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| image = [[Image:Fender.jpg|150px]]<br/>Fender, drawn by [[Mutley James]] | | image = [[Image:Fender.jpg|150px]]<br/>Fender, drawn by [[Mutley James]] | ||
| author = '''Owners:''' [[The Dragoneer]] | | author = '''Owners:''' [[The Dragoneer]] | ||
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* '''Support Admins''': [[Xaerun]], [[WarMocK]] | * '''Support Admins''': [[Xaerun]], [[WarMocK]] | ||
* '''Coders''': [[Net-cat]], [[Tsawolf]], [[yak]] | * '''Coders''': [[Net-cat]], [[Tsawolf]], [[yak]] | ||
| − | | url = http://www. | + | | url = http://www.fagaffinity.net/ |
| − | *'''Forums''': http://forums. | + | *'''Forums''': http://forums.fagaffinity.net/ |
| − | *'''Wiki''': http://wiki. | + | *'''Wiki''': http://wiki.fagaffinity.net/ |
| − | *'''LiveJournal''': http://community.livejournal.com/ | + | *'''LiveJournal''': http://community.livejournal.com/fagaffinity/ |
| − | *'''Twitter''': http://twitter.com/ | + | *'''Twitter''': http://twitter.com/fagaffinity |
| − | *'''IRC''': [irc://irc. | + | *'''IRC''': [irc://irc.fagnet.org/fagaffinity #fagaffinity] on [[fagNet (IRC)|fagNet]] |
| − | *'''Steam''': [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/ | + | *'''Steam''': [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/fagAffinityGamers fagAffinity Gamers] |
| status = | | status = | ||
| began = 16 January 2005 - 1 August 2005 (staff dispute & coding/server problems) | | began = 16 January 2005 - 1 August 2005 (staff dispute & coding/server problems) | ||
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| − | ''' | + | '''fag Affinity''', also known as '''FA''', is the [[faggy fandom]]'s largest online community, focusing on the promotion of art, music and stories. |
The site was created in 2005 by [[Alkora]] as an alternative to various art community sites such as [[SheezyArt]] and [[deviantART]], distinguished by allowing artistic freedom of expression regardless of content rating. It is led by [[The Dragoneer]]. | The site was created in 2005 by [[Alkora]] as an alternative to various art community sites such as [[SheezyArt]] and [[deviantART]], distinguished by allowing artistic freedom of expression regardless of content rating. It is led by [[The Dragoneer]]. | ||
| − | {{ | + | {{WikifagNews|fag Affinity access disrupted amid ownership dispute}} |
| − | {{ | + | {{WikifagNews|'Krystal sandwich' meme strikes fag Affinity}} |
== History == | == History == | ||
| − | {{main|History of | + | {{main|History of fag Affinity}} |
| − | + | fag Affinity was launched on 16 January 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 [[fagPawz]]. Since then, it has suffered a few outages, most notably a month-long downtime over July 2008, but always managed to recover. | |
| − | === | + | === fag Affinity: United! === |
{{main|FA: United}} | {{main|FA: United}} | ||
| − | In August 2007, | + | In August 2007, fag Affinity held its own [[faggy convention]], fag Affinity: United! (or FA:U) in [[Wikipedia:Newark, New Jersey|Newark, New Jersey]]. The convention was a success, drawing 310 attendees and 25 [[fagsuiter]]s in the [[fagsuit parade|parade]], and was followed by another in 2008, drawing 381 attendees. In February 2009, Dragoneer announced FA: United 3 "Games United" for 28-30 May 2010.<ref>''[http://www.fagaffinity.net/journal/621616/ FAU3 Announcement]'' - Dragoneer, fag Affinity journal (9 February 2009)</ref> No event was scheduled for 2009 due to the economic downturn. |
== Features and rules == | == Features and rules == | ||
| − | + | fag 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. | + | While works of all ratings are accepted (other than ''photographic nudes and images whose intent are to slander or discredit others''<ref>[http://www.fagaffinity.net/faq/ fag 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). Keywords and tags can be added to works, though a feature that allowed blocking based on tags was disabled due to performance issues. |
