I was kinda hoping these would be one of those magic eye pictures, where if you go all cross eyed, you'd see something hidden.

On this site, it'd probably be a knotted dog cock. :P

major lol

It does sort of work like that... I can see something in it...

Well, that's... interesting. o_O

ah lol, It's good idea, I see it's a bit red and most of white ? :P

Looks like a hard drive in major need of defrag!

like my server, no matter how much i defrag it

http://www.diskeeper.com/

i already have a good defragger

Free trial, never herts to do a test run...
Defrags bothe files and databases - and does realtime defragmentation.

free trial, lol

mine's tutally free, period, search download.com for auslogics

Will do.

FYI: thai actualy increased perfornamce by ~30% for my users, both on-site and on-line.

yay

on site and online??? i is confused

Presently running SBS 2003 = local users + prppriatry web + remote desktops.
LAN = !Gbps for users, web = 8Mbpss up and down + various mobile users floating around the place on high speed wireless (all encripted with dual authentication)/

my translation:

sbs=? (some type of networking something)
gigabit lan for local users, 8Mbps for remote users, wi-fi network, all with tkip+akis (probably misspelled) authentication

so what does it all do? isp?

Keeps all the people doing what the want to get dfone...

SBS = Windows Small Business Sever.

Yea, I know, my spelling zucks...

oh, cool, what's your business?

im me using whatever service you feel like using (mine are on my fa page), fa is bieng slow

Actually, the client I’m referring to is an industrial electrical contractor…
(I do some wire monkey work too; like 20 to 30 miles of wiring for a Schmidt panting press or an occasional 600v power feed for a factory.)

oh, cool

like i said, add me to your im. i would add you, but it never goes through for any service

Sad.y i don/t do im... Too much of a security risk, and I don't like bing that reachable.

If you'd like i can note you with my eMale.

fa is faster

im=security risk, how? is no more of a security risk than making a windows password, in fact, less, lol (safe mode)

windows safe mode=security hole

And then ssome...

I was not consulted when the system wos pruchased..
otherwise we'c be running unix.

IM aloows for active x , etc; it get's messy to too techir for posting.

true

but it all depends on your client

Granted.

Fun part, most of the time I can remote administer the whole thing from home, unless sonthing phisically breaks.

lol

Sounds/reads cool...

I'll beata it on a couple of the local systens and see how it performs.

Just gonna jump in here 6 months late and say that auslogics defragger rocks.


<3

2 years later, CCleaner

so thats every submission?

Holy!I thought the Site HardDisk had more space left.It full again?!

that s so random.... i think i have to fave that O.o

Look at all those deleted usbmissions.. what's up with that massive white space after the first set? Was that when FA went down for like, a year? There is hardly enough red here ;_;

Or maybe it was the folks who cleared their galleries and left in the wake of the cub pr0n dramastorm?

That was more like.. 2005.. was the dramastorm way back when?

there was one before this FA went up, but all of FA was baleeted so i doubt that's it. but that's probably the best guess

Interesting! It appears that the Adult and Mature percentages have grown recently.

To me, it looks more like there are fewer deletions as of recent. That would tend to make the blues and reds stand out since they're barely visible in the lighter regions of the image.

Thank you. You are correct; I put it into Photoshop and inverted it, and it was easier to see what is going on. I wonder why there are fewer deletions recently. Any ideas?

I've given this a few hours of thought, and I can't come up with anything concrete.

Maybe a lack of alternatives, (such as FAP's closing), have put the brakes on hasty gallery erasures?

That certainly is plausible.

FA seems to have more social networking now than a couple of years ago. Some people decry this and apparently would prefer that FA be more like that furry mausoleum known as VCL, but I think that the additional social furry network rewards have gradually become a significant deterrent to leaving.

I think that I may have figured out the cause of that prominent white deletion ban that runs from late November to late December 2006: the cub porn dispute. It looks like a lot of the people who threatened to leave if cub porn stayed actually left. I know a couple of artists who left but later returned.

Heh...would you believe VCL is trying to develop FA-like features? Ch'marr has acknowledged as much, but the limiting factor is manpower to actually do the coding.

I figured the cubporn dispute likely had something to do with the white streak as well, that was my answer to SoreThumb's post above. I also know a couple of artists who left and came back, and at least one who still refuses to reopen her gallery while the stuff is still permitted.

