FA Banning Cub Porn Again?

[ProvincialTwit]

I'm under the belief that Dragoneer will do nothing to harm the status quo, and that in the event FA isn't making enough to operate he will work himself deep in debt to keep it alive and keep himself relevant. All so when the Repo men come he can shout "I SINK MY OWN TIME AND MONEY INTO THIS COMMUNITY AND THIS IS THE THANKS I GET IN RETURN?"

That sounds familiar.  What a testament to such idiotic selfless actions that I can't actually remember the name of the last popular furry website with an attention whore admin/owner who did that.  You know, the one with the stupid logo plastered everywhere.  Donotsue used to have his stuff hosted there.  Had like a half dozen sims on Second Life.

Edit: Oh, FurNation.  Duh.  (Thanks Dos)

[pikachang]

FA is simply put, the biggest internet phenomena the furry fandom has ever gotten into that was a home brew. Sure, it's a clone of a clone of Deviantart with about 10% of the functionality, and in large part the popularity is due to the snowball effect of everything from the Furnation era passing away and the influx of kids who identify as furry like it's a culture/fashion fad a-la 'emo', but it's not going away anytime soon. It has it's own con for fuck's sake. VCL never could claim that. The cub porn hubbub was over lawsuit potential, not them failing to meet the bills. If anything, failing to meet the bills would be mismanagement and ad related more than anything.

The real problem with FA, the thing that WILL eventually be the linchpin of it's own mortality, is that it offers very little in the way of service. At least it offers virtually nothing someone else can't do, if not do better (and for a while that was the Inkbunny pitch). What it offers is the people who are there. The come because so-and-so is over there. Which also means in theory when the numbers thin, it will domino into an exodus.

It really is funny to think of the entirety of the fandom as a band of nomads, with an unrelated landowner declaring himself king when the tents go up and then retiring with a bitter cadre when the last caravan pulls away, over and over again.

People just go where the porn is, so usually it follows where the better artists upload. FA is kinda rough yeah, but for tracking down art involving your favorite gender/species/kink/etc it's ok, though it could use some better classification and search features (especially if the volume of data goes up). Plus, it is easy to dump your "art" on it, which gives it nice diversity and all. Sure, someone could code a better art site but I think it's not going to overcome the disadvantage of not being already full of porn like FA is. Plus, thanks to the recent debacle, Inkbunny is probably full of pedo porn by now, which gives it a "free" contingent of artists and followers but will repulse probably most furries, which counts against it.

[Conan]

In somewhat related news, tonight FA brought their 10th server online. This is the 4th server they've racked with no purpose.

[Pi]

In somewhat related news, tonight FA brought their 10th server online. This is the 4th server they've racked with no purpose.

What shittarded name did they give this one? What claimed purpose does it have? (i could find this out on my own but i'm a lazy bum)

[Conan]

In somewhat related news, tonight FA brought their 10th server online. This is the 4th server they've racked with no purpose.

What shittarded name did they give this one? What claimed purpose does it have? (i could find this out on my own but i'm a lazy bum)

"Sparkz". It's one of the four identical servers they had donated (twin dual-core 2.4Ghz Opteron 2216 system with 48GB of RAM and 4X 146GB 15K RPM SAS drives in RAID 10) and they haven't announced it's purpose (other than showing off, of course). Presumably it's one of the servers they'll run that URL shortening service on and what their stupid hosting service will be on, IF either of those two things ever come online.

[Jim Demintia]

that URL shortening service

So I'm gonna say within a week of that being online, it gets blacklisted (or whatever happens to such things, I'm not a network administrator) for overwhelmingly hosting spam, malware, and virus-laden redirects. Of course it'll be used on the FA forums for rick rolls and what not.

I'd say it'd be hard to max out the server when all you're doing is a simple DB lookup and then a 302 redirect, but if anyone can pull it off, it's them.

Oh and not to mention it could be used to exploit CSRF holes, like, well, you know...

