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Regarding Recent News
a year ago
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So the owner and administrator of Furaffinity is no longer with us.
It has me concerned for the future. Regardless of your opinion on the man, he's been running this place for about two decades with minimal changes. Although things are continuing to run as normal for the time being, new ownership does have the potential to shake things up. At which point it's all up in the air. Maybe a staff member takes over and things mostly stay the same. Maybe a company buys out the website for the traffic it rakes in, then decides to pull a Tumblr by purging any adult content from the site to appeal to advertisers.
I don't really know what's going to happen myself, and the rumors I've been hearing from others could just be wild speculation. The main concerns revolve around how Dragoneer heavily centralized everything around himself and the potential vacuum that's left behind...
Still, it doesn't hurt to be prepared for the worst. Admittedly my eggs are mostly in one basket at the moment, and I've hardly made an attempt to post outside this site beyond SoFurry.
https://retroinferno.sofurry.com/
However, my personal Discord server has been extremely useful as a hub for my content with the small community active on there. I also use it to create backups of almost everything and alternative ways to consume my content with PDF files and Google Docs links shared alongside the links to new Furaffinity posts. Nonetheless, participating on the server is the easiest way to keep tabs on my content and news relating to it, especially since I'll be able to easily communicate with everyone on Discord in the event that I do need to migrate to a new platform altogether.
Here's the invite link: https://discord.gg/njpcqvnkVt
But I'm not trying to spread too much doom and gloom in the wake of a tragedy. As I said, it's possible nothing really fundamentally changes. But we live in interesting times. I don't want all my content to get lost to the sands of time in a worst case scenario, so the news has certainly been making me think about the future... for better or worse.
It has me concerned for the future. Regardless of your opinion on the man, he's been running this place for about two decades with minimal changes. Although things are continuing to run as normal for the time being, new ownership does have the potential to shake things up. At which point it's all up in the air. Maybe a staff member takes over and things mostly stay the same. Maybe a company buys out the website for the traffic it rakes in, then decides to pull a Tumblr by purging any adult content from the site to appeal to advertisers.
I don't really know what's going to happen myself, and the rumors I've been hearing from others could just be wild speculation. The main concerns revolve around how Dragoneer heavily centralized everything around himself and the potential vacuum that's left behind...
Still, it doesn't hurt to be prepared for the worst. Admittedly my eggs are mostly in one basket at the moment, and I've hardly made an attempt to post outside this site beyond SoFurry.
https://retroinferno.sofurry.com/
However, my personal Discord server has been extremely useful as a hub for my content with the small community active on there. I also use it to create backups of almost everything and alternative ways to consume my content with PDF files and Google Docs links shared alongside the links to new Furaffinity posts. Nonetheless, participating on the server is the easiest way to keep tabs on my content and news relating to it, especially since I'll be able to easily communicate with everyone on Discord in the event that I do need to migrate to a new platform altogether.
Here's the invite link: https://discord.gg/njpcqvnkVt
But I'm not trying to spread too much doom and gloom in the wake of a tragedy. As I said, it's possible nothing really fundamentally changes. But we live in interesting times. I don't want all my content to get lost to the sands of time in a worst case scenario, so the news has certainly been making me think about the future... for better or worse.
Vulpini18
~vulpini18
All my eggs are in one basket here on FA. I hope everything goes okay…
