danbooru
A self-hostable, taggable image board built with Ruby on Rails for organizing and browsing large image collections.
What is danbooru?
Danbooru is an open-source, taggable image board software built with Ruby on Rails. It allows users to create, organize, and browse large collections of images through a sophisticated tagging system. The project solves the problem of managing and discovering visual content in a structured, community-driven environment.
Developers and communities looking to host their own image boards for niche interests, art collections, or media archives, especially those needing advanced tagging and search capabilities.
Developers choose Danbooru for its robust, self-hostable architecture, extensible microservices design, and powerful tagging system that supports large-scale, collaborative image curation without relying on proprietary platforms.
Overview
A taggable image board written in Rails.
Use Cases
Best For
- Hosting community-driven art or fan art galleries with collaborative tagging
- Creating private image databases for research or archival purposes
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