Help Wanted

FurAffinity, a leading global provider for executing diverse cloud-based asset storage and retrieval strategies through synergy and load balanced network solutions, is now accepting applications for the position of Photography Administrator. In this position, you will be responsible for judging the artistic qualities of the hundreds of pictures of fursuiters (all with that same “mild surprise” expression) that are uploaded to FurAffinity daily. You may also occasionally be required to remove the nastiest of nasty pictures that our users sometimes upload to the site.

Responsibilities

• As a FurAffinity staff member, your only main responsibility is making sure the Legion of Doom (a.k.a. Pi, Eevee, and the rest of Vivisector) are kept away from the site.
• Ensuring staff-staff and staff-user communication does not improve in the slightest.
• There are no other responsibilities. Nobody at FurAffinity is allowed to have any real responsibility.

Requirements

• You must be a photographer skilled with photography tools like Instagram and the button on the camera that turns off automatic flash.
• You must be 21 years of age (Moderating FurAffinity has a two drink minimum)
• English should be your first language, but humorless foreigners will be considered.
• Must be able to dedicate a lot of time to the site and help out on a daily basis, while the development team and other admins continue to do nothing for weeks at a time.
• You will be required to deal with admins who will take Photography tickets and botch resolving them.
• Your fursona must either be an Otter OR a Dragon OR a Pokemon or Digimon (combinations of anything listed accepted. PLEASE NO EEVEES)
• You must have one of the following fetishes: fatfur, inflation, macro, herm, or any combination(s) of the above.

Perks and Benefits

• Flex hours: As long as it’s cutting into your time, we’re FLEXHOURIBLE!
• Unrestricted inter-office notes and emails
• Free passes to already free events!
• $5 off admission to FA United (Must be used on Deluxe Staff Level Super-Sponsor Membership (value: $599))

To apply, please fill out this form and do not ask questions when we pick the most popufur person that applies.

Showing off Art Folders!

weasyl:

Although this is a very simple and basic feature for an art site to include, we feel as though showing how our folder system works (that and the fact that it exists!) is something many of you’d be interested in. So read on, and experience a guided tour of our folder system.

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>how our folder system works (that and the fact that it exists!)

Such hurtful words! BRB going to the burn unit.

2012 Spring Update Changelog

Fuck you, Baltimore!

We decided that, rather than plan and test new features, we’d just shove them out on April Fools Day because that means you can’t complain and anyone who leaves is a dumbass. We’re rolling out this update over the course of a week (Which will certainly become a month) with a bunch of rarely-requested features that are easier to code than the frequently requested ones.

PHASE 1 - COMPLETE

• “Enhanced” thumbnails - Thumbnails are more consistent across the site. And by “consistent” we mean there are something like six different sizes. They also have rounded corners for some reason, which isn’t really consistent with anything at all! Custom thumbnails will come back eventually, but they’ll have new rules because Dragoneer thinks they’re “generally misleading”, like when people say there’s porn but there really isn’t! THOSE BASTARDS!!!
• Revised news system - Site news is now posted on the Fender account, with a news alert appearing at the top of the page when there is a new news item. Nobody wanted this, and we’re bound to post trivial, unimportant things as “news alerts” which will efficiently stop people from keeping up-to-date on the latest site news.
• Sciggles - Admin subroutines fine tuned to discourage people from reporting too many things at once even though the admins previously encouraged users to do just that.
• Planning Ahead - All mentions fully removed. New site features will be rolled out randomly, with absolutely no preparation. Site performance may suck for a day, but it loads eventually, which is good enough.
• Killed off the new UI - Why get a NEW UI when you can just shove mismatched elements in the old one?

PHASE 2 - Coming RealSoonNow™

• Streamlined Header - Remember two years ago when we removed the left-hand navigation and told you the new navbar was to prepare you for the new UI that was coming very soon? Well, we’re changing the navbar again! Learn to hate the navbar all over again!
• Disable Notes - A special new feature for our Popufur friends, now you can disable receiving notes! Having trouble ignoring the idiots that send you notes, even though your profile says “NO NOTES”??? No? Oh. Well, someone will surely find this useful.
• Hide from guests - Now you can hide your account from guests and random Googlers, even though we don’t let Google crawl the site. Now you can register with your IRL name and not worry about employers finding your account!
• Hide favorites - Now you can favorite the nastiest porn and not worry about your friends discovering your secret fetishes!
• We’ll probably break search again somehow - Happens every time we update things!
• Ignoring feature requests - We could have spent all this time fixing the commission information page, something people actually want, but hiding your favorites is so much more important! Same goes for folders, filters, report submission button, the new BBCode parser, improving the written works section of the site, doing something about streaming notifications, fixing comment threading, making the notification system stop storing notices for years and years and years, changing the permissions system to allow different levels other than “User” or “Admin”, etc etc etc.

We’re “listening” to feedback, but really? What else can be suggested that we’re already not doing?

Official @Furaffinitypr ARTWORK MEME!!!

At FurAffinityPR, we listen to the users*. And right now, it’s clear: Users want prepared “fill in the blank” templates they can slap some stuff in and then upload it to FA.

That’s why we’re proud to launch the first OFFICIAL Artwork Meme. Click here to download the template. Fill it out and upload it for epic fun times!!!

Become instantly popular and gain thousands** of new watchers by doing something that everyone else is doing! FILL OUT THE ARTWORK MEME TODAY!

*: Usually.
**: Results may vary.

New Staff Structure

Recently, FA began an initiative to assess the shortcomings of the site. Six years, five thousand binders, sixty meetings, and thousands of dollars of hardware later, we’ve finally compiled a list of things that need changing and we’ve begun work on doing just that!

Firstly, the staff. We often hear complaints about the staff. So what do we do? Bring in new people and give them fancy titles, of course! What happened to the old staff? Threw ‘em out. Made them all (Well, most, we got rid of at least one. GET OUT etc.) “TOS Enforcement”. That’s kind of like a fancy title for “Janitor”. We’re sure that the new guys (Be sure to welcome them, some of them have only been on the site for a few weeks!) can enforce the rules just as well as… well… they can enforce the rules. Plus, they’re all really nice! Can’t you just tell from reading this profile?! It sure is welcoming and friendly! I think his name is a reference to something historical, but I can’t quite remember.

And to make sure the new staff behave, we’ve written up a Staff Code of Conduct. But you can’t see it, because then you might know what to expect of the staff, and we can’t have that! How can we be expected to let things slide then?!

We truly want to fix FA. That’s why we invented fancy titles for people instead of bringing on more coding staff. We hope these changes will allow you to use FA easier, when you can actually use it.

Cave Johnson. We’re done here.

Explanation of Summer Update Delay

Missing Submission Notifications

There have been a few reports recently about people not getting submission notifications for new submissions. If you think you should be seeing things, but you’re sure you’re not seeing what you think you should be seeing, and you’re not already seeing things that nobody else sees due to medical condition, please contact us with a report of what you see you’re not seeing.

You may want to consider manually checking each person you follow each day for new submissions and keeping a list, and checking it against your submission notices. Also, it is vitally important you also keep track of what the “submission deleted” notices say before they were deleted.

Once you’ve compiled your report, leave a reply in Dragoneer’s journal where it will be promptly lost amongst all the noise.

Thanks!
FurAffinity PR.