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Fur Affinity

2008-06-10T05:29:01Z

68.82.114.249: Updating coders for FA.

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[[Image:Fender.jpg|right|350px|Fender, drawn by Mutley James]]
'''Fur Affinity''' (commonly known as '''FurAffinity''') is one of the [[furry fandom]]'s largest communities, and the second largest [[furry]]-specific [[:Category:Art archives|art gallery]] after the [[VCL]]. It was created as an alternative to art community sites such as [[SheezyArt]] and [[deviantART]], promoting itself as allowing people from the furry/[[Anthropomorphic|anthro]] fandom to upload art, music and stories regardless of rating.

* '''Addresses''':
** '''Website''': http://www.furaffinity.net/
** '''Forums''': http://forums.furaffinity.net/
** '''Wiki''': http://www.wikiffinity.net/
** '''LiveJournal''': http://community.livejournal.com/furaffinity/
** '''IRC''': [irc://irc.furnet.org/furaffinity #furaffinity] on [[FurNet (IRC)|FurNet]]
** '''Frapper''': http://www.frappr.com/furaffinity
** '''Second Life''': http://slurl.com/secondlife/Critter_Valley/158/130/28
* '''Administrators''':
** '''Owners:''' [[The Dragoneer]]
** '''Site Founder:''' [[Alkora]]
** '''Lead Admins''': [[Damaratus]], The Dragoneer
** '''Admins''': [[Ahkahna]], [[Bijoux]], [[Dave Hyena]], [[Fox Amoore]], [[Glaide]], [[Kyoujin]], [[Silverwolfe]] and [[Wicht]]
** '''Coders''': [[Eevee_(person)|Eevee]], [[Net-cat]], [[Tsawolf]], [[yak]]
** '''Server Administrator''': [[Gushi]]
* '''Ran from/to''':
** January 2005 - 1 August 2005 (coding/server problems)
** 10 December 2005 - present
{{WikiFurNews|Fur Affinity access disrupted amid ownership dispute}}
{{WikiFurNews|'Krystal sandwich' meme strikes Fur Affinity}}
== History ==

Fur Affinity was launched on January 16, 2005 as an alternative to SheezyArt with the forum going live on that date and the main site being transferred a few days later from [[FurPawz]].<ref>''[http://www.sheezyart.com/journal/51100/ Furaffinity.org information]'' - launch of forum on Furaffinity.net. Posted on SheezyArt, 16 January 2005.</ref><ref>''[http://www.sheezyart.com/journal/54575/ Furaffinity - note re. transfer of mainsite and 400+ users]''.

Posted on [[SheezyArt]], 21 January 2005.</ref> During that time period, Sheezy abruptly changed policies to both remove adult art and take a stronger stance against users and their uploads. Warnings were supposedly issued from the site's service provider, advising Sheezy Art that they were not permitted to host adult content on their site.

Much of Sheezy's community was abandoned after the rules change took effect. This migration left many with few alternatives. Many of those burned by SheezyArt went on to sites such as Fur Affinity and [[y!Gallery]]; when the latter decided to ban [[anthro art]] in May 2006, Fur Affinity gained further traffic.

==== Server problems ====

Fur Affinity had suffered from major security holes and a hacking in during Summer of 2005. The site was shut down on 1 August 2005 due to a disagreement between lead coder Jheryn and host provider [[Arcturus]], the primary administrators of the site. At that time Fur Affinity had 12,174 user accounts and nearly 100,000 submissions. Arcturus and supporters went on to found [[ArtPlz]].

Over the course of 2005, Fur Affinity was able to raise $1,500 in donations towards the purchase of new hardware for its primary server; a server which would, unfortunately, not realize itself until the middle of 2006. Thanks to the community, Fur Affinity was able to build a stronger, faster server than the site originally used for operation.

On August 11 2007, The Dragoneer's admin account was compromised at [[FA: United‎]] when he used the hotel's unencrypted [[Wikipedia:Wi-fi|Wi-Fi]] connection to access it.<ref>http://www.furaffinityforums.net/showthread.php?tid=11488 Thread by Preyfar on the FA forums about the August 2007 breach</ref><ref>http://www.furaffinityforums.net/showthread.php?tid=11484&pid=195037#pid195037 Post by Preyfar on the FA forums with a more elaborate account of the 2007 breach</ref>The first sign of trouble was a note left on the front page that announced the following:
{{q|Administrator notice: We're sorry, our vaginas are currently full of sand. We're makin' pearls here, folks! :D! FA:U rocks. We all got handjobs from Glaide and Damaratus. -- hacked by jheryn}}
Assurances were made that the password database had not been compromised, and the main site came back online 48 hours later. The FA forums were not affected by this breach.

==== New allocation ====

Fur Affinity returned to operation in December 2005 with a solid backbone and more efficient coding, although full operational status would not be reached until December 10 due to a defect in the ASUS motherboard which powered the server. During Fur Affinity's official re-opening on December 10th, over 10,000 submissions for music, art and writing were submitted to the site during its initial 12 hours. These submissions included imported art from returning users and pieces not previously posted.

Fur Affinity is assisting in the planning of a [[convention]] known as [[United!]], tentatively scheduled for August 2007.

== Features and rules ==

Fur Affinity's features for users include the ability to allow users to track new updates from particular [[artist]]s; highlight favorites; and upload a wide variety of art (images, music and stories). The site attempts to promote community through its comments system and individual journals.

While works of all ratings are accepted (other than ''photographic nudes and images whose intent are to slander or discredit others''<ref>[http://www.furaffinity.net/faq/ Fur Affinity FAQ]</ref>), art rated as mature or adult is not shown to visitors, or to users who have not specified it as a preference (which requires giving a date of birth indicating an age over 18). In addition, a tagging system is in use, but in the current version of the website software it doesn't have any effect on the site functionality, being used only as a visual addition to the submission page. Previously, users could browse and block the display of art based on these tags, but much like the search feature it was disabled due to performance issues, and haven't been brought back since.

Fur Affinity used to have a search feature that allowed users to search for specific art on the site, but this feature became disabled in mid-2006, listed as 'temporarily disabled', and a faux search feature was temporarily implemented on April Fool's Day, much to the chagrin of some users.

==== Pornographic cub art ====

August 2006 saw the restart of an internal administrative debate over the presence of [[pornographic]] underage furry artwork (or "cub art").<ref>''"[http://dragonmyr.deviantart.com/journal/10641590/ DA account reactivated -- FA Truths revealed]"''. Posted by [[Myr]] on November 6, 2006 and deleted several days after.</ref> Such art was forbidden by the site's Terms of Service, which specified that "depictions of sexually immature characters in any sexual situation are not permitted on Fur Affinity", but bans for this rule were not uniformly enforced. As with previous discussions, administrators could not come to an agreement on whether or not to modify site policy.<ref>[http://www.furaffinityforums.net/showthread.php?tid=4335&pid=63174#pid63174 Comment by The Dragoneer on previous attempts to solve the cub debate]. Posted on November 6, 2006.</ref> Over the following months the issue developed into a public debate, with forum polls and discussion suggesting that the site's members were divided on the topic.

On November 5, it was announced that such work would be allowed, with the requirement of mandatory tagging. The main reasons given for this decision were that no actual minors were harmed during the artwork's creation, and that depictions of many other illegal activities, such as rape, murder, and drug use, were permitted. Conversely, work that depicted [[human]] children, including [[anime characters]], in sexual situations was forbidden.<ref>''"[http://www.furaffinityforums.net/showthread.php?tid=4257&page=1 FA Policy Notice - "Cub" Art]"''. Posted by The Dragoneer on November 5, 2006.</ref> Some artists had threatened to leave the site if it was not forbidden, and some of these did so.

==== Ferrox code update ====

As of June 21, 2006 the site announced an impending upgrade to the site. FA opted to shed their previous naming convention (v1, v2 and v3) and go by codename for the major upgrade, known as "Ferrox". The code reached an estimated 60% completion before being pushed back to an early Winter/Spring 2007 release in effort to follow new quality and coding standards.