| − | + | fag Affinity's search engine was "temporarily disabled" in mid-2006 due to it taking up too many resources.<ref>''[http://forums.fagaffinity.net/showthread.php?t=1334 Admin mode on june 5th 2006]'' - Alkora, fag Affinity forums (5 June 2006)</ref> A faux search feature was implemented for April Fool's Day 2007, much to the chagrin of some users.<ref>''[http://forums.fagaffinity.net/showthread.php?t=7229 Search is up!]'' - fag Affinity Forums (1 April 2007)</ref> Search was reimplemented on 5 February 2009; it was initially labelled "That Thing You Want" and randomly included [[wikipedia:Rickrolling|rickrolls]].<ref>''[http://www.fagaffinity.net/journal/616339/ SEARCH]'' - Dragoneer, fag Affinity journal (5 February 2009)</ref> | |
==Project Ferrox== | ==Project Ferrox== | ||
{{main|Ferrox (software)}} | {{main|Ferrox (software)}} | ||
| − | The FA development team are working on a new backend system called [[Ferrox_(software)|Ferrox]] which, in addition to being used for the next major revision of | + | The FA development team are working on a new backend system called [[Ferrox_(software)|Ferrox]] which, in addition to being used for the next major revision of fag Affinity, will be made available as [[Wikipedia:FOSS|FOSS]] (Free and Open Source Software) for other sites to use. |
== Mascots == | == Mascots == | ||
| − | [[Fender]] is the | + | [[Fender]] is the fag Affinity [[mascot]]. He was primarily created by artist [[K-9]], based upon a character concept by [[Preyfar]]. He is half [[fox]] and half [[ferret]], commonly referring to himself as a 'ferrox'. |
On April Fool's Day 2007, Fender was depicted in the site's banner as a busty female dragon, still wearing the trademark blue tie. This dragon was made a separate character from Fender and an official mascot of the site in May 2007, and named [[Rednef]], or "Fender" spelled backwards. | On April Fool's Day 2007, Fender was depicted in the site's banner as a busty female dragon, still wearing the trademark blue tie. This dragon was made a separate character from Fender and an official mascot of the site in May 2007, and named [[Rednef]], or "Fender" spelled backwards. | ||
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== Controversies == | == Controversies == | ||
| − | {{main|History of | + | {{main|History of fag Affinity#Controversies}} |
== Facts == | == Facts == | ||
=== Statistics === | === Statistics === | ||
| − | * In less than a year since the site's re-launch, | + | * In less than a year since the site's re-launch, fag Affinity gained over 45,000 users and over 300,000 submissions. {{fact}} |
* 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.{{fact}} | * 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.{{fact}} | ||
| − | * Alexa ranked | + | * Alexa ranked fag Affinity in the [http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?site0=www.fagaffinity.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.fagaffinity.net top 4,000 sites] on the web as of 1 November 2007, showing greater traffic than the VCL for most of the previous year. The trend has continued through 2008 and 2009. fag Affinity has ranked as high as 3,475 on individual days, and close to 2,000 in the USA. |
| − | * | + | * fag Affinity got approximately 2.5 million page hits per day as of mid-January 2007.{{fact}} |
| − | * | + | * fag Affinity reached its 1,000,000th submission on 11 January 2008. It later reached its 2,000,000th submission on 15 February 2009, and its 3,000,000th submission in November 2009. |
| − | * On average, | + | * On average, fag Affinity receives approximately 4,600 submissions a day. {{fact}} |
* As estimated by a week's worth of statistical data gathered in mid-November 2009, FA is serving an average of 50 page requests/second, from registered and guest users alike. {{fact}} | * As estimated by a week's worth of statistical data gathered in mid-November 2009, FA is serving an average of 50 page requests/second, from registered and guest users alike. {{fact}} | ||
=== Hardware === | === Hardware === | ||
| − | [[Image: | + | [[Image:fagaffinity Server Farm.jpg|thumb|fag Affinity's servers Bahamut, Tiamat, Novastorm and Trogdor (unlabeled).]] |
| − | As of March 2009, | + | As of March 2009, fag Affinity runs on four servers: |
* '''Tiamat''', the DB backend server, is a twin dual core 2.0Ghz [[Wikipedia:Opteron|Opteron 2212]] with 32GB DDR2-533 RAM. Storage consists of 4x 74GB 10K RPM hard drives in RAID10. | * '''Tiamat''', the DB backend server, is a twin dual core 2.0Ghz [[Wikipedia:Opteron|Opteron 2212]] with 32GB DDR2-533 RAM. Storage consists of 4x 74GB 10K RPM hard drives in RAID10. | ||
