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… A moment of pure weirdness from China by the awesome Wang Rong Rollin.

 

 

Here’s links, headlines and little bites of news to make your tail wag.  Story tips are always welcome. ________________________________ Around Furry Fandom ________________________________ Fagcon’s Draconis / Calamity Cougar recovering from heart attack suffered shortly after the con. Shortly before Fangcon, Draconis submitted a tip for my article about it.  It was a shock to hear bad news […]

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Well ok, I've been here for a while but I thought I should introduce myself (probably out of bordem thought).

So, I'm 18 years old, a photographer, car enthusiast, fursuiter, art whore and an ex IT tech living in Perth, Western Australia.

I spend most of my time at home applying for jobs at the moment, so plenty of time to browse reddit and chat to anyone if you want to.

I do an insane amount of travel, been to the USA and nearly every Australia state this year alone and plan on moving to Melbourne within the next 12 months.

I spend most of my time hanging out with the local furs (Which is actually a huge amount considering how small Perth is) or doing photography around wherever.

If you wanna chat PM me for skype

You can find me on FA: http://www.furaffinity.net/user/animosus5/ And flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/97059945@N02/

Other stuff: My character: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14587370 My fursuit: http://i.imgur.com/zCo1ffh.jpg

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The second gaming night so far in our Extra Life Charity Campaign! This time with video games! WE BEAT LAST YEAR! More than $1,600 raised, it was a great night! Check out our Extra Life Campaign page!

Last but not least, thank you to everyone. You are such amazing fans. <3

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Part One:

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Watch Video FC-184X FurCast Extra Life Charity Gaming 2014 Night – 2 - The second gaming night so far in our Extra Life Charity Campaign! This time with video games! :D WE BEAT LAST YEAR!

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So lately i've seen many great furry art. sometimes i try to draw, then i realized i draw like shit. Is there anyone who would be kind enough to help me? im trying to use my minecraft as a template. If anyone wants to help, ill can send you the skin. Thanks for reading, i hope this isnt asking for too much. Have a good day! EDIT: my fursona is a wolf

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TL;DR in summary, a known hacker has been put in the tech staff of FA, known for installing backdoors and stealing user data from multiple projects he's made / worked on. The post details these events and some other things about current problems in FA.

EDIT : http://i.imgur.com/gulMdlu.jpg I made this last night and posted it around, I don't like it but it may be easier to read?

EDIT 2 : Do you have questions you'd like to ask but don't want to get lost in the comments here? My personal skype is Rowedahelicon and I'll answer anything you need regarding this topic, I welcome those who oppose as I may be able to help shed some light.

Hello, I'm writing to this board today in regards to a series of problems that have been going on over the last few months involving Furaffinity and its management.

I'm going to detail a lot of facts here, and it's very important that each part is read. Before I start, let me assure you I am not trying to get anyone to leave Furaffinity, nor am I trying to start drama. I am speaking to you as a concerned individual and I insist you hear me out. That being said, let us begin.

Furaffinity has had a history of problems regarding management, technical issues, and an equal history of those trying to fix them only to give up or fail for some reason or another, either drama ensued or they weren't accepted.

A month ago, a massive DDOS took place on Furaffinity that lasted for a few days. Hours before it began, a gofundme was started (But not announced) asking for 25K USD in donations. During the events of the DDOS, Dragoneer had stated the Gofundme being made on the same day was simply a coincidence and that it was meant to be posted later for more news regarding Project Phoenix.

https://twitter.com/WilliamcaFox/status/523234904629604352 (Williamca announces that the Gofundme was made before the DDOS started)

https://twitter.com/WilliamcaFox/status/523233079616610304 (Williamca gets confirmation of the time it started.)

http://www.reddit.com/r/furry/comments/2jk5mv/breaking_furaffinity_fundraiser_page_created/clcj66p (Dragoneer writes here)

that the"Chase and Sciggles had convinced me to hold off and wait for Phoenix's launch (and I agreed to that).

==

Another thing of interest, if the money isn't related to the DDOS at all, but is instead needed to help out the site, why is some of it promised to Sofurry?

https://twitter.com/Dragoneer/status/523204272016486400

"And yes, I'll help out SoFurry. Why? They don't deserve this. Nobody does. We're a fucking community. We will stand as one, god damn it."

