I launched the fundraiser for my sister farm's bunny barn/garage repair. If you are able to spare even a dollar it would mean the world to us. If not even just giving it a share on various socials would be really appreciated.

https://gofund.me/53b84fe7b

Hot Goblin Time https://twitch.tv/sciggles

What a stressful ride that was!

I am so freaking proud of our team for scheduling planned maintenance and making it out the other side on time. There are a few bugs in the update we are working out but we did it!

HOLD ONTO YOUR BUTTS

Wow it has been an absolutely crazy summer...I am still dealing with medical issues but hopeful that come my October appointment we will be a step closer in getting some relief.

Anthrocon was a bust for me- but let me tell you, going to Furrydelphia last weekend? AMAZING. I had such a good time and honestly can't wait to go back next year. I saw so many wonderful people there and some I haven't seen since before I had kids! It brought me some sorely needed happies <3

Now that we are home though my kids are about to start school again full time next week! It has been a scramble to get everything back on schedule. I am excited and also really sad about them going back. Last summer was so hard on me. I barely spent any time with the kids because I was working overtime trying to make ends meet and keep a roof over our head. This year I had a little more breathing room and really got to spend time with my kids and I am definitely going to miss them during the day. But it will be nice to have a more regular working schedule again too.

If anyone would like to help get them some school clothes or items I do have lists for them that they helped pick things out on <3

Kaiden- https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/.....?ref_=wl_share
Ryder- https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/.....?ref_=wl_share

I may also start looking into some classes to take to help in general to be more helpful and knowledgeable in my position. It might need to wait till after the holidays though, still a lot going on on my end that needs wrapping up @_@

I appreciate everyone reading this and keeping up with my posts! I wish I had more time to socialize but its mostly been kids and work and little time for anything else. Hopefully more streams soon too!

Did you get to do anything fun this summer?

Valuing our Magic cards on Stream! pt3 https://twitch.tv/sciggles

Learning how to stream Magic cards, need to go through Dragoneer's collection and get values https://twitch.tv/sciggles

PEAK- idk https://twitch.tv/sciggles

A year ago I was screaming and sobbing on the phone...I couldn't believe it.

I had to break the news to friends and family, the community, staff...I couldn't sleep. I couldn't eat. None of it made sense....he was *so* hopeful the day before...

He deserved so much better...He was let down by those around him and a broken medical system and I don't know that I can ever forgive that.

It is a battle I still have to fight for him. This should *never* happen again. To anyone.

I miss him...I am sad, angry, and still struggling to understand how so many areas failed him all at once to cause this. He should still be here...

I love you Neer and I always will. I am so sorry this happened...I will always do everything I can to carry the torch

Beep boop https://twitch.tv/sciggles

IDK https://twitch.tv/sciggles

I made an AC group chat for those wanting to have a dinner meet up on Saturday! Will be on the outdoor patio at the Homewood Suites

https://t.me/+ALDsY5maILZmZDQx

Hey there lovelies, I wish I was able to post more often with updates I am just constantly swimming in work!

I am getting away from the desk for a bit to go take part in Fredrick Pride tomorrow! https://thefrederickcenter.org/frederick-pride

I will have a booth there for myself and Fur Affinity! My partner and I will be there along with my kiddos and a couple of staff members. There will be some fun swag and free items we pass out to those that stop by.

I hope I get to see some of you there <3 Eager for a screen break.

Much love~

Just chatting~ https://twitch.tv/sciggles

Grab your favorite drinky and hang out :3 https://www.twitch.tv/sciggles

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My oldest is turning 7 this month! His birthday is on the 21st. If you'd like to help get him something he has a wishlist here! https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/.....?ref_=wl_share

By no means are we expecting or wanting anyone to feel obligated <3 Much love!

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https://www.twitch.tv/sciggles

ONLY A FEW MINUTES LEFT

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Hey guys, I just wanted to say that with how everything has been going lately I am just really proud of seeing everyone come together. There has been so much positivity, the town hall went so well. Working on getting transcript and upload up for those who couldn't make it to catch up on things.

