Totally fits :D

Keenora with the first :D

Ahaha, awesome xD

LOL! I though another big error appear! xD

same here.

Careful, doing a sitewide change like that might overload the servers

*snicker*

lol your icon XD

how very appropos

nice icon ^^

very true

YUUUP!

SHUT UP DAVE HESTER :<

hahahahahaha XD oh you! i was just gonna make that joke

Dave's not here, man. o:

^^ Exactly what I thought of. Damn you, Storage Wars!!

EEYUP! Gotta do it right.

You know it!

But on his HAT it's spelled "yuuuuuup"

Noooooooooooope! (yeah I know it is, pulling a Jarrod on you guys :3)

twitchy ass tailow

How unamuzed :|

HAHAHAH. Nice banner for the moment :D since fa is a bit down xD

Haha! Too bad all the people leaving in a huff won't see it. :3

That's ok, they'll be back soon enough when the withdrawals get bad enough.

lol

How very fitting.

like it hope to be able to work with the site viay cellphone to post pictures again

Perfect :]

http://404affinity.net

LOL epic fail XD

nah not a fail, a not found :P

Brilliant!!

hah, nice!

If you can't laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at?


besides the politicians I mean.

indeed, though for a bit, I was afraid the site had been hacked, and this was their final insult... I'm relieved to be wrong this time ;p

I tried laughing once, the world didn't laugh with me though.

I fucking love this. YES. YES. YES.

OMFG.

awesome :D !

XD best ever

Seconded!

FA is loading very strangely for me :<

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/103876821/wtfcoding.jpg

Try to clear your browser's cache.

Awesome, that worked. It started to do that as soon as you updated the banner, so it threw me off. Thanks :]

And I =STILL= don't see that SFW button! >:[

The button is not shown to people who already can't see mature/adult art due to either their filter settings or being maturelocked by the administration.

How very strange... Never seen that before LOL XD

Funny banner but there wasn't any actual 404 errors.

Maybe not, but there have been occasions where artwork would suddenly be missing from my messages and favorites. Other artwork would disappear from other users' galleries.

XD I thought something had borked again when I saw that!

yeah X3

Totally fitting!

You probably could've fixed it with your sonic screwdriver, though =P. Holdin' out on us, huh?

Cheers for the self-depreciation.

Your funny

Lol yup, and now i wish my submissions would appear on the front page when i upload them, then we'll be set. XD

HAAH WAAW

Hahaha nice

lulz.

Fits well :D

Well, at least you can laugh at it.

OH MY GOD IM IN STITCHES

YOU GUYS HAVE MY PATRONAGE FOREVER I LOVE YOU
GOD BLESS FURAFFINITY

The banner felt most appropriate for the situation.

The site is no longer named Furaffinity, it is now known as 404affinity! LOL

I recall more 504 errors. This banner has undervalued the problem by 100.

HAH
I SAW THIS ON TUMBLR

Oh, yes.

HAHAHA OMFG awesome
god bless pawmurrica

And it's not even April 1st

Good call! XD

Without Caffeine and Taurine Trademarked Bender Expression.

It's a fitting piece of tribute to a week that will not be forgotten for a very long time ^.^;

You haven't been on fa for long have you =P

Site crashes on a regular basis, it's awesome =D

This banner should be used each time FA is having issues :'D

nice

good

It's not perfect.

It should be a snippet of the 502 page

Good idea!

I knew! :D

This banner is still the best thing ever!

40 For Affinity.net

It should be a blank white rectangle, with one of those little "JPEG error" red X's in the top left corner. That would REALLY drive everyone crazy. lol

Oh, it would!...but growling fender is more cute :3

Better yet...white box, red X, with fender glaring up at the "X" from the left side.

Hah!

Fur 0 Fur

Glad to see you take it in spirit. We still love you.

-Haz

aww i liked the random banners, gives the site more of an artistic look :)

how appropriate

Shouldn't it rather be 503 - Service Unavailable? <_<

(the server is unresponsive for ten minutes before finally returning 500 internal server error) affinity

Hahahahahah XD <dies a slow painful (but hilarious) death from laughter>

Been a while since I could browse for the yaoi

FA status: offline
(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻

Can't believe this actually made it to banner status! Love it! XD

Haha! I was hoping their banner would be put up.

