTO NFTS IS THIS TOO MUCH TO ASK
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Now we are the bird site
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2 years
Sorry for the slow loadtimes, our servers are completely overloaded. 🥲 We'll try to will try to double the server's hardware when possible, either tomorrow or later today! Its of course going to once again increase our server costs as well, so consider checking our Patreon! 😎
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2 years
Everything seems to be running stable now! While keeping everything running is the current priority, here are some planned upcoming changes and clarifications:
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2 years
There has been an update to the Itaku ToS in relation to using content towards feeding generative AI models or selling said data to third parties for the that purpose. Change highlighted in green!
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11 months
Yesterday, we also released an update blocking mass crawlers from companies that crawl the entire web for generative AI training data. Hopefully this will serve as a peace of mind for artists who don't want their work to be fed into an AI the moment they post something.
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PorridgeHorrendous
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Google adds a switch for publishers to opt out of becoming AI training data >Take your stuff without consent. >Make money using your stuff without your consent. >"Oh hey, you can jump through hoops to stop us stealing from you!" GenAI companies be like.
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2 years
Our Patreon monthly income was lower than our server bill this month. While we we're still able to pay it thanks to up-front annual pledges, there's a very high chance that won't be the case next month. This means we had to implement ads, as we had no other choice. (Thread)
@itaku_official
Itaku
2 years
This is exactly what is for. We aren't a company, we don't run ads, don't sell services, nor do we seek or prioritize profit. The site is already 100% usable! Don't need to sign up for a hidden beta or anything like that. Of course, no NFTs either.😎
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1 year
MASSIVE image viewing UX update! - The image viewer has been completely reworked! - You can now click to expand the image! - Switching images is now a lot less clunky! - You can now also use A+D to switch between images! (more below)
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Itaku
2 years
There has been a mass influx of new users joining Itaku! Its a bit hard to keep up with moderation so as a reminder, the Questionable maturity is for images that technically aren't NSFW but aren't quite SFW either. We'd REALLY heavily appreciate if it was utilized a bit more!
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Itaku
1 year
Itaku just hit 100,000 users! Can't believe it has already come so far in such a short period of time - huge thanks for everyone who has spread the word, it has truly had an astonishing impact! To celebrate we also released a new limited time 100,000 badge claimable for 30 days!
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Itaku
2 years
You can finally properly mention people on Itaku! It now gives them a notification as well!
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Itaku
2 years
The server has finally been successfully upgraded! Should be blazing fast now, no more lag. 😎
@itaku_official
Itaku
2 years
We're going for another attempt in upgrading the servers once again in 5 minutes once again! This time we'll try a different method which hopefully can work around the maintenance issue our VPS is having.
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@itaku_official
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6 months
Some platforms are too lenient/naive when it comes to their own no-AI rules. Just because the base sketch was hand-made, it doesn't mean that the final version wasn't AI-filled. These users scam others via commissions/donations, lying about not using AI, when they in fact are.
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2 years
We just hit 300€/month on Patreon! 🎉 Its time to upgrade our servers, because they clearly can't handle the traffic anymore. The servers might be down for a moment while they get upgraded! If this upgrade isn't good enough, the next server upgrade will be at 500€/month!
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Itaku
2 years
Also, giving your images accurate tags is also really valuable for yourself as well as people trying to search/filter specific content! @Werethrope made a post on Itaku on how to make reusable Tag Sets to quickly give all the vital tags to your images!
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Itaku
2 years
A lot of people ask how Itaku even exists without ads/paid services/fundraisers, and the answer is: Patreon/ko-fi. Though our Patreon is small, our hope is to make a site that people want to support because its ALREADY good, not because we "promise" it to be good.
@KCD0DGER
🏳️‍⚧️ KCDodger᛫ᚹᚨᛚᚲᛇᚱᛁᛖ ᛫ kcdodger.bsky.social ΘΔ
2 years
@itaku_official Okay so my question is: What do you get out of providing such a clean and smooth service for free? This UI and setup is literally as good as Twitter. So how exactly does that work? What makes this something you can actually afford to do? CAN you accommodate growth properly?