I am just really grateful. Thank you guys for sticking with us and giving us a chance to get to where we are. More updates soon <3

REPO with the one the only BEST Goldyne https://twitch.tv/sciggles

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Hey there,

I wanted to post some kind of update in regards to the Celebration of Life. Some have missed the other site notices and various social media places

When: 03/09/2025 at 12pm EST
Where: In person it will be hosted at FurTheMore on March 9th at 12pm EST in Herndon, VA. https://furthemore2025.sched.com/event/1ueTF for more information and location of the event.

Where: We will also be live streaming the event for those unable to make it in person on my twitch channel https://www.twitch.tv/sciggles

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Do I know any peeps familiar with VTSPOG/how to set up a TTS mascot on twitch/streaming channels? I would like to figure out how to get mine to work o3o I feel far too dumb right now.

Mayhaps too early in posting this but if I don't do it now I will just plain forget by the time con comes along

Where are you staying?
Main hotel

What day are you getting there?
Wednesday (5th) my dude~

Who are you rooming with?
Jericho and my kiddos

Who will you hang out with during the convention?
Will I have time to hang out? Who knooooows~!

Are there any panels you might be attending?
Just the Celebration of Life for Neer

Will you be suiting?
Doubtful but maaaaybe???

What are your pronouns?
iunno anymore, she/they works though

How can I find you?
Look for some over tired looking mom with weird hair

Where will you be most of the time during the con?
Most of the time I will be in the Dealers Den! Outside of thaaat, good luck!

If I see you, how should I get your attention?
I answer to Sciggs or Sciggles

Can I talk to you?
Sure, but if customer comes up or my kids need me please be okay with me shifting attention <3

Can I touch you?
MMMMMM-no touchy plz

Can I hug or snuggle with you?
Gentle hugs are good with me~ Snuggling is reserved for approved peoples only!

Can I visit your room?
ONLY if I invite you. No just showing up. I will be grumpers >:C

Can I buy you drinks?
Coffee? HELL FRIGGEN YA! Alcohol...depends? If I am in the bar area mayhaps.

Can I give you stuff?
I do like stuff...but are there...things?

How long are you going to be at the con?
From Wednesday to Monday.

Do you have an artist table?
Yuh, will be selling FA related merch as well as my own personal merch

Will you be going to parties?
I don't know that I will be in a "party" mood. I would like to meet up with a few peeps if time allows.

Will you be performing?
IDK if this counts as performing...hosting an event, yes.

What/where will you be eating?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Can I come with you for food/fun/etc?
If we invite you! Please no self invites. I will be really in my feels during the con.

Can I take your picture?
*HISS*...I really hate how I look right now and it's incredibly obvious that depression has gotten the best of me so I'm a bit uncomfy about it. Just ask first please?

Art trades at con?
If you catch me early on or during "off" time I would love to do some art/sketch book trades <3

I'm here hitting my head on the table over the probate lawyer we've been working with for Neer's affairs...I have left a lot of the decisions to Rita and basically been there for info, support, and using the GFM to sort out bills/fees involved.

This lawyer though...really just wasted months of our time. He didn't know how to handle most of the issues that came up and I think financially took advantage of us along with giving us bad advice/information. We are 11k in the hole and because I was asking too many questions on the "why"s of him doing things or NOT doing things he ended our contract with him. Which sure. Anyone can decide they don't want to work with a client but it's not like he explained why or gave us any sense of direction. Just cut us off and left us both completely lost in how to move forward with this.

He wanted us to just use the GFM money for any issue that cropped up and I had to keep telling him over and over that that isn't what it's for...it has a direct purpose written out in it that those funds HAVE to be used for. At the end of the day I think he was hoping for an easy open shut probate case (if that's even a think) and having to put this much time and work into it, even if paid, he didn't want to put the time into hearing our concerns...

I'm just...grrrrr...seriously...I don't care what kind of health you are currently in. Make a will. Probate sucks ass...

I really love and appreciate you all...thank you for sticking with me, encouraging me, supporting me...it means a lot.

I was absolutely crumbling last year, and not starting this year off too great with pneumonia, but having people to lean on and knowing you want to help make FA succeed means more to me than I can ever express.

I know we have a long way to go with everything. But I do think Neer would have been really happy with this last update.

Thank you guys...

Hey there fuzzies!

