Oh lord, it’s like an army of technicolor equine ants. Glorious and terrifying at the same time.

@The-Narrator  
You’re here now and that’s what matters! Welcome!
 
@zidders  
And as a systems administrator for well over a decade, I have absolutely no trust for computers, software, or storage media whatsoever.
 
The files for the collab were stored in a Dropbox folder that has versioning enabled, so every time I saved something, it would sync to Dropbox within a minute or two. If a file were to become corrupted, it’d be a matter of simply logging into dropbox and downloading previous versions until I found the latest good copy.
 
On top of that, the folder was also backed up to a Backblaze account, which also has versioning enabled (with one year retention), so that was acting as a secondary backup.
 
I built the collab in groups of about 25-30 submissions per group, and saved after each group was added. Once a group was completed, I would move the image files to that group to a folder named after that group. That way, if the PSD file became corrupted and I lost the two most recent groups, I wouldn’t even have to spend time figuring out which characters were in those groups - I’d just go to the folders for those two groups, and all the submissions that were “lost” would be right there.
 
Luckily there weren’t any issues this year, so I didn’t have to resort to any of that. But I have had issues in the past (especially the first two collabs, which were built using Photoshop CS6 instead of Photoshop CC), and my general distrust for anything that runs off electricity definitely saved my ass a few times with those collabs.

@zidders  
The solution to that is to take many frequent backups so you can always roll back to the last successful addition in case anything goes pear-shaped. ;)

As an artist the idea of someone doing this both impresses and terrifies me. I can imagine how much I’d stress out about a computer glitch causing me to lose the file. Especially the closer it got towards the end.

@ev04ka  
Please be patient. Everyone that participated in the collab will be receiving their badges once they are ready.

@Background Pony #33F1  

Yay! Finally! That’s amaizing artwork! Ty so much for this collab, administrators of Derpibooru!
 
please, gimme my badge :c

@BumpyBeatz  
Glad to be here!

@The-Narrator  
Welcome to the party!

Really wish I had found this site sooner would have loved to have been apart of this amazing community project. Everyone did such a nice job on it. I’ll be there for the next one!

@Count Adramélekh Sear  
We’ll need san antonio spurs as well, then.

That’s not just a wall of tags, it’s more like the Great Wall of China of tags! xD
 
…how many tags even IS that, anyway? :)

oc:searing skies is sporting the legendary thrash metal band Slayer tee so request permission for the tag “slayer” for pending. Thanks.

@MagpulPony
 
Never ever do that.

@40kponyguy  
I would have made him sing the praises of lemons before providing that information.

@Selaphiel  
If you click on the ‘comment’ icon on the bar with the votes and faves, it jumps straight to the comments.
 
Handy trick with pics like this with a huge wall of tags.

@Selaphiel  
There’s a faster way.

Scrolling down the wall of tags on mobile in this image is PITA!

@Derpy Whooves  
artist:star studded

@star studded  
artist:star studded

lets seeeee squints ah there he is, i found Waldo!

@Background Pony #C6E0  
Their OCs were added into the collab by pizzamovies.

so, thelivingtombstone and woodentoaster still post here? Or are their ocs just used?