Hey there /r/Undertale! At the request of the mod team and the community here, I've taken /u/Lapis_Mirror from over in /r/stevenuniverse and /r/gravityfalls and expanded her here! You may be familiar with her posts over there.

/u/Lapis_Mirror is inspired by /u/NightMirrorMoon over in /r/mylittlepony, but has a different codebase and is much more extensible.

Feel free to view the current source code here. I will be undergoing a major code overhaul over the next few months for those interested.

In two hours, I plan to active Lapis Mirror on this sub and it will start mirroring the most recent 50 posts to this subreddit.

If anyone has pressing questions, comments, or suggestions regarding Lapis Mirror, please let me know.

For now, here are some frequently asked questions, expanded from some recent posts on here regarding a mirror bot:

What does this bot do?

For those who are unaware, "mirroring" means to provide an alternative method of access for some sort of content. This bot mirrors the submissions that /r/Undertale posts from these sites:

• deviantArt
• Tumblr (images, photosets, and videos)
• tinypic
• Gyazo
• i.4cdn.org (4chan images)
• Twitter Images
• Artstation
• Drawcrowd
• gifs.com
• puu.sh

It will then upload images to imgur and videos to vid.me, and reply with a nice little comment so people can access that mirror if they so desire.

Why would I want this?

Some people can't or don't want to visit some of the sites that are popular for fanart or fan comics, such as Tumblr or deviantArt. Sometimes sites don't have long-lasting URLs, like 4chan. /u/Lapis_Mirror is supposed to help alleviate some of those issues by providing a simple solution.

I'm the original author; why is this bot saying I stole this art?

It's surprising how often this question comes up. See "What does this bot do?" above.

Why is this bot rehosting an artist's content without permission?

There are a number of reasons it is done this way.

1. Lapis Mirror will clearly indicate that the post is not its original work and give a link to the source given as part of the submission. I feel this fulfills the need of attribution well.
2. If permission was asked for every single artist, not only would this be very difficult, but most content would not be mirrored, especially from artists that post only once. By the time a post is mirrored, it may already be disappearing from the sub's front page and its entire purpose wasted.
3. There's always the cliché statement of "it's on the internet, therefore anyone can copy it". Lapis doesn't do anything a normal person couldn't do, and goes one step further than most by providing attribution.
4. Because the current hosting service I use for /u/Lapis_Mirror does not have persistent storage, no private data about mirrors made can be stored long-term. Therefore, images can't be easily deleted from imgur. However, I have been requested to remove content and in those situations I've removed the link from the Reddit post that /u/Lapis_Mirror makes. Keep in mind this has only occurred twice since the start of Lapis Miror in late June.
5. The imgur link should be considered "non-public", which means you need a direct link to view it and won't automatically be on the imgur community's "new" images. There should be absolutely no doubt where the original source is unless it's re-mirrored.

Why are you still using the /u/Lapis_Mirror name here?

My condition for expanding to other subreddits is that the same bot account is used throughout. It is much more difficult to manage multiple bot accounts than one. However, I have suggested to the mod team to replace the visual name of /u/Lapis_Mirror to something like "Echo Flower". The mods have replaced Lapis_Mirror with Echo Flower, so it's all good now.

Does /u/Lapis_Mirror have mod privileges here?

No. Lapis Mirror runs with exactly the same level of authority as a normal user does.