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Twitter has decided to start using your tweets for AI training. So what's next? Probably using your art to train AI for some feature like "Add a creative image to your tweet with Grok!". If only there was a functional art site that has pledged to not use your content for AI..
@EasyBakedOven
Kimmy Bestie of Bunzy, Co-CEO Execubetch™️ K-brat
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Twitter just activated a setting by default for everyone that gives them the right to use your data to train grok. They never announced it. You can disable this using the web but it's hidden. You can't disable using the mobile app Direct link:
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2 years
Itaku now has a free-form "Content Warning" field! With that, the "Extreme" maturity rating has also finally removed!
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Itaku
2 years
Fully AI-generated content and is now banned on Itaku. Itaku post: Other than that, a big update that's been in the works for a while is most likely coming out in September! Many big updates to come after that too 😎
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2 years
We're upgrading our servers right now! Unfortunately it means that the servers will be offline for a bit, but we're trying to do it as fast as possible!
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Itaku
11 months
Itaku is now 3 years old! 🎂 It's been an ever crazier, busier year as our userbase exploded from ~40,000 users to a total of 125,000+ in just a year! There is an event active on where you can claim this year's badge, limited to this month! Thank You!
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2 years
That being said, this server is literally 10x the price of the server we had in the morning. 🫠 If you don't mind, we also have a Patreon! (We also contacted Patreon, hopefully they can fix their API so the rewards can be distributed as soon as possible!)
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2 years
We decided to turn off third-party ads (Google) as the revenue rates were nearly non-existent as they auto-detected mature content on the site. Most other ad providers won't even allow Itaku after manual review for the same reason (despite making exceptions for sites like DA)
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Itaku
11 months
Big thank you to @trigaroo for this fantastic Itaku birthday cake art !! 🎂 Go ahead and drop them a follow:
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Itaku
2 years
You can now quickly search images with a specific tag directly by clicking on a tag!
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Itaku
2 years
Our Patreon has reached 235€/month (100€+ increase over the past few days). A huge thanks to all the supporters, and a HUGE special thanks to @SkyGuyArt for sharing Itaku! When we reach 300€/month, we're definitely going to upgrade our servers to handle all the new traffic!⚡
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Itaku
2 years
The server upgrade is done, hopefully the site is usable again! Still not sure if its going to be enough, but it was literally the most maxed out option that was available right now, but soon its going to require way beyond that for sure.
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2 years
We just released a huge rework to the tag system, especially for synonymous tags! This should significantly improve the content tagging, searching and blacklisting experience on Itaku! You can now also make direct tag edit suggestions, and it even shows the editing history!
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Itaku
1 year
We're glad to announce that the stability of the servers have been drastically improved! It no longer should experience outages and frequent performance hits anymore as long as the traffic isn't too high. Also, a new patch with lots of UX improvements was just released as well!
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2 years
We also made it so that you now get a notification in your inbox if someone suggests tags on your image! When you receive a tag suggestion, check it out and if it looks good, go ahead and accept it! 👍
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2 years
The server upgrade wasn't enough - We're once again going to be upgrading the servers in 5 mins! Itaku will once again go offline for around a few minutes after that, but we recommend not to start any huge uploads before that as they'll be cancelled!
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2 years
You can now optionally suggest maturity ratings in the "Tag Suggestion" form! Hopefully this allows the community and the artist to also have a say in what maturity certain images could be instead of just relying on the moderators to do so in the case that they're wrongly rated!
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1 year
NEW FEATURE! You can now toggle your DMs to be only open to people that you follow! This one was a pretty requested feature and it has finally been released! Hopefully this helps the people who prefer to keep their DMs more private!
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2 years
The server is back online but sadly the servers weren't upgraded because our VPS provider is doing maintenance so trying to scale beyond what we currently have gives an error. 🙃 Will try again later. 😔
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2 years
Meaning that once again we rely solely on our patrons as well as community based ads.
