Fur Affinity/Furocity Joining Forces

[-Ko-]

I'm quite interested in seeing how all of this will pan out. I'm glad to hear the databases aren't merging and that our accounts will not be jeopardized in any way.

I'm assuming that FurAffinity will remain free to use? I've been reading that Furocity is a pay-to-use website. I don't want to have to dish out money to upload something here on FA or pay to have full access to the site when I've been doing it for years for free.

[Ozriel]

I'd like to take time to let you know to please keep it civil before I start swinging my Mage Banstaff like Willow Smith Whipping her hair. :V

That is all. :V

[Glaice]

FA is gaining a group of excellent administrators, which will bring fair, impartial, and timely moderation. FA is also gaining a new programming staff, intent on finding and fixing problems, as well as working on a true update (read: recode) for FA, including many of the features that everyone has been clamoring for (journal favoriting, commission tracking, and more).

Good, it's about damn time...FA has been leaving us in the dark on communication on certain things like security and code updates(lacking a PR or two members!), not to mention not enough communication between each other, particularly the normal mods! I really hope this does whip their asses in gear since quite a few are sick of this circus and inaction over here.

[Dragoneer]

Then either you work for this company or they're claiming your site's work as their own. Which is it?

He owns the company.

Actually Dragoneer did state that they are in the discussion of rules, so I'm sure there will be some rule changes, major or not.

We are actually working on an AUP revision right now based on feedback, and were discussing changes before the merger was finalized.

[Syntex]

I'd like to take time to let you know to please keep it civil before I start swinging my Mage Banstaff like Willow Smith Whipping her hair. :V

That is all. :V

WHY DID YOU REMIND ME OF THAT SONG GOD DAMMIT

[Draken_The_Dragon]

Have some reading material, because I love you.....

Ok? You're merely telling me that like any business, its corrupt and the point that if something was entirely user based, it would fail; just as it would owner-based. It needs to be a mixture. I'm not asking for the keys to the city here, I'm asking for a vote. It's a business and government. Both of them require a system of check and balances.

[TsukinoOokami26]

WHY DID YOU REMIND ME OF THAT SONG GOD DAMMIT

because maybe he is jelling like a felon? XD idk....

[Dragoneer]

I'm assuming that FurAffinity will remain free to use? I've been reading that Furocity is a pay-to-use website. I don't want to have to dish out money to upload something here on FA or pay to have full access to the site when I've been doing it for years for free.

I have no plans on directly changing the way that works any time soon. But, I will say that /if/ we ever do subscriptions (read: if) it won't be like DeviantArt. They make the site impossible to use unless you pay. My theory is offer perks (ala LiveJournal).

But if we had planned to do subscriptions we'd have done them long ago.

[Ozriel]

WHY DID YOU REMIND ME OF THAT SONG GOD DAMMIT

Because a patron's blasting it...and it is stuck in my head.

Ahem..
BEHAVE OR BEHEAD

[Cyril]

He owns the company.

Then there is no problem and this is all based on a misunderstanding. Carry on then.

[Draken_The_Dragon]

You've basically described the internet as communist oriented.

Oh shi-. I've been exposed!
But seriously, what's wrong with it? It's a site on the internet. Being communist on a website won't destroy the economy.

[darkdoomer]

why not merging both into one solid site? been using furocity since a long time, so i know how it is, the staff is pro and it's made by a webdedsigner who knows his job. it can be a benefit for both sites. think about it.

in before: hurf i'm a troll i'm on the big trol list

[fwbrown61]

Remarkable.

(Newbie is glued to screen, skimming posts)

Really, remarkable. As a snapshot into fur/FA politics,
this thread *is* something to watch.

(Newbie smacks self in head, struggles to turn off
computer, else no other work gets done today)

An observation: in politics, semantics is everything.

To the people involved here, and after a years work, it
feels like a merger.

Natural, then, to call it that.

Except that in a political sense, it's more properly
an *alliance.*

(Newbie grabs for old political science textbook to
dig out definition... then smacks muzzle with it.
Work, work to do...)

Alliance. ALLIANCE. Alli-an-ce. Or if you're dsylexic, Encailla
Say, that word sorta sounds good, doesn't it?

Merger carries the connotations of change or loss
of identity for one or both sides.

Alliance implies stability of identity, if not enhancement
of it. At the least, more of a win-win situation in terms
of shared goals.

(Newbie just had to read the pages that fell open, damn it)

From reading between lines here, strikes me that
what's going to be happening looks more like an alliance
than a merger.