The effective release date is "when it's ready". Ferrox is not going to be released until the coding team feels it has undergone sufficient testing and bug hunting.

Features announced as introduced or improved upon are:
* A new user interface supporting better web programming standards, user-requested features and more streamlined navigation for ease-of-use
* Revised submission interfaces for art, music and stories to allow for faster, more accurate uploads and provide unique features for each artistic area
* Re-written server back-end to better support scalability and future upgrades
* Time-limited editable user comments
* Flood detection to prevent spam and abuse
* Enhanced site security focusing on account creation and content delivery
* A flexible keyword-based search system
* Communities, allowing users to post art directly to themed submission groups
* Community-sponsored error messages inspired by [[VCL]]
* Monthly themes and mini-contests where users can obtain ranks and profile enhancements
* Better integrated help and site information.

== Mascots ==

[[Fender]] is the Fur Affinity [[mascot]]. He was primarily created by artist [[K-9]], based upon a character concept by [[Preyfar]]. He is half [[fox]] and half [[ferret]].

A second mascot, [[Rednef]], a female dragon, was announced in May 2007. She has been shown in the Fur Affinity header on April 1, 2007.

Fender was displayed as a three-toed [[sloth]] for April Fools' Day 2008.

== Facts ==
* In less than a year since the site's re-launch, Fur Affinity gained over 45,000 users and over 300,000 submissions.
* The site transfers a daily average of nearly 80 GB of data and well over 10,000,000 individual files. The site's peak bandwidth record stands at 33.2Mbit.
* Alexa ranked Fur Affinity in the [http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?site0=www.furaffinity.net&site1=vclart.net&site2=&site3=&site4=&x=75&y=15&h=300&w=610&h=400&w=700&z=3&range=1y&size=medium&y=r&z=3&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.furaffinity.net top 4,000 sites] on the web as of 1 November 2007, showing greater traffic than the VCL for most of previous year. Fur Affinity has ranked as high as 3,475 on individual days.
* Account import strings began and ended with <tt>!pie!</tt>
* Fur Affinity gets approximately 2.5 million page hits per day (estimated on 01/11/2007).
* Fur Affinity reached its 1,000,000th submission on January 11th, 2008.

==== The hardware ====
There are currently three servers in use by Fur Affinity:
* Bahamut, the data storage server, is a dual core 2.0GHz Opteron 1212 with 2GB DDR2-667 RAM. Storage consists of 4x500GB Seagate Barracuda ES drives on a 3ware 9650SE-4LPML RAID controller, configured in RAID5+1.
* Tiamat, the DB backend server, is a twin dual core Opteron 2212 with 8GB DDR2-533 RAM. Storage consists of 4x74GB 10k SATA WD740ADFD hard drives on a 3ware 9650SE-4LPML hardware raid card, running in RAID10 configuration.
* Ghostlight, the wiki and forums server, is a virtual server held at a separate data center to ensure uptime even when primary site may be down.
* A fourth server is currently in the planning stages.

== References ==
<references />

== External links ==
*[http://irc.netsplit.de/channels/details.php?room=%23furaffinity&net=FurNet statistics of #furaffinity on FurNet IRC network] on irc.netsplit.de

[[Category:Mature art archives]][[Category:Mature story archives]][[Category:2005 births]]
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[[de:Fur Affinity]]

Fur Affinity

2008-04-15T03:03:47Z

68.82.114.249:

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[[Image:Fender.jpg|right|350px|Fender, drawn by Mutley James]]
'''Fur Affinity''' (commonly known as '''FurAffinity''') is one of the [[furry fandom]]'s largest communities, and the second largest [[furry]]-specific [[:Category:Art archives|art gallery]] after the [[VCL]]. It was created as an alternative to art community sites such as [[SheezyArt]] and [[deviantART]], promoting itself as allowing people from the furry/[[Anthropomorphic|anthro]] fandom to upload art, music and stories regardless of rating.

* '''Addresses''':
** '''Website''': http://www.furaffinity.net/
** '''Forums''': http://forums.furaffinity.net/
** '''Wiki''': http://www.wikiffinity.net/
** '''LiveJournal''': http://community.livejournal.com/furaffinity/
** '''IRC''': [irc://irc.furnet.org/furaffinity #furaffinity] on [[FurNet (IRC)|FurNet]]
** '''Frapper''': http://www.frappr.com/furaffinity
** '''Second Life''': http://slurl.com/secondlife/Critter_Valley/158/130/28
* '''Administrators''':
** '''Owners:''' [[The Dragoneer]]
** '''Site Founder:''' [[Alkora]]
** '''Lead Admins''': [[Damaratus]], The Dragoneer
** '''Admins''': [[Ahkahna]], [[Bijoux]], [[Dave Hyena]], [[Fox Amoore]], [[Glaide]], [[Kyoujin]], [[Silverwolfe]] and [[Wicht]]
** '''Coders''': [[Crypto]], [[Ice-Wolf]], and [[yak]]
** '''Server Administrator''': [[Gushi]]
* '''Ran from/to''':
** January 2005 - 1 August 2005 (coding/server problems)
** 10 December 2005 - present
{{WikiFurNews|Fur Affinity access disrupted amid ownership dispute}}
{{WikiFurNews|'Krystal sandwich' meme strikes Fur Affinity}}
== History ==

Fur Affinity was launched on January 16, 2005 as an alternative to SheezyArt with the forum going live on that date and the main site being transferred a few days later from [[FurPawz]].<ref>''[http://www.sheezyart.com/journal/51100/ Furaffinity.org information]'' - launch of forum on Furaffinity.net. Posted on SheezyArt, 16 January 2005.</ref><ref>''[http://www.sheezyart.com/journal/54575/ Furaffinity - note re. transfer of mainsite and 400+ users]''.

Posted on [[SheezyArt]], 21 January 2005.</ref> During that time period, Sheezy abruptly changed policies to both remove adult art and take a stronger stance against users and their uploads. Warnings were supposedly issued from the site's service provider, advising Sheezy Art that they were not permitted to host adult content on their site.

Much of Sheezy's community was abandoned after the rules change took effect. This migration left many with few alternatives. Many of those burned by SheezyArt went on to sites such as Fur Affinity and [[y!Gallery]]; when the latter decided to ban [[anthro art]] in May 2006, Fur Affinity gained further traffic.

==== Server problems ====

Fur Affinity had suffered from major security holes and a hacking in during Summer of 2005. The site was shut down on 1 August 2005 due to a disagreement between lead coder Jheryn and host provider [[Arcturus]], the primary administrators of the site. At that time Fur Affinity had 12,174 user accounts and nearly 100,000 submissions. Arcturus and supporters went on to found [[ArtPlz]].

Over the course of 2005, Fur Affinity was able to raise $1,500 in donations towards the purchase of new hardware for its primary server; a server which would, unfortunately, not realize itself until the middle of 2006. Thanks to the community, Fur Affinity was able to build a stronger, faster server than the site originally used for operation.

On August 11 2007, The Dragoneer's admin account was compromised at [[FA: United‎]] when he used the hotel's unencrypted [[Wikipedia:Wi-fi|Wi-Fi]] connection to access it.<ref>http://www.furaffinityforums.net/showthread.php?tid=11488 Thread by Preyfar on the FA forums about the August 2007 breach</ref><ref>http://www.furaffinityforums.net/showthread.php?tid=11484&pid=195037#pid195037 Post by Preyfar on the FA forums with a more elaborate account of the 2007 breach</ref>The first sign of trouble was a note left on the front page that announced the following:
{{q|Administrator notice: We're sorry, our vaginas are currently full of sand. We're makin' pearls here, folks! :D! FA:U rocks. We all got handjobs from Glaide and Damaratus. -- hacked by jheryn}}
Assurances were made that the password database had not been compromised, and the main site came back online 48 hours later. The FA forums were not affected by this breach.

==== New allocation ====

Fur Affinity returned to operation in December 2005 with a solid backbone and more efficient coding, although full operational status would not be reached until December 10 due to a defect in the ASUS motherboard which powered the server. During Fur Affinity's official re-opening on December 10th, over 10,000 submissions for music, art and writing were submitted to the site during its initial 12 hours. These submissions included imported art from returning users and pieces not previously posted.