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Itaku
2 years
Itaku now has a toggleable "Stars" tab on everyone's profile, which shows their recently starred images! (You can turn it off when you edit your profile) The "You follow" filter also got redesigned to a Followed/All toggle to be more visible and intuitive!
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2 years
📰🚨 New Supporter Features & Patreon Connectivity! 💎Patreons can now: - Download their entire gallery in 1 click - Use animated avatars - Upload up to a 200mb Image/10 GB video with based on their Patreon Tier! 🆕Transparency is now preserved for preserved on images!
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Itaku
1 year
Thank you very much for these beautiful and fun infographics @Zaaruchan !
@Zaaruchan
Zaaru! 🌠
1 year
I made a quick infographic showing some cool Itaku features that I think are great! :3
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Itaku
1 year
THE SITE IS BACK UP! And holy shit its FAST!
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Itaku
1 year
You can now BOOKMARK users & images into CUSTOM FOLDERS on Itaku! Hopefully this feature will be super handy for organizing your favorite images/users!
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2 years
We finally have support for community based ads! Since it was just released, we're still making sure that it works properly, so all the current adspace will be sold at a discounted price for a limited time! You can read here to learn more:
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11 months
The About page has been reworked to include a roadmap of the current, long-term and backlog features, as well as a page for notable supporters as a token of our gratitude! Thank you so much everyone! Links: - Roadmap: - Supporters:
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1 year
You can now FINALLY edit the source file of already uploaded images/videos! A lot of people have been requesting for this feature, so we're glad that its finally here! Today's patch also has a few other QoL changes:
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Itaku
2 years
There are still so many improvements and features planned, including possibly an app in the future as well. If you think something is lacking, let us know, but also stay tuned, because it might already be planned or considered!
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2 years
Unfortunately, as we don't run any ads, that extra traffic has made our server bills go through the roof while our Patreon is still at ~300€/mo. Sadly Itaku is currently barely sustainable, so if you'd like to keep it alive, consider becoming a Patreon!
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1 year
We have been under a dedicated spam attack by some spam farm for the past few days now, but it seems that they finally gave up after we built an anti-spam system, tightened our regulations for posting and blacklisted pages worth of links to specific websites.
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Itaku
2 years
Due to a really big update that fundamentally reworked a few things, avatars and image thumbnails are a bit weird right now on Itaku ー they're slowly being migrated without the server having to go offline! Should be done in a few hours, patch notes coming soon as well!
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Itaku
2 years
Itaku is back up and running! Since the server bills once again were significantly above our monthly income from Patreon, there was a pretty big migration that helps us save a decent amount on data costs, meaning that we should be safe again for a while now!
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2 years
We 100% still need to rely on donations/patrons as its very unclear what the revenue will actually be and whether or not the site will be considered advertiser friendly. That's pretty much all for now, we'll keep you updated! PS: Itaku will still be ad-free for patrons! Thanks!
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Itaku
2 years
New patch! You can now mute all new submission notifications from Settings > Notifications in case you prefer checking stuff at your own pace! Stuff will still end up in your inbox, but just the notification count wont pop in the header!
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2 years
We also had to implement them because even if we would be able to pay the server bills, Itaku has started taking so much work that its very much infeasible to keep developing/managing it for free. We need to eat and pay our own personal bills as well.
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2 years
Itaku now has a feature which lets you retry mass image upload tasks that have been stuck on pending for over 30 mins! Generally it shouldn't happen, but in the rare case that it does, there is now a way to potentially fix it!
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@itaku_official
Itaku
6 months
Stay on the lookout for users who try to profit off you or your users by lying about not using AI. With hybrid/heavily AI-assisted works, often their strategy is to hide the original base sketches, and then present them to the staff once their images get removed.
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6 months
For context: There was a user who's hybrid AI images were removed for breaking the no-AI rule on multiple sites. They then proceeded to deceivingly sent the staff the initial sketches as "proof", which caused some of said sites to naively approve their AI art.
