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y'all worry too much lol
7 months ago
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hi im gornal
for real tho, i feel like people feel so paranoid thanks to Twitter and other online messes that their perception of online communities has been tainted with thoughts of inevitable Doomsday! and look i'm not scolding or belittling anyone for thinking that way, it's natural, yes, but i think this site gets a bad rap for the multitude of incidents it's been under.
I remember the DDoS fiasco of 2016, it had them down for almost a month i wanna say? it felt pretty hopeless but hey, they stayed in touch with us and recovered - they're still here and so are we, so i consider it water under the bridge. tbh with a tightly-knit community like ours (despite its flaws and bad apples, nothing's perfect) it's hard for me to expect a website like this to just poof and disappear.
sure, the architecture is old-ish but i wouldn't say it's obsolete or not up-to-date. it's just different, among all the quick "fast food" methods of engaging with each other online via corporate social media, FA stands out as a multicultural, multifandom gallery site mostly centered around silly talking animals and their costumes.
in addition it's a hub for artists to promote themselves! i enjoy sharing my artwork here the most, and getting comments feels almost like christmas morning. of the few social media sites, i consider FA to be the most important for my viewing pleasure. it's lovely to sift through my plethora of submissions*, even if i go a long time letting them accumulate lol!
anyway yeah, try to relax since the situation's more under control - they were just doing some maintenance and discovered that the site needed a LOT more maintenance than they expected. this was nowhere near as severe as the DDoS attacks from years prior.
If you're worried about an overnight vanishing of important data, do your daily diligence and MAKE ARCHIVES OF YOUR DATA. use a cloud service if there's no other option, but i HIGHLY recommend investing in physical drives to store your files in. I have like three of them, one of them is like 2TB and holds all of my art stuff. time-consuming to setup, but well-worth the trouble!
also, draw on paper sometimes, make some physical art and media, it's arguably the best way to show off your talents! C:
*made easier with the Firefox extension FABUI, please check it out because it makes browsing and uploading go FA so much smoother!
I remember the DDoS fiasco of 2016, it had them down for almost a month i wanna say? it felt pretty hopeless but hey, they stayed in touch with us and recovered - they're still here and so are we, so i consider it water under the bridge. tbh with a tightly-knit community like ours (despite its flaws and bad apples, nothing's perfect) it's hard for me to expect a website like this to just poof and disappear.
sure, the architecture is old-ish but i wouldn't say it's obsolete or not up-to-date. it's just different, among all the quick "fast food" methods of engaging with each other online via corporate social media, FA stands out as a multicultural, multifandom gallery site mostly centered around silly talking animals and their costumes.
in addition it's a hub for artists to promote themselves! i enjoy sharing my artwork here the most, and getting comments feels almost like christmas morning. of the few social media sites, i consider FA to be the most important for my viewing pleasure. it's lovely to sift through my plethora of submissions*, even if i go a long time letting them accumulate lol!
anyway yeah, try to relax since the situation's more under control - they were just doing some maintenance and discovered that the site needed a LOT more maintenance than they expected. this was nowhere near as severe as the DDoS attacks from years prior.
If you're worried about an overnight vanishing of important data, do your daily diligence and MAKE ARCHIVES OF YOUR DATA. use a cloud service if there's no other option, but i HIGHLY recommend investing in physical drives to store your files in. I have like three of them, one of them is like 2TB and holds all of my art stuff. time-consuming to setup, but well-worth the trouble!
also, draw on paper sometimes, make some physical art and media, it's arguably the best way to show off your talents! C:
*made easier with the Firefox extension FABUI, please check it out because it makes browsing and uploading go FA so much smoother!