Fur Affinity is assisting in the planning of a [[convention]] known as [[United!]], tentatively scheduled for August 2007.

== Features and rules ==

Fur Affinity's features for users include the ability to allow users to track new updates from particular [[artist]]s; highlight favorites; and upload a wide variety of art (images, music and stories). The site attempts to promote community through its comments system and individual journals.

While works of all ratings are accepted (other than ''photographic nudes and images whose intent are to slander or discredit others''<ref>[http://www.furaffinity.net/faq/ Fur Affinity FAQ]</ref>), art rated as mature or adult is not shown to visitors, or to users who have not specified it as a preference (which requires giving a date of birth indicating an age over 18). In addition, a tagging system is in use, but in the current version of the website software it doesn't have any effect on the site functionality, being used only as a visual addition to the submission page. Previously, users could browse and block the display of art based on these tags, but much like the search feature it was disabled due to performance issues, and haven't been brought back since.

Fur Affinity used to have a search feature that allowed users to search for specific art on the site, but this feature became disabled in mid-2006, listed as 'temporarily disabled', and a faux search feature was temporarily implemented on April Fool's Day, much to the chagrin of some users.

==== Pornographic cub art ====

August 2006 saw the restart of an internal administrative debate over the presence of [[pornographic]] underage furry artwork (or "cub art").<ref>''"[http://dragonmyr.deviantart.com/journal/10641590/ DA account reactivated -- FA Truths revealed]"''. Posted by [[Myr]] on November 6, 2006 and deleted several days after.</ref> Such art was forbidden by the site's Terms of Service, which specified that "depictions of sexually immature characters in any sexual situation are not permitted on Fur Affinity", but bans for this rule were not uniformly enforced. As with previous discussions, administrators could not come to an agreement on whether or not to modify site policy.<ref>[http://www.furaffinityforums.net/showthread.php?tid=4335&pid=63174#pid63174 Comment by The Dragoneer on previous attempts to solve the cub debate]. Posted on November 6, 2006.</ref> Over the following months the issue developed into a public debate, with forum polls and discussion suggesting that the site's members were divided on the topic.

On November 5, it was announced that such work would be allowed, with the requirement of mandatory tagging. The main reasons given for this decision were that no actual minors were harmed during the artwork's creation, and that depictions of many other illegal activities, such as rape, murder, and drug use, were permitted. Conversely, work that depicted [[human]] children, including [[anime characters]], in sexual situations was forbidden.<ref>''"[http://www.furaffinityforums.net/showthread.php?tid=4257&page=1 FA Policy Notice - "Cub" Art]"''. Posted by The Dragoneer on November 5, 2006.</ref> Some artists had threatened to leave the site if it was not forbidden, and some of these did so.
More then half of those who left, however, have decided to give FA another chance.

==== Ferrox code update ====

As of June 21, 2006 the site announced an impending upgrade to the site. FA opted to shed their previous naming convention (v1, v2 and v3) and go by codename for the major upgrade, known as "Ferrox". The code reached an estimated 60% completion before being pushed back to an early Winter/Spring 2007 release in effort to follow new quality and coding standards.

The effective release date is "when it's ready". Ferrox is not going to be released until the coding team feels it has undergone sufficient testing and bug hunting.

Features announced as introduced or improved upon are:
* A new user interface supporting better web programming standards, user-requested features and more streamlined navigation for ease-of-use
* Revised submission interfaces for art, music and stories to allow for faster, more accurate uploads and provide unique features for each artistic area
* Re-written server back-end to better support scalability and future upgrades
* Time-limited editable user comments
* Flood detection to prevent spam and abuse
* Enhanced site security focusing on account creation and content delivery
* A flexible keyword-based search system
* Communities, allowing users to post art directly to themed submission groups
* Community-sponsored error messages inspired by [[VCL]]
* Monthly themes and mini-contests where users can obtain ranks and profile enhancements
* Better integrated help and site information.

== Mascots ==

[[Fender]] is the Fur Affinity [[mascot]]. He was primarily created by artist [[K-9]], based upon a character concept by [[Preyfar]]. He is half [[fox]] and half [[ferret]].

A second mascot, [[Rednef]], a female dragon, was announced in May 2007. She has been shown in the Fur Affinity header on April 1, 2007.

Fender was displayed as a three-toed [[sloth]] for April Fools' Day 2008.

== Facts ==
* In less than a year since the site's re-launch, Fur Affinity gained over 45,000 users and over 300,000 submissions.
* The site transfers a daily average of nearly 80 GB of data and well over 10,000,000 individual files. The site's peak bandwidth record stands at 33.2Mbit.
* Alexa ranked Fur Affinity in the [http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?site0=www.furaffinity.net&site1=vclart.net&site2=&site3=&site4=&x=75&y=15&h=300&w=610&h=400&w=700&z=3&range=1y&size=medium&y=r&z=3&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.furaffinity.net top 4,000 sites] on the web as of 1 November 2007, showing greater traffic than the VCL for most of previous year. Fur Affinity has ranked as high as 3,475 on individual days.
* Account import strings began and ended with <tt>!pie!</tt>
* Fur Affinity gets approximately 2.5 million page hits per day (estimated on 01/11/2007).
* Fur Affinity reached its 1,000,000th submission on January 11th, 2008.

==== The hardware ====
There are currently three servers in use by Fur Affinity:
* Bahamut, the data storage server, is a dual core 2.0GHz Opteron 1212 with 2GB DDR2-667 RAM. Storage consists of 4x500GB Seagate Barracuda ES drives on a 3ware 9650SE-4LPML RAID controller, configured in RAID5+1.
* Tiamat, the DB backend server, is a twin dual core Opteron 2212 with 8GB DDR2-533 RAM. Storage consists of 4x74GB 10k SATA WD740ADFD hard drives on a 3ware 9650SE-4LPML hardware raid card, running in RAID10 configuration.
* Ghostlight, the wiki and forums server, is a virtual server held at a separate data center to ensure uptime even when primary site may be down.
* A fourth server is currently in the planning stages.

== References ==
<references />

== External links ==
*[http://irc.netsplit.de/channels/details.php?room=%23furaffinity&net=FurNet statistics of #furaffinity on FurNet IRC network] on irc.netsplit.de

[[Category:Mature art archives]][[Category:Mature story archives]][[Category:2005 births]]
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[[de:Fur Affinity]]

Fur Affinity

2006-11-26T23:51:07Z

68.82.114.249: FA Ferrox update - "I'm not dead!"

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[[Image:Fender.jpg|right|350px|Fender, drawn by Mutley James]]
'''Fur Affinity''' is one of the [[furry fandom]]'s largest communities, and the second largest [[furry]]-specific [[:Category:Art archives|art gallery]] after the [[VCL]]. It was created as an alternative to art community sites such as [[SheezyArt]] and [[deviantART]], promoting itself as allowing people from the furry/[[Anthropomorphic|anthro]] fandoms to upload art, music and stories regardless of rating.

* '''Addresses''':
** '''Website''': http://www.furaffinity.net/
** '''Forums''': http://www.furaffinityforums.net/
** '''[[LiveJournal]]''': http://community.livejournal.com/furaffinity/
** '''[[IRC]]''': [irc://irc.furnet.org/furaffinity #furaffinity] on [[FurNet (IRC)|FurNet]]
* '''Ran from/to''':
** February 2005 - 1 August 2005, 10 December 2005 - present

== Features ==

Features that separate Fur Affinity from most other furry art archives include the ability to allow users to track new updates from their favorite [[artist]]s, highlight favorites and upload a wide variety of art (images, music and stories). The site attempts to promote community through its comments system and individual journals.

While works of all ratings are accepted (other than 'photographic nudes, "[[cub]]" related [[pornography]] and images whose intent are to slander or discredit others'<ref>[http://www.furaffinity.net/faq/ Fur Affinity FAQ]</ref>), art rated as mature or adult is not shown to visitors, or to users who have not specified it as a preference (which requires giving a date of birth resulting in an age over 18). In addition, a tagging system is in use, and users may browse or block the display of art based on these tags.

