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This is dragoneer broadcasting alongside chase to bring you all some fresh new site announcements for 2015!
Moderator Recruitment
We are opening up staff recruitment! We have finished an internal restructure behind the scenes, and are ready to recruit new staff to help improve the site and reduce our ticket backlog. Ever wanted to help the site? Now’s your chance! We’re looking for dedicated, talented people to help lend a hand to improve the site across the board.
*Note: Previous applicants from 2013-2014 have been under review since 2014-12-13 and are still receiving preferential treatment due to their initial enthusiasm and wait. If your application has been reviewed and we have declined your assistance at this time, you will receive an email from us.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1kz.....by5QQ/viewform
DDOSing, Fur Affinity and You
Since October, we’ve been DDOSed on a regular basis. This has caused some disruption in the community, and we’ve been working hard on identifying the sources of the DDOS, blocking them and upgrading our DDOS mitigation to prevent disruption.
To that end, all of our domains have been upgraded to Cloudflare’s Business plans ($200/mo per domains). We’ve also identified some of the DDOSes coming from Wordpress’ PingBack application and have actively blocked the sites and user agents to help mitigate impact.
Site accessibility and performance is always one of our primary concerns. We’ve been continually working towards improving those goals. As such, even with the best mitigation, a DDOS can still have impact (see Xbox Live and PlayStation Network).
Site Infrastructure Updates and Concerns
Within the next 10 days we will be performing site maintenance to improve our hardware and make necessary changes.
The maintenance is as follows:
* Update RAM in Finn (DB Server) from 64GB to 128GB. We have ordered the parts, and are simply waiting for them to arrive so we can schedule downtime.
* Install new app server ("Phoenix Down"), a processing server with 32GB of RAM and 4X Samsung Pro SSDs.
Estimated downtime will be roughly 60 minutes. We will give 48 hours notice prior to the outage, and attempt to schedule it during FA’s non-peak hours to reduce user impact.
There has also been some concern/rumor that our DB server Jake has not been in use (and according to some, is sitting in a closet). We’d like to assure you that Jake IS installed in the colo and sitting comfortably next to Finn. We will admit that while the server is in use, it is underutilized at the moment. We are in the process of updating and converting the site to process on multiple servers. Until that time, Jake is being used to process additional data and has been in use before StarryKitten volunteered his assistance, but is not one of the main DB servers.
In addition, we will be removing old servers from the rack and sending them out on their Long Walk. Trogdor is being retired, and we are working on a general clean up/inventory for our section of the datacenter.
2014 Site Stats (And More!)
Unique Daily Visitors: (121,000+ registered users, 49,000+ guests).
Average Uploads Per Day: 7,500
Average New Submissions Per Minute: 5.6
Average New Users Per Day: 635
Total New Accounts Created in 2014: 198,820
Total submissions from 2014: 2,441,645
Total submissions from 2013: 2,099,824
Total submissions from 2012: 1,743,669
Total submissions from 2011: 1,449,450
Total submissions from 2010: 1,170,350
Total submissions from 2009: 823,635
Total submissions from 2008: 494,768
Total submissions from 2007: 330,576
Total submissions from 2006: 152,040
Total submissions from 2005: 17,764
Transparency Progress
You can now visit http://donations.furaffinity.net/ to view expenses made by the site from the GoFundMe campaign. We will be adding in copies of the receipts (with personal information redacted) to each expenditure to help show better tracking.
We will also be going back and listing all previous donations made prior to that point and time (we have to update the layout/data first to try to get a more accurate count).
Site Code Updates
* Implemented better scripts to help prevent duplicate comments, shouts, notes and submissions.
* Improved memory caching to help submissions/thumbnails under heavy load.
* Improved the way the site creates and handles notifications (notices of new submissions, comments, journals, etc).
UI Progress
Our UI revisions were significantly delayed, but are still in progress. We should have updates for you within the next few weeks.
Phoenix Update
Phoenix development is still underway. Our goal is to show progress when we have something that users can see and actually use (let's be honest, we have a bad habit of going "Hey, look at this!" and then...)
Our Phoenix Github repository was recently moved, which has raised a lot of questions. The Github was removed at request of the Phoenix devs so they could focus on development. They found they were being bombarded with questions, suggestions and more and were spending too much time addressing those, not on progress. Hence the decision was made to pull the Github until we had substantial progress to show.
GoFundMe Gift Rewards
The rewards and goodies we promised users from our GoFundMe campaign have been sent to us. Once they arrive, we will start boxing them up and getting them prepared to ship!
Moderator Recruitment
We are opening up staff recruitment! We have finished an internal restructure behind the scenes, and are ready to recruit new staff to help improve the site and reduce our ticket backlog. Ever wanted to help the site? Now’s your chance! We’re looking for dedicated, talented people to help lend a hand to improve the site across the board.
*Note: Previous applicants from 2013-2014 have been under review since 2014-12-13 and are still receiving preferential treatment due to their initial enthusiasm and wait. If your application has been reviewed and we have declined your assistance at this time, you will receive an email from us.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1kz.....by5QQ/viewform
DDOSing, Fur Affinity and You
Since October, we’ve been DDOSed on a regular basis. This has caused some disruption in the community, and we’ve been working hard on identifying the sources of the DDOS, blocking them and upgrading our DDOS mitigation to prevent disruption.
To that end, all of our domains have been upgraded to Cloudflare’s Business plans ($200/mo per domains). We’ve also identified some of the DDOSes coming from Wordpress’ PingBack application and have actively blocked the sites and user agents to help mitigate impact.
Site accessibility and performance is always one of our primary concerns. We’ve been continually working towards improving those goals. As such, even with the best mitigation, a DDOS can still have impact (see Xbox Live and PlayStation Network).
Site Infrastructure Updates and Concerns
Within the next 10 days we will be performing site maintenance to improve our hardware and make necessary changes.
The maintenance is as follows:
* Update RAM in Finn (DB Server) from 64GB to 128GB. We have ordered the parts, and are simply waiting for them to arrive so we can schedule downtime.
* Install new app server ("Phoenix Down"), a processing server with 32GB of RAM and 4X Samsung Pro SSDs.
Estimated downtime will be roughly 60 minutes. We will give 48 hours notice prior to the outage, and attempt to schedule it during FA’s non-peak hours to reduce user impact.
There has also been some concern/rumor that our DB server Jake has not been in use (and according to some, is sitting in a closet). We’d like to assure you that Jake IS installed in the colo and sitting comfortably next to Finn. We will admit that while the server is in use, it is underutilized at the moment. We are in the process of updating and converting the site to process on multiple servers. Until that time, Jake is being used to process additional data and has been in use before StarryKitten volunteered his assistance, but is not one of the main DB servers.
In addition, we will be removing old servers from the rack and sending them out on their Long Walk. Trogdor is being retired, and we are working on a general clean up/inventory for our section of the datacenter.
2014 Site Stats (And More!)
Unique Daily Visitors: (121,000+ registered users, 49,000+ guests).
Average Uploads Per Day: 7,500
Average New Submissions Per Minute: 5.6
Average New Users Per Day: 635
Total New Accounts Created in 2014: 198,820
Total submissions from 2014: 2,441,645
Total submissions from 2013: 2,099,824
Total submissions from 2012: 1,743,669
Total submissions from 2011: 1,449,450
Total submissions from 2010: 1,170,350
Total submissions from 2009: 823,635
Total submissions from 2008: 494,768
Total submissions from 2007: 330,576
Total submissions from 2006: 152,040
Total submissions from 2005: 17,764
Transparency Progress
You can now visit http://donations.furaffinity.net/ to view expenses made by the site from the GoFundMe campaign. We will be adding in copies of the receipts (with personal information redacted) to each expenditure to help show better tracking.
We will also be going back and listing all previous donations made prior to that point and time (we have to update the layout/data first to try to get a more accurate count).
Site Code Updates
* Implemented better scripts to help prevent duplicate comments, shouts, notes and submissions.
* Improved memory caching to help submissions/thumbnails under heavy load.
* Improved the way the site creates and handles notifications (notices of new submissions, comments, journals, etc).
UI Progress
Our UI revisions were significantly delayed, but are still in progress. We should have updates for you within the next few weeks.
Phoenix Update
Phoenix development is still underway. Our goal is to show progress when we have something that users can see and actually use (let's be honest, we have a bad habit of going "Hey, look at this!" and then...)
Our Phoenix Github repository was recently moved, which has raised a lot of questions. The Github was removed at request of the Phoenix devs so they could focus on development. They found they were being bombarded with questions, suggestions and more and were spending too much time addressing those, not on progress. Hence the decision was made to pull the Github until we had substantial progress to show.
GoFundMe Gift Rewards
The rewards and goodies we promised users from our GoFundMe campaign have been sent to us. Once they arrive, we will start boxing them up and getting them prepared to ship!
So I'll bet that it will get done!
I'm forgetful though so keep in contact/remind me!
While:
Site Code Updates
Implemented better scripts to help prevent duplicate comments, shouts, notes and submissions.
Improved memory caching to help submissions/thumbnails under heavy load.
Improved the way the site creates and handles notifications (notices of new submissions, comments, journals, etc).
is pretty good, and was one of my main concerns about the site, now fixed, this;
UI Progress
Our UI revisions were significantly delayed, but are still in progress. We should have updates for you within the next few weeks.
goes on and on... oh well. Let alone a smartphone app then!
Overall, it's still an improvement. Congratulations for breaking the 170k users/day figure.
Funnily enough, while submitting this, I got kicked in the butt by a "database error that could not be shown by security reasons"
Candidate Requirements:
*You are a US Citizen.
i meet everything cept that...
(sry if this was addressed there are too many posts to go through)
not really interested in getting paid lol
Source: I run that US based company
:P
I'm a moderator for Holotech (FaceRig). They're based in Romania and I'm in New Zealand.
I don't get paid a cent and there's no contract, literally no issues whatsoever.
Unless they're planning to PAY people to moderate - which I highly doubt - it's just an unnecessary requirement to narrow the field.
there still slowdowns
the site still gets DDOSed
trolls still make accs.