We want to let you all know the progress with the “roll back/update” mentioned in the previous announcement. The way we described today’s update in our last communication was considered misleading by some community members and, in turn, caused confusion, which was never our intention and we apologize for this. Some of the changes in our original update were a one-way trip, making it impossible to revert to the previous state the site was in. With this in mind, we heard everyone loud and clear about what we could do to move forward in a better direction. We’d like to thank everyone who gave us clear and constructive feedback, as it was invaluable to understanding what we could do to improve Fur Affinity for everyone!

This new update is the first step in a long transition towards a proper, fully-functioning keyword tagging system and as such is not the final form of this project. As such, we’ve designed this update to work similarly to how Fur Affinity has operated in the past while continuing progress in further development of our keywords system.

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Browse Page Update

Opening the Browse page will display an updated interface, closer to the previous system:

https://d.furaffinity.net/media/jou...../06/browse.jpg

It mostly appears the same, only now you will see that when making a Gender selection you will be automatically redirected to the Search page with filters already in place.

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Search Page Update

Based on your feedback, the Search page has been reworked, and now includes additional filters that were missing and previously only available on Browse (Category, Species, and Gender):

https://d.furaffinity.net/media/jou...../06/search.jpg

You will now be able to easily filter for which gender selection you prefer to see.
When selecting more than one option, only submissions containing all of the selected genders will be displayed by default. Alternatively, If you want to perform a standard full-text search for everything that uses any of the keywords (even alone) you can click the “Any of the words” option under the “Match Criteria” section of the search options. As a heads up, the keyword selector will only work in Extended Mode. You can change how the search functions by using additional options, such as “-” to exclude a term (example: “female !non_binary” to search for submissions with the term “female” and exclude “non_binary), or “|” to change the search to look for any of the terms next to it (example: “female | non_binary” to display submissions that have either “female” or “non_binary”).

For more information on options and operators to use for search, please refer to the Help Page.

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Keyword Update

In addition, we now require all submissions to have at least 3 keywords when submitting and editing previous works. We mentioned we were going to introduce this requirement at a later date when Tag Blocking was launched, and we feel like this is a great opportunity to take a step forward to encourage the change towards a proper tagging system. You will see this help text when submitting new works now:

https://d.furaffinity.net/media/jou.....6/keywords.jpg

For submissions that have keywords that don’t match the new requirements, worry not! We will be keeping your keywords in-place on your submissions; however, they will not be able to be searched for in our search system and if you edit an older submission you will be prompted to update keywords. They will only be displayed in the submission sidebar. When adding or editing new keywords, there will be a message that pops up informing you if some of your keywords are invalid.

https://d.furaffinity.net/media/jou.....rd_warning.jpg

If you have any problems, bugs, glitches ect. We would ask you to please put all the information you can get in a Trouble Ticket, instead of writing it in the comments. This way our Tech team can keep better track of the issue. You can submit a Ticket by clicking here or going to the “Support” section on the menu bar, and selecting “Report a problem”.

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🖥️

Tech Changelog

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General Changes:

⚙️ Re-introduced the gender selection options to the browse, submission finalize/edit page and the search page.
⚙️ Except for the browse page, genders will now be rendered as a series of checkboxes instead of a dropdown, clicking which would directly modify either the keywords area, or the search query box directly on the page.
⚙️ Adjusted layout, position and spacing of elements at all resolutions and display mode transitions.
⚙️ Added the comment anchor icon (that can be copied to link to the comment directly) to submission and journal comments on mobile view.
⚙️Hiding a comment on a submission or a journal will scroll the page back to its general position on load.

Search Page Changes:

⚙️ Adding Category, Art Type and Species dropdown filters.
⚙️ Adding page and per page options.
⚙️ Search query box will now expand to accommodate larger search queries. Newlines can be added to it for convenience by pressing CTRL + ENTER while typing.
⚙️ Extra "Search" buttons added for convenience at the bottom of the filters lists in the sidebar and on mobile.
⚙️ Adjusted the display of error messages.
⚙️ The Search form HTTP action has been changed from POST to GET, so now all filter options and the search query would be transmitted via URL - which can be copied, shared or bookmarked.
⚙️ Added "Advanced Search Help" section to the "Options" area on mobile view.
⚙️ Restricting pagination to the maximum amount of results the search backend is configured to return (5000), so it doesn't trigger an error trying to go past it.