== Administrators ==

* '''Admin Team Lead''': [[The Dragoneer]]
* '''Admins''': [[Damaratus]], [[Glaide]], [[Killy the Fox]], [[Pinkuh]], [[Silver R. Wolfe]] and [[Uncia]]
* '''Coder Team Lead''': [[Jheryn Lightfoot]] (Alkora)
* '''Coders''': [[Shin Ice Wolf]], [[The Crypto]] and [[yak]]
* '''Server Administrator''': [[Gushi]]
* '''Moderators''': [[Silver R. Wolfe]]

'''See also:''' [http://www.furaffinity.net/staff/ Fur Affinity staff page]

== History ==
Fur Affinity was launched at the beginning of January 2005 as an alternative to SheezyArt. During that time period, Sheezy abruptly changed policies to both remove adult art and take a stronger stance against users and their uploads. Warnings were supposedly issued from the site's service provider, advising Sheezy Art that they were not permitted to host adult content on their site. Much of Sheezy's community was abandoned after the rules change took effect. This migration left many with few alternatives. Many of those burned by SheezyArt went on to sites such as Fur Affinity and [[y!Gallery]]; when the latter decided to ban [[anthro art]] in May 2006, Fur Affinity gained further traffic.

Fur Affinity had suffered from major security holes and a hacking in during Summer of 2005. The site was shut down on 1 August 2005 due to a disagreement between lead coder Jheryn and host provider [[Arcturus]], the primary administrators of the site.<ref>''[http://www.nothingkat.com/confession/furaffinity.htm Plot Holes and Smut Alleyways]'' - criticism of Fur Affinity's past and concern for its future, 24 July 2006, [[Nothingkat.com]]</ref> At that time Fur Affinity had 12,174 user accounts and nearly 100,000 submissions. Arcturus and supporters went on to found [[ArtPlz]].

Over the course of 2005, Fur Affinity was able to raise $1,500 in donations towards the purchase of new hardware for its primary server; a server which would, unfortunately, not realize itself until the middle of 2006. Thanks to the community, Fur Affinity was able to build a stronger, faster server than the site originally used for operation.

Fur Affinity returned to operation in December 2005 with a solid backbone and more efficient coding, although full operational status would not be reached until December 10 due to a defect in the ASUS motherboard which powered the server.

There are currently two servers in use by Fur Affinity. The primary server, Gecko, is a dual processor Intel Xeon 3.0Ghz system with 4GB of RAM, currently housed in a Weehawken, [[Wikipedia:New Jersey|New Jersey]] [[Wikipedia:Level 3 Communications|Level 3]] [[Wikipedia:Colocation centre|co-location facility]]. The second server, Phoenix Down, is an AMD Athlon 64 3200+ with 1GB of RAM and is used to store an identical 1:1 copy of the website in the event of hardware failure. Phoenix Down is located at an office at the foothills of Hawk Mountain, near Allentown, PA.

Fur Affinity is assisting in the planning of a [[convention]] known as [[United!]], tentatively scheduled for August 2007.

=== Pornographic cub art ===

August 2006 saw the restart of an internal administrative debate over the presence of [[pornographic]] underage furry artwork (or "cub art").<ref>''"[http://dragonmyr.deviantart.com/journal/10641590/ DA account reactivated -- FA Truths revealed]"''. Posted by [[Myr]] on November 6, 2006.</ref> Such art was forbidden by the site's Terms of Service, which specified that "depictions of sexually immature characters in any sexual situation are not permitted on Fur Affinity", but bans for this rule were not uniformly enforced. As with previous discussions, administrators could not come to an agreement on whether or not to modify site policy.<ref>[http://www.furaffinityforums.net/showthread.php?tid=4335&pid=63174#pid63174 Comment by The Dragoneer on previous attempts to solve the cub debate]. Posted on November 6, 2006.</ref> Over the following months the issue developed into a public debate, with forum polls and discussion suggesting that the site's members were divided on the topic.

On November 5 it was announced that such work would be allowed, with the requirement of mandatory tagging. The main reasons given for this decision were that no actual minors were harmed during the artwork's creation, and that depictions of many other illegal activities, such as rape, murder, and drug use, were permitted. Conversely, work that depicted [[human]] children, including [[anime characters]], in sexual situations was forbidden.<ref>''"[http://www.furaffinityforums.net/showthread.php?tid=4257&page=1 FA Policy Notice - "Cub" Art]"''. Posted by [[The Dragoneer]] on November 5, 2006.</ref> Some artists had threatened to leave the site if it was not forbidden, and some of these did so.

=== Ferrox code update ===
As of June 21, 2006 the site announced an impending upgrade to the site. FA opted to shed their previous naming convention (v1, v2 and v3) and go by codename for the major upgrade, known as "Ferrox". The code reached an estimated 60% completion before being pushed back to an early Winter/Spring 2007 release in effort to follow new quality and coding standards.

The effective release date is "when it's ready". Ferrox is not going to be released until the coding team feels it has undergone sufficient testing and bug hunting.

Features announced as introduced or improved upon are:
* A new user interface supporting better web programming standards, user-requested features and more streamlined navigation for ease-of-use
* Revised submission interfaces for art, music and stories to allow for faster, more accurate uploads and provide unique features for each artistic area
* Re-written server back-end to better support scalability and future upgrades
* Time-limited editable user comments
* Flood detection to prevent spam and abuse
* Enhanced site security focusing on account creation and content delivery
* A flexible keyword-based search system
* Communities, allowing users to post art directly to themed submission groups
* Community-sponsored error messages inspired by [[VCL]]
* Monthly themes and mini-contests where users can obtain ranks and profile enhancements
* Better integrated help and site information.

== Fender ==
[[Image:Fender2.jpg|right|thumb|280px|Fender, drawn by [[Mutley James]]]]
[[Fender]] is the Fur Affinity [[mascot]]. He was primarily created by artist [[K-9]] upon an idea by [[Preyfar]]. K-9 is one of the individuals behind the [[comic]] ''[[Circles]]''. The site currently employs a version of Fender (which can be found in the header) drawn by various guest artists to reflect the monthly theme of the site.

Half [[fox]] and half [[ferret]], Fender was born in an attempt to give the site a unique figurehead to whom people could turn for questions and answers regarding the site. This was done in an attempt to dissuade grandstanding by admins using the site as a pedestal for their own popularity.

Fender is most often mistaken as being a [[raccoon]].

== Facts ==
* During Fur Affinity's official re-opening on December 10th, over 10,000 submissions for music, art and writing had been submitted to the site during its initial 12 hours. The amount of submissions is a tally of both imported art from returning users as well as all new artistic pieces.
* In less than a year since the site's re-launch, Fur Affinity gained over 30,000 users and over 200,000 submissions (based on data collected between December 10, 2005 and August 20, 2006).
* The site transfers a daily average of nearly 80 GB of data and well over 10,000,000 individual files. The site's peak bandwidth record stands at 20.1Mbit.
* Alexa ranked Fur Affinity in the [http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=1y&size=medium&compare_sites=vclart.net&y=r&url=http%2525253A%2525252F%2525252Fwww.furaffinity.net%2525252F#top top 25,000 sites] on the web as of 20 August 2006, showing equal or greater traffic than the VCL for the prior month. Fur Affinity ranked as high as 15,000 on individual days, but the total ranking has suffered due to intermittent downtime.
* Account import strings began and ended with <tt>!pie!</tt>
* Fur Affinity gets approximately 800,000 page hits per day (estimated on 10/01/2006).

== References ==
<references />

== External links ==

* [http://www.frappr.com/furaffinity Fur Affinity user Frappr map]

[[Category:Mature art archives]][[Category:Mature story archives]][[Category:2005 births]]
{{featured article}}

Anthrocon 2002

2006-11-22T02:06:30Z

68.82.114.249: Updating Preyfar's name in Con Ops.