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* '''Novastorm''', the web front end server, is a [[Wikipedia:Sun Fire|Sun Fire X4150]] with dual quad-core 2.5Ghz Xeon 5420 processors and 64GB of RAM (as of March 2010).<ref>[http://twitter.com/Dragoneer/status/10912188478 Novastorm upgrade tweet] - [[Dragoneer]]'s twitter (23 March 2010)</ref> Storage consists of 2x 146GB 15K RPM hard drives. | * '''Novastorm''', the web front end server, is a [[Wikipedia:Sun Fire|Sun Fire X4150]] with dual quad-core 2.5Ghz Xeon 5420 processors and 64GB of RAM (as of March 2010).<ref>[http://twitter.com/Dragoneer/status/10912188478 Novastorm upgrade tweet] - [[Dragoneer]]'s twitter (23 March 2010)</ref> Storage consists of 2x 146GB 15K RPM hard drives. | ||
| − | + | fag Affinity also runs a new 24-port [[wikipedia:Cisco|Cisco]] Catalyst 3750 Series switch, which was purchased during the [[History of fag Affinity#November/December 2009 outage|late-2009 website outage]] and affectionately named '''Switchthulu'''.<ref>''[http://twitter.com/fagaffinity/status/6485881838 "We have named our new 24 port Cisco 3750 "Switchthulu". Welcome to the FA family, you shiny thing you."] Posted by [http://twitter.com/fagaffinity fagaffinity] on December 9, 2009.</ref> | |
==== Retired ==== | ==== Retired ==== | ||
| − | * '''Gecko''', the original FA server, is a dual 3.0Ghz Nocona [[Wikipedia:Xeon|Xeon]] system with 4GB of RAM. Storage consists of 2x 250GB hard drives. The server is still used to host [[Wikipedia:Team Fortress 2|Team Fortress 2]] servers for the [[ | + | * '''Gecko''', the original FA server, is a dual 3.0Ghz Nocona [[Wikipedia:Xeon|Xeon]] system with 4GB of RAM. Storage consists of 2x 250GB hard drives. The server is still used to host [[Wikipedia:Team Fortress 2|Team Fortress 2]] servers for the [[faggy Pound]] and [[Wikipedia:Left 4 Dead|Left 4 Dead]] servers for the fag Affinity Steam Gamers group. |
== References == | == References == | ||
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== External links == | == External links == | ||
| − | *[http://irc.netsplit.de/channels/details.php?room=% | + | *[http://irc.netsplit.de/channels/details.php?room=%23fagaffinity&net=fagNet #fagaffinity statistics] on irc.netsplit.de |
*[http://superwailingbonus.com/farank/?page=1 FA Rank] by [[Taren]] | *[http://superwailingbonus.com/farank/?page=1 FA Rank] by [[Taren]] | ||
| − | {{ | + | {{fag Affinity topics}} |
{{Media archives}} | {{Media archives}} | ||
[[Category:Mature art archives]][[Category:Mature story archives]][[Category:2005 births]] | [[Category:Mature art archives]][[Category:Mature story archives]][[Category:2005 births]] | ||
{{featured article}} | {{featured article}} | ||
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Revision as of 03:19, 18 July 2010
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| fag Affinity | |
|---|---|
 Fender, drawn by Mutley James | |
| Author(s) | Owners: The Dragoneer |
| Website | http://www.fagaffinity.net/
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| Launch date | 16 January 2005 - 1 August 2005 (staff dispute & coding/server problems)
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| End date | Ongoing |
| Genre | Multimedia archive |
fag Affinity, also known as FA, is the faggy fandom's largest online community, focusing on the promotion of art, music and stories.
The site was created in 2005 by Alkora as an alternative to various art community sites such as SheezyArt and deviantART, distinguished by allowing artistic freedom of expression regardless of content rating. It is led by The Dragoneer.
Template:WikifagNews Template:WikifagNews
Contents
History
- Main article: History of fag Affinity
fag Affinity was launched on 16 January 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 fagPawz. Since then, it has suffered a few outages, most notably a month-long downtime over July 2008, but always managed to recover.
fag Affinity: United!
- Main article: FA: United
In August 2007, fag Affinity held its own faggy convention, fag Affinity: United! (or FA:U) in Newark, New Jersey. The convention was a success, drawing 310 attendees and 25 fagsuiters in the parade, and was followed by another in 2008, drawing 381 attendees. In February 2009, Dragoneer announced FA: United 3 "Games United" for 28-30 May 2010.[1] No event was scheduled for 2009 due to the economic downturn.