I see that it's being put to good use.
Better question. FA's (or, more accurately, 'neers) $10k tax bill. I wish he'd enlighten us on that one. GFM raised around $15k. Just under $5 has been spent. $10k still missing and neer recently managed to move house.
Ya know. Jus' saying. This is less "transparency" and more "lets keep the users at bay".
And now...GIANT FERRETS STEALING TINY SHINY THINGS!!!
Phoenix is still in development, and progress is coming along. The github was removed until there can be more substantial contributions made from our side. The coders felt addressing comments on incomplete builds/sections distracting and removed it until there is something worth contributing to it.
We still plan on keeping the final code open source.
Not sure if that's true or not; but I wouldn't be surprised if it were.
I mean, 'Neer hasn't even replied to me stating who is working on it. :v If it wasn't a big deal, I would imagine he would have posted a screencap with the coders already or something.
U mad?
Who... always updates the site?
NAAAAAAAH!
Also, is a headset required specifically or would a microphone do...?
Lanyard: Purchased from 24HourWristBands.com
Cards: Purchased from SmartPress (the same group I do all of FAU's high end printing from).
fa will not bend to your will.
dont ask for the impossible.
have a great day.
you can't define it better than that
Folders <3
Now let's see if anything gets better in 2015. ;D
have a good extra year thinking about folders here.
dont expect snow in the summer.
Weasyl also has folders and I do have an account there, but Weasyl is mostly a ghost town, so I rarely use it.
people are lazy and dont give a fuck about anyone but themselves. the end... kinda sucks, i know i fit the bill, i dont care,.. im not moving again,.. too old to care. watch the freak-show i say
i merely pointed out that this site never does as it promises, and few others are just doing so as a byproduct of moving forward.
this here is a cesspool with coming attractions promised since people dumped in it to start with...
the petty bull and refusals to upgrade for who cares the reasons on all sides on all sites is just old. by the time my generation's children use the site at the age i was when i started... ugh... perish the thought.
let's just hope someone does something besides talk out of their ass or work themselves to the bone only for people to ignore them.
history as it is...there are perfectly good reasons why both are the way they are. why sf cant get traffic... yiffstar i believe. people ran from that to come here. now i cant blame people for not wanting to go from the pot to the frying pan and back.
then there such nasty other places no one really likes and meh, not even worth more than mentioning for comparison reasons.
Funny to watch how no one ever grows up but pretend harder to be more mature and adult. The site controversy proves how childish we all are and what everyone has to prove.
of course i am childish too, but my point is that no one grows up sure, but have some damn respect.
just cuz someone went on linux and made an ip change macro to get their views does not make them worth speakin up like a damn idiot to make other people feel bad.
use your brain or go buy a gun and blow it out for everyone's sake please.
contributing to my bad day by being worthless n shit.
if this is the fandom it is no wounder it split into 7 to get away from itself
Where is the rest of it, as in all of it?
That's about the going price of server RAM (especially when you have to pick RAM which meets certain criteria/compatibility for your system).
Whoops!
That's pretty lame.
I would've thought with differing time zones you would welcome international support.
While the US mods are sleeping the international community would continue working on TT's and such.
Thus the continuous cycle of 'trying' to 'improve' the TT backlog and site itself would work around the clock, surely?
We may relax this in time, but to start, we need a team we can build a close-knit relationship with.
So while the US mods are being briefed on matters, that could then be passed on to the internationals so everyone is informed?
Sounds more like the arbitrary restrictions on eligibility only serve to reduce the candidate pool in order to make it seem more plausible if any other members of your clique joins the administration.
1) With who's money would you be taking people to court over breaking civil contracts?
2) Why would you be spending thousands of dollars to go after people instead of hiring someone to engage in coding or spending the money elsewhere?
Wtf man.
But Canada and the US share time zones, so why is it US only? :V
tbh it feels like theyre not even trying
CRUMPETS FOR EVERYONE!
noice
Any promises you can't make is best made aware when it's realized, or else try to stay true to the promises.
I'd love to see great things come from this site, and where people can trust this place.
But 2015 is a new year, a better year, and it's going to kick ass.
Those kinds of people seem like they'd have more time than those with full time jobs!
Do your regular admins not take week-long vacations? At least students take more predictable time off!
How on earth are you going to verify that someone is NOT a student? How can you possibly prove that?
Meanwhile, those out in the 'working world' are going to have their time off spread out. Some take their kids to see the relatives in July, some escape the cold in late January, some take advantage of off-season opportunities in October, etc.
Its less story writing and more like paint-by-numbers or factory produce.
People get attention for the most stupidest things.
does make me feel a bit down. There are so many good things out there that need attention and support. After all we have plenty of humans drinking stuff saying "Do not drink" (which is dumb, because everyone's taught not to eat stuff that's unknown, a 4 year old would know that!) and turning into something, along with many other weird stuff that's not weird in a good way. We need revitalisation!
What also needs to be banned is cub porn (I know people who have been molested) and rape (same with that). That REALLY gets under my skin.
2: are you following me?
The vast majority of furry art has _always_ been crud.
Also, remember that many individual artists have gotten better over the years, they've just been overwhelmed by the mass of new artists and the ones that can't get better.
MS paint shall never replace the charm and beauty that pencils and ink can achieve
Its feels like theres barely original art atm.
Not saying that adopts and ych arent original, its just not the same.
Ive still got some from July sitting around for cub porn.
I have been trying for this spot forever now. Being unemployed I now have ALOT of time I can devote to the site.
Here's to hoping to be selected.
In order for someone to be a candidate for a moderation title, why do you require that the applicant is:
* a US citizen
* not a student
I'd just like a clarification of these particular points.
And being a US citizen doesn't make up for accessibility - especially not among furries. A European with a bad sleep cycle could be a better choice than an American with a bad sleep cycle, and even then, if we only take time zones into account, then the US is not the only part of the Americas that speak English while living in the same range of time zones.
2) Finals/midterms tends to see admins vanish for a week or two, and it becomes hard to rely on them. Not saying they can't do a good job, but moving forward, we need people willing to be consistently available.
2) And staff members that aren't student don't vanish for a week or two once in a while for vacations and the likes? I believe I fail to see your point there, as for students generally lacking time, I'll refer to my reply to FatalSyndrome above.
Vacations from jobs happen at various times so its easy enough for one person to take a break and the others to pick up the slack
Those kinds of people seem like they'd have more time than those with full time jobs!
You probably can't have it both ways. Volunteer staff are volunteers. Wikimedia has a volunteer NDA template that you might look at, but I am uncertain on what grounds they believe it to be enforceable.
Your trade secrets are likely already protected in the USA, although it's unclear whether all that you're concerned about qualifies. You might also claim trespass to chattel in certain cases (mostly if you know someone DoSing you rather than revealing private information).
Of course, if you ever get lawyers involved, it'll cost a lot of money even if you're in the right and have cast-iron documentation. :-/
Bless you sir, for providing relevant links. Citation not needed.~
Waiting to see proof of purchases, as you promised!
I'm not holding my breath. Surprise me.
Updated with (most) of the invoices.
Now would you mind addressing why being a student disqualifies one to be a part of staff?
What about part-time students? Students who are taking one or two classes?
Those kinds of people seem like they'd have more time than those with full time jobs.
Do your regular admins not take week-long vacations? Students take more predictable time off.
How on earth are you going to verify that someone is NOT a student? How can you prove that?
And honestly? No, we can't verify if somebody is or isn't a student. But staff want to work with us we expect them to understand our needs and that of the community. The community needs dedicated staff to be there to answer tickets. That's what we need.
Is this not a risk with any new staff member? I think this determination is entirely on the prospective staff member, and you are hindering yourself severely with this restriction, considering many of the talented members of this community are students. Are the standard student breaks not consistent leaves of absence?
And honestly? No, we can't verify if somebody is or isn't a student. But staff want to work with us we expect them to understand our needs and that of the community. The community needs dedicated staff to be there to answer tickets. That's what we need.
If a candidate understands your needs or needs of that of the community, it won't matter if they are a student or not. They should be able to manage their time regardless of their occupation. That's like saying chefs or doctors can't be moderators, it seems like an arbitrary and useless regulation. Students can be perfectly capable staff members. And what of part time students? There is still no way someone focusing on studies, even a little bit, can effective contribute their services to the site? Shouldn't you make that determination yourself when you decide to hire the individual? Surely it is something to consider but I think you are severely impeding yourself by removing all of those people from the equation.
Obviously, you can do as you please, but I think it's worth reconsidering.
Full speed ahead!
Not enough appreciation for TRUE skeptics and people actually interested in progress, instead of just willfully ignorant naysayers. Thank you.
Thank you sincerely for your supportive comment.
I was very interested in putting in an application but being Canadian I am automatically disqualified.
Thanks for the update, nevertheless.
1) Why do you have to be 21? I'm 19, and I'm far more capable of rational thinking and communication than most people I know in even their mid-late 20's. Not to mention the only legal difference between an 18 and a 21 year old is the ability to drink, which I'm almost certain is unrelated to being a moderator?
2) Why in the world are you not allowed to be a student? And how are you even going to verify that people aren't, it's very easy to lie about that.
This so much. It may as well not be a requirement, as it is so easily by-passable.
I find mself with far too much spare time after my classes each day. This was with full time last semester. I am going part time this semester so I should have even more time.
FA's complaints are "finals" causing people to "disappear" this is a possibility for one week, or some may not be affected and after classes are done they'd have more time to contribute.
Next was "Spring Break" this one is a tiny bit absurd. It's basically saying you can't have a week break from anything. Even people who don't attend school usually do something for Spring Break.
See > http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/.....9#cid:43792019
I think what they should ask to gauge if someone could provide time is do they have a job whilst attending school as that would limit a persons time heavily with it.
I saw that post, it's ridiculous.
Like people can't take a break from work.
What's next? Can't hire women because they can get pregnant.
Can't hire married people because they need to take care of their family.
