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Need some tech insight on FurAffinity's naming scheme. (If you like math enigmas, you will like this ;)

Furry Reddit - Tue 19 Aug 2014 - 13:02

If you focus too much on something, you might miss the obvious answer.
Download link numbers are UNIX timestamps.

Still. Submitting two different images at the same time may yield interesting results.

I'm trying to add a new functionality to the bot, namely, extract the original submission link from a furaffinity 'download' link.

Normal furaffinity links are like:

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/[NUMBER]/

Where [NUMBER] is a sequentially ever-increasing natural number.

The latest submission will have the previous submission number + 1. For example (May contain porn):

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14309080/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14309081/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14309082/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14309083/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14309084/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14309085/
you get the idea

Each submission has a download link of the form:

http://d.facdn.net/art/[AUTHOR]/[NUMBER].[NAME].[EXT]

where [NUMBER] is an never-decreasing (numbers can be repeated, but not descend. See case in the first two links), not-sequential natural number. For the previous posts, those links are:

http://d.facdn.net/art/readun/1408467242.readun_20140801_131753.jpg
http://d.facdn.net/art/lunalupin/1408467242.lunalupin_new_canvas.jpg
http://d.facdn.net/art/ravenpaws/1408467246.ravenpaws_freeych.png
http://d.facdn.net/art/juano/1408467254.juano_tumblr_47.png
http://d.facdn.net/art/drayko-okami/1408467268.drayko-okami_uss_singularity_2.jpg
http://d.facdn.net/art/ahrikitsune/1408467282.ahrikitsune_boooty.png

What I'm really trying do you may ask?

From a download link [NUMBER] i want to calculate the submission [NUMBER], or at least a close enough approximation, so I can get the original submission link from a download link.

In programmer's terms, a function which will return a list of possible/probable submission IDs from a download link number.

Interesting properties of the download links.

  • Mentioned before, they seem to be ever-increasing except an increment-by-zero (same number) is allowed.
  • The distance between two consecutive links vary, in the dataset I've used, from 0 up to 15. That means the number of a download link can be anything between the same number as the previous link to the previous link number + 15.
  • This trend goes back (at least) to 2008 so there is no noticeable * cummulative* effect.

Here's a little python script with submission link numbers and the respective download numbers and some properties being calculated if you feel like playing arround. edit: cummulative difference is calculated backwards, so latest is zero

The repeated IDs might be a race condition where two submissions end being uploaded at the same time will get the same download ID. If any of you did threading somewhere in their life will know the pain in the ass it is to debug this :P

If two submissions, by the same author, with the same name end being uploaded at the same time ... One of the submissions might replace the other.

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Catsplosion! Techies!

Furry Reddit - Tue 19 Aug 2014 - 11:47
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Animation: ‘Thunder and the House of Magic’

Furry News Network - Tue 19 Aug 2014 - 11:38
Author: Fred Jerry Beck has just announced on his Animation Scoop website that Shout! Factory will release the December 2013 Belgian-made (for Christmas 2013 release in French-speaking parts of Europe) 85-minute animated feature The House of Magic, retitled Thunder and the House of Magic and dubbed into English, in theaters in U.S. “selected cities” on […]
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A New Dawn

Furry.Today - Tue 19 Aug 2014 - 11:16

Here is a Cinematic from the rather furry game League of Legends and I would swear the design of the Lion reminds me of the more recent Aslan art from Mongoose Traveller RPG source books.

Also the Kitsune is extremely cool in that Neko girl sort of way.

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Furry Fandom = Metal (music genere) Fandom

Furry Reddit - Tue 19 Aug 2014 - 10:56

I find myself wondering, "Hmm... I wonder how many sub-categories of furries are there?" And then I wondered the same about metal a while back. So I came here today to ask /r/furry how many sub-fandoms are there in the furry fandom (i.e. bronies, anthros, etc.)

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Jack and Lilly (X-post /r/behindthegifs )

Furry Reddit - Tue 19 Aug 2014 - 09:36
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FRC Funding

Furry Reddit - Tue 19 Aug 2014 - 09:19

So the FRC team I'm a part of is badly in need of a new mascot costume, and since no mascot manufacturers actually create Liger costumes (Aside from this terrifying abomination of southeast asia), we've decided that our best bet would be to commission a costume from somebody in the fandom.

