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10 years ago
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Last month, all the moderators of Fur Affinity Forums resigned in protest of FA staff actions. United. As one. That's right.
Then it turned out that when IMVU bought FA, they did not buy FAF. It's still privately owned, licensed, and operated by an admin not in the Inner Circle: Carenath. The server is in a datacenter at an entirely different host in an entirely different state. Had it been run well, this would've made problems at FA super-convenient to acknowledge and update, but it wasn't.
Carenath seized control of the forums via the server and database (which, as the owner, was his right), and together with the mods who were let go or resigned they tried to negotiate a peaceful split. I don't know yet how amicable the split agreement was, but the split happened.
[Edit: Carenath did not hijack the forums, and everything he did had the support of the overwhelming majority of its users.]
Fur Affinity Forums is no more. At least in name and address. It's online still, but now, temporarily or permanently, as Phoenix Forums (formerly FAF).
There was a rebellion, a revolution, and a move of the entire house off its foundations down the street with a party rockin' inside!
https://phoenix.corvidae.org/ is the new address!
It's Independence Day!
Addendum, now in the crater where FAF once was:
So long and thanks for all the fish!
Recent events have called into question the future of the Forum Community should it continue to be managed by the current FA Management team. With the choice between doing something or doing nothing, we the community have banded together to split away and and continue to grow and develop independently.
We can be found at phoenix.corvidae.org so please update your bookmarks as we do not have control over how long this current domain will remain active.
Then it turned out that when IMVU bought FA, they did not buy FAF. It's still privately owned, licensed, and operated by an admin not in the Inner Circle: Carenath. The server is in a datacenter at an entirely different host in an entirely different state. Had it been run well, this would've made problems at FA super-convenient to acknowledge and update, but it wasn't.
Carenath seized control of the forums via the server and database (which, as the owner, was his right), and together with the mods who were let go or resigned they tried to negotiate a peaceful split. I don't know yet how amicable the split agreement was, but the split happened.
[Edit: Carenath did not hijack the forums, and everything he did had the support of the overwhelming majority of its users.]
Fur Affinity Forums is no more. At least in name and address. It's online still, but now, temporarily or permanently, as Phoenix Forums (formerly FAF).
There was a rebellion, a revolution, and a move of the entire house off its foundations down the street with a party rockin' inside!
https://phoenix.corvidae.org/ is the new address!
It's Independence Day!
Addendum, now in the crater where FAF once was:
So long and thanks for all the fish!
Recent events have called into question the future of the Forum Community should it continue to be managed by the current FA Management team. With the choice between doing something or doing nothing, we the community have banded together to split away and and continue to grow and develop independently.
We can be found at phoenix.corvidae.org so please update your bookmarks as we do not have control over how long this current domain will remain active.