Can't hire human beings, because they can get sick. And wow, we can't spare 2 days of someone in bed, can we?
I have 3 MONTHS a year of vacations here. Not counting holidays that can go for weeks. Even if someone like me disappeared for a week or 2 every year I'd be able to do MUCH more than what staff does right now.
I can see how not being a student has made this staff completely competent at their job.
Neither Neer or Yak have time between their day jobs to work a lot on the site.
I can see why not hiring students or young people could be a problem when it comes to taking a job serious, having responsibilities and all.
But that's why interviews are for. There is also nothing that make it so that working-people don't have the same problems.
and yeah, if they want this level of dedication it seems unfair to not pay people. Making these heavy of demands on volunteers? It's in their right to have requirements, even if I think they're completely asinine (as said, students normally have far more free time than someone who works full time? Thinking they'd be able to enforce NDA's anyway, like with what money?). But, to give strict things like that EVERY SATURDAY? Maybe once a month, but that's ridiculous. They're asking for volunteers but demanding job related amounts of help. I know tons of people will submit applications anyway to either feel important, or because they feel like hopefully they'll be the one to be able to help FA. This still just rubs me the wrong way. Also, wtf have they been doing that they haven't hired ANYONE despite having these resumes for a year? And if they haven't even gone through the hundreds there, why are they accepting more? Shouldn't they be fixing the site with Neer's limited time. And it must be super limited because it took him several weeks to have any time to address the community (because he apparently works 12 hour days 5x a week) despite constant tweeting. I wonder if there's actually any communication going on between moderators and admins about who they're hiring.
I can see lots of people are already asking about the us/student thing on the fill out form.
It's really worrisome when you submit a Trouble Ticket and nothing, I mean absolutely NOTHING gets done about it for months on end.
Was a little worrisome that it was sitting so long.
Soon ™ yet again. You have a really bad habit of blowing smoke and your userbase cheering you on like you are some hero of old. Please. I look forward to seeing your proof as promised. ( for weeks now mind you. ) as well as why you want to buy more servers when even now you admit that Jake is not being used fully.
I forgot about that series of images.
Two questions.
1) Why did StarryKitten say it wasn't being used if this is the case? (Sorry, but I actually believe him over you in this case, since he had nothing to lose by saying it wasn't in use, and your track record isn't great on this sort of thing.)
2) If by "being used" you mean as a private gaming server, that's not "being used" for FA and what people helped you buy it for, dude.
2) I don't know where you get the notion by being used as a private gaming server, but that's not the case. Period. While FA did, at one point, help host some TF2 servers in conjunction with the Furry Pound, that was years ago. Our metal is solely for use in FA and FA only.
The person you personally trusted with all of FA's information was wrong, and didn't know what he was talking about, with regards to a server? When he's a hacker who intimately knows how servers/websites work and had full access to FA's database and website information? I really doubt that, dude. It's not a nice thing to say about someone you said was your friend too. :v Without proof, you just look like you're blowing smoke up our ass (because you know most of the userbase will take it as gospel).
2) Yup, that's exactly why I think that, and since you refuse to formally address it or show proof of otherwise, what am I supposed to think?
I've been watching you make promise after promise for nearly 8 years on how FA is going to get better, how things totally weren't your fault, watching you shove responsibility off, watching you pretend to get your shit together for about a month, watching you throw people under the bus, year after year, like thousands of others.
We're not going to believe you until you show us otherwise. The burden of proof is on you.
We've been told so much about transparency, but from what I can see of Neer's comments here any new admins are put on a tight leash.
What? They need to be US working-citizens of at least 21 for what? To sign an NDA and not disclose all the super-sensitive information of... what?
The problems the site has? How insecure this is? How much better this thing could be run?
Where the donations are being spent?
Sounds ridiculous to me. A common website admin should barely have any kind of access to anything.
It seems like just something so to segregate staff from users yet again.
No wonder this website is always a mess. We will never be a true community with stuff like this.
Since actually doing anything about a violation of an NDA isn't really much of an option if it would consume money meant for improving the site, and there's already a long-established history of whenever someone DOES leave staff in a blaze of "hey everybody, here's stuff you weren't aware of" it's more of the makes-you-look-bad variety than anything damaging user privacy... there's not much practical point to bothering, and it just comes off as a move for appearances. Which, given the history here, most people are only going to interpret NOT as you worrying about their privacy, but you wanting to prevent future leaks of the chaos behind the curtain that always makes you look bad.
With your current favorite buzz-word being "transparency" and everyone knowing how desperately this site needs new blood on staff, making a big deal about NDAs and cutting out all non-american potential help over NDA concerns just seems pointless and counter-productive.
These new moderator requirements, and talk of NDAs all sound official and professional, but in FA's specific case (as has been pointed out countless times here by many people and unaddressed every time) they're pointless, counterproductive, or complete non-factors.
Any kind of legal contract is only worth the paper it's printed on if you lack the capacity to >enforce< it should it be broken. I would very much like to say that even Dragoneer would not be foolish enough to use site funds trying to prosecute someone for breaching an NDA, but literally every time I have ever said "even Dragoneer isn't that stupid" he's gone and done some retarded shit that even I thought was beyond what he was capable of.
Could you elaborate on this a little for me? What's improved/better about it? I'm just curious!
Any chance we could eventually have notifications delete themselves when they've been deleted before we could read them, instead of having it sit uselessly in our inbox? Favourites, comments, watches, etc. It's always been a little weird. I was kind of hopeful that would be the case with this update (part of why I asked) just to be ironically immediately shown that that isn't the case, hah.
Perhaps give some of FA jury duty to get a few candidates narrowed down, though. Then vote on those
It wouldn't be too hard to implement, just a simple voting system of short listed people, [who you've looked at not only from an experience point of view but a community point of view] and the community picks their staff member/s based on their experiences of said people and how they think they would do as staff, etc.
Of course, there's something to be said for how it works now not being much better, I just wanted to point out that it wouldn't likely be this super fair democratic system you're all hoping for. But that's a human thing, not an FA-specific thing. People vote for people they know, regardless of how qualified they actually are. And that's not even getting into all-out cheating.
I'm not really sure what a good alternative would be.
It'd be reduced to popularity.. Especially concerning the fandom's artists and suitors.
A true solution seems further out of reach.
The idea has flaws, but at the same time, would it fair better then the what the staff chooses to do now, where they seem to continuously make bad decisions on staff rather then good, Who knows?
Back to the drawing board and stuff I guess!
Spending more time doing Skype interviews and backgrounds checks is more important.
What this community doesn't need is secret admins who are neighbors and personal friends of yours, and have no other community approval other than your own. And clearly a voting system isn't an option, either. But the system is currently broken and you need to be thinking about different recruitment methods.
BUT
They cannot name themselves in it. It will be anonymous. No blatantly identifying oneself. And then the community votes on the essays.
But wouldn't it be nice? The essays would be anonymous, so there would be no bias from anyone. Names would only be revealed to the large public at the end, with only like a handful of people aware of whose essay is whose.
And yeah, people are gonna lie and falsify and make themselves sound nice. That's why this isn't the first step. It's probably the last one.
but it was serious, a lot of gamers were mega pissed at the ddos attack on psn and xbl
Happy new year everyone
I am currently unemployed and I have been on this site almost as long as its been around.
I can literally do work for this site like 8+ hours on weekdays and at least 4 on weekends.
Please after I apply consider a look at me. I REALLY do want to help this site.
I use to answer tickets on Furcadia and I enjoyed doing so.
I am going to fill it out now I hope I am considered or at least looked at.
In all seriousness, however, I'm a tad curious. When the Jake server is utilized further, should we expect better load times and less times FA breaks on us? What's the final goal here in terms of site quality?
https://trello.com/furaffinity
For both requests / dev ops.
And heres to this actually leading to something
I mean, you just take the person's character, modify the original sketch you did... and voila. Where as, otherwise, you take a commission, and then you have to fuss with what the character should be posed like, etc. Especially if they commissioner didn't give you any idea of what kind of pose they want. 8|;
But even I get a bit put off by them. Even if I'm thinking about doing some in the future.
and as far as reporting it, who would bother? fa is known for having ridiculously long trouble ticket times; what would be the point of filing a report for an image that will be taken down and reposted long before the admins even read the ticket, knowing that there are tickets from months, and sometimes even years ago, which were filed for more serious things and haven't even been looked at.
Who COMPETES with furaffinity? And what are you competing for?
The long and the short of it is this: we want staff who want to help FA, and are willing to help improve the site. What we don't need, at least right now, are staff who volunteer on two or three other sites and divide their time up. While we completely respect people offering their personal time to the site to help better FA and the community what we NEED is for people to be focused on US.
Having an moderator who spends 80% of his time helping another site and 20% of the time helping us does not benefit us nearly as much as it could if they were dedicated to helping our community first and foremost.
The wording there alludes to the site actually competing against others for the same resource in a similar space such as clients and such. I would hardly call someone being an admin in a Quake 2 forum a "competitor" to this site.
This is all entirely understandable, given FA's circumstances. But it also has the hallmarks of employment, and may be regarded as such even if you call them volunteers (which as a for-profit organization you can't have) and don't pay them the wages and payroll taxes that they're entitled to from FA's income.
It's come to the point where FA requires paid support staff. Bite the bullet and start employing them. If you won't take it from me (which I completely understand), try showing your recruitment form to someone with an MBA who hasn't got anything to do with furry.
Also for-profits are allowed volunteers, at least practically. I've worked with some in Pennsylvania. If you have a definable standpoint for this, I'd be genuinely interested to know where (interaction if state and federal law does wacky things to jurisdiction and can-can't status of behaviors)
That cuts out a lot of potential moderators. I have ongoing several years of experience moderating a website now, and not even a competing one at that.
But since you only want americans... I'll just sit here and watch what happens.
I've heard that you and the other staff can be very difficult to work with and many issues rise up from that.
I still have problems with the ulcer I got from being an admin here like 7 years ago.
