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Re: Furocity is no more
« Reply #20 on: November 07, 2011, 02:43:05 pm »
furocity.com is working again.

Oh well...

If you read the post on SoFurry, I think me mentions that he put furocity.com back up so that its user base has a chance to get in one last hurrah and save any images they like, but it won't stay up for long.

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Re: Furocity is no more
« Reply #21 on: November 07, 2011, 05:06:19 pm »
Oh furry... when will you have a website that's run by somebody who's both honest AND competent?
Name one fetish subculture that does.
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Re: Furocity is no more
« Reply #22 on: November 07, 2011, 05:28:08 pm »
Oh furry... when will you have a website that's run by somebody who's both honest AND competent?
Name one fetish subculture that does.

http://fetlife.com/

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Re: Furocity is no more
« Reply #23 on: November 07, 2011, 05:34:42 pm »
WriterWren, one of the furocity admins, is also insisting it was a hack.

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For the love of god....

Here...

I AM an admin on Furocity. The site was hacked while Gavin was without power or secure internet service due to the nor'easter which roared through New England weekend before this last one. Several of us were taken out at the same time (power and secure internet) so there was nothing anyone could do. Power is still out in portions of the state. It is stupid for Gavin to try to fix things while he doesn't have a secure internet connection to do so.

Be patient and things will be fixed soon.

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Re: Furocity is no more
« Reply #24 on: November 07, 2011, 05:58:27 pm »
What are/were the origins of Furocity? Was this supposed to yet another "next FA"? I vaguely remember some site making promises like that back 4-5 years ago, but I can't remember the name of it. It was before InkBunny, seems like it gained some traction during a prolonged FA outage.

Seems like a retrospective is appropriate at this juncture.
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Re: Furocity is no more
« Reply #25 on: November 07, 2011, 07:35:28 pm »
What are/were the origins of Furocity? Was this supposed to yet another "next FA"? I vaguely remember some site making promises like that back 4-5 years ago, but I can't remember the name of it. It was before InkBunny, seems like it gained some traction during a prolonged FA outage.

Seems like a retrospective is appropriate at this juncture.
That would be Furry Art Pile, ekigyuu/noodlesandbeef's pet project that he discontinued once it proved to be more work than he was expected it to be and he stopped feeling the warm tingle of self-aggrandizement from maintaining it.

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Re: Furocity is no more
« Reply #26 on: November 07, 2011, 07:42:47 pm »
What are/were the origins of Furocity? Was this supposed to yet another "next FA"? I vaguely remember some site making promises like that back 4-5 years ago, but I can't remember the name of it. It was before InkBunny, seems like it gained some traction during a prolonged FA outage.

Seems like a retrospective is appropriate at this juncture.

I don't know much about the origins of Furocity, but I know that for the longest time it used to be a site like the RP Repository (www.rprepository.com) where people could write extended profiles and contact information about their [furry/fantasy] roleplaying characters, and pick up potential partners. I think games like Furcadia, Second Life, etc., used it a lot because it was a really easy way to set up an RP page and get in contact with other roleplayers.

Then one day they just decided to change it into an art gallery website and you had this strange, dual, roleplay-profile-site x deviantART-thing going on that really...didn't make any sense and was kind of confusing to work with. The site seemed split in two as to what it wanted to be: a furry art gallery or an RP character sheet site. I'm sad to see Furocity go though, because I did think it was a nice site, especially before it got all involved in the art world and everything. I agree and think the admin needs to figure out what he wants at this point. I don't even think he knows...

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Re: Furocity is no more
« Reply #27 on: November 07, 2011, 08:30:03 pm »
Quote from: WriterWren
It is stupid for Gavin to try to fix things while he doesn't have a secure internet connection to do so.

Hahahahahaha the idea that he needs a "secure internet connection" to change the password on his already-hacked DNS control account is pretty amazing. Are the "hackers" stalking him in real life, too?

Also, the library in his town (According to the Furocity whois info) has had internet access and power since Thursday.

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Re: Furocity is no more
« Reply #28 on: November 08, 2011, 07:48:23 am »
What are/were the origins of Furocity? Was this supposed to yet another "next FA"? I vaguely remember some site making promises like that back 4-5 years ago, but I can't remember the name of it. It was before InkBunny, seems like it gained some traction during a prolonged FA outage.

