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This dragon was made a separate character and an official mascot of the site in May 2007, and named Rednef, or "Fender" spelled backward.Ĭontroversies Main article: History of Fur Affinity#Controversyīeing furry fandom's largest social art site for many years, Fur Affinity has been host to strenuous discussions on various topics, including the presence and later absence of cub pornography, staff appointments and departures, allegations of staff and user improprieties, and debate over what consists of suitable content for the site banner. On April Fool's Day 2007, Fender was depicted in the site's banner as a female dragon. He is half fox and half ferret, a "ferrox".
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Days earlier, net-cat, who was acting as the lead Ferrox developer after Eevee had left, announced that the code was to be frozen, citing that "Nobody knows Python." Mascots įender is the Fur Affinity mascot, created by artist K-9 based on a character concept by Preyfar. By late 2009, the development of Ferrox had stalled, with the last change to the code being made on September 7, 2009. The FA development team was working on a new backend system called Ferrox which was to be used for the next major revision of Fur Affinity, and was to be made available as FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) for other sites to use. Project Ferrox Main article: Ferrox (software) Some users criticized the way folders were implemented, including disappearing artwork after its implementation (found normally in the scraps folder), and the poor to no documentation regarding them. On 13 September 2015, to coincide with the conclusion of FAU 2015, Fur Affinity unveiled a Gallery folders system, which had been promised in one form or another since shortly after the site launched in 2006. The site itself works fine, and even shows thumbnails. The site's artwork is inaccessible in Russia, as d. (which serves the images) is listed on Russia's Internet blacklist. Privacy features were added in May 2012 with users being able to block guests from seeing their content with messages such as " has elected to make their content available to registered users only" and being able to hide their adult, mature+adult, or all favorites from public view. Search was reimplemented on 5 February 2009 it was initially labelled "That Thing You Want" and randomly included rickrolls. A faux search feature was implemented for April Fool's Day 2007, much to the chagrin of some users. Keywords and tags can be added to works, though a feature that allowed blocking based on tags was disabled due to performance issues.įur Affinity's search engine was "temporarily disabled" in mid-2006 due to it taking up too many resources. While works of all ratings are accepted (other than photographic nudes, images whose intent are to slander or discredit others, and minors in sexual situations ), 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). The site attempts to promote community through its comments system and individual journals.
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FA: United 7, in August 2014, drew 707 attendees.įur 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). No event was scheduled for 2009 due to the economic downturn. In February 2009, Dragoneer announced FA: United 3 "Games United" for 28. The convention was a success, drawing 310 attendees and 25 fursuiters in the parade, and was followed by another in 2008, drawing 381 attendees. In August 2007, Fur Affinity held its own furry convention, Fur Affinity: United! (or FA:U) in Newark, New Jersey. Fur Affinity: United! Main article: FA: United In 2011, Fur Affinity announced a major revamp in connection to FA: United 4. Since then, it has suffered a few outages, most notably a month-long downtime over July 2008, but always managed to recover. History Main article: History of Fur Affinityįur 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 FurPawz.