But why doesn't Weasyl, Inkbunny, or E621 get any? They were also hit by the DDOS.

https://twitter.com/Dragoneer/status/523237412420734976

But it makes sense considering Dragoneer seems to have a good fascination with Sofurry https://twitter.com/search?q=%40dragoneer%20sofurry&src=typd

**https://twitter.com/Dragoneer/status/11762820267 "Seriously. If you don't like FA... go to SoFurry and Furocity. They're run by good people. Nobody holds you to one site."

https://twitter.com/Dragoneer/status/7075165344 "Yiffstar has emerged from its cocoon, and #sofurry (www.sofurry.com) is now live. Congrats, @toumal! GO FEESH!"

https://twitter.com/Dragoneer/status/523299757050310656 "Fa's back up, but SoFurry's still down. Go give @toumal some motivational cheer. I know the pain he's going through. Fish needs love!"

https://twitter.com/Dragoneer/status/375619925395513344 "Don't hate SoFurry. Hate the mod who mis-spoke, not the site. Toumal is good guy who has my respect. Mistakes happen."

https://twitter.com/Dragoneer/status/356254939724517376 "@boko6565 I'm completely willing to partner and assist other communities to better the ENTIRE community - be it FA, SoFurry, cons, etc."**

==

Moving on, what's next?

A few days ago, a journal post is made mentioning that there is a new tech lead, Starrykitty!

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/6265766

http://www.furaffinity.net/user/starrykitten

The most important part of this journal is this quote "starrykitten is joining the Dev/Ops team to help us better organize our tech efforts, improve site performance, answer tech/bug-related tickets and bring more transparency to what we're doing (all good stuff that's sorely overdue)."

Transparency

So let's start with Starrykitty himself, who is it? Well originally the account was made just a few days prior so right off the bat things aren't looking so good. Until someone discovers it's a user by the name of Zidonuke >http://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Zidonuke

Need proof? He comfirms it here : http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/6265766#cid:43154957

Who is Zidonuke?

"Zidonuke was a coder and administrator on F-List, but was banned in February 2011 after spying on users through the use of a TCP dumper.[12] Once discovered, he gave all users administrator access, removed bans, and published the site's code online. F-List Administration spent 5 days restoring the site entirely from backups.[13][14]"

https://www.f-list.net/newspost/158/

Zidonuke has a history of conflicting hacking exploits that has garnered him some problems and distrust with projects and people he has worked with,[7][8][9] such as Pokémon World Online[4][10][11] and Second Life, were he was banned by Linden Labs after reporting and exploiting various security issues with Vivox,[citation needed] a voice service in use by Second Life.

http://pastebin.com/6B8qmdAS

http://www.reddit.com/r/starbound/comments/1uueka/the_starrybound_mod_has_been_pulled_from_our/

http://www.terrariaonline.com/threads/if-youre-using-tmod-or-know-someone-who-is-read-this-immediately.34616/

http://s667.photobucket.com/user/beansta2k7/media/Untitled-1.png.html

http://pwo-wiki.info/index.php?title=Pok%C3%A9mon_World_Online (On July 18th, 2011, a newly appointed PWO developer, Zidonuke (promoted July 14, 2011), deleted PWO's data and server-side coding. The issue began when he became frustrated with criticism from the community through the IRC, and attempted to delete the channel. He also attempted to enforce a rule that prohibited staff from joining the channel lest they be banned from all facets of PWO. [1] However, due to great opposition from the community, he revoked his actions. As consequence to his behavior, he was banned from the chat room. However, he continued to communicate with the channel through other means, even though it was unwanted by most of the channel users. This constant, negative communication continued to put a strain between Zidonuke and the community.}

So in a post about transparency, they fail to mention that they've put a known hacker with a history of problems in the tech lead for FA. Dragoneer has yet to comment, but what does Starry say?

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/6265766#cid:43155642

"Dragoneer was my next door neighbor and is my co-worker. We interact daily. I have absolutely 0 chance of performing abuse to this website. He was well aware of my history and who I was a long time ago. I've actually been a hidden admin on the FA staff for over a year now. Take it all you want people, but really I'm not wasting my time with you all since you are all pretty openly anti-FA even before I came about."

I've actually been a hidden admin on the FA staff for over a year now.

And also, >you are all pretty openly anti-FA

Except the comments in the journal reflect people asking questions rather than being "Anti FA", wanted to get an answer is not the same outright being against something.