Submission Edit & Submission Finalize Page Changes:

⚙️ Description and keywords fields will now automatically expand to fit their contents.
⚙️ Finalize submission page, the thumbnail preview will now be visible on small/mobile screens as well.
⚙️ Submission edit page, added the thumbnail preview.

Browse Page Changes:

⚙️ Added the gender dropdown back with our new tagging framework in mind.
⚙️ If a gender filter from it is selected, the Browse page will redirect to the Search page while transmitting all of the other selected filter options.

FA+ Users-Only Changes:

⚙️ Extra “results per page” dropdown options that are available only for FA+ will have a different background to make them stand out.

Keywords Related Changes:
Entering/updating submission keywords is now done in accordance with new parsing rules:
* Only a-z,0-9,_ (underscore) are allowed.
* Keyword must be minimum 3 characters long (subset of 2 characters are supported)
* There must be at least 3 keywords provided.
The "Note" section under keywords input fields on submission finalize and edit pages updated to reflect this.

Existing keywords that are invalid according to new rules:
* Will be converted to new format ("/" and "-" replaced with "_") when editing a submission, and saved when the edit page is submitted. User will be warned/prompted when this happens.
* Displayed as they are on the submission view page, but visually "disabled" and unable to be interacted with.

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Again we would like to remind you all that this is not a completely finished product. Much of the updates coming into FA from the start of the year are building the groundwork for final solutions, as we are working with an ancient infrastructure with limitations that restrict who is able to work on it in its current state. There are plans in motion for a recode as mentioned in our previous Town Hall announcement, but that takes time. In the meanwhile we hope to be making quality of life stop-gap solutions to the current site. We’ve been making great progress in these areas, such as our initiatives with Tag Blocking as well as Display Names. We made a mistake in how we handled this update, and we are actively working to resolve how this happened to prevent it from occurring again by moving forward with more communication, and proper testing.

We feel it is important to note that we have enjoyed having comments on journals open to communicate with our community members and get feedback from others when we are both doing things right as well as wrong. We unfortunately had to lock the comments on the previous two journals as much of the conversation seemed to be turning into unhealthy arguments against our trans/non-binary/gender fluid community members, as well as being gynophobic and we will not tolerate this behavior.

Fur Affinity is woman and LGBTQIA+ owned and operated. We’re very proud of the community of inclusivity we’ve fostered, and implore(and to some degree expect) everyone to help us preserve those values.

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Lastly, we wanted to update you all on where we are with this year's Roadmap. There is currently a lot in “Code Review” that we hope will start coming out swiftly over the next couple months. We have side projects we are also working on that we hope you will all enjoy.

🗺️Roadmap for 2025!🗺️

Main ticket items
⭐ Tag Blocking Part 1- Completed ✅
⭐ Display Names (FA+ Launch)- Completed ✅
⭐ Display Names (Everyone Launch) - Completed ✅
⭐ Technical Debt Fixes- In Code Review ⏳
⭐ Large Bugfixes Round 1- In Code Review ⏳
⭐ Implementing Cloudflare Turnstile (Tool to verify users and block bots) - In Code Review ⏳
⭐ IPv6 Support - In Code Review ⏳
⭐ User Block Improvements - In Development ✏️
⭐ 2FA (Two-Factor Authentication) - In Development ✏️
⭐ Audio Player Updates - Researching 📖
⭐ Writing Upgrades - Researching 📖
⭐ Fixing Thumbnails - Researching 📖
⭐ Dev Friendly Initiative - Not Started 🍃

Side Projects

✏️ Site page “Banner Museum”: Featuring all previously used site banners with links to artists (for modern AND classic banners)
✏️ Site page “I Was Here”: A memorial page for all users who are no longer with us.
✏️ Site page “Wall of Awesome”: A way to track and shout out people who donate to the site! This will be an “opt-in” page for donors and not required if you prefer to remain anonymous!
✏️ Moved ads to Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) standard sizes.
✏️ Added a Mature rating to ads, making a total of three ratings: General, Mature and Adult.

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Thanks to everyone for being patient with us while we sort through this and helping us make FA a better place for our community as a whole! Please keep comments within our Code of Conduct rules and a reminder to be excellent to each other! ❤️