I'm sorry you're suffering from problems caused from being an admin here and dealing with the "users which drive admins to leave"
The professionalism of this site is simply astounding. Wow, just wow. That is the most childish thing I've ever heard and quite frankly I'm embarrassed that the site is run by someone who just prefers to do the online equivalent of put his fingers in his ears instead of having a conversation. Jesus actual christ.
Take a poll of past admins and see how many of us left because of frustration with the users over frustration with Neer - or how many others were fired/dismissed not for doing anything wrong, but for not giving up, shutting up, and sitting down and accepting that things weren't going to change.
Seriously. I hate having to make an alternative file for my drawings with transparent parts just because FA handles them terribly.
My inbox has been flooded with icon commissions where I only see eyes in the thumbnail because they're animated. It's damn annoying.
In regards to the trouble tickets.. how bad is the situation now? do you keep stats on them (x% of trouble tickets are acknowledged in y days, and closed in z days), and would you be willing to publicly share them (Or if feeling ambitious, put some targets in place)? It would be a very good way to show tangible improvements if those numbers go down over the next couple of months
It hasn't been a smooth ride so far.
Also can we get that DON'T CALL ME A MINOR kid back again? he was my favorite
trollsusers coming to insult people and to reply to every comment displaying their dislike/annoyance and repeating the same they've said since years ago will be here in around 6-12 hours.this one has hot air like all the other ones and has been blowing it a bit longer than the rest.
if just one actually made good on their promises it would ruin the rest.
HERE is the race. make absolute good on all your promises and you get to be the site everyone physically gives a shit about.
as it stands, who cares... no site is worth more, this one just has more porn on it and that is why people visit currently. simple as that.
inkbunny promised from the get go that they would be user friendly and in reality they let some of the worst people get control of their moderation. not just seen but experienced it first hand. dont know why i really tried that site, but i wanted to get away from here so it was my first move.
finding out this, i tried sofurry. sofurry is great and very well rounded in code and is pretty good all around the board, they only lack traffic and support and as an artist i value the traffic as it helps me know people like what i do and that makes me happy. i still post at sf because i have hopes that traffic will find it one day, but nothing is done to support the flow of traffic and i have done everything i can to get my watchers to budge. i have even tried exclusive content for the sofurry watchers.
being that sofurry isnt suiting my need as an attention whore i hear of weasyl. when it started it was an exclusive circle jerk and it took me over half a year to get an invitation. such a thing puts me in the best of moods and makes me love you forever (sarcasm). that as the initial entry to the site has me at mental odds and when i hear from very reliable friends that they may become a pay to use exclusive features kind of art site like deviant art, i surely believe every word. the pattern fits what they have already done with exclusive by invitation entry for more than half a year and i didnt much like deviant art in the first place for the very same thing.
their promises are to be better than FA. the comparison is quite a sharp and easy attribute to attain but none do what it takes and all it really does is separate the fan base like a shattered eggshell.
to me they are all children who need to get along and work together, but the pissing contest is more important to all of them
other than the sites names, you tell me what makes them different communities and you mr, or ms. have a valid argument.
if you managed to read, which you obviously did not, you would note that there are sane and logical reasoning's for not wanting to establish a stomping ground in and 1 of the sites absolutely and exclusively.
sure each flaw shows the administrations to be human, but they are so human that they don't bother to hide it like a professional would like to.. though i might just be too old-school in thinking quality over quantity. discretion over indiscretions.
the very argument here would be like saying "we are pen lovers site. we love all pens and support everything but invisible ink", then another one pops up because they only wish to include invisible ink. after that, one of those who had worked for the original state that they don't like the way in which the content is upheld and really seek improvements. then another with my like mind pops up and doesn't like the lot of them and says to hell with all of you and they make their own site that is just the same as the original but only the best may join.
same pen lovers, all with childish reasons to not get along have created completely different sites, but each are exactly the same and only aid in wasting everyone else time.
here is the childish tdlr, because you did in fact tldr my ass: it is everyone's fault because reasons.
same pen lovers, all with childish reasons to not get along have created completely different sites, but each are exactly the same and only aid in wasting everyone else time.
Some truly smart thinking you have made up there!
Too bad I'm currently too tired to grasp all of it D:
I'd say that we are a single community even if there are "fights" inbetween.
However, thing is, there's no perfection on the world - under no circumstances. So you have to chose the one which is the best option ;)
DA is the only real rival in terms of how many people are on it, but it's a much more diluted pool and since it isn't furry centric relies more on your marketing strategy :o
Weasyl is pretty and cool but trash in traffic unless furaffinity is down.
and inkbunny is pretty good because I guess the cuteness of my art is appealing to those users and I just surprisingly got a commission due to my presence there, so I have much better hopes.
Deviantart? (laughs to hell and back)
Yeeeeeeaaaaaaah I don't think so. I'd be surprised if you got any takers with that level of red tape for a volunteer position.
There are many people who still want the position~
But hey whatever!!! If people still feel like volunteering then that's their prerogative.
Eh, yeah, great, good idea.. and then how do the new mods access the tickets they are supposed to handle?...
That's the only critical information that's about. Or what else would there be sensitive about FA users? The IP Adress' perhaps but I guess that those aren't visible for mods.
But not letting people volunteer for other sites at the same time is bullshit. FA isn't some special site that deserves to have super special rules and be the only site that people can volunteer for.
The idea is to have finally a staff which sticks to eachother and which sticks to FA as well. For that it is very helpful if the people aren't moderating multiple sites at once..
If people still feel like volunteering then that's their prerogative.
Yep and therefore your flaming is useless ;P
Also, if site staff hasn't stuck before, why on earth would anyone assume that it would stick now? these volunteers are not only not getting paid, they aren't getting any other incentive, either. Add to that the fact that Dragoneer is about as reliable as whether or not thumbnails are gonna load on any given day on this site, I imagine the turnover rate for volunteers is going to be just as high as in the past.
Indeed, they can't even verify if somebody is or isn't volunteering for other sites at the same time.
It doesn't just become a problem for FA, but whatever other site they're Staffing for other than FA as well.
It's less productive for everyone.
Also, of course you wouldn't be able to talk about some things you do as an admin.
Who wants an admin flinging their site's codes and back doors, and other mechanics everywhere?
It isn't uncommon for there to be rules set just for admins.
Also, the student thing as well as being in the US has been addressed multiple times in
above comments. Fa can't control people's free time, yes, but that's just the thing:
Students all have about the same limited free time and Vacation at about the same time as every other student.
Having multiple students on the team would mean that at some point, there will be a time when
all of them need to take their finals. Thus, preventing them from doing their duty as an admin
all at once. Now your down a couple admins until then, and progress slows.
I can understand not wanting volunteers to talk about the coding (although I strongly doubt any of the staff who are going to be picked for volunteering will be seeing any of this) and the sensitive/ personal info they might work with, but an NDA seems both unreasonable and unenforceable. Violating an NDA for a job usually gets people fired/ can prevent them from getting the same job in the future, but this isn't a job. No one is getting paid to answer and resolve trouble tickets. What can Dragoneer really do if the NDA is violated???? Take people off staff? Ban them???
And as far as the US citizen/ student thing: Canada??? Mexico??? South America???? Other countries are not just 3,000 miles and 8 time zones away. And as another user brought up but was never answered: What about part-time students?? What about people who only take maybe a class or two?? What about people who take classes on quarters instead of semesters??
Also: how can you verify any of these requirements anyway?? I guess an ID (which I think is really fucking invasive for a site volunteer position) can tell you the age of the person applying but how will 'Neer know if they're a student or not?? How will 'Neer know whether or not they already volunteer for another site?? And how in the world is dragoneer going to enforce the NDAs AND the site rules?? Professionalism? Maturity??? I mean, these volunteers will have nothing to lose. Not only are they not getting paid, they aren't getting ANYTHING. No perks, no merch, no ability to make their own private forums, and FA doesn't have premium memberships so they aren't getting those, either. The only reason people are going to volunteer is because... well, because they just feel like it, I guess.
But what does 'Neer plan to do when that motivation runs out?
I've been on staff for two years now, and honestly I've never missed any of the perks you're talking about. Hell, the job is stressful enough that I wouldn't do it for money. I'm spending time helping users because I want them to receive help, and because I think following rules is important. Sometimes people are grateful for the help, and cheesy as it may sound, that's my reward for a job well done. If that's not worth it to you, that's your call, and we'll not think any less of you for it.
People will not stay forever, whether it's because of flagging motivation or changes in their RL circumstances that're incompatible with the demands of staffing the site. It sucks, but it's a problem that all organizations face, whether their staff is paid or volunteer, and there isn't a whole lot that can be done about it. All we, or anyone, can do is bring on new staff as needed and do the best we can on our end to make sure they don't burn out.
I also don't think that "getting taken off staff" is going to be anywhere near on par with leaking information if it's anything like that leak that happened in 2010. Getting removed from Furaffinity staff is not going to be the end of the world for anyone, especially not for people with malicious intentions, and double especially for people who will have already leaked private info and notes by the time they are removed.
But there's a trap there, too. If you provide compensation, and tools, tell staff how to do their job, and provide material penalties if they don't, the relationship may well be viewed as a form of employment, in which case there's a whole mess of things to think about.
This might be a problem even without an NDA. Technically, just because people are willing to do a job for free doesn't mean you can get away with not paying them. It is not possible for a "volunteer" to decline coverage under the Fair Labor Standards Act. Fur Affinity's business profitability is increased by its "volunteer" staff, and due to its unique position it has the bargaining ability to demand lower wages (in this case, zero wages). This is the kind of thing the FLSA is designed to prevent.
The IRS has a Twenty Factor Test to determine whether you're an employer, and I see FA hitting over half of those. Things like operating under instruction and supervision; training; requiring people to work just for you; and set times and minimum hours of work - all tend towards employment vs. contracting. There are exceptions for nonprofits, but Ferrox Art LLC is not a nonprofit organization. Staff won't count as interns, either, because they're doing a real job for which FA is the primary beneficiary (it's more than just educational).
