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Gettin real sick of seeing this. [Rant]
9 years ago
Cheers loves!
If you've somehow been oblivious to the amount of backlash FA has gotten over their attempts of damage control after the hacker attack, lucky you. Basically, I've been seeing a lot of comments encouraging people to leave FurAffinity for good, because apparently there's "Millions of things wrong" even though no one was complaining just a week ago. To any of those people reading this right now... SHUT. THE FUCK. UP.
Look, if you want to have another Fur site for your art, then that's fine, I'm not going to tell you FA is perfect, but don't act like every other site is, or at the very least, is superior to this site, and by such a large margin that it invokes having to abandon this place for something else. The truth is any site could have been a victim of this tragedy, and what happened here was just bad luck.
To everyone saying this site has poor security, I question whether or not you have been paying any attention. This occurred via an Exploit through another, 3rd party software that allowed access to the Site's source code, which was only made public and patched after the events of the attack. FA devs did what they could on short notice, since the attack caught them, and everyone else off guard.
"But a rollback of about of week is shameful, they should have kept more recent backups" Look, I don't know much about hosting a website as big as FA, and quite frankly I'm sure most people saying that don't know either, and honestly, a week isn't too bad. You can still, easily re-upload what got deleted, and the site has been handling the mass uploads very well. "But some people delete the art after uploading it." First of all, admit you were one of those 'People' if you feel the need to bring it up, second of all, the artist you commissioned/requested the art from probably (And really should) still have the copy, and it reuploading it, and if they don't upload to FA, they more than likely had it somewhere else you can retrieve it for. If you are an artist who lost commission pieces... well, you should really be keeping your recent pieces for at least a week or two in case of emergencies, considering this is probably your job on the line, or at the very least, a source of income. Disasters happen all the time and just because we can blame it on someone else doesn't mean we should.
My point is this; Keep calm and carry on. If you lost something like art, then learn from this and keep back ups or have the piece uploaded in multiple sites. This attack can, and probably will happen to other Furry sites like Weasyl and FN. Hackers looking in will always find a way, and all we can do is prepare for the worst.
Look, if you want to have another Fur site for your art, then that's fine, I'm not going to tell you FA is perfect, but don't act like every other site is, or at the very least, is superior to this site, and by such a large margin that it invokes having to abandon this place for something else. The truth is any site could have been a victim of this tragedy, and what happened here was just bad luck.
To everyone saying this site has poor security, I question whether or not you have been paying any attention. This occurred via an Exploit through another, 3rd party software that allowed access to the Site's source code, which was only made public and patched after the events of the attack. FA devs did what they could on short notice, since the attack caught them, and everyone else off guard.
"But a rollback of about of week is shameful, they should have kept more recent backups" Look, I don't know much about hosting a website as big as FA, and quite frankly I'm sure most people saying that don't know either, and honestly, a week isn't too bad. You can still, easily re-upload what got deleted, and the site has been handling the mass uploads very well. "But some people delete the art after uploading it." First of all, admit you were one of those 'People' if you feel the need to bring it up, second of all, the artist you commissioned/requested the art from probably (And really should) still have the copy, and it reuploading it, and if they don't upload to FA, they more than likely had it somewhere else you can retrieve it for. If you are an artist who lost commission pieces... well, you should really be keeping your recent pieces for at least a week or two in case of emergencies, considering this is probably your job on the line, or at the very least, a source of income. Disasters happen all the time and just because we can blame it on someone else doesn't mean we should.
My point is this; Keep calm and carry on. If you lost something like art, then learn from this and keep back ups or have the piece uploaded in multiple sites. This attack can, and probably will happen to other Furry sites like Weasyl and FN. Hackers looking in will always find a way, and all we can do is prepare for the worst.