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2 years
In which case, what's the point? People constantly talk about how they wish there was an art site that wasn't Twitter, yet they always return to Twitter for the very simple reason that the alternatives are "dead" and don't get enough traction.
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Itaku
2 years
So, for the time being, we're going to be focusing on making sure that Itaku can first of all survive financially, as well as lay the underlaying groundwork that would allow us to actually scale into a fully-fledged platform, and eventually even release a mobile app and so on!
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Itaku
2 years
Its Itaku's 2 year anniversary! Go visit to claim this year's unique badge! Its crazy how much Itaku has grown the past year, for the majority of last year, we barely had over a few hundred users, while now that number is about to hit 40,000! Big thanks!
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Itaku
1 year
We apologize for the "500" error that kept the site down for some hours. It essentially happens because the server can't keep up with the traffic. Currently its a high priority to find the direct cause and fix it whilst staying within our budget.
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Itaku
1 year
Another patch has been released! - You can now jump directly to the tag wiki from tags on an image by clicking the "#" part of the link! - The DM input box will no longer become red when you send a message (or when the textbox becomes empty)
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2 years
If an art site doesn't grow, people won't use it because it won't have enough artists/users. Its a very catch-22 situation. Therefore, if we can't scale, Itaku won't become a proper, established art platform that people use as their main outlet instead of an indie gallery backup.
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Itaku
2 years
On top of that, the issue with relying only on donations/Patreon is that server costs scale linearly with traffic, but donations dont. This is extremely problematic as it means that a single image/video can cost us hundreds if a big artist shares the link to their following.
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Itaku
2 years
We added 2 extra light themes as requested!!🎨 Even though light themes aren't nearly as commonly used as dark ones, they're still useful for when the sun is glaring on your monitor 🌞 Fun fact - most of Itaku was originally developed using the indigo/pink theme on the right.
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Itaku
2 years
Itaku shoe Itaku shoe!
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Itaku
2 years
Not to mention, if Itaku never receives any profit, we quite literally can't scale past a certain point as we'll never be able to hire any extra help. The bigger the site gets, the more and more work it requires. There is a reason big sites have thousands of employees.
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2 years
Image uploads working again!
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Itaku
2 years
That being said, its easy to underestimate how much work goes into running and developing a site such as Itaku, and now that its been blowing up, its slowly becoming a full-time job. But we obviously can't keep a full-time job that makes 350€/month forever.
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2 years
This is why implementing more supporter features or running fundraisers won't work out in the long-term, as donations/subscribers always come and go in waves, meaning there can be long periods of stagnation while traffic can have spikes, stay high or steadily grow.
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2 years
Additionally, you can also report images as "Wrong Maturity Rating", which will help us find misrated images easier! We really appreciate it!
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Itaku
2 years
There has been a mass influx of new users joining Itaku! Its a bit hard to keep up with moderation so as a reminder, the Questionable maturity is for images that technically aren't NSFW but aren't quite SFW either. We'd REALLY heavily appreciate if it was utilized a bit more!
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9 months
ANOTHER NEW FEATURE!📰 - Top comments now get highlighted on the feed! - You can tweak/disable this from the settings! We really hope that this one will make Itaku feel much more lively! 🎨 Phenomenal artwork by @IcyKatsura , please go check them out!!
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Itaku
2 years
has reached 10,000 users!🎉 Crazy that around a year ago, we only had ~100 users. A huge thanks to everyone who has spread the word, its thanks to you that the site has grown to 10k! To celebrate, visit itaku to claim a a limited time 10k users badge!🎀
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Itaku
10 days
You can now private your "Following" tab on your profile on Itaku! Just click to edit your profile, and scroll down to the new option! More info:
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1 year
A huge performance improvement to tag filtering in specific scenarios is out! Tl;dr - some tag searches had become very slow (some even never finishing loading), but luckily the cause was finally found and a fix has been applied! Should be esp. noticeable with less common tags!
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3 years
This is indeed one of the catch22 issues of starting a new site: Not enough people to join > Not getting more people because there aren't enough people. But good news! Today we hit 7500 users! HUGE thanks to everyone who has spread the word about Itaku, its been a huge help!