Now, I don't think it's likely that the IRS is going to be knocking on Dragoneer's door tomorrow asking for unpaid payroll taxes. Just be careful. FA is incorporated. and a top-5,000 website. Turnover is clearly in the tens of thousands of dollars. There's already been tax issues - and corporate officers and directors are personally liable if found responsible for not paying taxes related to social security and health care for employees - including those deemed to be common-law employees.
Volunteering for stuff like this tends to be a bit of a catch 22. The people who have the mentality and maturity to handle it well are usually adults with jobs and other responsibilities who don't have the time, while the people who tend to apply 'because they have lots of free time' don't actually understand what they would be getting into, or just want the shiny admin/mod symbol. That's why these kinds of things have such a high turnover rate. At least in retail you get paid to get yelled at by people all day, it's a lot to ask of someone for free.
There are, of course, exceptions. But there are only so many of those, and it seems FA has a bit of a habit of running those off when they do come around. Hopefully they can work on that.
Beside that, neither 'Neer nor his admins seem to be able to do fulfill half of these requirements, anyway (I have seen, more than several times, dragoneer being less than professional and realiable), and it just begs the question:
Why would you want that shiny mod symbol if it means going through all this??
Basically, I just think that dragoneer is asking too much of people who would be volunteering to be admins for free-- especially since it doesn't seem to come with any benifits. :/
Also if those retired servers need a home... :D
*You are a US Citizen.
That is very limiting. Oh well, I was gonna make the suggestion :)
Due to the fact I'm home all day working (On art commissions) and I can solve feuds quite well, been here for quite some time (3 different accounts till I got the right name since 2007) and since I've finished with my degree in Fine Art, I understand Art copyright laws better than most.
But other than the reasons, I'm sure it is a stressful job. I hope to see new, awesome staff members soon ^^
And to be honest I've heard a lot of complaints about art stealing on DA. So I'm not sure it's working that great there either..
And art theft isn't a problem so long as you keep track of your files and submit a DMCA takedown notice according to their guidelines. Honestly, art theft is dealt with quickly and mercilessly. Anything else you have to wait a little longer on.
The point was less "Why aren't you like DeviantART" and more "jesus christ if you have a 6 month backlog on trouble tickets, why weren't you trying to fix this sooner?" I know it came across in the opposite way, and I apologize. Probably shouldn't have compared the two sites. I'm a bit irritated that it may take 6 months to get my art taken out of someone else's gallery.
I do know that at least e621 and Rule 34 will remove your art as long as the copyright holder sends them a email. I don't know anything about booru sites, but as long as the art is still your IP, you should be able to send in a DMCA notice/take legal action.
Aside from that, yeah your totally right about how they are on top of that stuff. (Of course not for me..but in general, yes. )
Lol but yeah the bots are crazy! I asked the site owner of rule34 what the bot was, and why it uploaded my art, and that is what he told me. (They scan art stes and re-upload pictures.) i think it is not illigal because they credit the source. But still.... It is wieird..... About 30% of all pictures on r34 were added autonomously
I mean, if they upload your IP without your permission and refuse to take it down, you CAN take legal action provided you've got original files and whatnot. That would be a chat for someone other than me though, because I haven't actually needed to go to court yet. Sometimes the threat of legal action and a DMCA notice with proof of your creation of the image is enough.
Someone reposts your art, gives you credit => No harm done, despite what incredibly broken US copyright flaws say. You also have the right NOT to take action.
Someone reposts your art, maybe changes it a bit, says they're the one who made it => Screw 'em over.
Someone is selling your art behind your back => Drop 'em dead. ;P
The submission stats are always interesting....
Lol servers= jake and Finn, from adventure time
I hope everything progresses as planned....
If a scam artist disables their account, are you able to undo the disable and set the account visible and banned (its extremely unfair that they've been able to hide what they've done in this manor) I'm actually in the process of taking legal action against said artist and because so many people were asking when they were gonna get owed commissions they disabled their account. (And now block everyone on twitter who asks)
Also I have an unanswered TT from July 2013
And will there also be tracking for the package?
Also folders plz...
I fear these may be fatal words...
1.No banner update. (Use to love those, not important but was a nice thing to look forward to each season/holiday.
2.No word on where the GoFundMe donations >exactly< went/have been done with. ex. no receits, papers, bills ect...
3.No concerns matter here or are taken seriously. You might literally have to go on the forums to get heard at all.
4.Also want to point out that less than 5% of this sites users do not know about much of what is going on here behind the scenes.
95% of the users here don't know/care what is going on at this point.
I understand there's quite a bit of text on the journal so you might've just missed the link.
I'm not sure what concerns you feel are not being adequately addressed; we try to answer questions as they come in, but of course some might be missed due to sheer volume.
Don't worry yourself however, I do not blame you for this mess and I don't blame the remaining hired admins on the board. These screwup and poor handling rest solely on needs lap. He fucked up a lot of things and fucked over the trust of much users in the community. His actions have spoken louder than any of his words ever had.
Neer is quite honestly and sincerely trying to shape up. He knows he has work to do to regain users' trust. I personally believe that he can turn things around, but he's been dealt a pretty awful hand, with every single failing, real or perceived, getting loaded onto his shoulders, included malicious acts by completely unaffiliated third parties and chance events like hardware failures. Try to cut him enough of a break to at least judge him by his own actions, yes?
Those expenses did exist three journals ago. Try carefully looking at those date stamps again.
Yes I would expect those donations to have been continually addressed from the time they were received. Which is not the case as donation.furaffinity.net did not exist until this journal. Jan4th '15
Frustrated by a history of delays? No at this point frustrated doesn't even begin to describe how some of the users here feel about all that has been going on for sometime.
Underserved blame... hmmm how do say this one, umm...
When people give you almost every chance to succeed and you still ultimately throw those chances down the drain, it is concluded that, that person either no longer cares about such goals or that they don't have any expectations to do anymore at this point. We call this "becoming contempt with their life".
And just to be clear, those decisions made and the users reactions to them are not in disappointment, they are from distrust. Which is a natural affinity when you've been had by someone.
" Neer is quite honestly and sincerely trying to shape up."
"I personally believe that he can turn things around, but he's been dealt a pretty awful hand, with every single failing, real or perceived, getting loaded onto his shoulders, included malicious acts by completely unaffiliated third parties and chance events like hardware failures."
I'm just going to stop you there. We are not talking about the DOS here, we are not talking about the hardware failures here. We are talking about a man's promise to thousands of people that contribute to making that site what it is now. We are talking about a man who has not made those promises of bettering the website for everyone who uses it. We are talking about a man who has since lied to us about what he does with this site behind the dark silhouette.
If you haven't noticed many are more than rightfully hurt because all of it.
He wants to change? Tell him he needs to start with wrapping his mind around the word change itself.
Also No...
That is yet to be seen. Every. single. year. Neer does this same exact thing. "I swear things will get better! There will be UI updates! You'll get folders! Images will actually work! The TOS will be perfect and we'll get more staff! No more server errors! (I just need a whole new server and tons of RAM/HDD upgrades plzkthx!)"
Nupe. He can put up or shut up, because I don't believe him anymore. :v
Neer, why is there a need to be 21? As far as I'm aware, the only legal difference between 18 and 21 in America is that at 21 you can drink, and 18 you can't.
And it sure as hell isn't a maturity thing, because I know more underage users on this site who know how to act like civil people than I do people over 20.
I mean... I've been helping to moderating sites since I was 11. I graduated high school at 16 years old. I spend almost all of my free time on FA flipping through references while I do art for people. I've got customer service experience in both retail and tech support. I mean, honestly, my job right now is full time doing tech support for AOL. I think that's qualified enough to be an admin on this site.
:\
1. Make it possible to delete comments completely on submissions.
2. Work on Project Phoenix
3. Hire staff who don't have questionable backgrounds within the community circles or abroad.
Okay? Thanks bye!
Yak clearly assesses himself as more than capable to do his job. We either believe him, in which case the reality of that job not being done would tell us he simply chooses not to do what he could do (or doesn't have the time to do it), or we don't believe him, in which case he couldn't do it even if he wanted to.
Either way, a person who can't or won't do a job, or a person who could and would but simply doesn't have the time, is not a person who should be holding such a position.
Thanks for relating the prime issues! Riveting statistics... might use 'em in a story, if inclined enough to do so! ;)
Seeing the submissions stats is pretty cool too!
And the other issue where you can't be a student and be an admin shouldn't be a problem. Because as you and plenty of others could show that having a normal or more then normal demanding job can be just as much of a problem.
And again it also helps when admins arn't pushed out from the inside and don't just leave because of other said reasons.
That will worked wonders for FA's PR last time!
I have not seen any of the problems others are complaining about.
I mean, if the site is going to have transparency and all, showing the document itself is going to be extremely useful for potential new moderators that aren't sure of joining and the users that will know what information will not be released publicly. I mean, the document itself is not going to have any personal information or information that is not supposed to be released publicly, so unless the document has potentionally reprehensible content in it, there's no reason why not to let people know what's in it.
Thinking about the most probable practical extension of bothering with NDAs based on established history would mean Neer using site funds to prosecute an admin who leaked logs showing Neer lying or saying 'it's only a problem if the users find out' yet again. I'm sure that'd go over REAL well with people.
There are, of course, other more valid reasons to consider NDAs, but none of those really apply with FA anymore.
"Transparency" would be better served by less trying-to-keep-stuff-from-the-public, not more.
Maybe if you didn't suck so much dick dragoneer you would not be hidden on stuff :I
I just don't understand how some ungrateful
mongrelspeople use the site, and then just spit it out to use some other site (which are equally as great)!Seems to me it's like a carton of juice and then it's empty, they throw it away. I cannot think of swing that way...
And after nearly 10 years with nothing but problems and controversies (not only for the site itself, but their staff as well)?
If anything, I could say the same thing the other way...
The only thing I read is 'FA suxx', and the like, without any constructive ideas. Also, every new member FA pulls out to try and make things better is immediately guilty of charge without any investigation. I will not use names, but most know whom I'm talking about.