This opinion will, I'm sure, have a profound effect on the
further course of this thread. And the temperature of the
firestorm. :- /

(Work, work, work, screams the Newbie, about to
dump his coffee on the keyboard as a last resort.)

And I remain,


Flashing on: 'Sir, sir, Rebel Alliance sortie in sector 12!! Scan is giving targetting images... Wait: tails?' :- )

Fred Brown.

[Syntex]

I have no plans on directly changing the way that works any time soon. But, I will say that /if/ we ever do subscriptions (read: if) it won't be like DeviantArt. They make the site impossible to use unless you pay. My theory is offer perks (ala LiveJournal).

But if we had planned to do subscriptions we'd have done them long ago.

dA isn't impossible to use unless you pay, I use it, true the site is too egotistical on the whole is why I hate it, but dA also offers perks to it's subscribers.

But it's a good idea, I always wondered why you never did this, even on the forum, you should offer perks, I've seen it on a lot of other forums, including my own, it'll help boost donations up for you a lot, should probably throw that into your discussions as well.

[Zercompf-Sanika]

seriously, can we get draken out of this thread?
i wanna read about the merger admin co-op without seeing him say the words that he says every 4 posts.

[FennyK]

He owns the company.


We are actually working on an AUP revision right now based on feedback, and were discussing changes before the merger was finalized.

Great. Please be honest: are there ANY plans on banning any more types of artwork? If its going to be changing like Furocity is, I'm going to have to find another site, as much as I'd really rather not have to.

[Ozriel]

seriously, can we get draken out of this thread?
i wanna read about the merger admin co-op without seeing him say the words that he says every 4 posts.

Use the ignore feature.

[reian]

Remarkable.

(Newbie is glued to screen, skimming posts)

Really, remarkable. As a snapshot into fur/FA politics,
this thread *is* something to watch.

(Newbie smacks self in head, struggles to turn off
computer, else no other work gets done today)

An observation: in politics, semantics is everything.

To the people involved here, and after a years work, it
feels like a merger.

Natural, then, to call it that.

Except that in a political sense, it's more properly
an *alliance.*

(Newbie grabs for old political science textbook to
dig out definition... then smacks muzzle with it.
Work, work to do...)

Alliance. ALLIANCE. Alli-an-ce. Or if you're dsylexic, Encailla
Say, that word sorta sounds good, doesn't it?

Merger carries the connotations of change or loss
of identity for one or both sides.

Alliance implies stability of identity, if not enhancement
of it. At the least, more of a win-win situation in terms
of shared goals.

(Newbie just had to read the pages that fell open, damn it)

From reading between lines here, strikes me that
what's going to be happening looks more like an alliance
than a merger.

This opinion will, I'm sure, have a profound effect on the
further course of this thread. And the temperature of the
firestorm. :- /

(Work, work, work, screams the Newbie, about to
dump his coffee on the keyboard as a last resort.)

And I remain,


Flashing on: 'Sir, sir, Rebel Alliance sortie in sector 12!! Scan is giving targetting images... Wait: tails?' :- )

Fred Brown.

I love you Fred...You always say things so eloquently

[TsukinoOokami26]

Great. Please be honest: are there ANY plans on banning any more types of artwork? If its going to be changing like Furocity is, I'm going to have to find another site, as much as I'd really rather not have to.

that would really suck if they did that.... i would go back to Furry 4 life and facebook if they did that though to be honest

[Ozriel]

I love you Fred...You always say things so eloquently

It looks like Cho'gall came in here to state his opinion...with less death and destruction-y stuff. :V

that would really suck if they did that.... i would go back to Furry 4 life and facebook if they did that though to be honest

I doubt you have to worry about that unless some other site thingy chooses to drop FA because of "X" artwork. :V

[Draken_The_Dragon]

seriously, can we get draken out of this thread?
i wanna read about the merger admin co-op without seeing him say the words that he says every 4 posts.

I love you too. <3

[Aden]

So the two sites will share staff and coding resources yet remain separate? ...I am okay with this. At least something might get done now.

Remarkable.

(Newbie is glued to screen, skimming posts)

...

This post reads like prog metal lyrics

[TsukinoOokami26]

I love you too. <3

LOL :'D

[yiffytimesnews]

I have no idea what Furocity is, but I did check the site. It does look rather cool.

[Aden]

Also cheers for using the site-wide announcement thingie instead of Twitter~