It fits too well

should have been 502 or 504 affinity
I never get 404s :p

Quite fitting x3

Awesome!

Though, people leaving FA because of an issue no one had control over is a load of BS.
That's like never using a car ever again because you had to replace a tire.

The funny part is they did have control over it. It's called being prepared and regularly updating the firmware before something breaks.

Still pointless to leave. :/ Shit happens. It's up and runnign and that's all that matters.
Plus people are going to come back anyways. Like usual.

How often do you update the firmware on your PC's motherboard? hard drives? video card? keyboard even, if it's advanced enough to need one? There's some things you expect to just work. Besides, not all firmware updates are without the risk of losing either your data or controller configuration.
It's easy to criticize in hindsight.

alweays easy to criticize, never easy to understand

I dunno. While I have NO IDEA what exactly failed, users have been complaining about the site slowing down for months, and stuff was starting to glitch up. I'm pretty sure that massive site lag and errors should have been a hint something was about to break or something needed fixed.

BUT WHAT DO I KNOW.

Slowdown prior to failure had nothing to do with the failure itself. They were the result of my actions; namely: backing up the database for the purpose of setting up several more completely disconnected development sandboxes.

Hard to really complain though. I mean, how much are we paying to use FA, right?

actually this song fits perfectly
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7411233/ by  maxgoof

ROFL, epic. XD

I'm glad the site is working, but you need to work on improving-oving-oving-oving

HL2.Tigerfan51087.exe has stopped working

That was yesterday, now it's just 3312 failed (errno=61, msg=Connection refused)Affinity. :3

Very accurate xD! I like it!

http://404affinity.net :o n_n

HAHAHAHA i wish i could upvote this comment

can I have your permission to use your banner on that page? :P

of course! :D <3

Haha this is awesome! Nice idea that :D

LOL Nice. I don't know if many other outages like that have occurred on F.A., but that was pretty bad.

it broke 40 times?

This is a bit like sending faded flowers to the family of the serial killer's victim while the serial killer is still on foot. And that's sad, really sad since I expected some more professionally from the side of the admins of handling this kind of 'easy-to-solve' issues.

what are you even talking about?

The raid crashed and there was a bug in the raid controller, that's not an easy to fix issue, especially not with a database the size of that of FA

What about having a backup server or having spare parts in stock? Such simple things could reduce the time that the site would be fully online instead of waiting till the order arrived.

dude, this is a non-commercial site, you can't expect them to stock up on very expensive commodities just so you can get your free furry porn that little bit faster

The rate of commerce is disputed since the site shows ads.

the rate of commerce or profit is not calculated by the amount of ads displayed. I don't even understand where you would get that notion from.

I've always assumed that the ads shown here are (partly) for some income of FA. In theory they could even make 'profit' with the ads.

assumptions are dangerous to make.

Given the costs that it takes to run this site, versus the revenue from the ads, they're losing money if they run the site just based on the ads.

So the fact that the ads doesn't give enough revenue and that third party donations are small is an excuse for not buying a backup server / parts? That's a bad attitude for running a 'popular' site IMO.

Not having the money to buy parts/a complete server is a very good excuse for not doing that.

Has nothing to do with attitude whatsoever, but everything to do with available resources.

DaveC said:
Not having the money to buy parts/a complete server is a very good excuse for not doing that.

Has nothing to do with attitude whatsoever, but everything to do with available resources.
Well it seems that we've very different opinions on resource management.

Yes, it seems your opinion on resource management is buy stuff when you don't have the funds to do so

Oh, sure. Everything you've said so far is just peachy.
Now, tell me about all the times you worked to maintain the site.
Oh?
You don't?
Okay, then you have nothing to complain about when it comes to failed equipment, it doesn't affect you in any way since you didn't fund them.
They aren't your patsies, and if you aren't contributing to the maintenance of the site, then you don't have any room to complain about it.
In the end, everything works out fine and nothing was lost to us.

But hey, I think this just boils down to your opinion on how they should run their free website, and well... that's just like, your opinion, man.
;]

Since when do you, as user of a site, have to contribute to it to give feedback about it?
I've never crossed upon such site.