Ofcourse, maybe I came out a bit harsh, and for that I apologize, but instead of taking the easy way out, how about some involvement? Granted, mistakes are made, but instead of reminding the staff every single Admin-post about it gets old. It just means people are out of any new 'material'.
It's easy to run away (IRL I have for a few times), but it's even easier to stay and help out where one can, be it with funds, or constructive ideas.
I don't see any other furry site with a user base this large, plus I don't see many people paying for stuff FA runs on out a portion of their own pockets.
Again, no offense meant, but it's how I feel about it.
I still want FA to grow, instead of being left alone. Even with all those controversies.
And I believe we all want FA to grow, however, I personally believe that in order for FA to grow, we must first take care of all these controversies. We can never grow if we are brought to a stall by an abhorrently negative image/reputation and any other variables, dramas, issues, hardware errors, site errors, and anything else that may arise from these controversies.
What about donations? Site banners? Do these have no value at all? What about adds that are being used? Conventions? All sorts of contributions?
You will find that money is not an issue, and people are willing to pay large amounts of money to keep the website running, something demonstrated by donations (And the speed, efficiency and generosity of those donations is something to be appreciated). You can't possibly say people are not entitled to feedback, to uproar, to complaints simply because they throw not a single cent because reality stands... otherwise.
Furthermore, it is irrelevant how much money is thrown in FA's direction if the resources are not used effectively. Money can be thrown infinitely into FA but if there are no brains to properly use the acquired resources, or to properly use that money in the first place, then I am afraid that money is wasted.
Furthermore, users that do not contribute directly to the site, contribute to artists through commissions. Artists, and their art, maintain the fandom. If there would be no art on FA, I am pretty sure there would be not a single user here. (More or less)
Also, you are talking as if the userbase should take everything for granted. It should not. The userbase has the right to acquire the services they are promised, services that were promised for years but never offered.
Don't take my words for granted? Pas des problems. My words are backed with sources: http://imgur.com/a/85ShP
Fact is, the userbase is equally as significant a part of FA as the staff are. Both entities form a symbiosis which results in the functioning of FA. Take one of the two out and FA crashes. Truthfully, reality has it that without the staff, there would be no FA for the userbase to use as an environment but without the userbase, all the work the staff has made would have been in vain, their work would have been purposeless, there would be no one to use FA and therefore no FA.
That being said, the symbiosis needs to be well-functioning and respectful. Both entities must mind one another.
Artists are part of the userbase and artists are a significant part of the FA's environment. They require FA in order to assure themselves their daily income, an income they require in order to continue their lives and continue providing art, art that is a very significant part of the furry fandom, its blood that runs through its fans, I would say. It would be an outright lack of sensibility to ignore the artists.
Suffice to say, a lot of artists have already expressed their frustration against FA.
Claiming the fact that the userbase is complaining over the wrongdoings, promises that were not kept, controversy, and lack of transparency is nothing but drama is merely ill-contrived and insulting. Actually, it is words like these that actually fester drama.
But not to worry. Drama is to be avoided, instead, let us inform one another of the reality of events. That is the first thing to do in involving ourselves instead of taking the easy way out. An involvement I expressed now as well.
I was going to elaborate further by linking you through some evidence regarding that, but two people have already beaten me to the punch.
But yeah, just as it's wrong for people to be "trolling" without anything to back it up, it's just as wrong to take everything the site/staff gives you for granted.
There's always room for improvement in every area, but given we were way overdue for such changes for, again, nearly a decade...yeah.
And none taken.
I can understand your feelings about the issue, but still...so much time passed, and nothing significant to show for it, but drama and controversy...it's no good.
Lol. So many people want to lend a hand and you limit to the USA.
Can't facepalm any harder, really.
Do not use the nuke.
>no expectation of compensation
This cannot end well.
You know we all can say alot but in the end Counts what really did happen.
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/...../#cid:43813127
*You are a US Citizen: This is a somewhat dated requirement that should not need inclusion for the effective and secure recruitment of volunteer staff. It implies that Ferrox Art, LLC. believes that US Citizens are somehow more reliable or otherwise easier to sue in the event that individual abuses their privileges. Both of these are categorically incorrect in this day and age. The first is a stunning feat of nationalist stereotyping that has no place in a multi-national community such as Fur Affinity. Even if this requirement existed for the easy facilitation of meet-ups etc., it would still be invalid. Why? Because it requires that an applicant be a US Citizen, it does not mean necessarily meant they have to live there.
Secondly, the notion that US Citizens are easier to sue is also a fallacy deserving of staunch criticism. Every Commonwealth nation has laws that protect the owners of computer systems from unauthorised usage. Any misuse of technical privileges would be a matter of criminal law and thus easily actionable. Furthermore, a Non-disclosure agreement that is principally valid in the United States would also be legally actionable in Canada, Australia, The United Kingdom and The European Union. I concede that the cost of actioning an NDA breach in an international jurisdiction may be modestly higher than that of a domestic jurisdiction, but ultimately, providing that the case was not frivolous the return should be the same. I refer Ferrox Art, LLC. to the Wikimedia Foundation, the organisation that runs Wikipedia, for a solid example of how to manage international volunteers with access to non-public information.
Thirdly, permitting applicants from international jurisdictions is a good way to achieve both language and time schedule diversity. Fur Affinity has an astounding reputation for being deserted by staff whenever a major US convention comes around. This is principally because the majority of the staff are convention goers who attend US conventions religiously. Understandably, these staff members do not which to waste valuable convention time with petty moderation issues. Hence, such issues are usually neglected until the convention comes to a close. Having international representation on the moderation team would significantly decrease the chances of this happening, ensuring that the site has an appropriate level of moderation presence regardless of what US-based event may be going on at the time. Furthermore, I note that Ferrox Art, LLC has always planned to include i18n / internationalisation in an eventual code-rewrite of Fur Affinity thus making it more useable by non-English speaking users. Obviously, to have such support you would also need a moderation team who can offer a diversity of languages to support international users with. Restricting applicants to individuals of US Citizenship will undoubtedly result in an under representation of international languages on the moderation team. I do not think the implied assertion, “You can use our site as long as you speak our language!” is an acceptable one, however, requiring US Citizenship for moderators will all but guarantee that is the case.
To summarise: A multi-national community such as Fur Affinity deserves to have multi-national representation and gender representation at all levels of the staff team. Judge moderators based on their merits, not where they come from. The requirement for US Citizenship has no apparent purpose other than to serve as a smear against well-meaning applicants who were not born in the “land of the free”.
How to recruit for your Organisation 101:
*Alleged Rapist: Check!
*Dog Rapist: Check!
*Hacker with questionable past: Check!
*People I'm intimate with: Check!
*Australian? Aww hell no!
I'll critique the rest later, specifically the requirement of not being a student, 10 hours a week and what should have been on the form but wasn't.
But the way I see it, everything is farcical, a blatant faux in fact.
There are a significant amount of capable competent individuals inside the European Union or any other country, not just the US. People who have the desire, the capabilities to help FA without asking anything in return and their benevolence is insultingly denied. FA has the chance to get people with a clean past, people with a positive image that the community can look up to and individuals embroidered by a meticulous diligence and the staff counter-productively restricts its pool to one single country. The lack of any rationality is beyond any tasteful measures.
I personally find it a repulsive affront towards myself, as a member of the fandom outside the US, that I am given no consideration or attention whatsoever. It makes me feel as if the individuals outside the US are neglected.
I find your enlightening post worthy of all praises. More people should be as informed as you. Mayhaps this website would be better if we would all show concern and inform ourselves about the reality of things...
You request a government photo ID for folks to prove that they're both a US citizen and that they're legally over teh age of 21.
How do you prove that the person supplying this ID is actually the person on that ID?
Just like how this site confirms that a person is 18 by asking 'Are you 18 and over and having them click 'Yes'
Even a site like paypal that asks for multiple forms of identity, you're not going to know if that's the actual person's information or say they took their parent's information. I mean, there's the option of webcam through skype so you can see the person's face and match it up with the ID, since skype is required, but not everyone has a webcam.
There really is no good way to filter out the liars over the internet. All you have to go off of is trust or you get nothing.
Will we have a new journal system? The delete option is too confusing i find myself constantly deleting the wrong one.
The transparency is a great way to go in and I'm in full support of that.
Looks like 2015 is starting out pretty good so far.
Of course, in the time the other one was up before they addressed that concern, people had raised more concerns and began discussions that are now gone, and will surely cause people to be bothered by the removal.
It's a catch-22 situation where once they made the initial mistake of putting that as a journal instead of just an announcement, and didn't undo that right away before significant discussion could happen on the other journal, they were stuck with either leaving it and being accused of intentionally pushing this more relevant journal to the side, or removing it and being accused of censorship. Some mistakes only lead to dead-ends like that where you really don't have an ideal option to fix all concerns, and FA has a knack for making those kinds of mistakes. <:\
It's why there's so much 'damned if they do, damned if they don't' for them; over the years, Neer's handling of things has just backed them into a lot of corners on most fronts.
I'm asking because it is kind of disheartening to post something you've worked 8+ hours on, only to see it show up on the front-page as a single pixel due to the issue the site seems to have with handling animated files, even if a static preview-file is provided.
this! totally this!
I commented earlier about this issue.
I don't know any other art sites that handle gif files as poorly as FA does.
I know that pixel artists are not a majority here on FA, but there seem to be at least enough people who post animated and transparent files to Furaffinity to at least consider fixing how the site handles those submissions..
but no.
I tried THREE TIMES to get the preview to show up on the front-page instead of a "broken image"-link, before I said "Fuck it" and uploaded the static instead.
I should not have to link to an external art-site (in this case deviantart) to be able to showcase my animated pixels, damnit. :/
I use hentai foundry too, and people upload their flash and pixels there. The preview images aren't great, but definitely better then here.
It keeps telling me i have 1 Journal message and there's nothing there.
1. Wait for someone that you're watching to post a journal, so that it reads (2J).
2. Click "Select all" under journal section.
3. Click "Remove selected"
Right?