Seems like a retrospective is appropriate at this juncture.
That would be Furry Art Pile, ekigyuu/noodlesandbeef's pet project that he discontinued once it proved to be more work than he was expected it to be and he stopped feeling the warm tingle of self-aggrandizement from maintaining it.

I seem to remember him (if I'm thinking of the right guy) pegging the douchebag-o-meter at least as high as Dragoneer, if not higher.

I really don't get it... in the world of here-today, leaving-the-fandom-tomorrow furry art sites, how in the hell did FA gain so much traction?
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Re: Furocity is no more
« Reply #29 on: November 08, 2011, 08:35:21 am »
I really don't get it... in the world of here-today, leaving-the-fandom-tomorrow furry art sites, how in the hell did FA gain so much traction?

Alkora wrote it originally; he had to have been 18/19 at the time. He's still, inexplicably, writing exploit-ridden PHP piles-of-shit that he will abandon in embarrassment when it becomes clear he can't earn any ad revenue from them (he is also a shitty businessperson). FA would have been long dead and forgotten years and years ago had it not been for Sean Piche. It is only Dragoneer's desperation for relevance (and probably money too) that keeps that site going. Which is ironic since Piche essentially staged a coup d'etat and bullied the site out of Alkora's hands for a few thousand dollars, which he could afford at the time only because he'd just come back from his overseas contracting job.

In short, FA would have been Furocity or even FurNation if it wasn't for the fact that Dragoneer knows that the minute FA is dead and gone, he will be absolutely and totally without any friends, influence or relevance in this fandom. And that scares the shit out of him.

Hahahahahaha the idea that he needs a "secure internet connection" to change the password on his already-hacked DNS control account is pretty amazing. Are the "hackers" stalking him in real life, too?

What does "secure internet" even mean? I am guessing; based on knowing people who dealt with the outages caused by the recent storm, that this person imagines that 3G cellular data is "not secure" as opposed to, I don't know, RoadRunner or something.

This person probably also has an open WiFi router called "linksys".
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Re: Furocity is no more
« Reply #30 on: November 08, 2011, 09:44:32 am »
I really don't get it... in the world of here-today, leaving-the-fandom-tomorrow furry art sites, how in the hell did FA gain so much traction?

I'd have to check on the timing, but I think the reason FA took off was... well, there wasn't much anywhere else. The old furry art sites sucked, had died or were ignored - DeviantArt was popular but didn't allow porn; then yGallery and SheezyArt banned furry art from their sites, so people were flailing around and FA happened to be in the right place at the right time.

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Re: Furocity is no more
« Reply #31 on: November 08, 2011, 04:42:31 pm »
And it's back to directing to SoFurry.

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Re: Furocity is no more
« Reply #32 on: November 09, 2011, 01:28:49 am »
p. sure gavin is just fucking with everyone at this point
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Re: Furocity is no more
« Reply #33 on: November 09, 2011, 03:17:36 am »
p. sure gavin is just fucking with everyone at this point

I've never really known him to be a trickster, but hey, people change. It's possible.
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Re: Furocity is no more
« Reply #34 on: November 09, 2011, 10:27:27 am »
p. sure gavin is just fucking with everyone at this point

I've never really known him to be a trickster, but hey, people change. It's possible.

I think it's more likely he can't make up his mind and/or doesn't like his options. I really doubt he entered into this agreement with Piche without a need for it, now that it's clearly untenable, his choices are probably to shut Furocity down or get another arrangement like it.

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Re: Furocity is no more
« Reply #36 on: November 09, 2011, 11:52:02 pm »
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Re: Furocity is no more
« Reply #37 on: November 13, 2011, 01:31:28 am »
It appears that, nearly three weeks later, Gavin is alive and appears to be attempting to resolve the problem through  Twitter direct messages to his domain registrar.

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Proving, once and for all, he is just about as incompetent as the rest of FA a perfect fit at FurAffinity.

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Re: Furocity is no more
« Reply #38 on: November 14, 2011, 04:01:19 pm »
Didn't Piche hijack FurAffinity's DNS from Alkora when he was staging his coup?
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Re: Furocity is no more
« Reply #39 on: November 15, 2011, 06:49:53 am »
Didn't Piche hijack FurAffinity's DNS from Alkora when he was staging his coup?

Question is, is Piche actually competent enough to do that kind of shit?