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furatrocity:

This is genuinely what most people believe; That people’s issues with FA begin and end with slight inconveniences due to site outages.
They then turn this into an us-versus-them lifestyle issue for no apparent reason, like those people that will go on a 10 minute tirade about “Apple fanboys” every time they so much as see someone listening to an iPod.
Kindly educate them thusly.

We’re so glad that people can look beyond our cronyism, poor leadership, and crap-tier dev team and realize that Weasyl only exists because of some prudes that got upset that we had downtime!
Thank you for choosing FurAffinity!

furatrocity:

This is genuinely what most people believe; That people’s issues with FA begin and end with slight inconveniences due to site outages.

They then turn this into an us-versus-them lifestyle issue for no apparent reason, like those people that will go on a 10 minute tirade about “Apple fanboys” every time they so much as see someone listening to an iPod.

Kindly educate them thusly.

We’re so glad that people can look beyond our cronyism, poor leadership, and crap-tier dev team and realize that Weasyl only exists because of some prudes that got upset that we had downtime!


Thank you for choosing FurAffinity!

(Source: confessionsofafurry)

Jan 7

The New UI You Can Never Have

Just how far can you modernize FA’s UI in just a few hours? FurAffinityPR spent some time this weekend revising the “new” UI that is being previewed here. Some things “work” (the login button will show you the logged in version of the navbar) and some things don’t (dropdowns, thumbnails).

This is more or less a public plea to FA: Please get some help with UI design.

Jan 1
Because we’re all about sharing documents now, here’s our OFFICIAL flowchart for writing Fender news journals.

Because we’re all about sharing documents now, here’s our OFFICIAL flowchart for writing Fender news journals.

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.

Apr 5

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.

Apr 2

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?

Sciggles will be joining us as our new Drama Expert. In order to deal with drama, you need to know a lot about it, and Sciggles started so much last year that she is the most qualified candidate for the job.
Now, of course, people are going to say things like “She’s only admin because she’s dating Dragoneer”. Well… to that we say [THE REMAINDER OF THIS POST HAS BEEN BLACKED OUT IN PROTEST OF SOPA!!!!!!]
fiztheancient:

WOW GOOD JOB FURAFFINITY!!

Sciggles will be joining us as our new Drama Expert. In order to deal with drama, you need to know a lot about it, and Sciggles started so much last year that she is the most qualified candidate for the job.

Now, of course, people are going to say things like “She’s only admin because she’s dating Dragoneer”. Well… to that we say [THE REMAINDER OF THIS POST HAS BEEN BLACKED OUT IN PROTEST OF SOPA!!!!!!]

fiztheancient:

WOW GOOD JOB FURAFFINITY!!

Dec 5
furaffinity:

neer doesn’t know
neer doesn’t care

Dragoneer takes breaks from FA administration over the weekend, when this supposedly took place.
And if you think someone on staff would mention it to him when he got back, remember again that this is FurAffinity, where staff communication is [censored] [censored] [redacted].

furaffinity:

neer doesn’t know

neer doesn’t care

Dragoneer takes breaks from FA administration over the weekend, when this supposedly took place.

And if you think someone on staff would mention it to him when he got back, remember again that this is FurAffinity, where staff communication is [censored] [censored] [redacted].

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.