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6 years ago
Happy Newd Deer - I think this is going to be a good meme for the fandom but anywhoz. I'll be removing my files off here as this account will now be used to follow artists in the fandom and be used as a recruitment portal for my resurrection project: FurNation Reborn. I know FurNation has a lot of baggage that comes with it(I've heard my share of horror stories) and I'm in a position where I can fix or mostly fix these issues. The first one I heard was there was too much staff and they ruled with an iron first. I wasn't able to find any recorded instances, however, to simplify: staff will be myself and my friend. We've both been in the fandom since it's early conceptions and heck, we're even the same age :D
Another thing I'd heard was that throughout its history, FurNation's servers were really unstable. Again I wasn't able to find anything concrete. It is very possible that the servers back then just weren't able to handle the amount of web traffic or security needed to keep an art site going - even today most web hosts are for light traffic for personal websites. For this reason, another friend of mine has generously donated a VPS to use for this. I've been assured that this VPS takes up an entire slot in a data center in Sydney and the specs for the server itself are a single CPU Intel Xeon six-core with 128gb of ram, gigabit net, and unlimited webspace. I've also been told the center in Sydney has the ability to withstand a 5pf(petaflop) DDOS and still keep going with redundancies. On top of that, since the domain goes off to the VPS and isn't tied to anything, I can reroute the domain or give artists other ways to get to their files. I personally have been networking servers since I was like 10 so I know my stuff ^_^
Another thing I'd heard was about file limitations and censorship, and I have seen this on certain artist's sites in the archive. File limitations are non-existent as far as storage goes, however, the upload forms are set to allow a good amount of HTML and Image data through. This isn't YouTube so I don't expect to see anyone trying to upload video, but audio is allowable. As far as censorship goes, as long as there's no kiddie porn, it's fair game. Art is art and it comes in several flavors. Some appeal to some while some don't - that's just the nature of the game. If I recall correctly, most sites in the archive are NSFW and that's perfectly fine since it's clearly labeled. Something else that was pointed out was that some used their webspace for art and poetry/stories and that's fine, no limitations on poetry/stories/fanfiction/etc..
The last major thing I'd heard about was art theft. I don't think it was a major issue for FurNation until after it came back when it want down in 2009 - because that was around the time folks on DA were complaining about it(and still complain about it). To address this, I have code in place that disables right-click(no, it's not javascript). Images are put into CSS pop-ups on the page(so they don't open a new window) and they're watermarked.
Yes, yes, I know, I talk a good game. It's all talk or speech or whatever so the only way I can prove what's what is to point furs to the site, have em sign up, show them how to protect their images, and go off from there. The site is free, will always be free. No ad-banners either. I might toss a link somewhere on the main page to donate to but it's not necessary or receive special treatment. Under no circumstances will the site try to change to keep up with the times. 90% of the social media bs that was bestowed on FN has been passed off to Discord where it belongs(or back then it would've been IRC, but no one uses IRC or forums or any of that stuff anymore).
I started work on reviving FurNation back in August of 2019, working in tandem with my webcomic or whatever else goes on around here and there's still a lot of archived pages to go through. I'm posting this now because the site's mainly done and open to registrants - the links on the front page work, the login for the sites work, and the registration form works. The archived pages I'm going through are secondary really. I wish some of these artists would come back but that's a modern miracle not even this fox can perform. If there are any qualms about issues while FN was up and going that could be a deal breaker for you, please PM me so private matters stay private. I'll leave comments up for discussions.
Thanks for reading,
Logan
http://fnreborn.tk
Another thing I'd heard was that throughout its history, FurNation's servers were really unstable. Again I wasn't able to find anything concrete. It is very possible that the servers back then just weren't able to handle the amount of web traffic or security needed to keep an art site going - even today most web hosts are for light traffic for personal websites. For this reason, another friend of mine has generously donated a VPS to use for this. I've been assured that this VPS takes up an entire slot in a data center in Sydney and the specs for the server itself are a single CPU Intel Xeon six-core with 128gb of ram, gigabit net, and unlimited webspace. I've also been told the center in Sydney has the ability to withstand a 5pf(petaflop) DDOS and still keep going with redundancies. On top of that, since the domain goes off to the VPS and isn't tied to anything, I can reroute the domain or give artists other ways to get to their files. I personally have been networking servers since I was like 10 so I know my stuff ^_^
Another thing I'd heard was about file limitations and censorship, and I have seen this on certain artist's sites in the archive. File limitations are non-existent as far as storage goes, however, the upload forms are set to allow a good amount of HTML and Image data through. This isn't YouTube so I don't expect to see anyone trying to upload video, but audio is allowable. As far as censorship goes, as long as there's no kiddie porn, it's fair game. Art is art and it comes in several flavors. Some appeal to some while some don't - that's just the nature of the game. If I recall correctly, most sites in the archive are NSFW and that's perfectly fine since it's clearly labeled. Something else that was pointed out was that some used their webspace for art and poetry/stories and that's fine, no limitations on poetry/stories/fanfiction/etc..
The last major thing I'd heard about was art theft. I don't think it was a major issue for FurNation until after it came back when it want down in 2009 - because that was around the time folks on DA were complaining about it(and still complain about it). To address this, I have code in place that disables right-click(no, it's not javascript). Images are put into CSS pop-ups on the page(so they don't open a new window) and they're watermarked.
Yes, yes, I know, I talk a good game. It's all talk or speech or whatever so the only way I can prove what's what is to point furs to the site, have em sign up, show them how to protect their images, and go off from there. The site is free, will always be free. No ad-banners either. I might toss a link somewhere on the main page to donate to but it's not necessary or receive special treatment. Under no circumstances will the site try to change to keep up with the times. 90% of the social media bs that was bestowed on FN has been passed off to Discord where it belongs(or back then it would've been IRC, but no one uses IRC or forums or any of that stuff anymore).
I started work on reviving FurNation back in August of 2019, working in tandem with my webcomic or whatever else goes on around here and there's still a lot of archived pages to go through. I'm posting this now because the site's mainly done and open to registrants - the links on the front page work, the login for the sites work, and the registration form works. The archived pages I'm going through are secondary really. I wish some of these artists would come back but that's a modern miracle not even this fox can perform. If there are any qualms about issues while FN was up and going that could be a deal breaker for you, please PM me so private matters stay private. I'll leave comments up for discussions.
Thanks for reading,
Logan
http://fnreborn.tk
