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    Quote Originally Posted by Furaffinity Twitter
    Bad news: FA's run out of storage space. We've have less than 1% free space left. Good news: We're adding a 12TB storage server this month!
    http://twitter.com/#!/furaffinity/status/86538088809107456

    Didn't see this mentioned anywhere on the forums or the site news bit.

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    Didn't see this mentioned anywhere on the forums or the site news bit.
    I'd be more surprised if it was.
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    Twitter is the source for information about FA? Do they never use that FA banner or whatever it was that warned about events and stuff like down time?
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    Twitter is the source for information about FA? Do they never use that FA banner or whatever it was that warned about events and stuff like down time?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Deo View Post
    Twitter is the source for information about FA? Do they never use that FA banner or whatever it was that warned about events and stuff like down time?
    They probably thought it wasn't urgent enough if usual activity won't be interrupted

    unless it will be, in which case yeah
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    So this explains why some people can get on FA but most others like me cannot even get the page to load at all.
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    I guess they're gonna wait until people flood to the forums or start mass-noting Dragoneer wondering why they can't upload stuff before they finally tell the users on the site

    Classic FA style
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    Quote Originally Posted by RTDragon View Post
    So this explains why some people can get on FA but most others like me cannot even get the page to load at all.
    Ehm, no.
    Loading a page has nothing to do with how much space's left on the server.

    I'll just be a dick and assume your internet connection is flawed, for now
    Besides, most people actually can get on FA. Some, like you, can't, it seems.
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    omg wow
    When did vB get that shit for general posting? I know it's done it in searches for yonks.
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    Default Re: Bad news: FA's run out of storage space/Good news: We're adding a 12TB storage se

    Actually, I just wasn't able to get to the forums, and was going to post it on here when I got home. But... since you've gone ahead and done the drama thing, it looks like you've got it under control.

    Quote Originally Posted by Clayton View Post
    I guess they're gonna wait until people flood to the forums or start mass-noting Dragoneer wondering why they can't upload stuff before they finally tell the users on the site

    Classic FA style
    We still have space, but it's fairly critical right now. When we add the server in there will probably be some down time (we'll take the opportunity to re-organize the rack a bit). It's not "classic FA style", and the users have nothing to worry about. You can make assumptions if you want to, but they're not accurate.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dragoneer View Post
    You can make assumptions if you want to, but they're not accurate.
    You work in or near the Intellegence Industry, you know for a fact that in the absense of actual data or information, assumptions will be made, analysis of the situation will commence in depth with those assumptions, which may change depending on the facts. The problem here is there is a distinct lack of both transparency (why the hell is everything so secret with FA?) and a lack of effective communication with the FurAffinity userbase. You have noone to blaim about these assumptions except your organization and by extension yourself. Maybe you really need a PR person who can do things like post all the info everywhere.

    The second part to this is, we are pretty sure this wouldint have been posted anywhere prominent, as most of the technical issues that surround the site, it will be oft mentioned somewhere, say on the forums, but the majority of the userbase will never be told about it and why it took so long for a reolution to be sougt. Coming in here and flustering about on how we make all these assumptions belies a belife that your organization is above critique, that somehow we should be all be greatful that you provide us with this site, and that you pay for it all, despite the fact that many people including myself have advocated for reform of this organization so that it can be viably run on donations, hell even accepting donations would be nice at this point. And dont bullshit about sending mail orders, how can Canadians send you a mail order that doesnt cost you $15 to cash?