[LordNagetiere]

FA's greatest defense against malicious attacks may be that it is so hopelessly broken. I don't see anything short of a DDOS bringing it down (apart from it just going down because fuck knows). I mean, from a cracking perspective, why would you even bother with such a ball of spaghetti code? It requires a whole different attitude to approach from the exploit angle. You have to think broader, stupider... then find the unencrypted list of passwords through reverse searching 'password' or 'yiff' or something.

[Conan]

Blah. We'll probably have to pull FA next week for a bit to try to upgrade RAM. Good thing I have 200GB of 4GB sticks sitting on my floor!

The site is getting slow (again), better throw a couple thousand dollars worth of RAM at it and hope that helps.

[Jim Demintia]

Does anyone know if the servers are running in long mode (64-bit)? I'm sure the hardware is capable, but are they running a 64-bit OS?

[ProvincialTwit]

Does anyone know if the servers are running in long mode (64-bit)? I'm sure the hardware is capable, but are they running a 64-bit OS?

I would laugh so hard if those idiots were running a standard 32-bit kernel without PAE.

[Jim Demintia]

And doesn't PAE incur a performance hit, which is why having 64-bit on a server is a good idea, since servers can actually use 4+ GB of RAM in a useful way?

[Pi]

And doesn't PAE incur a performance hit, which is why having 64-bit on a server is a good idea, since servers can actually use 4+ GB of RAM in a useful way?

PAE incurs a performance hit, but so does stomping 64-bit-wide pointers down all of the buses.

IIRC their important boxes are FreeBSD, which has a pretty mature amd64 implementation. I'd certainly hope they're running the 64-bit OS as a whole. I don't think yak is quite that stupid.

[Conan]

Pinkuh has gone ahead and banned Sonic porn as well, specifically fan art of any character cannonly under 18.

Apparently this also includes Renamon and Krystal. Now what will furries fap to?

[pikachang]

Pinkuh has gone ahead and banned Sonic porn as well, specifically fan art of any character cannonly under 18.

Apparently this also includes Renamon and Krystal. Now what will furries fap to?

In porn, Sonic characters look like 10 year olds. Renamon and Krystal don't have that problem. (also Krystal is 19 in canon in case you ask)

UPDATE: http://image.bayimg.com/mabndaadc.jpg
(Pinkuh basically saying the same as Dragoneer - if it looks pedo it is pedo, so aged up characters would be fine but not canon style)

[Jim Demintia]

Pinkuh has gone ahead and banned Sonic porn as well, specifically fan art of any character cannonly under 18.

Hahaha oh man, this is going to lead to a lot of questions and discussion to which the correct and ultimate answer is: "WHO GIVES A SHIT?"

[IceCat]

Which has led to banning Sonic Porn, which of course leads to this sort of thing:

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/1920986/

[rodox_video]

Pinkuh has gone ahead and banned Sonic porn as well, specifically fan art of any character cannonly under 18.

Apparently this also includes Renamon and Krystal. Now what will furries fap to?

Holy shit. This is officially out of control now.

BETWEEN THIS AND THE TINY TOONS THE ENTIRE NINETIES HAS BEEN BANNED

[threadshitter]

Lots of sperglord raging going on about the sonic ban I'd imagine. I can't stop laughing.

[gnpg]

Pinkuh has gone ahead and banned Sonic porn as well, specifically fan art of any character cannonly under 18.

Given the site's policy change, this seems... redundant.

If they really want to go all the way with this, they could ban any trademarked character, and boy would that piss people off.  Mind you, this was done before by VCL and maybe also by Yerf/Rat/SCFA... certainly got rid of all the terrible Sonic fan art.  I think the main reason for the ban was to protect the site from corporate lawyers looking for an opportunity to sue for infringement.  Happened during the popularity rise of the Pokemon/Digimon scene.  VCL survived just fine afterwards.  One interesting work-around that emerged was for people to draw "pokemorphs" and "digimorphs", i.e., "This is a species I've made up which is not any trademarked character but is done in a similar artistic style to ones that are."

[Jim Demintia]

Isn't Dragoneer some Digimon thing?

Maybe it's because I didn't grow up with any of this stuff...the '90s cartoons or the video games, even though that's my age cohort, but I just find all of it so banal. I feel like I'm the only one who hears a cartoon, video game, or anime reference and goes, "haha, what?"