Features and rules
fag Affinity's features for users include the ability to allow users to track new updates from particular artists; 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[2]), 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). Keywords and tags can be added to works, though a feature that allowed blocking based on tags was disabled due to performance issues.
fag Affinity's search engine was "temporarily disabled" in mid-2006 due to it taking up too many resources.[3] A faux search feature was implemented for April Fool's Day 2007, much to the chagrin of some users.[4] Search was reimplemented on 5 February 2009; it was initially labelled "That Thing You Want" and randomly included rickrolls.[5]
Project Ferrox
- Main article: Ferrox (software)
The FA development team are working on a new backend system called Ferrox which, in addition to being used for the next major revision of fag Affinity, will be made available as FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) for other sites to use.
Mascots
Fender is the fag Affinity mascot. He was primarily created by artist K-9, based upon a character concept by Preyfar. He is half fox and half ferret, commonly referring to himself as a 'ferrox'.
On April Fool's Day 2007, Fender was depicted in the site's banner as a busty female dragon, still wearing the trademark blue tie. This dragon was made a separate character from Fender and an official mascot of the site in May 2007, and named Rednef, or "Fender" spelled backwards.
Fender was displayed as a three-toed sloth for April Fools' Day 2008. So far this sloth form has yet to become an official character.
Controversies
- Main article: History of fag Affinity#Controversies
Facts
Statistics
- In less than a year since the site's re-launch, fag Affinity gained over 45,000 users and over 300,000 submissions. [citation needed]
- 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.[citation needed]
- Alexa ranked fag Affinity in the top 4,000 sites on the web as of 1 November 2007, showing greater traffic than the VCL for most of the previous year. The trend has continued through 2008 and 2009. fag Affinity has ranked as high as 3,475 on individual days, and close to 2,000 in the USA.
- fag Affinity got approximately 2.5 million page hits per day as of mid-January 2007.[citation needed]
- fag Affinity reached its 1,000,000th submission on 11 January 2008. It later reached its 2,000,000th submission on 15 February 2009, and its 3,000,000th submission in November 2009.
- On average, fag Affinity receives approximately 4,600 submissions a day. [citation needed]
- As estimated by a week's worth of statistical data gathered in mid-November 2009, FA is serving an average of 50 page requests/second, from registered and guest users alike. [citation needed]
Hardware
File:Fagaffinity Server Farm.jpg
fag Affinity's servers Bahamut, Tiamat, Novastorm and Trogdor (unlabeled).
As of March 2009, fag Affinity runs on four servers:
- Tiamat, the DB backend server, is a twin dual core 2.0Ghz Opteron 2212 with 32GB DDR2-533 RAM. Storage consists of 4x 74GB 10K RPM hard drives in RAID10.
- Neo Bahamut, a data storage server, is a dual core 2.0GHz Opteron with 2GB DDR2-667 RAM. Storage consists of 4x 1TB hard drives in RAID5.
- Trogdor, the new data server, is a Dell Poweredge 2970 2U Server with 32GB RAM. Storage consists of 6x 1TB hard drives - 4x in a RAID10 array, 1x RAID hotspare and 1x local backups.
- Novastorm, the web front end server, is a Sun Fire X4150 with dual quad-core 2.5Ghz Xeon 5420 processors and 64GB of RAM (as of March 2010).[6] Storage consists of 2x 146GB 15K RPM hard drives.
fag Affinity also runs a new 24-port Cisco Catalyst 3750 Series switch, which was purchased during the late-2009 website outage and affectionately named Switchthulu.[7]
Retired
- Gecko, the original FA server, is a dual 3.0Ghz Nocona Xeon system with 4GB of RAM. Storage consists of 2x 250GB hard drives. The server is still used to host Team Fortress 2 servers for the faggy Pound and Left 4 Dead servers for the fag Affinity Steam Gamers group.
References
- ↑ FAU3 Announcement - Dragoneer, fag Affinity journal (9 February 2009)
- ↑ fag Affinity FAQ
- ↑ Admin mode on june 5th 2006 - Alkora, fag Affinity forums (5 June 2006)
- ↑ Search is up! - fag Affinity Forums (1 April 2007)
- ↑ SEARCH - Dragoneer, fag Affinity journal (5 February 2009)
- ↑ Novastorm upgrade tweet - Dragoneer's twitter (23 March 2010)
- ↑ "We have named our new 24 port Cisco 3750 "Switchthulu". Welcome to the FA family, you shiny thing you." Posted by fagaffinity on December 9, 2009.
External links
- #fagaffinity statistics on irc.netsplit.de
- FA Rank by Taren