{{Anthrocon}}
The [[Anthrocon 2002]] [[furry convention]] was held at the Philadelphia [[Adam's Mark]] Hotel between July 12 (Friday) and 14 (Sunday). The year's theme was "Invention".

==Guests of Honor==
* [[Heather Bruton]]
* [[Lisanne Norman]]
The convention also noted two special guests, [[Herbie Hammill]] and [[Josette DeCarlo]].

==Staff==
* '''Chairman''': [[Uncle Kage|Samuel Conway]]
* '''Operations''': [[Matt Adey]], [[Tom Brady]], [[Grandpa Kage|Sam "Grandpa Kage" Conway]], [[Wilma Conway]], [[Patrick Dowden]], [[Ryan Gates]], [[Dan Hauschild]], [[Dan Mayall]], [[Doug Muth]], [[Evan Ostroski]], [[Preyfar]], [[Mark Shapiro]], [[Jesse Stringer]], [[Dave Wiilson]]
* '''Art show''': [[Andrian]], [[Tony Bassette Jr]], [[Capricia Bruns]], [[James Eden]], [[Falbert]], [[Dale Farmer]], [[Simtra Firefox]], [[Jos. Harrison]], [[Tara A. Maune]], [[Karl F. Meyers]], [[PeterCat]] (director), [[J. Scott Rogers]], [[Will A. Sanborn]], [[Smrgol]]
* '''Internet room''': [[Gene Angel]], [[George Nemeyer]] (director), [[Jason Williams]]
* '''Support''': [[Robert Armstrong]], [[James Augur]], [[Dave Belfer-Shevett]], [[Steve Bornstein]], [[Steve Conley]], [[George Cunningham]], [[Tristan Danner]], [[W. Michael Dooley]], [[Clare Duxbury]], [[Daniel Hammond]], [[Amy Heller]], [[Corben Henry]], [[Andrew Hicks]], [[Caro Johnson]], [[Brian Kinnison]], [[Adrian Kruger]], [[Amanda MaGee]], [[Jay Naylor]], [[Matt Roush]], [[Kurt Schiller]], [[Jennifer Scott]], [[Steve Scott]], [[Don Shaffer]], [[Brian Smith]]
* '''Registration''': [[Dave Belfer-Shevett]] (director), [[Andrew Hicks]] (coordinator)
* '''Security ([[Dorsai Irregulars]])''': [[Michael Bellinger]], [[Carol Gobeyn]], [[Rene Gobeyn]], [[Joanne Hall]], [[John Hall]], [[Donna Long]], [[Eric Long]], [[David M. Stein]]
* '''Programming''': [[Vicki Bloom]] (gaming track advisor), [[Kristina Davis]] (writing track advisor), [[Becky Fish]] (track advisor-in-training), [[Sue P]] (artists' track advisor), [[Susan Parkin]] (director), [[Stephonie Williams]] (assistant, general track advisor), [[Francine Wolf-Johnson]] (spirituality track advisor)
* '''Charity auction/Masquerade''': [[Ryan Dewalt]], [[J. Scotty Emerle]], [[Brian Harris]] (director), [[B. J. Hughes]] (masquerade staff, M.C.), [[Paul Kellogg]], [[Candy Lewin]], [[Jason Murdock]], [[Mike Pierce]], [[Mark Shapiro]], [[T. J. Sittner]], [[Jesse Stringer]], [[Ken Suzuki]]
* '''Dance''': [[Genki]] (Friday night DJ), [[Brian Harris]] (Saturday DJ), [[Kevin Kelm]] (coordinator)
* '''Media services''': [[Scott Gosik]], [[Kevin Kane]], [[Phillip Pollard]] (director)
* '''Con suite''': [[Frederick Grimm]], [[Cynthia Moreno]]
* '''Audio-visual''': [[Steve Hopps]], [[Kevin Kelm]], [[Louise Smith]], [[Erin Washington]]
* '''Dealers Room''': [[Rachel Hugg]], [[Karl Meyer]], [[Phaedra Meyer]]
* '''Press services''': [[Karl Jorgensen]], [[Diane Sawyer]]
* '''Video room''': [[Ray Rooney]]
* '''Volunteer table''': [[Edward Rutkowski|Edward]] and [[Margaret Rutkowski]]

==Con book==
The programme book was 72 black-and-white pages with a color wrap-around cover illustrated with a ''Smilodon'' design. Publishing was directed by [[Stacey Wenkel]]. Interior illustrations were contributed by the following artists:
* [[Heather Bruton]], [[Steve Carter]], [[Po Shan Cheah]], [[Amy M. Cott]], [[DarkWolfie]], [[Cirrel|Phil Eggerding]], [[Joe Ekaitis]], [[FirestormSix]], [[FlepKitsu]], [[Grimal]], [[Herbie Hamill]], [[JessK]], [[David Koppenhaver]], [[Loopy]], [[Matt McAndrews]], [[Julie Miyamoto]], [[C. K. Penchant]], [[Roy D. Pounds II]], [[Christine Marie Reynolds]], [[Chris Sawyer]], [[Terminotaur]], and [[Neil Weber]].

[[Category:Conventions]]
[[Category:Pennsylvania]]
[[Category:2002 events]]

Fur Affinity

2006-09-23T22:48:54Z

68.82.114.249: Reverted Link - Uncia (aka Uncia2000) s NOT Unciaa. Both are on FA, however.

{{LinkingSupporter}}
[[Image:Fender.jpg|right|350px|Fender, drawn by Mutley James]]
'''Fur Affinity''' is one of the [[furry fandom]]'s largest communities, and the second largest [[furry]]-specific [[:Category:Art archives|art gallery]] after the [[VCL]]. It was created as an alternative to art community sites such as [[SheezyArt]] and [[deviantART]], promoting itself as allowing people from the furry/[[Anthropomorphic|anthro]] fandoms to upload art, music and stories regardless of rating.

* '''Addresses''':
** '''Website''': http://www.furaffinity.net/
** '''Forums''': http://www.furaffinityforums.net/
** '''[[LiveJournal]]''': http://community.livejournal.com/furaffinity/
** '''[[IRC]]''': [irc://irc.furnet.org/furaffinity #furaffinity] on [[FurNet (IRC)|FurNet]]
* '''Ran from/to''':
** February 2005 - 1 August 2005, 10 December 2005 - present

== Features ==

Features that separate Fur Affinity from most other furry art archives include the ability to allow users to track new updates from their favorite [[artist]]s, highlight favorites and upload a wide variety of art (images, music and stories). The site attempts to promote community through its comments system and individual journals.

While works of all ratings are accepted (other than 'photographic nudes, "[[cub]]" related [[pornography]] and images whose intent are to slander or discredit others'<ref>[http://www.furaffinity.net/faq/ Fur Affinity FAQ]</ref>), art rated as mature or adult is not shown to visitors, or to users who have not specified it as a preference (which requires giving a date of birth resulting in an age over 18). In addition, a tagging system is in use, and users may browse or block the display of art based on these tags.

== Administrators ==

* '''Admin Team Lead''': [[The Dragoneer]]
* '''Admins''': [[Arrow Tibbs]], [[Damaratus]], [[DragonMyr]], [[Glaide]], [[Killy the Fox]], [[Marthaen]], [[Pinkuh]], [[Scooter]], [[Uncia]] and [[Vitae]]
* '''Coder Team Lead''': [[Jheryn Lightfoot]] (Alkora)
* '''Coders''': [[The Crypto]] and [[yak]]
* '''Server Administrator''': [[Gushi]]
* '''Moderators''': [[Silver R. Wolfe]]

'''See also:''' [http://www.furaffinity.net/staff/ Fur Affinity staff page]

== History ==
Fur Affinity was launched at the beginning of January 2005 as an alternative to SheezyArt. During that time period, Sheezy abruptly changed policies to both remove adult art and take a stronger stance against users and their uploads. Warnings were supposedly issued from the site's service provider, advising Sheezy Art that they were not permitted to host adult content on their site. Much of Sheezy's community was abandoned after the rules change took effect. This migration left many with few alternatives. Many of those burned by SheezyArt went on to sites such as Fur Affinity and [[y!Gallery]]; when the latter decided to ban [[anthro art]] in May 2006, Fur Affinity gained further traffic.