May an user 'complain' and ask further on the happened things?
Sure, since it's free feedback and two-way communication with the aim to improve the issue handling.

there is a difference between complaining and bashing.

You weren't doing anything constructive with your bashing, and you were being very condescending in sharing your views.

You aren't giving any real feedback, just poorly worded criticism.
But whatever!
Okay, that's fine, I understand you don't like the website.
Enjoy your stay at Inkbunny(Or whatever?)

In this case spare parts wasn't the issue. It was negligence in updating the firmware on the RAID.

Xist said:
In this case spare parts wasn't the issue. It was negligence in updating the firmware on the RAID.

http://forums.furaffinity.net/threa.....=1#post3032086
Dragoneer said:
We have ordered a replacement driver (overnight shipping).

In other words, the duration of the downtime could be reduced if there were spare parts were in FA's stock.

yes because everyone knows haphazardly updating everything on a production server NEVER causes any problems!

Would you perhaps care to be a sponsor? I'll gladly stock a spare hard drive for every RAID array we have in production with your money. Not supporting a 'popular' site you find yourself coming back to, even if just to cast blame, is not an excuse.

*sigh* We have a backup server and we do make backups. The problem is that these backups are always at least a week behind. Besides, what good would having even a completely fresh backup do if you have no hardware to restore it on?

If you have a backup server, why wasn't it used as replacement in read-only mode, while the current server was down?

because maybe that server isn't entirely configured or capable of being a drop in replacement for the database server because it is you know, used as a backup server.

hm, but aren't these ads from local artists, rather than corporations? FA can't be making *that* much money off of what is still technically a niche society.

Sorry we didn't meet your expectations; and for trying to lighten up the mood at out own expense.

for shame really
you guys should stop providing free services and allowing us a laugh when they inevitably but temporarily fail

or wait, don't
because we all adore you :D <3

I hope that you could at least understand that making such kind of jokes with 404 and similar gives the message that the server issue isn't / wasn't taken serious.

Just wondering: Would there be an evaluation-session within the whole admin team about how the situation is handled and what could be improved for the next time that this kind of server issues happen?

A joke like this to make light of the situation is a very apropriate response to a situation like this.

I wouldn't say it wasnt taken serious. They kept the site status forum updated so people knew what was going on. They're just being light-hearted about it. Fact remains that Fur Affinity is back up, and we didn't lose our data, so it could've been much worse. Its a good thing to be able to laugh it off and be thankful it wasnt worse.

If you think they need an evaluation, let me know the next time you run a site with as much as F.A.

Because 404's should always be taken seriously

It wasn't a 404 issue. It was a major database issue. The 404 banner is funny and cute, but not what the actual problem was.

while I don't like the site being down any more than anyone else (though those who make some form of livelihood on here were far more upset)... I have to wonder if there is such a thing as taking it too serious.
It would be very easy to apologize half-heartedly... It would also technically be easier to prostrate yourself in front of others, or commit ritual suicide, or just generally be dark and depressing about the scenario... What I see is people trying desperately to make light of a bad situation... Sure, its not "professional behavior"... but I get that kind of soulless efficiency from Deviant art, and more than a handful of other problems from them as well, usually in the shape of wanton elitism and commercialism.

... but I'm just a god damn hippie without any professional training and not a clue on how to get ahead in life... so I doubt my opinion matters for much in the eyes of most professionals.

http://www.wikihow.com/Be-Humble

that 404 b some serious bsns mister Yak. >:C

That is a TERRIBLE analogy

You must be new here.

I would recommend to look at my profile page do find that out.

*to

It's called a joke, but from reading other comments of yours that's something you obviously aren't capable of grasping.

Everyone has a different sense of humor, right?

No sense of humor isn't the same as a different sense of humor

Honestly you don't have to nail me down on every comment which isn't even aimed at you, only because we have a disagreement about budget / resource management. Or is that your sense of humor?

no it isn't , and I"m not nailing down on your every comment, my reply to this one was for entertainment value only

And since 'entertainment' is closely related to 'humor', it becomes clear that it's your kind of humor.

Admitting that I'm right isn't that hard.

Why would I admit that you are right about something you aren't? Everything I say for entertainment value is not necessarily in line with my own sense of humor

no, no, they made a mistake, and they're doing more than owning up to it...they're poking fun at themselves! :D

I laff'd

Meow.

