Furocity.com

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{{Infobox website
| title = Furocity
| image = [[Image:Furocity.png|300px]]<br/>VixelPixen, the Furocity mascot, as part of the site's banner.
| author ='''Owner, Lead Administrator & Site Founder''': [[Gavin O. Daemonshyai]]
* '''Lead Content Administrators''': Vallen (Audio Submissions), [[Redcoatcat|Meezer]] (Visual Art Submissions), The Photograführer (Photographic Submissions), Writer Wren (Written Submissions)
* '''Administrators and Moderators''': [[Vango]], Blue Plant, Karex, Lucian D. Vetramir
* '''Coders''': Gavin, Vallen, Various Others
| url = http://www.furocity.com
*'''Forums''': http://forums.furocity.com
*'''Twitter''': http://twitter.com/furocitydotcom
*'''IRC''': [irc://irc.furocity.com/furocity #furocity] on the Furocity IRC server
| status =
| began = October 21st 2003 - September 30th 2009 (as a Gaming and Roleplaying site)
* October 1st 2009 - Present
| ended = Ongoing
| genre = Multimedia archive
| rating = ?
}}

'''Furocity''' is a social networking website, [[art gallery|image gallery]] and roleplaying profile site aimed at the furry fandom. The site has gone through major evolutions since its founding several years ago, and to this day has a registered userbase of over 34,000 people.

== History==

The site was founded in Fall 2003 by [[Gavin O. Daemonshyai]] and Vallen, [[Wikipedia:New England|New England]]-based coders. Originally, the site was strictly designed for roleplaying profiles, in response to [[Furcadia]]'s limit on character descriptions. Over time though, the website became useful for other roleplaying games, such as [[World of Warcraft]] and [[Wikipedia:Ragnarok Online|Ragnarok Online]], and soon became an important site for roleplayers, furry and non-furry alike.

*Around 2008, gallery and blogging functionality was added to the site in order for members to display their work. However, because many felt as though that these additional functions felt tacked on (including Gavin himself), an entirely recoded version of Furocity was written starting in Spring 2009, in order to shift the focus of the site to multimedia upload. This new version launched about six months later at beginning of October, which also incorporated the support of written and musical submissions. Since the launch of the new version of the site, Furocity has amassed thousands of submissions from its users.

*On 4 March 2010, the server suffered a PSU failure which sent it offline.<ref>[http://twitter.com/furocitydotcom/status/9984744823 Furocity tweet] (4 March 2010)</ref> The backup server was affected by a similar problem and the downtime persisted until April 5.<ref>[http://twitter.com/Daemonshyai/status/11682701789 Daemonshyai tweet] (6 April 2010)</ref>

*On 14 July 2011, a "merger" of staff and resources was announced between Furocity and [[Fur Affinity]].<ref>''[http://forums.furaffinity.net/threads/103573-Fur-Affinity-Furocity-Merger-Announcement Fur Affinity/Furocity Merger Announcement]'' - [[The Dragoneer]], Fur Affinity Forums (14 July 2011)</ref> The sites themselves remained independent. Seven Furocity staff joined FA's ranks, but the majority left at the end of October 2011, citing friction with FA's existing staff.<ref>[http://www.flayrah.com/3720/five-fur-affinity-staff-resign-some-citing-leadership-failures Five Fur Affinity staff resign, some citing leadership failures] - [[Rakuen Growlithe]], ''[[Flayrah]]''</ref>

*On the evening of 2 November 2011, ''furocity.com'' began redirecting to [[Inkbunny]] with no explanation.

*On 3 November, it redirected to a [[YouTube]] video of ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoBFhdeR9PE The End]'' by [[wikipedia:The Doors|The Doors]].

*On 4 November, it redirected to the [[SoFurry]] home page.

==Features and services ==
[[File:Furocity screenshot.JPG|thumb|150px|left|A typical gallery-centric user profile]]
One of the main features of Furocity is the ability for the user to choose whether their profile centers around their gaming and roleplaying characters, or around their gallery submissions.

The gaming/roleplaying page layout mainly focuses on a character profile and description and user comments. Gallery-centric accounts minimize comments and character profiles in favor of gallery uploads, favorites, and journal entries.

Like [[LiveJournal]], there is the ability to make a journal entry friends-only or even private, so that only people you have friended (as opposed to watched) can view specific journals.

=== AUP ===

Furocity is more restrictive than some art websites with regard to more extreme fetishes. As of December 2009, it's against the Acceptable Upload Policy to submit art revolving around the [[cub]] or [[bestiality]] fetishes.<ref>[http://asp.furocity.com/ Acceptable Submission Policy]</ref> A tag-based filtering system is in place, along with a multi-level rating system (General, Mature, Adult, Possibly Offensive), so users can avoid looking at any other pieces which they find objectionable, assuming that pieces are tagged and rated correctly.

=== Paid accounts ===

The site offers paid accounts to provide an incentive for monetary contributions to the site, much like [[deviantART]]. Paying users have larger upload limits, the ability to choose what sort of notifications (gallery entries and journals) they get from individual friends, and access to a commission queue in order to keep track of commissions. However, even regular users have a folder sorting system, a page on which commission information is displayed, and the ability to delete, screen, and freeze comments on submissions belonging to the user.

==References==
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{{Media archives}}

[[Category:Social networking websites]]
[[Category:Art archives]]
[[Category:2003 births]]
[[Category:2009 births]]

WikiFur - User contributions [en]

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