Fur Affinity had suffered from major security holes and a hacking in during Summer of 2005. The site was shut down on 1 August 2005 due to a disagreement between lead coder Jheryn and host provider [[Arcturus]], the primary administrators of the site.<ref>''[http://www.nothingkat.com/confession/furaffinity.htm Plot Holes and Smut Alleyways]'' - criticism of Fur Affinity's past and concern for its future, 24 July 2006, [[Nothingkat.com]]</ref> At that time Fur Affinity had 12,174 user accounts and nearly 100,000 submissions. Arcturus and supporters went on to found [[ArtPlz]].

Over the course of 2005, Fur Affinity was able to raise $1,500 in donations towards the purchase of new hardware for its primary server; a server which would, unfortunately, not realize itself until the middle of 2006. Thanks to the community, Fur Affinity was able to build a stronger, faster server than the site originally used for operation.

Fur Affinity returned to operation in December 2005 with a solid backbone and more efficient coding, although full operational status would not be reached until December 10 due to a defect in the ASUS motherboard which powered the server.

There are currently two servers in use by Fur Affinity. The primary server, Gecko, is a dual processor Intel Xeon 3.0Ghz system with 4GB of RAM, currently housed in a Weehawken, [[Wikipedia:New Jersey|New Jersey]] [[Wikipedia:Level 3 Communications|Level 3]] [[Wikipedia:Colocation centre|co-location facility]]. The second server, Phoenix Down, is an AMD Athlon 64 3200+ with 1GB of RAM and is used to store an identical 1:1 copy of the website in the event of hardware failure. Phoenix Down is located at an office at the foothills of Hawk Mountain, near Allentown, PA.

Fur Affinity is currently assisting in the planning of a [[convention]] known as [[United!]], tentatively scheduled for August 2007.

=== Ferrox code update ===
As of June 21, 2006 the site announced an impending upgrade to the site. FA opted to shed their previous naming convention (v1, v2 and v3) and go by a codename for the major upgrade. The 2006 Summer Upgrade for Fur Affinity is currently known as "Project Ferrox".

Features announced as introduced or improved upon were:
* A new user interface which supports better web programming standards, user-requested features and more streamlined navigation for ease-of-use.
* Revised submission interfaces for art, music and stories to allow for faster, more accurate uploads and provide unique features for each artistic area.
* A re-written server back-end to better support scalability and future upgrades.
* Time-limited editable user comments (to prevent abuse).
* Flood detection to prevent spam
* Enhanced site security from account creation to content delivery.
* A more flexible keyword-based search system.
* Groups and Communities
* Community-sponsored error messages inspired by [[VCL]].
* Monthly themes and mini-contests where users can obtain ranks and profile enhancements.
* [[LiveJournal]]-like account upgrades to allow users to purchase extended features and customizations to make their FA user page stand out.
* Better integrated help and site information.

== Fender ==
[[Image:Fender2.jpg|right|thumb|280px|Fender, drawn by [[Mutley James]]]]
[[Fender]] is the Fur Affinity [[mascot]]. He was primarily created by artist [[K-9]] upon an idea by [[Preyfar]]. K-9 is one of the individuals behind the [[comic]] ''[[Circles]]''. The site currently employs a version of Fender (which can be found in the header) drawn by various guest artists to reflect the monthly theme of the site.

Being half [[fox]], half [[ferret]], and all personality, Fender was born in an attempt to give the site a unique figurehead to whom people could turn for questions and answers regarding the site. This was done in an attempt to dissuade grandstanding by admins using the site as a pedestal for their own popularity.

Fender is most often mistaken as being a [[raccoon]].

== Facts ==
* During Fur Affinity's official re-opening on December 10th, over 10,000 submissions for music, art and writing had been submit to the site during its initial 12 hours. The amount of submissions is a tally of both imported art from returning users as well as all new artistic pieces.
* In less than a year since the site's re-launch, Fur Affinity gained over 30,000 users and over 200,000 submissions (based on data collected between December 10, 2005 and August 20, 2006).
* The site transfers a daily average of nearly 80 GB of data and well over 10,000,000 individual files. The site's peak bandwidth record stands at 20.1Mbit.
* Alexa ranked Fur Affinity in the [http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=1y&size=medium&compare_sites=vclart.net&y=r&url=http%2525253A%2525252F%2525252Fwww.furaffinity.net%2525252F#top top 25,000 sites] on the web as of 20 August 2006, showing equal or greater traffic than the VCL for the prior month. Fur Affinity ranked as high as 15,000 on individual days, but the total ranking has suffered due to intermittent downtime.
* Account import strings began and ended with <tt>!pie!</tt>

== References ==
<references />

== External links ==

* [http://www.frappr.com/furaffinity Fur Affinity user Frappr map]

[[Category:Mature art archives]][[Category:Mature story archives]][[Category:2005 births]]
{{featured article}}

Fur Affinity

2006-09-19T22:45:45Z

68.82.114.249:

{{LinkingSupporter}}
[[Image:Fender.jpg|right|350px|Fender, drawn by Mutley James]]
'''Fur Affinity''' is one of the [[furry fandom]]'s largest communities, and the second largest [[furry]]-specific [[:Category:Art archives|art gallery]] after the [[VCL]]. It was created as an alternative to art community sites such as [[SheezyArt]] and [[deviantART]], promoting itself as allowing people from the furry/[[Anthropomorphic|anthro]] fandoms to upload art, music and stories regardless of rating.

* '''Addresses''':
** '''Website''': http://www.furaffinity.net/
** '''Forums''': http://www.furaffinityforums.net/
** '''[[LiveJournal]]''': http://community.livejournal.com/furaffinity/
** '''[[IRC]]''': [irc://irc.furnet.org/furaffinity #furaffinity] on [[FurNet (IRC)|FurNet]]
* '''Ran from/to''':
** February 2005 - 1 August 2005, 10 December 2005 - present

== Features ==

Features that separate Fur Affinity from most other furry art archives include the ability to allow users to track new updates from their favorite [[artist]]s, highlight favorites and upload a wide variety of art (images, music and stories). The site attempts to promote community through its comments system and individual journals.

While works of all ratings are accepted (other than 'photographic nudes, "[[cub]]" related [[pornography]] and images whose intent are to slander or discredit others'<ref>[http://www.furaffinity.net/faq/ Fur Affinity FAQ]</ref>), art rated as mature or adult is not shown to visitors, or to users who have not specified it as a preference (which requires giving a date of birth resulting in an age over 18). In addition, a tagging system is in use, and users may browse or block the display of art based on these tags.

== Administrators ==

* '''Admin Team Lead''': [[The Dragoneer]]
* '''Admins''': [[Arrow Tibbs]], [[Damaratus]], [[DragonMyr]], [[Glaide]], [[Killy the Fox]], [[Marthaen]], [[Pinkuh]], [[Scooter]], [[Uncia]] and [[Vitae]]
* '''Coder Team Lead''': [[Jheryn Lightfoot]] (Alkora)
* '''Coders''': [[The Crypto]] and [[yak]]
* '''Server Administrator''': [[Gushi]]
* '''Moderators''': [[Silver R. Wolfe]]

'''See also:''' [http://www.furaffinity.net/staff/ Fur Affinity staff page]

== History ==
Fur Affinity was launched at the beginning of January 2005 as an alternative to SheezyArt. During that time period, Sheezy abruptly changed policies to both remove adult art and take a stronger stance against users and their uploads. Warnings were supposedly issued from the site's service provider, advising Sheezy Art that they were not permitted to host adult content on their site. Much of Sheezy's community was abandoned after the rules change took effect. This migration left many with few alternatives. Many of those burned by SheezyArt went on to sites such as Fur Affinity and [[y!Gallery]]; when the latter decided to ban [[anthro art]] in May 2006, Fur Affinity gained further traffic.

