How do you browse?
5 years ago
So, how do you usually view furry sites like this? On your phone, pad, or 'puter? And how do you tend to save and, um, 'review' what you've saved? Just curious as there's so many ways now :)
I tend to use my desktop computer for most browsing and viewing, and my phone for comment browsing. If I didn't have to hook my phone to my desktop and open and copy files, I'd probably use my phone for a lot more image browsing and saving. (....I cant believe I'm as lazy as that ^_^;;; )
I tend to use my desktop computer for most browsing and viewing, and my phone for comment browsing. If I didn't have to hook my phone to my desktop and open and copy files, I'd probably use my phone for a lot more image browsing and saving. (....I cant believe I'm as lazy as that ^_^;;; )
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Besides, I don't need to be storing a furry smut collection on a small device I could easily lose. That might be a bit embarrassing... <_<
Saving stuff, I use the Raccoony plug-in. https://raccoony.thornvalley.com/ It makes folders and organizes stuff for you, and functions for FA, IB, E621, Patreon, and other furry sites. Super easy to use too.
As for saving... I have 4 main directories for what I find. First is the actual art directory which has sub folders labelled A to Z and within these the art is stored via the artists name. So for yours I would go to F for Foxxfire.
Directory 2 is for comics. I did have these arranged between Porn, none porn and vore but have adopted a similar to the art directory where comics are sorted via the artist's name.
Third is a sort of misc directory which has one sub folder for fetishes that I find that appeal to me but I don't watch the artist in question.
Finally I have one for movie files where, again, it's sorted via the artists names. My collection currently stands at 258,000 files (exactly) within 3,113 folders.
Yes, I have OCD :D
I review recent submissions, ones that catch my eye, i'd save for later, often for art ref/inspiration. i have a rather hefty folder just for that. Each year i make a new folder by year, like: FA2019, FA2020
I use cellphone usually just for browsing, occasionally responding to comments, and the IM stuff on the go
That said I pretty much ONLY use my PC for doing stuff online, for the most part. I hate browsing the net via my phone if I can help it. So all I use it for as far as browsing goes is looking up info on certain things now and then. :s
I have quite a cache of, um, "reference material", though it's more of a vault of artist stuff I like. It's not indexed, has no custom metadata, so as actual reference material, it's useless. XD
The tablet is usually when I'm traveling for some reason. If I'm at a hotel where I'm paying for a room, or otherwise don't mind smut showing up in somebody's router logs, I will browse furry sites on the tablet. If I'm at (say) a relative's house, I just leave it alone until I get back home.
On both PC and tablet, I use Firefox, and the Raccoony plug-in that has already been mentioned. Raccoony does things like opening everything on your "new submissions" page in tabs for you, and downloading art with consistent filenames and sorting it into directories by artist.
FULL DISCLOSURE: I have contributed bug-fixes and improvements to Raccoony.
My main "stash" of art is on my PC. When I browse on tablet, I usually don't save files to the tablet; I just remember the ones I like and download them on the PC later. I download everything I favorite. I don't favorite anything above roughly G-rated art on FA anymore, since it's owned outside the fandom, but I *do* download everything I like. This is mostly for later reference, and a little bit because a few artists I've followed over the years have suddenly nuked their accounts.
The older parts of my stash (DAE remember alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.furry?) live in a directory called pix/furry . There are subdirectories from there for gender, artist, and subject, but they aren't very consistent. The newer parts of my stash live in pix/sites/fa , pix/sites/weasyl , pix/sites/e621 , and so on, with subdirectories from there for each artist.
When it's, uh, review time, I tend to use an image viewer program on my PC. Sometimes I know of a particular image or artist I want to, uh, review, and sometimes I set it to do a random slideshow of everything I've downloaded from a particular site. The only drawback to that is that I don't have anything sorted by rating or content; the random slideshow can skip from a very G-rated image to an XXX-rated one.
I only have a few movies and Flash animations downloaded. The movies I play with a video player; the Flash I load into a browser, but that's going to stop working in just about exactly two months from now.
EVEN ON YOUR PHONE!?!
XD
That, and Chrome.
Every once in awhile, I'll go through the Downloads folder and put them in artist-specific folders.
On phones, I just look at the queue, but I might _delete_ stuff that I know I won't be interested in. You can often tell that even from the thumbnail.
Looking at art on the small screen is just... you miss all the details.
Saving... I, uh, totally am the guy with 2 GB of furry porn saved to a hard-drive. Like a freaking pack-rat.