I am pretty sure it's because the longer that any given image is on the site, the more likely it is that it will have been deleted at some point, for any given reason for deleting it.

If the picture was, say, smaller and all black, and someone decided to delete some things from their gallery for whatever reason, let's say then there's an even distribution of white dots on it. Then, two weeks pass and another four or five rows of black dots are put on the bottom row, and someone else decides to clean out their gallery, and it gives another even distribution of white dots. And this happens again (more black rows added as time goes on, then an even distribution of white dots thrown in as a gallery is purged, etc.) The bottom row will have less white dots simply by virtue of it being more recent, because the recent pictures would be less likely candidates for gallery purges.

I was going to say this, but in less smart terms.

That makes a lot of sense. The entries are shown in order of being uploaded rather than in order of the last recorded action upon them.

Also, those inclined to leave a place like FA and delete all their stuff will eventually leave FA and delete all their stuff.
So as time goes on, you'd expect fewer and fewer people like that to remain, and so there should be gradual spacing
out of those kinds of mass deletions after the first cut of folks.

Good point! Thanks.

Oh my I love that one spot where its almost all white

Crazy things like this are awesome.

Yak, this is really fascinating and raises a question: what is the approximate date range of the white band of heavy deletions near the top of the image? I'd love to know what happened.

Durr, hell if I know. Too lazy to dig into the database, so I'll try applying basic math here.

submission_id = y*1600 + x;

Just take a non-white pixel at the middle of this deleted mess, calculate it's ID and then just visit that submission and find out the date :P

Sorry, but I may be misunderstanding something. This graph image is 1600 pixels high and the current submission _id numbers are about 1,970,000, not 2,560,000. Shouldn't it be more like submission_id = y*1200 + x ? Thanks for your help.

Yah, silly mistake on my part.
Every pixel is a submission id; from left to right, up to down.

Thank you very much.

I think that I know what that prominent white band of deletions might be: the cub porn dispute. The deletions run from about late November 2006 to late December 2006. I joined FA in August 2006 and I don't recall any other dustup of that size during that period. A lot of people threatened to leave FA when cub porn was allowed to stay, and it looks like a significant number did. Fortunately, some who left eventually returned.

Fascinating! Definitely not a waste of bandwidth!!

You should set the submissions to a parabolic or 3rd order curve because over time more submissions per day occur.

I looked at the actual submission dates of submissions just before and just after the white band, hence no correction for increasing submission frequency was necessary.

My guess is that was during a period when Fa r3eceived a bunch of trolls who raided the site and uplosded tons of crap that was eventually deleted as it was found.

So much red in those first few lines...

Yeah, I know it, right? o-o

If I recall correctly, FA was originally created as a response to SheezyArt no longer allowing adult images. People wanted an alternative and FA was started, hence everyone immediately uploaded all the porn they couldn't put on SA.

It always amuses me when people complain that FA has too much porn, seeing as it was essentially started as a place specifically for the posting of such material.

It's not so much the abundance of red, but the lack of white. The early folks must be more loyal or somesuch, and haven't deleted their galleries.

Now I wonder about one without the deleted ones, to see the ratios between G/M/A arts :D

It will most definatly be a redish purple...

What the hell happened to that one period? The age of massive deletion...

Just how far back is that mass "deletion", 2005?
If so, I'd venture a guess that they weren't deleted so much as the artists never reactivated their accounts, after the great snafu.

let's color this sucker purple

I like the cut of your jib

WOW

it's like looking at a country from space

I would love to see this with a related timeline....

Though, we'd have to find a really wonky way to order the pixels short of breaking it all apart. (Alpha-layer get?)

if I can figure out how to match a single pixel up with a post, I'll work on that. o: Yak's equation isn't working for me so far though...

interesting, thanks for making this.

my what interesting things you spend your time doing. ;p

total: 1920000
general: 1095916 (57%)
adult: 205294 (11%)
mature: 179566 (9%)
deleted: 439224 (23%)

Adjusting for the deleted submissions, the content ratio is 65% general, 19% adult, 16% mature.

This quick summary was made possible thanks to the Photoshop histogram tool... and a very bored guy.

Hey, neato (!) I didn't figure someone would use histograms for that; very nice :)

So much for "FA is a porn dump" opinion that's going around, huh?

