Inkbunny
| Inkbunny | |
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| Author(s) | Owners: Starling
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| Website | |
| Status | Active |
| Launch date | 9 March 2010 - 12 June, 2010 (closed Beta length) |
| Genre | Social media community |
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Inkbunny is an online art site that caters exclusively to the furry fandom. Initially focusing on the distribution and sale of high resolution digital downloads and prints, it now acts as a community site for adult members of the fandom.
The Beta version of the site was in testing from March 2010, and went live on June 12, 2010.[1] In under twenty-four hours, the site gained over 2000 new members.[2]
Inkbunny has over 175,000 registered members (of which ~14,000 access the site daily), 317,000 submissions and 61,000 journals as of May 2013.[3]
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[edit] Philosophy
The main philosophy of the site is that Inkbunny exists to support artists and the sale of their work and to make it easy, affordable, and safe to sell art on the website. Donations are the main source of income to cover hosting costs and no fees are charged to join the site or to sell work on the site.[4] Complicated passwords are required for Inkbunny accounts due to its monetary nature.[5]
Another major facet of the philosophy and the site is that it is accepting of all furries with different interests, fetishes, and philias and it does not allow discrimination against others for those interests. The site has a built in keyword blocker that allows filtering of specific types of art, in order to suit each user's tastes. [5]
While Inkbunny is adults-only, fully half of its hosted works are general-rated.[3]
[edit] Controversy
Soon after the live beta was announced on the site, many high profile users on Fur Affinity began joining, such as Meesh,[6] Narse,[7] and Scappo. Some claimed the site was intended entirely for cub pornography because many of its staff and testers were involved in the creation of Softpaw, a cub porn publication. The journals relating these claims garnered a considerable amount of comments and fueled the creation of further journals by other users in response to them. As of April 2013, 27,816 (9.1%) of the site's 304,033 submissions were tagged as "cub".
[edit] Hardware
Inkbunny's main server, Fluttershy, has as of April 2013:[8]
- 8 x 2.33GHz Xeon CPU cores
- 32GB DDR3 RAM
- 1TB 15kRPM SAS disk pack in RAID 5 for the web server and assets store
- 2 x 60GB SSD disks in RAID 1 for the database
There is also a low-powered backup server, Angel.
[edit] References
- ↑ "Inkbunny Beta goes LIVE" - Inkbunny
- ↑ "2,000+ new members in 24hrs, Site Speed, Rules" - Inkbunny
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Statistics" - Inkbunny
- ↑ "Fees" - Inkbunny
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "The Inkbunny Philosophy" - Inkbunny
- ↑ Inkbunny - Meesh (14 June 2010)
- ↑ "New Inkbunny Account :) - Narse (13 June 2010)
- ↑ Inkbunny is growing up! SSD drives and more RAM - Inkbunny (12 April 2013)
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