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9 years ago
The recent password reset didn't fare quite so well for me, but after 3 days an admin responded to my email about not being able to reset my FA password. Others have had this issue, and I'm sure the admins are swamped with emails like mine. Thankfully I don't depend on this site in any way, so 3 days was not an issue for me. I know it would be for anybody relying on commissions from here, and those people definitely get my sympathies. You could say, "Don't rely on one site", but I know firsthand(through my job) that sometimes all your business comes through one channel no matter how many sites you do business on.
I'm staying where the audience is. Whenever I start my comics again, I will still post to FA and Weasyl. Inkbunny... the people have been good, the site is advanced... but one look at the homepage with no content filters in place(and boy do I have many!) makes it clear that my comics don't fit in with the *ahem* main subject matter of the site.
With all the hubbub of the site being down, I heard about Furry Network for the first time. I decided to check it out, but am not sure yet about it. It's still in beta, so it could be completely different when the comics return.
[UPDATE: https://beta.furrynetwork.com/ferretwilliams/ is my FN profile. I expect traffic there to die down after a few months like Weasyl did. Weasyl profile is https://www.weasyl.com/~ferretwilliams and Inkbunny is https://inkbunny.net/FerretWilliams ]
"When will the comics return?", I hear. My intent is January, but I make no promises. I have to get 8 comics in the buffer(1 month) before I'm comfortable re-launching, and I don't dare re-launch too close to December because I always take that month off from comics(too busy). I've bought Clip Studio Paint(formerly called Manga Studio) and a Surface Pro 4, which I expect to speed up my cartooning. My mom is doing better after her stroke(2.5 years ago), which frees up some time. I hope to release a browser plugin before I re-launch the comic. I'm not saying what the plugin will be because it's just too early. Last time I announced a big programming project(BlendShow), it went nowhere. I still want to work on BlendShow and have a good plan for it, but I'm no longer sure if I'll use it enough myself to properly support it.
Right now the biggest focus of my time is... finally watching Dr. Who. I've heard so much about it over the years that I could fake being a Whovian very well. I know quite a bit without even watching it. I've been very low on geek cred for a while, and Dr. Who is something every geek should at least check out. While I wouldn't say I'm a Dr. Who fan YET, I'll be decorating my office wall to look like the TARDIS next week. I'm watching the season that started in 2005 with Christopher Eccleston, being the first season available for free streaming to Prime members and being a very good place to start due to the long hiatus it came back from. Tonight I watched episode 8, "Father's Day". Such a sad episode. The next episode is where people say it gets good(Captain Jack!), although the Dalek episode was a nice taste of what I'm expecting of the show. Earlier in the season I made the mistake of looking up the graffiti on the TARDIS, expecting a behind-the-scenes reference. I now know that in Dr. Who, spoilers travel back in time and I should not look up ANYTHING that I'm curious about in the show. I will instead ask friends.
I'm really looking forward to watching David Tennant. From what I know, I expect him to be "my Doctor". Once I finish all of the new series, I intend to watch Dr. Who episodes from last century, and with that, I expect Tom Baker to be a worthy rival to that title.
Sheesh, I'm not even through the first season of Star Trek! I've seen random episodes, but I don't know how many episodes I had watched. So far, I know I've watched episodes 1-27 thanks to Amazon Prime's records, and surely some others after that. Wow, those were some long seasons. I used to prefer Captain Picard, but now I'm seeing what people liked so much about Kirk. Maybe when I re-watch TNG, Picard will win back my preference.
Other shows I'd really like to check out after hearing so much about them:
Breaking Bad, not available for free. Might be cheapest to find some used Blu-Rays.
X-Files, free on Amazon Prime. I somehow never watched this cultural phenomenon. I will only watch the episodes people consider "essential", most likely.
I'm so behind on pop culture.
I'm staying where the audience is. Whenever I start my comics again, I will still post to FA and Weasyl. Inkbunny... the people have been good, the site is advanced... but one look at the homepage with no content filters in place(and boy do I have many!) makes it clear that my comics don't fit in with the *ahem* main subject matter of the site.
With all the hubbub of the site being down, I heard about Furry Network for the first time. I decided to check it out, but am not sure yet about it. It's still in beta, so it could be completely different when the comics return.
[UPDATE: https://beta.furrynetwork.com/ferretwilliams/ is my FN profile. I expect traffic there to die down after a few months like Weasyl did. Weasyl profile is https://www.weasyl.com/~ferretwilliams and Inkbunny is https://inkbunny.net/FerretWilliams ]
"When will the comics return?", I hear. My intent is January, but I make no promises. I have to get 8 comics in the buffer(1 month) before I'm comfortable re-launching, and I don't dare re-launch too close to December because I always take that month off from comics(too busy). I've bought Clip Studio Paint(formerly called Manga Studio) and a Surface Pro 4, which I expect to speed up my cartooning. My mom is doing better after her stroke(2.5 years ago), which frees up some time. I hope to release a browser plugin before I re-launch the comic. I'm not saying what the plugin will be because it's just too early. Last time I announced a big programming project(BlendShow), it went nowhere. I still want to work on BlendShow and have a good plan for it, but I'm no longer sure if I'll use it enough myself to properly support it.
Right now the biggest focus of my time is... finally watching Dr. Who. I've heard so much about it over the years that I could fake being a Whovian very well. I know quite a bit without even watching it. I've been very low on geek cred for a while, and Dr. Who is something every geek should at least check out. While I wouldn't say I'm a Dr. Who fan YET, I'll be decorating my office wall to look like the TARDIS next week. I'm watching the season that started in 2005 with Christopher Eccleston, being the first season available for free streaming to Prime members and being a very good place to start due to the long hiatus it came back from. Tonight I watched episode 8, "Father's Day". Such a sad episode. The next episode is where people say it gets good(Captain Jack!), although the Dalek episode was a nice taste of what I'm expecting of the show. Earlier in the season I made the mistake of looking up the graffiti on the TARDIS, expecting a behind-the-scenes reference. I now know that in Dr. Who, spoilers travel back in time and I should not look up ANYTHING that I'm curious about in the show. I will instead ask friends.
I'm really looking forward to watching David Tennant. From what I know, I expect him to be "my Doctor". Once I finish all of the new series, I intend to watch Dr. Who episodes from last century, and with that, I expect Tom Baker to be a worthy rival to that title.
Sheesh, I'm not even through the first season of Star Trek! I've seen random episodes, but I don't know how many episodes I had watched. So far, I know I've watched episodes 1-27 thanks to Amazon Prime's records, and surely some others after that. Wow, those were some long seasons. I used to prefer Captain Picard, but now I'm seeing what people liked so much about Kirk. Maybe when I re-watch TNG, Picard will win back my preference.
Other shows I'd really like to check out after hearing so much about them:
Breaking Bad, not available for free. Might be cheapest to find some used Blu-Rays.
X-Files, free on Amazon Prime. I somehow never watched this cultural phenomenon. I will only watch the episodes people consider "essential", most likely.
I'm so behind on pop culture.