The histogram tool is VERY useful for things like figuring out the volume of a complex shape. If the colors are solid enough, you'll get exact pixel amounts. Handy for figuring out templates for sewing materials, and how much waste you'll have.

What I find most interesting is that the spread of mature/adult art hasn't changed much during FA's growth, even following the gallery cleanout frenzy. This picture is awesome, and more practical than my habit of loading up sound files as RAW in Photoshop (which, BTW, looks equally cool).

so there is less adult stuff on FA than general. And people still complain about all the porn on FA? XD

omg i want to do this now!!!!

I love the massive understatement of "Gender: Multiple characters" in the tags

You could almost use this like tree rings. All we have to do is date each general section.

So which dot is THIS submission represented by? ^^

lol

Once I figured out what I was looking at I think it's pretty cool.

I love how it's just littered with adult and tame pictures XD

Is this accurate? I would think alot of it would be red.

If you wander FA without hitting all the popular artists, you find alot of non-porn.

Wild MISSINGNO. appeared!

THIS

not just MISSINGNO.
its KING MISSINGNO.!

The huge deleted gap was probably when they announced that cub porn was alright.
I know a large number of people left over that.

Thats really pretty awesome none the less.

Remember that the deletions are based on when the file was originally uploaded, not when it was deleted, so the white lines are a bunch of deleted images that were uploaded one after another.

I see huge red lines at the top. o.o

this shit is CRAZY :O

That's pretty cool, in a nerdy kinda way.

That's pretty dang cool.

that´s very interesting !

and cool like the others said ! :]

I don't know why people are surprised with how the adult is in the minority. Go click on "browse" some time. Yes, there's a lot of adult artwork, but there's even more people just uploading photos (which aren't allowed to be adult).

I'm guessing the big white stripe was some incident with an image spammer using a bot. That's the only way they'd be all clumped together like that.

Or perhaps one of the giant 503-fests FA went through a long time ago where every image you submitted ended up being a dud and instead of people editing the sub and resubmitting the file, they deleted the whole thing and went from scratch. However, your idea is definitely more Occam's razor.

what the heck is this

I ran a Salt-and-Pepper filter, bleeding each individual pixel into the surrounding eight to examine the general color gradient. It's redder at the top, and black at the bottom. Pitch black. I assume this is due to more things being allowed to be posted that aren't porn-capable.

Interesting... Could you do me a favor and point out which of these pixels are my submissions?

start counting pixels <.<

lol looks a lot like and mp3 jpeg.

I call shenanigans. ;P

lol, it would be cool to link all of those to images, and also time consuming

Ever watch a Williams Electronics coin-op game boot up? (Defender,Robotron,NARC, etc.)

This looks very similar...

Is there actually a clickable version, for folks with big enough monitors? :P

it's like looking at the rings of a tree, or the ice cores from the artic, you can see were the ice ages are o.o wonder if that major white streak up there was during one of the server crashes?

second ever submission
PORN

this
is pretty damn wicked

can I have a link to original, bmp or bin file?

This is the original. It was procedurally generated in PHP.

By minimizing the image you get a rough idea of what FA's turned out to be. :/ Greyish pink gradient, light to dark, top to bottom.

Dirtier,

and dirtier,

and dirtier.

Defrag.

Speaking of which, I'll fave this. And defrag my own PC since it reminded me so. Lol.

Is that White line near the top that dark time when cub was banned?

I think I saw jesus in this.

I'm trying to figure out why the darkness near the bottom is because of less deletions (white) or more General art (black)...

In retrospect, Look at furries.
So much of this website is just deleted shit.

AKA: Drama/ignorant posting, etc.
If this ratio's better than other websites, I'll be glad.

Oooo I love statistics. XD

three things,
1:this is awesome sauce
2: this shows why i back up all the art i like from artist onto disc's(i need a external hard drive badly X.X)
3: i noticed that the average shade of light goes dimmer as we go down, maybe ppl stop being delete-aholics?

This would make an interesting image browser interface, just zoom in on a pixel, or filter them with keywords. And eat away all the machine resources.

heh, outage graph... note the white areas where the site was only accessible in Bolivia...

Omg... There's a dog face in the center, right above the smaller white line...

You're... absolutely right. It's looking down and a little bit to the left. Good eyes!