*realizes it says "can't be a student"*
*doesn't submit, forgets about it, and closes tab*
1- US applicants only because its easier to have a binding contract, what with different countries having different laws and regulations
2- students have unreliable timeframes. what with homework, tests n all
3- they want someone 21 because they would like to be sure that they are hireing someone that is not just an "fresh new 18yr old adult" but someone thats had probably a few years of adult experience and is more likely to be mature
2) Students have more free time than people with full time jobs and would be able to respond to TTs faster. Having them be AFK for a couple months out of the year isn't that big of a deal. Just have some staff who aren't students who could pick up the slack during that time. Seriously not a big deal for someone who knows how to manage their workers.
3) There are plenty of people who are 16 who are more mature than those who are 30. Maturity isn't based on age, so this is seriously just stupid. Having it over 18 makes sense, since anyone younger can't legally agree to an NDA, but it's quite silly to simply say "Nah" despite there being plenty of people who are mature enough.
Most likely all these arbitrary requirements are just so he looks good to the investors he's been trying to pitch to lately. :v
everyone is complaining about how he has to little staff, so he is finnaly taking applications by popular demand. and when he does, all he asks is a few rather simple requirements, and everyone collectively looses their minds. if he took just anyone, then he would be sifting through THOUSANDS of applications. making specific requirements narrows the application pool, gives him people that are likely closer to what he is looking for and a more refined search.
would everyone like the new mods to take years to pick, or months. is what it boils down to
2) I disagree. Students typically have a fair amount of flexible time on their hands.
I c what you did there!
Also am looking forward to the gofundme campaign stuff! Sitting here rubbing my hands maniacly for some FA swag.
You've got to be kidding.
After 9 issues over the course of multiple months you consider that "lot of questions" ?
Beside your code was a REAL mess. I can understand that experienced application developers question your junior's work.
Let's be honnest, you are pushing your problem for later but definetly not solving any with phoenix.
What happened there was utterly childish behaviour at best; far from how any professional team would have handled the situation. This is NOT how you do open source.
I basically already design stuff for this site, but for fun.
Eh, idc about incentives. I would totally do it for free.
Bandwith= expensive Sh#t... FA needs it more.
About How many applications hav there been?
Then, the next thing would be to see if the Phoenix project actually will replace the current UI and maybe... maaaaaaaaybe stuff like gallery folders may be seen in a future. Another one would be a mobile version of the site... we don't need apps, just a lightweight version of FA that works on tiny screens, the dream of obssesive people (like me) LOL.
Maybe there is something you might want to consider, like for example, posting a list of candidates for moderation or admin duties so people can make their research, and like a whole community, decide who goes and who doesn't. That may avoid a lot of drama and stuff... you know.
Other than that, I really hope this year we can see something new for FA, it's a great site, and deserves more love :3
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Also given the fact that the proportion of talented people likely falls year on year (after all being an artist is in no way profitable) there is likely a far higher proportion of "junk" being uploaded that stuff users really care about.
With all the traffic that this site gets, shouldn't Furraffinity look into a decentralized and scalable cloud based platform such as AWS, Openstack, or Microsoft Azure for hosting all this content instead of relying on extremely powerful physical servers? An immediate benefit from this would be that this website can always keep up with user demand, replacing and upgrading hardware will be a thing of the past, plus operating costs only need to pay for what resources were actually used.
Has anything like this ever been considered by the Furaffinity team? If not, why hasn't this been considered?
In concerns with increasing operating costs to meet with demand over time, the costs with implementing a scale in architecture will happen regardless of if it happened physically or in the cloud. Unlike a physical service, all you need is the willingness to spend more money on more cloud computing and networking resources.
Oh, wait no... what if everyone decides to stay up late all at same time just before the outage?
http://cdn.whisper.sh/whisper.sh/05.....56b02c9-wm.jpg
just substitute "girl" for "fucking anyone"
I hope that the UI is finished soon because it really will make people rethink FA ! :D
- And thanks for taking the time to reply to comments! Full speed ahead to 2015
Guessing it's not even done yet?
I MEAN WOW
*STANDS UP AND CLAPS WIPES TEAR FROM EYE*
http://i.imgur.com/HoY7fhY.gif
Also, not that in SEARCH, you can't even see the ''ADVANCED'' panel either.
It has something to do with the site's HTML code being hidden in some cases.
https://forums.furaffinity.net/thre.....ubmission-page
Unless what I read is completely wrong, because by that statement imagine how unfavorable state laws can be interpreted regarding the rights of homosexuals, such as workplace prejudice being allowed towards them. That's not against federal law and it's not against many state laws--even states that allow gay marriage.
And speaking of homosexuals, I don't know very much about the specifics of Russia's laws, but when it comes to the rights of homosexuals--a person hired onto this site from Russia might find themselves in a lot of trouble since some of the imagery here can be interpreted as "homosexual propaganda", and they can end up getting arrested over there. (Again, I don't know the finer details but you can never be too sure either).
To conclude, I think that this resume should just have a "fill in the blank" spot for what country you live in, rather than just ask if someone lives in the United States.
Also, while your criticism of the resume is understandable, you didn't have to be so callous. I agree with you that there are a few things about the hiring policy that should be corrected.
And if you were trolling, you got me pretty good, guy.
A) Behavioral Issues
B) Submission Issues
These should really be two separate groups of Moderators. Group A moderators would of course have the technical ability to inspect the private messages of a user with an open behavior ticket. In this case an NDA may be appropriate along with the conditions it comes with (Such as US citizenship).
However, one does not need to sign an NDA to handle issues from Group B, as there is no significant private information involved. Perhaps that could be a way forward that would not alienate and exclude the international community of this site.
Now I'd love to see the answer to another issue related to Russia -- but it's being all transparency... The FA image-hosting backend still being blocked for refusing to take down human child porn.
First update was all "We are working to deal with it ASAP", then three next just avoided the issue entirely, even when asked about it.
Like, in the case of the block, people do say, "Oh, it's Russia, nothing can be done because it has gay stuff." When in fact FA admins were provided clear instructions on how to handle it and direct links to offending images.
and i wish i could work for FA.
I would help, too, but I sadly live in Europe.
Is there a reason for this restriction?
As if U.S. citizens couldn't pull of soe shit to the site if they wanted to
I dont think an NDA should be needed even.
Do you have any evidence of that?
Boop / w \
The fact is, the NDA is only really needed to keep dragoneer's fuckups private - as they only apply to staff discussions and the like. Any misuse of a computer system would fall under criminal law, which is easily actionable in any western jurisdiction.
Would do a trouble ticket but no one looks at them soooo... Maybe here?
Look at this: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/15440840/
Yes, some ppl are paid up to 800$/head on an 12 characters pic.
You can find examples pretty often.
Why him? XD
You don't have to be a mad butthurt, LOL
#GetRekt
Is this a planned UI change, or did someone erase them by mistake?
And if it's a planned UI change, can you please undo it? I use those every day. They're a lot more useful than a NUKE ALL button.
They have the server in one of the better technological cities in the US it's just they don't know how to properly manage it.
Im probably wrong though.
Seems a lot of the problems stem from that alone.
I also note that you don't need to be 21 and older to sign an NDA. 18 years old would do fine. I also note that the application says you must be a US citizen, not that you have to live in the US.
Thank you for the info at any rate :0
Refer to http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/...../#cid:43830124 for a rant about the US Citizen requirement. As for the 21 years requirement, it could be lowered to 18 and still be legally sound for NDA purposes.
Regarding the student restriction, given that he is not a university student and clearly has never been one, I struggle to construct any reason as to why he would be in a position to comment on how much time students have. I for one know first hand that they have more time on their hands then the average worker.
Dragoneer
(No Subject) Posted: January 4th, 2015 09:49 PM
1) Because it's hard to get NDAs to legally bind to people in other countries. We are serious about protecting personal data, and want admins to be held legally accountable for their actions.
2) Finals/midterms tends to see admins vanish for a week or two, and it becomes hard to rely on them. Not saying they can't do a good job, but moving forward, we need people willing to be consistently available.
Meaning once again the reason why he want's people in the US is to sign a NDA. So yeah.
They don't train people until weeks after they're "hired", and then they don't trust any of their decisions once they manage to make it through the meager training they get. They make the staff members check with higher ranking staff before making ANY decisions on how to handle violations (even after being on staff for months), which if you trained your staff correctly and had a clear TOS, you don't need to do. Frankly, the only reason a higher staff member should be getting involved is if the user wants to challenge the original decision.
On top of that, they always end up firing their good staff members (y' know, the ones that actually handle TTs).
Anyways, you can read more about it here: http://furaffinityleaks.blogspot.co.uk
Not volunteering.
You dont really have a right to specify what you want when people volunteer. Theyre doing all this, for free.
So you can't really say "I want them to focus on us" and not have them work other places.
Maybe you should start forking out the dosh to hire proper workers.
I feel so sorry for anyone who volunteers into this.
"There is no good excuse. We've gone through multiple revisions, and will be launching the UI soon (next 30 days)."
That is kind of a big thing to just outright say over twitter but of course not everyone looks there so here it is. Start the timer i guess.
Dont have to use the service, just bookmark the link, bam
I saw a journal by Dragoneer a few months back showing some work done on Remodeling the site a bit.
I haven't seen anything since then, though.
*Searches through Journals* HERE IT IS.
I made a twitter JUST so I can get FA updates. I shouldn't Have to do that to stay informed about this site.
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Still looks the same before, during, and after my deployment.
That's just the way it is on FA.
Nuff said.
I can understand the legal stuff might be a bit more tricky with people outside the US.
But there's a whole untapped world out there that is NOT the US, And people frequent the site and write tickets in European and Asian timezones aswell that need answering.
If you ask me you need staff from all corners of the world to work on tickets during different timezones.
And if legality is a problem; I bet those people are more then willing to show their Passports or Country ID's and offer up their services.