I loled...

Makes good sense....

Yes very appropriate concerning this past week.

I help run another website so I know how much internet servers can be a total pain in the ass to run and maintain; Only difference when that site crashed (due to malicious hackers) ALL data had been lost and we had to start fresh all over again.

At least this time no data had been lost and we can just pick up right where we left off. *Whew!*

ha, nice to see that banner made it up X3

i was when this site was fixed! and the banner totaly fits

lulz

It would even better if that was a link sending you to another link that says its also furaffinty saying its a 404. THAT would be funny.

...And then everyone on DA chuckled, but ultimately sneered... :>

Speaking of the banner and performance, are you ever going to recode the header to use different URLs for new banners instead of just replacing the file, so we won't have to refresh to see the changes every time?

Wow, this site got more 404's than Paheal! YUK YUK YUK

im gonna leave this right here http://www.furaffinity.net/view/8823889/

Cents.

So much sense.
*Cod3 ∑Rr0R*

Getting some real 404 errors.

Problem is intermittent so hard to pin down A cause.

Maybe check your error logs and see if is something more than just extremely high traffic.

Hehe,it makes perfect sense,that and that face you're making is probably many made seeing the painfully long outage X3P

amazing

I chuckled!

I'm glad no data was lost. The backups did their job. I'm probably wrong but it actually feels like the site runs faster to me. You'll hear no kvetching from me. Thank you for all your hard work! ^.=.^

I was going to comment on the banner, but now I'm tempted to say something horribly racist, misogynistic, pedophilic, or illegally threatening here that is completely and totally off topic. With this many comments, who would notice it anyway? Hmmm...

I did. xD

Oh no! I've been seen! *hides again*

Lawls

404: Yiff not found

Don't worry, I still love you guys!

It totall fits XD

Awesome

404- Fender can not be loaded on this page.

"What?? No Fender!!?? :c"

*raeg and smashes the keyboard into the monitor*

Well, all things considered you guys handled what sounded like a major issue, relatively quickly.

...oh gods, your avatar!

Wah XD

Yeah!!!!!!!

cue the explosion of submissions.

Lmfao - epic banner is epic.

I think a BSOD style banner would've been more appropriate.

Very Appropriate! x3

ugliest banner evar DX

More like best banner ever.

horrible! i'm gonna have nightmares tonight. x_x

uber angst face for Fender. So very fitting.

I'm not getting any packets! ... oh wait. =)

Oh my gosh Furaffinity is working again?!? And I got so much done this week! Noooo!! ..

Love the banner BTW. I saw it before it was up and hopped it would make it to the top of the page.:)

Furaffinity sounds alot better to me.

Legendary!

lol very nice. Definitely fits

Knowing that the people behind FA can take the outra-- uh, OUTAGE so light-heartedly really makes me feel good!

My word!

Should've been labeled as: RAID Failurefinity.. you guys are building a reputation for that ;)

LOL well glad you got it back!

I love it ^^

I just want to say I appreciate all the hard work you guys do.

Sion nice sakura fur pic

I think in light of the outage and everything, at least you guys have a highly functional site that doesn't deliver errors all the time, and you keep it running smoothly. Unlike sofurry who was way better off as yiffstar and anthrostar, who thought a preview thing was a good idea that turned out to be a horrible nuisance. Anyway, what im trying to say is keep up the hard work and please, Please, PLEASE do not change a THING about this site. It is reliable and works flawlessly, and what errors occur you take care of promptly. You guys should be proud^^

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ussCHoQttyQ

Now let just hope the normal banners are this cute from now on...

Ah ha ha ha!

Glad you guys're so good humoured about it!

Yeah, that's pretty much how people react every time they see a 404 page. =P

Reblog if you saw it on tumblr- wait.

reblogged

Maybe there will be a 502affinity or so?

really good

Oh yes, very appropriate. I approve.

XD

How cute is that... >.<

C'est sympa. J'aime bien la police. ^^

At least it wasn't a month.

Best way to look at it. Besides, why complain about it being down?

I look at it this way: FA began acting up around the time of FAU5 con, right? Had it gone down right when the con occurred, it would have likely been bad for FA's name sake, not to mention the bad publicity it would have generated.