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1 year
We just started the mass migration today! All the data is being transferred, so the network might be slightly slow, but at least the server won't be down for over a day this time. Tomorrow there will likely be 1~3 hours of downtime, but once its done its going to be so worth it.
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1 year
We actually want to do another, very big server migration again as soon as possible, which should provide an actual massive speed boost and proper future-proofing both in terms of cost, performance, and storage. The current upgrade was more of a band-aid to the network issue.
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6 months
NEW FEATURE - Mass Image Editor! ✨ You can now bulk-edit tags, visibility and maturity on your images! Hopefully this will make managing your gallery so much easier! - Itaku: - Thanks for supporting our work:
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Itaku
2 years
So, while we had absolutely no choice but to implement ads just to keep Itaku alive, it actually might also be a good thing as it may enable us to actually scale Itaku beyond what its currently capable of.
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7 months
Discord embeddings are once again working normally! Most likely they changed the way they handle them, so we made a few adjustment on our end as well. Anyway, here is a Twitter embedding of an Itaku link to some nice art by @Darthzz1 , go follow them!
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2 years
Though, we still have no clue how much revenue we'll actually receive from ads, it might be much lower than our Patreon. On top of that, since we're using a third party ad-network right now, there is no guarantee that they'll even approve the site as advertiser friendly.
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2 years
You can also change your username without having to contact support now!
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2 years
Meaning that the current solution is mostly just an experiment, and we'll start looking into implementing a system that could serve both community as well as external ads if not enough ad-space has been sold. It's going to be a massive undertaking though.
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2 years
Itaku is going offline for maintenance for a while! It might even take up to an take an hour or two, but its necessary to ensure data safety.
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Itaku
1 year
A really useful new feature is coming very soon, most likely within this week! That patch will also feature a few pretty nice QoL/UX improvements, so stay tuned!
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2 years
Itaku is under maintenance for a bit!
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2 years
Itaku will be down for maintenance for around 30 minutes! There is a massive back-end optimization coming which should make loading the feed significantly faster.
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1 month
Our main problem is not having a mobile app, as we currently lack the resources for it, but that could change if enough people decide to use and support the site! You can support us here: (or on Patreon), or just by using it and spreading the word!
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1 year
Sorry for the recent SSL certificate expiry - there was an issue with the automatic renewal from the server transfer, and as always, all the bad things happen when we are asleep lol.
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1 year
With 100,000 users, the amount of traffic and interaction Itaku receives has also become quite significant. Huge thanks to everyone who has helped us keep up with the server costs by supporting us on ko-fi or Patreon!
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Itaku
1 year
Itaku just hit 100,000 users! Can't believe it has already come so far in such a short period of time - huge thanks for everyone who has spread the word, it has truly had an astonishing impact! To celebrate we also released a new limited time 100,000 badge claimable for 30 days!
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You can now also attach a message to the suggestion to explain the reasoning behind your suggestion! And of course, you can choose which tags you want to accept within the suggestion, and the same goes for the maturity!
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1 year
We're done with most of the big data transfers and are ready to switch everything over to the new server! 5 minutes from now, Itaku will go down for anywhere between 30 minutes to few hours, but hopefully everything will be back up as soon as possible!
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2 years
We're going for another attempt in upgrading the servers once again in 5 minutes once again! This time we'll try a different method which hopefully can work around the maintenance issue our VPS is having.
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Itaku
2 years
If you're in the middle of tagging some 50 image post in the multi-image uploader, you can wait until we tweet that everything is working again before hitting upload!
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A lot of sites fail to come out of closed beta despite receiving tens of thousands on kickstarter/through paid services. The reason Itaku is already so usable, is because we first provide the actual, usable product, and THEN think about crowdsourcing, not the other way around.
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1 year
Itaku is back up and running! There should be a slight speedup to USA based users. Due to multiple rather absurd unfortunate consequences, the downtime ended up being much longer than the initial estimate, but everything should be working fine now!
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