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5/17 Site Attack

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supersonicbros23

supersonicbros23

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Faolan_Wolf-Wings said:
Well, I'm certain once the site is up and running again, everyone will be aware of this illegal jump drive code distribution trick so that at any future conventions, those would not be allowed in the event.
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Like a little pat-down at the door? That'd be difficult, those things are so easy to disguise, there are soooooooo many novelty ones...
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this is actually a 2GB jump drive
 
Draconas

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Reposting this
Draconas said:
Several suggestions were given to broaden your horizons, you ignore them and look where it lands you.

You put all of your eggs in one basket. communications? references? the ability to conduct business? you've been locked out all of this AND MORE for 20+ hours, and some of you still have the gall to bitch and complain "well XYZ doesn't get enough traffic" then go there and make traffic. "their interface is shit" you could've spent today learning the interface for another site, it's not that hard.

All I and several others are saying: branch out, because you'll never know when furaffinity will cease to exist all together, data included, and then what are you going to do?
Need a way to contact someone? make an easy to access means to communicate, hell even a "business" email.
Need someone's ref? store that shit somewhere off site while you're doing business, dropbox or google drive works wonders, the free storage space is good enough, and if those services temporarily go down? you still have local access to them.

Quit making excuses of why you can't (or wont in this case) branch out to other fronts, spend a weekend or two to try it out, and who knows? you might end up getting more customers from multiple communities.
Even a personal website wouldn't be a bad idea neither to put your art and a way to commission/contact you, I have one of these going on just for the hell of it, and im not even an artist.
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Faolan_Wolf-Wings

Faolan_Wolf-Wings

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noveltybest said:
mhm but then again what are allowed in furry events?
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Likely now that everyone knows the truth when the story spreads, nobody would accept any jump drives being distributed. It's a trick that will only be effective once. You'd have to be a total fool to fall for it again after what happened last time.
 
FatalSyndrome

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Draconas said:
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A lot of us upload frequently to multiple sources, that doesn't change the fact that BUSINESS TRAFFIC is dead there. I have my own website, FA, DA, Weasyl, FN, SF, Twitter, Tumblr, you name it. Trust me I don't put all my eggs in one basket.

Doesn't change the fact that most buyers with money are still on FA. You're not even an artist and likely have no experience in these matters, so maybe consider a lot of us already do what you and many others have suggested, and spare the lectures perhaps? You're not the first person to say this and the advice is a broken record.
 
rjbartrop

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FatalSyndrome said:
A lot of us upload frequently to multiple sources, that doesn't change the fact that BUSINESS TRAFFIC is dead there. I have my own website, FA, DA, Weasyl, FN, SF, Twitter, Tumblr, you name it. Trust me I don't put all my eggs in one basket.

Doesn't change the fact that most buyers with money are still on FA. You're not even an artist and likely have no experience in these matters, so maybe consider a lot of us already do what you and many others have suggested, and spare the lectures perhaps?
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And right now, traffic on FA is zero, so any other site will give you more.
 
Hurricane_Valentine

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Just putting it out the that I appreciate you all working so hard to do this. Running a FREE site with thousands of ungrateful users tossing turds at a fan can't be easy. We've sadly reached an age that people arent happy unless they're in a utopia.

Thanks guys!
 
Draconas

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FatalSyndrome said:
A lot of us upload frequently to multiple sources, that doesn't change the fact that BUSINESS TRAFFIC is dead there. I have my own website, FA, DA, Weasyl, FN, SF, Twitter, Tumblr, you name it. Trust me I don't put all my eggs in one basket.

Doesn't change the fact that most buyers with money are still on FA. You're not even an artist and likely have no experience in these matters, so maybe consider a lot of us already do what you and many others have suggested, and spare the lectures perhaps? You're not the first person to do this, it's a broken record, chill.
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I don't need to be an artist to understand how stupid and crippling it is to keep all of your commission info on one site that's been down for 2 days now, so don't even go there.
as for the rest of your message, glad you use more than one site, this was aimed at those who don't and chose to bitch about other websites being sucky instead.
 
Faolan_Wolf-Wings

Faolan_Wolf-Wings

Aokin the Cyan Jolteon!
supersonicbros23 said:
Like a little pat-down at the door? That'd be difficult, those things are so easy to disguise, there are soooooooo many novelty ones...
2012119112424635.jpg
this is actually a 2GB jump drive
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I'm referring to distribution of the items. It could also be distributed by SD cards as well, if it's big enough to hold all that code. But customers can't possibly be fooled twice for that, and with security becoming more aware, I wouldn't be surprised if someone goes undercover to ensure nobody tries to do it again.
 
FatalSyndrome

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Draconas said:
I don't need to be an artist to understand how stupid and crippling it is to keep all of your commission info on one site that's been down for 2 days now, so don't even go there.
as for the rest of your message, glad you use more than one site, this was aimed at those who don't and chose to bitch about other websites being sucky instead.
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It's an amateur mistake to put all your information on one site, really. For those that don't know that, I try to promote them so they can learn to gain more traffic on, say, Twitter, which is almost never ever down.
That makes sense! I appreciate the clarification.
Was considering making a guide to set up this sorta stuff, but I'm not sure if I have the right or grounds to do so.
 
AsheSkyler

AsheSkyler

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I'm honestly shocked they're already ready to start trying to make it live again. I expected at the absolute minimum a full week offline considering what kind of hack attack this was. Even a month would have been acceptable to me.

Besides, I'm a webcomicker that has used DrunkDruck for seven years. No FA outage I've experienced can compare to the glorious blunders that Platinum Studios has brought to the misfortunate sites it has bought out! And over something like site design at that. I was trained on using mirror sites long ago. :p
 
Draconas

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FatalSyndrome said:
It's an amateur mistake to put all your information on one site, really. For those that don't know that, I try to promote them so they can learn to gain more traffic on, say, Twitter, which is almost never ever down.
That makes sense! I appreciate the clarification.
Was considering making a guide to set up this sorta stuff, but I'm not sure if I have the right or grounds to do so.
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I may have been a bit harsh in my reply my bad :p
 
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