A)The first excuse is that it's "really hard" to get people outside US to follow a US based NDA (Non Disclosure Agreement), which is pretty unnecessary to begin with, since their excuse it's that it's needed to avoid admins from leaking private information, but that kind of info is already (or should already be) protected, and that's not actually needing to be in a NDA, and they not showing the NDA publicly sounds really fishy as to why it's really there. The second problem with that point is that, if an admin really wants to leak info and be an arse, the NDA alone won't prevent em from doing so. And if an admin does so, with what money are they going to bring them to trial? FA has a lot of problems with money, and bringing someone down to a trial is expensive so... how exactly are they planning to reinforce it? (unless they do a donation drive to sue someone which would be oh so freaking miserable)
B)"Oh my the time zones are really though when we try to get all the admins together at once so we need em all to be in the US!" is the gist of it. Except that well, Canada and Mexico also have really close time zones to the US, so why not include em? And this is an international community, with users all around the globe being active each on their respective timezone. So basically due to that "US ONLY" policy, we have entire ranges of time with freaking no one taking care of the site for the international users that might need em, making this international community be kind of "eh Australian? Japanese? Wait till 3 AM where you live to get your problems addressed"
We had tickets ranging from "Help please my game is broken when I did x; y happened." to "Gimme gold plz" and I expect the FA notes to be in the same vein; half useless spam and the other halve people needing actual help.
I personally have tickets as far back as July 2014 and I bet there's people out there with much-much older tickets.
So really; setting restrictions to limit the number of people that you can find people for seems a backwards thing to do.
What FA needs now (Bessides more money) is people that curl up their sleeves and get cracking on tickets.
I mean whats wrong with having a bunch of people do tickets and clear the massive backlog and then when there is a more managable number or just none at all; make a selection between the people that have been working.
All in all; the US only restriction is rather stupid and seems backwards concerning the goal of having the site's ticket backlog fixed.
I'm pretty sure other non US citizens have like myself thrown in an application anyway knowing that at some point they'll probably realise the error of their ways.
https://trello.com/c/OsqVGSni
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/6457078/
Gave the site something new, as well as a chance at a little bit of exposure to the community for the picked artists.
Was it actually mandatory to get the FVL thing to get the Amorous0.2 update? Because i have done so, but it claims that i still didn't do it and now my computer went to hell. Its efficiency has been cut in half and now i think i got a damn virus from it.
Thank god for that cloudflare ddos protection huh
120454 Users online — 109245 guests and 11209 registered
Cloudflare number 1 guys, pls donations
Wow, so I was shot down by the first line. V_V
Out of curiosity (and this is really just curiosity, no sassiness), why does FA buy its own server equipment? It seems like it'd be more cost/time-effective to just have another company host the site — they deal with storage, fires, upgrades, speed, etc — and you guys have a lot less fiddling to do. The company I work for does this, and it gives us all the opportunity to focus more on the website and backend coding.
Not saying you guys aren't working hard (really! For a free site I can't complain too much), but I feel that might be an easier direction to go in to keep the community happy. I'm not sure if it's a matter of "well, we have all these things and we have to keep using them because we dropped all that money on them" or if it's just preference, actually cheaper, etc. Curiosity, I swear. <3
Good luck finding more mods — I'd volunteer, but I'd probably be the kind of person who gets too busy and neglects duties a bit. :B
Also it wasn't users complaining that made them get more protection, it was because some asshats knocked the site offline for 3 days. I take it you are the type of person who buys the extended warranty on your electronics even though you've never had to use it once? some people are smarter with their money than that. and really buying more protection isn't going to prevent attacks in the future. It just mitigates it until someone gets enough resources to beat the protections. then it becomes a race to see if the asshats get bored of the attacks or fa runs out of protection money and is forced to shut down. no amount of coding changes will fix that.
so stop trying to combine unrelated issues just so you can rant about people you don't like. I don't care if fa is dressed like a whore it doesn't give anyone the right to ddos it.
And yes, the coding has to do with it, if your code is shit and asks too much ram per user for things as loading comments and such, even if it isn't that much more it consumes than it should, multiplying it by 50000 requests from systems of a DDOS wouldn't it make a huge impact on the network capacity? Correct me if I'm wrong on that.
I gotta admit I'm not that very knowledgeable as many people here on the whole issue, I do know a decent ammount of though. And thanks, really, "I take it you are the type of person who buys the extended warranty on your electronics even though you've never had to use it once? some people are smarter with their money than that" gotta love your condescending assumptions of me based on my comments here of who I am as a person, even as far as to go further to basically insult my intelligence for doing something you simply assumed I maybe do ,because that isn't even close to reality. And no I'm again not saying "it's okay it's being ddosed the people ddosing have every right to do so" I never even implied such thing.
And my point is that that doesn't matter to a ddos attack. it would still prevent you from getting to your stuff if it was in that secure vault as it would if ti was just in a cardboard box because a ddos attack doesn't care what kind of code a website runs just whether or not it can connect. Your analogy is taking problems that have nothing to do with preventing a ddos attack and saying because of those problems ddos attacks are possible.. which is completely and utter wrong. it's also why I question your knowledge of ddos attacks seeing as you think better code would prevent them from happening in the first place.
Again ram has nothing to do with a ddos attack, ti's the network connection which is what I've been trying to point out. the inter workings of the bank don't matter to a ddos attack all they are doing is coming up to the front door and blocking it so no one can get in. ram doesn't matter, that's a performance issue. so like I said a completely different issue. more ram does not prevent a ddos attack. a better networking infrastructure is what prevents ddos attacks.. which is why cloudflare works. you are mistaking performacne lag for a network attack.
You mentioned how they cheaped out and didn't by enough insurance (i.e. went with the basic insurance policy instead of splurging for the extended warranty) even though ti's not been an issue until the most recent attack. So you sounded like someone who splurges for the premium protection even when ti's not necessary. and since you decided to insult me by calling that statement condescending you realize how stupid it is to waste money on extra insurance you don't need. so you know exactly what I thought when you decided to blame them for not splurging for the premium protection when they figured the basic plan was enough. and for at least the 6 years I've been on this site it was enough protection. now it's not and they improved thier plan to cover the new attacks. and it's working. so they did something right.
http://arstechnica.com/information-.....-dnssec-salad/
I work at home and have tons of time to help moderate. I'd like to help get trouble tickets down and have plenty of time to do it.
HELP ME HELP YOU DAMMIT.
A like button for comments, and watching tags/sets of tags.
The like button would function similarly to those on other websites, such as reddit or facebook. Watching tags would work just like regular watching, but instead of saying the artist's name of the submission when being notified, you would see the set of tags that you watched that the image matches.
Candidate Requirements:
*You are a US Citizen.
Oh ok nevermind lol
But...what about non-english speakers?
Give us moderators in our language that can answer our tickets ASAP without need to translate everything!
Something that I had to do in order for a trouble ticket to actually be taken into account!
Chinese, Russian, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese mods would be nice and might help for the communities from around the globe.
At least two or three mods for each region, that would be nice!
But with your USA only limitation (not even Canada or Mexico?) you pretty much leave your non-english speaker userbase alone and stranded.
And don't use the excuse of time zones...that's just plain bullshit and I'm sorry for using such language but you give me no choice.
That means, as another user said, that any user that is not from the USA will get their ticket or request for help totally ignored until ridiculous times in their timezones.
It seems that you're focusing your attention and care only for USA users (with a NDA that seems almost useless, as another user said up there) and I'm sorry, but there are TONS of users that are not from the USA and that need your attention as well.
Would you please consider, in the not-so-far-away-oh-please future to also include mods for other languages and regions other than English and the USA? Please?
We need help and attention as well, and while we understand that we should know english in order to use the site, you can't just leave us stranded without any real help unless we write you in a language many of us members can't properly manage.
I'm lucky enough to be able to AT LEAST be understandable in english, but not so many friends from my country and many users from China or Japan or Russia.
But hey I guess they'll just shrug your comment like any other actually good suggestion, we have to realize that neer's super duper only trustworthy pals live in the USA so everyone outside can go suck on a lemon for all he cares.
Also, you talk extremely well and clearly in english dude from what I saw in this comment, if you didn't clarify you weren't english speaker I would most likely not have realized :3
I'm never using Furaffinty except for trolling.
The site is a load of shit.
Don't get me wrong, I LOVE furries.
But no cubs, refresh the search page, and REALLY hard interface, they just drag this site down.
I've migrated to 8ch.net/furry/ and e621.net
Besides, if you are a furfag at ALL, you really should give up your morals, and respond to your bonet
Tests could be made to identify if that's the case, there's criminologists who study child predators of different types, i.e. pedophile and non-pedophile child molesters, so there'd needs to be some variables to consider.
If there's empirical evidence through these tests, and it's been extensively per reviewed and re-testest enough times to conclude, than we can conclusively say that it promotes such things, but without evidence in either direction, nobody can say for certain.
https://twitter.com/Dragoneer/statu.....09022353756160
This weekend.
WHY DO I HAVE TO CHECK A WEBSITE I DON'T USE FOR IMPORTANT UPDATES FOR THE WEBSITE I ACTUALLY USE?!
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/6508233/
So...he made it clear in the edit that it may not happen on the day he estimated and not to get our hopes up?
Then it was delayed because he was working to make comments editable.
Then it was delayed because of a HDD crash.
You'd think someone who manages servers for a living would be running checks on his HDD often enough to catch it before they crash. So many of his HDD crash, it's shocking. Is he buying only WD blue line or something?
No delivery of the UI.
Still updating over twitter---which is largely for personal spam and Elder Scrolls Online. Who has time to filter through all that shit?
Beg for donations > Promises promises promises > Hard drive failure/DDOS > Repeat
mrw when neer has another broken hard drive
http://i.imgur.com/bvRyY6N.gif
Are you fucking soaking these things in water before you use them? No one else in the world has had this many hard drive failures. You're legit competing with the thailand hard drive flood now, and I'm pretty sure you're winning.
That's a pretty optimistic outlook.
http://help.furaffinity.net/article.....he-New-UI.html
Please.. Folders already
I'm more curious to know when this big announcement they mentioned will be.