Fur Affinity had suffered from major security holes and a hacking in during Summer of 2005. The site was shut down on 1 August 2005 due to a disagreement between lead coder Jheryn and host provider [[Arcturus]], the primary administrators of the site.<ref>''[http://www.nothingkat.com/confession/furaffinity.htm Plot Holes and Smut Alleyways]'' - criticism of Fur Affinity's past and concern for its future, 24 July 2006, [[Nothingkat.com]]</ref> At that time Fur Affinity had 12,174 user accounts and nearly 100,000 submissions. Arcturus and supporters went on to found [[ArtPlz]].

Over the course of 2005, Fur Affinity was able to raise $1,500 in donations towards the purchase of new hardware for its primary server; a server which would, unfortunately, not realize itself until the middle of 2006. Thanks to the community, Fur Affinity was able to build a stronger, faster server than the site originally used for operation.

Fur Affinity returned to operation in December 2005 with a solid backbone and more efficient coding, although full operational status would not be reached until December 10 due to a defect in the ASUS motherboard which powered the server.

There are currently two servers in use by Fur Affinity. The primary server, Gecko, is a dual processor Intel Xeon 3.0Ghz system with 4GB of RAM, currently housed in a Weehawken, [[Wikipedia:New Jersey|New Jersey]] [[Wikipedia:Level 3 Communications|Level 3]] [[Wikipedia:Colocation centre|co-location facility]]. The second server, Phoenix Down, is an AMD Athlon 64 3200+ with 1GB of RAM and is used to store an identical 1:1 copy of the website in the event of hardware failure. Phoenix Down is located at an office at the foothills of Hawk Mountain, near Allentown, PA.

Fur Affinity is currently assisting in the planning of a [[convention]] known as [[United!]], tentatively scheduled for August 2007.

=== Ferrox code update ===
As of June 21, 2006 the site announced an impending upgrade to the site. FA opted to shed their previous naming convention (v1, v2 and v3) and go by a codename for the major upgrade. The 2006 Summer Upgrade for Fur Affinity is currently known as "Project Ferrox".

Features announced as introduced or improved upon were:
* A new user interface which supports better web programming standards, user-requested features and more streamlined navigation for ease-of-use.
* Revised submission interfaces for art, music and stories to allow for faster, more accurate uploads and provide unique features for each artistic area.
* A re-written server back-end to better support scalability and future upgrades.
* Time-limited editable user comments (to prevent abuse).
* Flood detection to prevent spam
* Enhanced site security from account creation to content delivery.
* A more flexible keyword-based search system.
* Groups and Communities
* Community-sponsored error messages inspired by [[VCL]].
* Monthly themes and mini-contests where users can obtain ranks and profile enhancements.
* [[LiveJournal]]-like account upgrades to allow users to purchase extended features and customizations to make their FA user page stand out.
* Better integrated help and site information.

== Fender ==
[[Image:Fender2.jpg|right|thumb|280px|Fender, drawn by [[Mutley James]]]]
[[Fender]] is the Fur Affinity [[mascot]]. He was primarily created by artist [[K-9]] upon an idea by [[Preyfar]]. K-9 is one of the individuals behind the [[comic]] ''[[Circles]]''. The site currently employs a version of Fender (which can be found in the header) drawn by various guest artists to reflect the monthly theme of the site.

Being half [[fox]], half [[ferret]], and all personality, Fender was born in an attempt to give the site a unique figurehead to whom people could turn for questions and answers regarding the site. This was done in an attempt to dissuade grandstanding by admins using the site as a pedestal for their own popularity.

Fender is most often mistaken as being a [[raccoon]].

== Facts ==
* During Fur Affinity's official re-opening on December 10th, over 10,000 submissions for music, art and writing had been submit to the site during its initial 12 hours. The amount of submissions is a tally of both imported art from returning users as well as all new artistic pieces.
* In less than a year since the site's re-launch, Fur Affinity gained over 30,000 users and over 200,000 submissions (based on data collected between December 10, 2005 and August 20, 2006).
* The site transfers a daily average of nearly 80 GB of data and well over 10,000,000 individual files. The site's peak bandwidth record stands at 20.1Mbit.
* Alexa ranked Fur Affinity in the [http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=1y&size=medium&compare_sites=vclart.net&y=r&url=http%2525253A%2525252F%2525252Fwww.furaffinity.net%2525252F#top top 25,000 sites] on the web as of 20 August 2006, showing equal or greater traffic than the VCL for the prior month. Fur Affinity ranked as high as 15,000 on individual days, but the total ranking has suffered due to intermittent downtime.
* Account import strings began and ended with <tt>!pie!</tt>

== References ==
<references />

== External links ==

* [http://www.frappr.com/furaffinity Fur Affinity user Frappr map]

[[Category:Mature art archives]][[Category:Mature story archives]][[Category:2005 births]]
{{featured article}}

Kimberleigh Ann Keister

2006-01-29T07:46:25Z

68.82.114.249: Reverted, with FA addition.

{{NPOV}}

'''Kimberleigh Ann Keister''' (also known as '''KAK''', '''Kimmah''', and '''Kimmaugh''', and '''KOOK''', '''HamBeast''', or the '''KAK-Beast''' by her detractors) is a former [[furry]] best known for controversial activities in regard with [[furry fandom]], especially concerning [[Road Rovers]].

Because of her behavior, it has been occasionally theorized that she is a hoax. Also in public doubt are her claims of being an [[animator]] with ties to the [[Walt Disney]] corporation.

==History==
Kim first came to public attention when she became involved in [[Road Rovers]], blending in with the community by participating in art trades, conversation, and other social activities.

Eventually she became acquaintances with [[Kylen Miles]], an artist in the fandom, and an animation student at [[Loyola Marymount University]]. Kimmaugh soon appeared to emulate her in controversial ways, allegedly drawing characters that closely resembled Kylen's and tracing Kylen's drawings and passing them off as her own.

There is much speculation as to what caused Kim's participation in the ''Road Rovers'' community to go sour.

==Controversy==
With growing disagreement between herself and the ''Road Rovers'' community at large, she became estranged from it. In return, she criticized its members through several mediums, including furry [[message board]]s, [[LiveJournal]]s, and [[newsgroup]]s. She claimed that Kylen Miles had actually copied ''her'' art, and that Kylen was stalking her.

KAK was recently banned from [[FurAffinity]] after fabricating a story in which, as she claimed, "dedicated hackers" were constantly hijacking her account and posting dozens of new posts in what would have been the span of five minutes. She threatened the site's admins with legal action through the FBI's "special internet crime department" and was banned from the site after IP logs of her account activity prooved that no one but herself had accessed the account since its creation.

==Notoriety==
The controversy received additional public attention when her site, [http://www.geocities.com/wintermiststudios1/ Wintermist Productions], was [http://www.portalofevil.com/single.php?poeurlid=000019171 featured] on [[Portal of Evil]] in 2002. From that time onward the [http://friends.portalofevil.com/sfs.php?si=3&fi=000019171 PoE forum about her] has been consistently active.

Kim herself has appeared in the PoE forum at least once to argue with the people criticizing her site, and a number of impersonators claiming to be her also helped to feed the drama surrounding her.

Kim still continues to be active on the internet, maintaining a LiveJournal, and occasionally complaining about Kylen.

==Reference==

* [http://www.kimmaugh.info/ www.kimmaugh.info]
* kimmaugh.com (now defunct; [http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.kimmaugh.com/ Wayback Machine archive])
* [http://www.geocities.com/kimkeisterart/ Kim's web site]
* [http://www.livejournal.com/users/junkyardmutt/ Livejounal of 'junkyardmutt'] - Kimberly's LiveJournal (All Accounts Currently suspended.)

[[Category:People]]
[[Category:Artists]]

Fur Affinity

2006-01-08T22:31:40Z

68.82.114.249: Removing page vandalism by 66.30.45.251. Corrosive is NOT an admin, and not affiliated with this website. We do not have nazi-furs on the administrative staff.