404 makes me moist

If only I knew what a 404 was...

its an error, "error 404, page not found" though in this case, Furry Not Found

|'D hehehaaaaaaaar cutttttte~~

OH NO ITS BACK

I liked the banner. It was funny.
By the way, thanks for all the hard work you guys did getting this site back up.

absolutely cute and funny

Thanks for getting all the monsters out the servers

What everyone else said: The banner is awesome, you guys are awesome, keep up the good work!

May I ask what was wrong with the last banner?
I really like the old banners, gave this place a nice flare.

on the seach engine this pops up whenever i search something 3312 failed (errno=61, msg=Connection refused)

The administrator notice on FA says very clearly that the search function is broken.

Oh thank god... I was afraid that the site was hacked, and this was just the final insult by those responsible... glad to know its just a bit of self depreciation.

From what I have seen from my friends trying to make their own sites (A news and b/s free, super-efficient weather site, for one little example), handling any sort of online site without scads of money is difficult. The fact that you keep ads in the local community has been very respectable in my eyes (something not even that weather site can do effectively).

I wish all those responsible for keeping this site alive the absolute best of luck... though I *will* give Dragoneer a prod for favorite-ing a bit of my work and not letting me know what he liked about it was *grins* Just friendly ribbing from a small pet peeve of mine:>

http://kvartirakrasivo.ru/404/index.php

Much better!

LOL

that is hilarious

In reference to the dreaded Error 404 which basically means that a webpage fucked itself out of existence.

Corsi once did a song along time ago about the 404 error that plagued this site along time ago, i think it was a month or so that its been down..i wouldnt know because i joined fa in 2009, but i did hear about it on SL.

Prolly because it is the only error code that sounds closest to "fur." lol

I approve muchly. Thanks for getting the site back online. You guys are awesome!

lol nicely done

Bloody trolls.

hell yeah this looks like trolling!

best ever.

FIRST!

Best. Banner. Ever!

Am I the only one who doesn't see a banner at the top I haven't already seen before...?

it is the old banner for me too

Yeah I have the one of them in the forest with the fireflies .__.

Mine's showing the shark banner :T

Odd .___.

F5

Oh wow xD
Thanks xDD

Refresh your browser.

I wonder if i was the first one to report that FA was down

Just out of curiosity, how much more 'later today', beyond what was available yesterday, is still needed for the search function to work again? XD

check on the forums its a pain to find the link for it but its easy to find the news

Haha, I love it! XD

The banner is still the old banner at my end!

refresh

did many times!

F5

A wild ERROR appears.

     Any time estimates on when Search will be alive again?

     Need it, need it bad, need it ultra-mega-critical. Or the FA Writers Directory
doesn't function (kinda like built on Sphinx).

     A 14,352 username directory, and the 57,408 search links to everybody's work
all cough up a 3312 error. AIEEEGH!!!

     (A sound you may have heard before, over recent days :- ) )

     All possible speed, please?

Well, now you just have to get the Search function working.

How long is your "today" ??? è.é

FURAFFINITY, GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER.

To help eas the pain of this 404 Error, that is also an error code for a refer unit i work on for complete shut down. Don't ask me how it got programmed in.

Next time buy Japanese parts.... X3

what, you mean we aren't getting that new 3month downtime like back in...was it 2008 or 2009? :P gotta love how silly cracks like this also get the nice heap of tissy fits and/or drama like above though, no? :3

Should probably keep that banner for a few weeks - as soon as you remove it, it'll come back for revenge XD

when furaffinity went down, all i could hear was the voice of michael scott from the office.

404=No, God please no! NO! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

ROFL XD

I DON'T ALWAYS DEAL WITH RAID CONTROLLER FIRMWARE BUGS

BUT WHEN I DO IT'S AT THE EXACT MOMENT IT WAS NEEDED TO DO WHAT RAID WAS DESIGNED TO DO

Hahahaha the banner made me laugh so hard! I love how you were able to take something that must be frustrating to yourself and the entire community, and make a joke about it.

This: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dngi2zHcQhA :3

*facepaw* this really had to happen? first time I pass throug this on FA x3

"will be restored later today..." how long is your TODAY?????!!!!!