Fur Affinity
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Fur Affinity, also known as FA, is the furry fandom's largest online community with focus on the promotion of art, music, stories and more.[citation needed]
The site was created by Alkora as an alternative to various art community sites such as SheezyArt and deviantART, promoting itself by allowing artistic freedom of expression regardless of content rating.
- Addresses:
- Website: http://www.furaffinity.net/
- Forums: http://forums.furaffinity.net/
- Wiki: http://wiki.furaffinity.net/
- LiveJournal: http://community.livejournal.com/furaffinity/
- IRC: #furaffinity on FurNet
- Steam: Fur Affinity Gamers on the Steam Network
- Administrators:
- Ran from/to:
- 16 January 2005 - 1 August 2005 (staff dispute & coding/server problems)
- 10 December 2005 - Present
Contents
History
- Main article: History of Fur Affinity
Features and rules
Fur Affinity's features for users include the ability to allow users to track new updates from particular artists; highlight favorites; and upload a wide variety of art (images, music and stories). The site attempts to promote community through its comments system and individual journals.
While works of all ratings are accepted (other than photographic nudes and images whose intent are to slander or discredit others[1]), art rated as mature or adult is not shown to visitors, or to users who have not specified it as a preference (which requires giving a date of birth indicating an age over 18). In addition, a tagging system is in use, but in the current version of the website software it doesn't have any effect on the site functionality, being used only as a visual addition to the submission page. Previously, users could browse and block the display of art based on these tags, but much like the search feature it was disabled due to performance issues, and haven't been brought back since.
Fur Affinity used to have a search feature that allowed users to search for specific art on the site, but this feature became disabled in mid-2006, listed as 'temporarily disabled', and a faux search feature was temporarily implemented on April Fool's Day, much to the chagrin of some users. No news regrading to when (and if) the search feature will come back has been posted.
Project Ferrox
The current software for Fur Affinity's servers is based upon the free and open source Ferrox content management system.
- See also: Ferrox (software)
Mascots
Fender is the Fur Affinity mascot. He was primarily created by artist K-9, based upon a character concept by Preyfar. He is half fox and half ferret.
A second mascot, Rednef, a female dragon, was announced in May 2007. She has been shown in the Fur Affinity header on April 1, 2007.
Fender was displayed as a three-toed sloth for April Fools' Day 2008.
Controversies
- Main article: History of Fur Affinity#Controversies
Facts
Statistics
- In less than a year since the site's re-launch, Fur Affinity gained over 45,000 users and over 300,000 submissions.
- The site transfers a daily average of nearly 80 GB of data and well over 10,000,000 individual files. The site's peak bandwidth record stands at 33.2Mbit.
- Alexa ranked Fur Affinity in the top 4,000 sites on the web as of 1 November 2007, showing greater traffic than the VCL for most of previous year. Fur Affinity has ranked as high as 3,475 on individual days.
- Account import strings began and ended with !pie!
- Fur Affinity gets approximately 2.5 million page hits per day (estimated on 01/11/2007).
- Fur Affinity reached its 1,000,000th submission on January 11th, 2008.
The hardware
There are currently six servers held by Fur Affinity:
- Gecko, the original FA server, is a dual 3.0Ghz Nocona Xeon system with 4GB of RAM and 2X 250GB drives configured in RAID 1. This server is not use and is currently being re-purposed.
- Tiamat, the DB backend server, is a twin dual core 2.0Ghz Opteron 2212 with 8GB DDR2-533 RAM. Storage consists of 4x 74GB 10k SATA WD740ADFD hard drives on a 3ware 9650SE-4LPML hardware raid card, running in RAID10 configuration.
- Bahamut, a data storage server, is a dual core 2.0GHz Opteron 1212 with 2GB DDR2-667 RAM. Storage consists of 4x 500GB Seagate Barracuda ES drives on a 3ware 9650SE-4LPML RAID controller, configured in RAID5+1. Bahamut is currently offline due to failure of its onboard Ethernet chip and will be re-purposed once its new motherboard is installed.
- Ghostlight, the wiki and forums server, is a virtual server held at a separate data center to ensure up-time even when primary site may be down.
- Trogdor, the new data server, is a Dell Poweredge 2970 2U Server with 32GB RAM.
- Novastorm, the web front end server, is a Sun Fire X4150 with dual quad-core 2.5Ghz Xeon 5420 processors, 4GB of RAM and 2x 146GB 15K RPM drives in RAID 1.
References
External links
- statistics of #furaffinity on FurNet IRC network on irc.netsplit.de
