[SLIMG] State of the Image Host - End of the Year Update Hello, I'm Technician90, Verified shitlord and the creator of Slimg, for those who don't know it was originally created as a joke response to the censorship of FPH content on imgur and sort of spiraled out of control from there. More recently I've partnered with /u/CrispyKat, an experienced developer and generally great guy, who has worked hard to build Slimg and the CMS into what it is today. As always I'd like to start by thanking you all for using our site and making it what it is today. We would be nothing without the community and we really appreciate the support you've shown us. Users will now be able to tag their own images and albums, we are also going to automatically tag content based on the subverse from voat. These tags will be used to fill content on our new viewer sidebars (discussed below). The sidebar should be active now on all viewer pages. For images that are tagged with a subverse it will automatically load other images tagged from that subverse, for images that are not tagged it will show a mixture of content from around voat. This is the most immediately noticeable change, and I'd really like to hear your thoughts on it. You can see it in action here We changed the front page a while ago, I was expecting some complaints or some feedback but it was literally never mentioned anywhere or if it was I wasn't tagged. So I guess I'm just wondering if any of you have any thoughts on that. The login page now has a "Remember Me" button that will keep you logged in. The layout has been updated in the "Your Images" and "Your Albums" pages to improve functionality and fix some bugs with the pagination Some people have asked about developing a "light" theme for the site, what is the interest level on that? This feature isn't implemented yet, but it is planned. You'll remember the old site had comments, that was a complete failure, we will not be repeating that experiment. We know that all the discussion happens here on Voat, and we want to keep it that way. So we are planning to pull comments from voat once /u/puttitout finishes the new API. These will be placed below the image. We are planning on moving to a new hosting company that will allow us to run more servers at about the same cost. This is accomplished by running the  processing servers only when they are needed and the per-minute billing system that this host utilizes. This will increase the load our site can handle and decrease processing time for large images or multiple images. This should be sometime in the new year, there shouldn't be any downtime during the switch-over but uploads will be disabled for a short period while this is completed. I finally have control over both the slimgr.com and slimgur.com domains, if any of you have ideas of what to do with those I'd love to hear it. With regard to all the drama surrounding the suspension of the old site, I haven't been contacted by anyone in law enforcement or from arvixe to follow up and at this point I really don't expect to hear anything more from that. I've always stated that this site will be run in a transparent manner and with community involvement, if you have any questions or suggestions regarding how the site is run or about these changes, please let me know, I'll be hanging around in this thread for the next couple hours. For the more technical questions be sure to tag /u/CrispyKat so he sees them.