    And really, it all boils down to the fact that you have really fucking smart people who want to help you make this site better if only you could get past these issues with ego and paranoia. Why hasnt Yak managed to allow other people to see the code? Why are you buying more "storage servers" when its clearly obvious you should be using a SAN by now? Why is your firewall blocking random people? Why are you blocking ICMP traffic, thus some people just cant visit your site? Why did you never answer anything in my journal, tho you promissed to answer shit? Why did MySQL crash? Why do you think this has nothing to do with the database? We have questions, these questions are not attribuitatble to malice, because we want to both make sure our data is safe, and make sure your people are fixing shit right. No one person can claim to be able to understand all the technologies involved in your application, in the real world people talk with other people about problems to make sure their solution is correct. I would advise you strongly to consider the resources available to you and utilize them fully.
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    Default Re: Bad news: FA's run out of storage space/Good news: We're adding a 12TB storage se

    Dragoneer: Suggestion - put a feed or spot on the site you can post to the site for updates. I mean something that your mobile phone can handle. I know mobile phones have facebook and twitter apps but I think it may be better overall you can post something on the site that gets "retweeted" or "recommended" on those sites.

    This may cut down on the drama. The users don't use twitter or facebook to find out what is happening on the main site.
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    Quote Originally Posted by CerbrusNL View Post
    Ehm, no.
    Loading a page has nothing to do with how much space's left on the server.

    I'll just be a dick and assume your internet connection is flawed, for now
    Besides, most people actually can get on FA. Some, like you, can't, it seems.
    It's not just me that has this problem several other users are having this issue as well.
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    i'm willing to bet that a good chunk of the TB taken up is MS Paint porn or 64640 x 32230 pencil sketches that can even show the paper microcoscopic textures

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    Quote Originally Posted by anero View Post
    i'm willing to bet that a good chunk of the TB taken up is MS Paint porn or 64640 x 32230 pencil sketches that can even show the paper microcoscopic textures
    On the plus side, the simplistic nature of MS Paint porn means it probably has a low file size.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dragoneer View Post
    Actually, I just wasn't able to get to the forums, and was going to post it on here when I got home. But... since you've gone ahead and done the drama thing, it looks like you've got it under control.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dragoneer View Post
    We still have space, but it's fairly critical right now.
    I'm no web wizard, but I think that is quite bad.

    Anyways, seeing how fast the Recently Uploaded changes (even with Mature Filter on), I assume that "less-than-1%" is going to fill up fast.
    Hope that new server will be up soon.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr. Durr View Post
    I'm no web wizard, but I think that is quite bad.

    Anyways, seeing how fast the Recently Uploaded changes (even with Mature Filter on), I assume that "less-than-1%" is going to fill up fast.
    Hope that new server will be up soon.
    We've been working on acquiring the new server for the past month, and we're going to have it ready to go by next week. We won't run out of space before then. We've still got quite a lot of gigs free, which will last us until we can get the server dropped in.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dragoneer View Post
    You can make assumptions if you want to, but they're not accurate.
    This has long since been a recurring pattern. Someone from FA hints something vague, others try to extrapolate what's actually going on, and FA staff accuse them of wildly assuming.

    Consider making real announcements with real details of what is actually happening, distinct from plans of what will happen later. Compressing an important issue down to 140 characters doesn't very well enlighten your userbase, no.

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    I'm curious as to what the tech specs of the server are. Those are always interesting. Especially around here.
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    So that explains why I suddenly can't upload anything. Though it's strange since I still see new submissions going up, so is the website just arbitrarily picking who can't upload? That's hardly fair.

    Hey, if I delete some of my older outdated submissions, do I get entitled to upload a submission for each one I delete? That's fair right?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pogiforce View Post
    So that explains why I suddenly can't upload anything. Though it's strange since I still see new submissions going up, so is the website just arbitrarily picking who can't upload? That's hardly fair.

    Hey, if I delete some of my older outdated submissions, do I get entitled to upload a submission for each one I delete? That's fair right?
    it might be because whatever your uploading is beyond the file limits. i can't upload most of my music because it's bigger than the site allows.

    or maybe it's just one big fucking conspiracy.


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    Oh hey. An announcement about the website made off the website so that I am required to go external to know about it.

    That makes a lot of sense.
    Soon I'll have to go to Virginia Tech to find out what important things are happening to my local community college because the officials spread word there for some reason. I'll probably find out about it after a few weeks or when an important deadline is over if I continue to use the site normally.

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