The only major issue here is that of the people we looked at, we'd need about $5,000 (For two costumes) and that's a fair amount of money. I figured that since you fuzzbutts are generally pretty nice people, It'd be worth shamelessly begging kindly asking you for a little bit of money to help us buy these costumes.

We have a dogecoin wallet set up now, so if you want to help us reach to 40 million doge it takes to equate 5 grand, that'd be nice DCVKnmpGmAv3FUxkTGim87Q1F91fT9f8YH

Edit: Here's our website if you want to learn a little bit more about us

Edit 2: Dogetipbot also works now, so we've got that going for us, which is nice

Please don't downvote the shit out of me

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Review: ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Mutagen Mayhem DVD

Furry News Network - Tue 19 Aug 2014 - 08:38
Author: crossaffliction Now that we’ve finished up with season 1 of the NickToons Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon, it’s time to start on season 2, the first six episodes of which are collected in the “Mutagen Mayhem” DVD. For the first time, we meet new old characters like Casey Jones (who begins appearing in the […]
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Should She Tell the Other Woman that He Hit on Her First?

Furry News Network - Tue 19 Aug 2014 - 07:56
Author: Hello there, I’m so happy to find this website. Its a bliss! So my problem is I have a close guy friend and he told me not too long ago that he has a crush on a mutual friend we both have. But there was a problem. She’s still in love with her ex, […]
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Three comic book reviews: Pull List #22 (‘Howard the Duck’)

Furry News Network - Tue 19 Aug 2014 - 05:38
Author: crossaffliction For all the hubbub about Marvel Studios deciding to go with an obscure team featuring a talking raccoon with a machine gun for their latest movie, they’re only continuing on as they started. Think about it; not counting serials, what was the first DC universe character to get his own movie? Batman, followed […]
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Animatronic Comic Characters

Furry Reddit - Tue 19 Aug 2014 - 05:00
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Review: ‘Trick or Treat’, edited by Ianus J. Wolf

Furry News Network - Tue 19 Aug 2014 - 02:38
Author: Fred This is Rabbit Valley’s Halloween 2013 theme anthology, “something for the adults to enjoy”. It presents eleven new stories; five scary horror “tricks” and six “delectable romantic and erotic” “treats”. The book’s fine wraparound cover is by Stephanie “Ifus” Johnson. Ianus J. Wolf says in his introduction that this is the first of […]
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What’s Black and Yellow, But Not A Bee?

In-Fur-Nation - Tue 19 Aug 2014 - 01:58

Everyone’s favorite hard-boiled black cat detective has been busy lately — and those of us on this side of the pond are seeing more of his adventures thanks to the folks at Dark Horse Press. Now they’re bringing us Blacksad: Amarillo. “Hardboiled feline detective John Blacksad is back in the latest tour de force from the multiple-award winning duo of writer Juan Díaz Canales and artist Juanjo Guarnido. Taking a much-needed break after the events of A Silent Hell, Blacksad lands a side job driving a rich Texan’s prized yellow Cadillac Eldorado across 1950s America, hitting the back roads from New Orleans to Tulsa. But before long, the car is stolen and Blacksad finds himself mixed up in another murder, with roughneck bikers, a shifty lawyer, one down-and-out Beat generation writer, and some sinister circus folk. When John Blacksad goes on the road, trouble is dead ahead.” Find out more at Comics Beat, before it comes out in hardcover this October.

image c. 2014 Dark Horse Press

image c. 2014 Dark Horse Press

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Conventional Wisdom: Anthrocon

Furry Reddit - Tue 19 Aug 2014 - 01:26
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‘Rowrbrazzle’ editor’s surgery brings in emergency editor

Furry News Network - Mon 18 Aug 2014 - 23:38
Author: crossaffliction William Haskell, current official editor of Rowrbrazzle, will be undergoing surgery in September, which means Steven F. Scharff will be the emergency editor for Rowrbrazzle #123, due this October. Haskell should return to his position as editor for issue #124, due in January 2016. Rowrbrazzle was launched in 1983 by Marc Schirmeister, the […]
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