'''FurAffinity''' is one of the [[furry fandom]]'s largest community art galleries, alongside [[VCL]]. It was created as an alternative to [[SheezyArt]] and [[DeviantArt]], allowing people from the [[furry]]/[[anthro]] fandoms to upload art from multiple genres and ratings without fear of repercussion of banning due to content.

* '''Addresses''':
** '''Main''': http://www.furaffinity.net/
** '''Forums''': http://www.furpawz.net/fa/forums/
** '''[[LiveJournal]]''': http://www.livejournal.com/community/furaffinity/
* '''Administrators''':
** '''Admins''': [[Aerak]], [[The Dragoneer]], [[Glaide]], [[Killy the Fox]], [[Pinkuh]] and [[Vitae]]
** '''Coders''': [[Jheryn Lightfoot]] and [[Tos]]
** '''Server Administrator''': [[Gushi]]
** '''Site Owner''': Jheryn Lightfoot
* '''Ran from/to''':
** February 2005 - 1 August 2005
** 10 December 2005 - Present
* '''Motto''': ''Where Freedom of Expression Reigns''

Features that separate FurAffinity from the larger, more populated sites like VCL include the ability to allow users to track their favorite [[artist]]s through a "+watch" function, uploading images, music and writing, highlight favorites, allowing an overall general feeling of community through its comment systems and journals.

== Fender ==
[[Image:Fender2.jpg|left|300px|Fender, drawn by Mutley James]]
Fender is the FurAffinity [[mascot]]. He was primarily created by artist [[K-9]] upon the description and idea by [[Preyfar]]. K-9 is one of the individuals behind the [[comic]] ''[[Circles]]''. The site currently employs a version of Fender in its banner header rendered by artist Mutley James.

Being half [[fox]], half [[ferret]], and all personality, Fender was born in an attempt to give the site a unique figurehead that people can use to turn to for questions and answers regarding the site.
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== History ==
FurAffinity was originally launched in the beginning in January 2005 as an alternative to SheezyArt after Sheezy abruptly changed policies to remove adult art and take a stronger stance against users and their uploads. Much of Sheezy's community was left floating with few alternatives, many of whom turned to FurAffinity and [[y!Gallery]].

FurAffinity had suffered from major security holes and an unfortunate hacking in mid-2005. It was shut down on August 1, 2005 due to disagreements between Jheryn and [[Arcturus]], the major administrators to the site. At that time it had 12,174 user accounts. Arcturus and supporters went on to found [[ArtPlz]].

Over the course of July and August, FurAffinity raised over $1500 in donations to purchase new hardware to build a better, faster server than it originally had. The community behind FA had helped it back onto its feet. In December 3rd, 2005, FurAffinity returned to the online world with a solid backbone and more efficient coding, although, due to a few lingering bugs in the system, full opertional status would not be reached until December 10.

The server is currently housed in [[wikipedia:New Jersey|New Jersey]].

== Random Facts ==
* Durings its first 12 hours of the site's official re-opening on December 10th, FurAffinity had over 10,000 submissions for music, art and writing. The amount of submissions is a tally of both imported art from returning users as well as all new artistic pieces.
* Fender is not an actual person, but a shared account used by all the PR admins. This was done so that no one admin could get full credit for their actions.
* Account import strings begin and end with !pie!. This was done as an in-joke amongst the admins in an attempt to prove that pie is ultimately greater than cake.
* Just over two weeks after launch the site had almost 5,000 users and over 30,000 submissions as of December 27, 2005.

== See also ==

* [[Wikipedia:FurAffinity|FurAffinity]] at [[Wikipedia]]

[[Category:Art archives]][[Category:2005 births]]

Fur Affinity

2005-12-03T22:18:30Z

68.82.114.249: Relaunch date is known. Server is ops, we are going live today.

'''FurAffinity''' is one of the furry fandom's largest community art galleries, alongside [[VCL]]. It was created as an alternative to [[SheezyArt] and [[DeviantArt]], allowing people from the Furry/Anthro fandoms to upload art from multiple genres and ratings without fear of repercussion or banning due to content.

* '''Addresses''':
** '''Main''': http://www.furaffinity.net/
** '''Forums''': http://www.furpawz.net/fa/forums/
** '''Livejournal''': http://www.livejournal.com/community/furaffinity/
* '''Administrative Team''':
** '''Lead Admin''': [[Jheryn Lightfoot]]
** '''Site Admin''': [[Aerak]], [[The Dragoneer]], [[Killy the Fox]], [[Vitae]], [[Oz the Kangaroo]], [[Yonke]]
* '''Operational dates''':
** February 2005 - August 1, 2005
** Relaunch Date: December 3, 2005
* '''Motto''': ''Unleash Your Imagination''

Features that separate Fur Affinity from the larger, more populated sites like [[VCL]] include the ability to allow users to track their favorite artists through a "+watch" function, uploading images, music and writing, highlight favorites, allowing an overall general feeling of community through its comment systems and journals.

Plans to return FurAffinity have been completed as of December 3, 2005.

== Fender, FA's Mascot ==
[[Image:Fender2.jpg]]

Fender was created by the artist [[K-9]], one of the many talented individuals behind the comic [[Circles]]. Half fox, half ferret, all personality! Fender was born in an attempt to give the site a unique figurehead that people can use to turn to for questions and answers regarding the site.

== History ==
FurAffinity was originally launched in the beginning in February 2005 as an alternative to [[SheezyArt]] after Sheezy abruptly (and quite surprisingly) changed policies to remove adult art and take a stronger stance against users and their uploads. Much of Sheezy's community was left floating with few alternatives, many of whom turned to FurAffinity and [[y!Gallery]].

FurAffinity had suffered from major security holes and an unfortunate hacking in mid-2005. It was shut down on August 1, 2005 due to disagreements between Jheryn and [[Arcturus]], the major administrators to the site. At that time it had 12,174 user accounts. Arcturus and supporters went on to found [[ArtPlz]].

Over the course of July and August, FurAffinity raised over $1500 in donations to purchase new hardware to build a better, faster server than it originally had. The community behind FA had helped it back onto its feet. As of December 3rd, 2005, FurAffinity returned to the online world with a solid backbone and more efficient coding.

The server is currently housed in a secure colo in the beautiful, scenic garden state of New Jersey.

==External links ==

* [[Wikipedia:FurAffinity|FurAffinity]] at Wikipedia

[[Category:Art archives]]

Fur Affinity

2005-10-09T08:03:00Z

68.82.114.249: Removed "personal shells". No longer applicable to FA.

'''FurAffinity''' is one of the furry fandom's larger community art galleries, alongside [[VCL]]. It is currently down, although a beta version of the site is available.

* '''Addresses''':
** '''Main''': http://www.furaffinity.net/ (currently down)
** '''Beta''': http://beta.furaffinity.net/
* '''Webmaster''': [[Jheryn Lightfoot]]
* '''Motto''': ''Unleash Your Imagination''

Features that separate Fur Affinity from the larger, more populated sites like [[VCL]] include the ability to allow users to track their favorite artists through a "+watch" function, highlight images as favorite, allowing a general feeling of a community with comment systems and journals.

FurAffinity is in the process of uniting with several community websites, allowing personal web hosting through its affiliates, as well as other benefits to the artists it hosts.

Plans to return FurAffinity are also under way, and nearing completion. The site's new hardware has been completed. Co-location has been arranged and the server admin for FA is [[Gushi]]. FurAffinity is currently undergoing beta testing before it returns online. The estimated date of return is on or around October 31st, 2005.

== History ==

FurAffinity had suffered from major security holes and an unfortunate hacking in mid-2005. It was shut down on August 1, 2005 due to disagreements between Jheryn and [[Arcturus]], the major administrators to the site. At that time it had 12,174 user accounts. Arcturus and supporters went on to found [[ArtPlz]].

Over the course of July and August, FurAffinity raised over $1500 in donations to purchase new hardware in order to secure a new server.

== See also ==

* [[Wikipedia:FurAffinity|FurAffinity]] at Wikipedia

[[Category:Art archives]]

User:Preyfar

2005-09-16T19:59:41Z

68.82.114.249:

Nothing to see here. Move along.