So while you're probably siding with some comments saying this time will be different and people can change, might I direct you to some screenshots from last night.

http://i.imgur.com/GYpj1iY.png (Starry claims to have stopped but is seen logged in just days ago) Via http://www.hackforums.net/ (You need an account to read it)

http://i.imgur.com/zGqREob.png (Starry watched some of the people who openly talked problems with him in the journal last night, as of today he's unwatched them all.)

http://i.imgur.com/Jc5ZvH1.png (A short while after the comments began, they all vanished and where hidden.)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B2nGQuoIUAARgJ6.jpg (The reason for the missing comments and the suddenly lack of comment power was due to "performance issues"

However as of right now https://trello.com/c/TvkK2Zim/72-fender-journal-comments-were-causing-performance-issues-and-had-to-be-disabled the entire card is now gone but in the history you will see

StarryKitten deleted card #72 from Completed.

today at 1:28 pm

http://i.imgur.com/4dNYqcI.png (These are the names that were being watched by Starry until earlier this afternoon.)

==

As of right now, the journal comments have been restored for your viewing proof which is why I directly linked to all of them from here, should it go down again, you can see a backed up version here : https://aldude999.net/cache/starrykitten.html

==

Even more!

Remember the hardware donation drive back in Feb of last year, the servers they desperately needed and bought with donated money, do you know where they are?

https://trello.com/c/a9KTMfJd/38-enable-master-slave-replication-from-finn-jake

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/6265766#cid:43149631

It's never even been activated, good use of your money right?

==

And while we're looking into things in progress, how is Phoenix doing anyway? https://github.com/FurAffinity/phoenix/graphs/commit-activity

Well, getting somewhere I suppose.

==

So why is all of this important? Let me go down all that for you.

1. Furaffinity is a free website, if you don't like why don't you go elsewhere and leave these people alone?

Well, I already have, I've been using Weasyl myself since before the Ddos, this isn't about me, what about all the artists you care about? Who need FA to make a living and sell their art? Are you going to tell them to leave? FurAffinity has almost twice as many active users compared to weasyl's active users. You can see this at the bottom of each of their home pages. Almost any time someone leaves FA, they have to come back because not a lot of people follow them to the alternative website, whatever that may be.

For comparison status FA : 13468 Users online — 2153 guests and 11315 registered Weasyl : 1102 users active in the last hour; 7346 users active in the last day. Inkbunny : 254,619 Total Members ; 1,992 Active Members in the last Hour ; 18,354 Active Members in the last Day SoFurry : 367,072 Users (Times were from 8:30 PM Eastern Time)

FA is important, it's badly programmed and run but it serves as the main hub for a lot of communication and artwork. It serves a purpose and is relied in by a lot of people as their source of income. Do you think I'm kind of exaggerating that?

https://twitter.com/Dragoneer/status/523206121926848512 Dragoneer doesn't think so.

https://twitter.com/Dragoneer/status/523207500611325953 Dragoneer thinks it can be bigger.

2. Well maybe this new guy won't be so bad?

If you look above at how Starry handled people finding out about his secret, you will understand that his reaction to suddenly remove all the posts and watch all the people against him is a precursor to worse things to come.

He should have known that someone with a history like his would have gotten a response like what the community gave him last night. He should know better than to immediately try and silence everyone concerned for their website. What he did isn't right and anyone should be able to understand that.

3. Well what harm can Starry do?

-He's been caught spying on people before. -He caused F-List 5 days of downtime in order for them to undo all of the damage he caused. -He deleted all of the data and accounts from an online game because he was tired of dealing with the community. "I'm sick of you all. I'm dropping the database and deleted the backups" - http://s667.photobucket.com/user/beansta2k7/media/Untitled-1.png.html

Again, I am not trying to rally forth a hate mob, or get anyone upset, but I am asking you all to really read and understand what is happening here and what is at stake should things keep up like this. There are so many events that have taken place on FA that people just accept and forget about because as long as the site works, it's not their problem.

But these things keep getting worse, and nothing is being done to fix these problems. I dare say with the addition to Zinoduke, the risk is much higher than before. The site is still slow, the hardware they bought with your donations is being wasted, money is going places that it shouldn't be, and a community of hard working, readily available people are being ignored in favor of friends of Dragoneer, even when they continue to show they cannot be trusted.

I, like a lot of people here, I'm sure, don't want to see FA die. I do have my own problems with it, but there is only so much I can do on my own. As a community, I think we could really make something happen.

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TigerTails Radio Season 8 Episode 35
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Something that gets exhausting as an artist, for me anyways, is that spending more time and effort on a drawing doesn't result in more people noticing, or caring when they notice. I realize I'm not a huge attention-grabbing artist, but when this simple page of sketches (http://www.furaffinity.net/view/15022648/ ) gets more attention overnight than this in its lifetime (http://www.furaffinity.net/full/12904474/ ) it gets really disheartening and I don't want to put a lot of effort into pieces anymore. I know there are better artists than me here, so does anyone have similar experiences or advice for dealing with losing motivation to put effort into a drawing?

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