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Joey
Dawnsong - Derpi Supporter
Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).
Flower Trio - Helped others get their OC into the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
Roseluck - Had their OC in the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
A Lovely Nightmare Night - Celebrated the 12th anniversary of MLP:FIM!
Cool Crow - "Caw!" An awesome tagger
Tree of Harmony - Drew someone's OC for the 2022 Community Collab
Elements of Harmony - Had an OC in the 2022 Community Collab
Non-Fungible Trixie -
Verified Pegasus - Show us your gorgeous wings!

PM me your cute OCs
@ZizzyDizzyMC  
@Jinx  
Unfortunately, the green theme was a one-day thing. The dark green theme may be able to make a comeback, but we’re not sure yet.
 
@Vinyl Fluff  
@CorrieKay  
The sheep badges were awarded the instant you clicked that one link. However, the site uses caching pretty heavily for performance reasons, so new badges always take up to half an hour before they show up on posts/profiles.
 
@PlanetKiller  
Fun fact - part of our original plan was to replace all the badges with emoticons, and if we did that, I was gonna add in a script so that anyone who had more than 15 badges or so whould have them multipled 5x, so people like Badum, Kraus, and Ralek would’ve had like 100+ emoticon badges after their name.
 
However, the plans that involved that didn’t end up panning out, so we went a different route with a different set of gags.
SuperSupermario24
My Little Pony - 1992 Edition
Wallet After Summer Sale -
Not a Llama - Happy April Fools Day!

fluffy sylveon
@Joey  
Although, the caching thing doesn’t really make sense to me in this case. I thought caching was for taking a while to show up on older posts, like postcounts and avatar changes do. Badges seem to be the only thing that take a while to show up on new posts.
Joey
Dawnsong - Derpi Supporter
Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).
Flower Trio - Helped others get their OC into the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
Roseluck - Had their OC in the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
A Lovely Nightmare Night - Celebrated the 12th anniversary of MLP:FIM!
Cool Crow - "Caw!" An awesome tagger
Tree of Harmony - Drew someone's OC for the 2022 Community Collab
Elements of Harmony - Had an OC in the 2022 Community Collab
Non-Fungible Trixie -
Verified Pegasus - Show us your gorgeous wings!

PM me your cute OCs
@SuperSupermario24  
No, they’re just the most prominent. Avatar changes and user links also take a short while to propagate.
 
The site caches profile information, since that is pretty static - your avatar, about me section, badges, user links, etc all do not change very often, so there’s no need for the site to query the database every single time it needs information from your profile. So instead, the site queries cache for profile information, and if the cache doesn’t have that information, or if it’s past its expiration time, then it queries the database.
 
It may not seem too obvious, but this site is heavily built for performance and optimization. Byte focuses on this especially, I’ve seen numerous cases where he’s rewritten entire modules just to shave off 1/20th of a second from rendering/loading times. I mean, Derpibooru is the largest site (by traffic) in the pony fandom, with some 60,000 unique visitors a day and 4TB of overall transfer (between the server and CDN). Yet we’re running on a single mid-range server (32 cores, 128GB RAM - something you’d find a small business running VMWare on), and it’s humming along comfortably at only 25% CPU and 15% memory utilization.
Yoshimon1
Pixel Perfection - I still call her Lightning Bolt
Silly Pony - Celebrated the 13th anniversary of MLP:FIM, and 40 years of MLP!
Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).
Flower Trio - Helped others get their OC into the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
Roseluck - Had their OC in the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
King Sombra - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of The Crystal Empire!
A Lovely Nightmare Night - Celebrated the 12th anniversary of MLP:FIM!
Princess of Love - Extra special version for those who participated in the Canterlot Wedding 10th anniversary event by contributing art.
Tree of Harmony - Drew someone's OC for the 2022 Community Collab
Elements of Harmony - Had an OC in the 2022 Community Collab

yay(){ yay|yay & };yay
@Vinyl Fluff
@CorrieKay
The sheep badges were awarded the instant you clicked that one link. However, the site uses caching pretty heavily for performance reasons, so new badges always take up to half an hour before they show up on posts/profiles.
 
Read Vinyl Fluff’s (and my) post again. We were asking how last year’s Derpibooru Premium badges got awarded, not this year’s sheep badges. Obviously we got those. (And they are great!)
Joey
Dawnsong - Derpi Supporter
Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).
Flower Trio - Helped others get their OC into the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
Roseluck - Had their OC in the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
A Lovely Nightmare Night - Celebrated the 12th anniversary of MLP:FIM!
Cool Crow - "Caw!" An awesome tagger
Tree of Harmony - Drew someone's OC for the 2022 Community Collab
Elements of Harmony - Had an OC in the 2022 Community Collab
Non-Fungible Trixie -
Verified Pegasus - Show us your gorgeous wings!

PM me your cute OCs
@Yoshimon1  
The premium badges were not related to last year’s april fools joke. They actually were handed out several years ago for other reasons.
 
There was one guy who did become a Patreon because of last years joke, so I think he did end up getting a premium badge, but that was not the intent at all. They were just named the same.
The Frowning Pony

Administrator
13 blinks per minute
@Yoshimon1  
Story time!
 
Derpi Premium badges were awarded to people that uploaded nice Trixie images during a particularly tough week in my life. If you see any more being handed out then chances are things are not going well for me.
Background Pony #0A2A
@Joey  
>The dark green theme may be able to make a comeback  
Pls, I beg you, my family is dying.  
Pls.
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