What Xbooru offers
The site's tagline is 'X marks the spot,' and it runs on Gelbooru Beta 0.2.0 — the older, spartan strain of booru software built on the tagging scheme Danbooru originated. Beneath the stripped-down interface sits an archive in the hundreds of thousands of posts, mixing anime-style erotica with Western cartoon material.
Hentai anchors the collection, but this isn't a strictly anime board. Rule-34-style takes on Western cartoons share the space, and the tag list runs well past mainstream hentai subjects into peculiar fetish niches that more curated libraries would never index. Navigation stays utilitarian — tag combinations instead of playlists or channels — with a forum section for community threads and a 'booru friends' page linking out to kindred boards, among them a hypno-fetish imageboard.
Access follows the classic model. No membership pitch or premium tier shows up on its public pages; the footer is given over to terms of service and a DMCA contact instead. For visitors who'd rather search than scroll, Xbooru is a workmanlike archive in the old booru mold.