"Furaffinity will not be up tonight (that is, Monday)" discussion

[Sslaxx]

I want to feed you to a pack of insane, bloodthirsty animals.

Chase your tail my facking arse.

Suit you, sir!

 

[BillyRabbit]

Oops, my (image) post got deleted while I was in the process of editing it to make it a not-rule-breaking post.

I don't feel like retyping everything I had typed soooo

Just quit all the complaining, it doesn't help anything. The site'll be up when it's up, estimated return times or not. It's a free site. Yes we all donated, but a donation is a donation, not paying for a service. They're working on it, it's not like the site isn't coming back. There are other places to see furry art in the meantime.

1. I hate that (the Hell of Retyping Things Forever)
2. It helps to complain so you don't just keep it all in and go nuts, tho'. If I didn't have complaining?? What would I do all day? Man...it's, like, my favorite passtime.

 

[StainMcGorver]

Ah well, at least it's almost done. If you guys need furry art, go on other sites.

I've been to tons of other furry sites... I can't stand it anymore. This has to be the biggest 'Furry Only' site I can think of, and it's down.

Have you heard of meth, Yak? It'll keep you up all day.

 

[Manacat]

I'm not angry, but as others have said giving a time frame for the site to be up at the LATEST, and then missing that date, is NOT a good thing to do.

If you aren't sure, you shouldn't be giving a date. I'm not angry, but if I had commissions and such to do I sure would be. It's a shame he was up so long without sleep, but if that's what it was going to take to get the site up... and it wasn't known it would be late until today, clearly it was known it was going to take some serious overworking to get it up.

If he needs rest, then he needs rest, but a concrete date should never have been given.

 

[Toonces]

Anyone looking for something to do should pick up Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier and give it a read. Good book.

There are lots of other good books, too. Some of you might want to give them a try.

Why, you can even find short stories online. I suggest a little Franz Kafka for everybody. The Metamorphosis for the TF fetishists, In The Penal Colony for the guro enthusiasts, and The Hunger Artist for any twink lovers in the crowd.

 

[Akira6766]

I don't get why a minor issue with the message notification subsystems compatibility with the database is enough of a problem to delay the sites return. If it were me and I knew it was an okay thing to do, I'd just disable the notification system and fix it while the sites up rather than miss a deadline over it :/

Most servers are capable of having stuff like that tweaked a bit while their online anyway, as long as the particular thing isn't running... right?
Sometimes requiring a reset depending on what your doing...

I get the feeling there really has to be just a little bit more to it than what their telling us.
Why? Because I'll bet you anything people could and would rather live without being told when people their watching submit a new piece of art stuffs & without being able to PM people than not have a head start on submitting/browsing. Unless you left out some details and that wouldn't even work if it were brought online...

 

[tiggie]

its not up there doing a good job tryin to get it up, I wish they would of used some of the money to get some help in becase they must be running there selfs ragged
Mods, admin, who ever elce who works on/for this site, your doing a good job, its late it dosent matter much, i would rather be told weds and see it up tuesday though rather be late be good

 

[lapinbeau]

Yyyyup. I knew it.

I'd expect FA to be up Wednesday next week, at the absolute earliest.

 

[Aiyno]

Oh? It isn't up? What a shame, guess I'll go look tomorrow and see if it is up then, and if not, nothing is lost anyway, they'll get there sooner or later.

 

[Manacat]

I don't get why a minor issue with the message notification subsystems compatibility with the database is enough of a problem to delay the sites return. If it were me and I knew it was an okay thing to do, I'd just disable the notification system and fix it while the sites up rather than miss a deadline over it :/

Most servers are capable of having stuff like that tweaked a bit while their online anyway.
Sometimes requiring a reset depending on what your doing...

I get the feeling there really has to be just a little bit more to it than what their telling us.
Why? Because I'll bet you anything people could and would rather live without being told when people their watching submit a new piece of art stuffs & without being able to PM people than not have a head start on submitting/browsing. Unless you left out some details and that wouldn't even work if it were brought online...

Could you imagine the outrage if upon site return there were tens of thousands of submissions and people weren't notified of their watch lists? That said, why were they messing with that in the first place rather than bringing the site up? And if they needed to, why didn't they say so earlier, not 48 hours after something was obviously wrong?

Again, I'm not angry, but that just does not make sense. It's clear they knew this wasn't going right long before Monday.

 

[Athais]

If i was a mod or a admin, i'd ban half of the people whining in this thread. The sad thing is most of the people whining are either Underaged most likely, or has some other problem with them.

OH MY GOD I'VE WAITED ONE MONTH AND I CANNOT GO ANOTHER DAY.

Children.

 

[raidy_and_dobe]

Wow... the uproar begins. This is ridiculous! So we have to wait longer? Big deal. The people who run the site have lifes they have to live, Jobs, Families, and things. I honestly don't think the site could of gone down at a better time- summer. Go and have fun outside! Even if it's raining, you can do a lot more then sit here and bitch and whine at Yak for taking a break. I say let'em rest. Go watch a movie? Play some games? Call your parents you don't talk to? Something... Don't let these withdrawels from Fur Affinity being down cause a riot on the forums. . . We Are A Minority. We Are Alike. We Are A Family. We Do Not Need To Go At One Another's Throats Over This.

Please, just get along?

 

[Appule69]

I'm not angry, but as others have said giving a time frame for the site to be up at the LATEST, and then missing that date, is NOT a good thing to do.

If you aren't sure, you shouldn't be giving a date. I'm not angry, but if I had commissions and such to do I sure would be. It's a shame he was up so long without sleep, but if that's what it was going to take to get the site up... and it wasn't known it would be late until today, clearly it was known it was going to take some serious overworking to get it up.

If he needs rest, then he needs rest, but a concrete date should never have been given.

Agreed. I'm incredible annoyed that a "concrete" deadline was given and was missed BIG TIME. At this point I have SERIOUS doubts the site will EVER be online again. There will just be problem after problem after problem.

 

[seadog-driftwood]

Could be worse. At lest it's near to completion. That being said, we know how it is with this stuff. Something could well come up and cause a further delay.

My humble suggestion: try back in 24 hours.

 

[Kiguren]

Never set a deadline, if you are not 100% sure you will make it...

 

[dave hyena]

I don't get why a minor issue with the message notification subsystems compatibility with the database is enough of a problem to delay the sites return.

It's not a minor issue, the site doesn't work as it is and won't till this has been fixed.

I don't understand the programming things, but Yak has said: FA won't work as it is and this needs to be fixed before it can.

Rhainor suggested that we bring up FA in read only mode, so that people would have something at least. That was a very good idea, but unfortunately, it can't be brought up in read only mode even, till this issue has been fixed.

 

[Manacat]

Wow... the uproar begins. This is ridiculous! So we have to wait longer? Big deal. The people who run the site have lifes they have to live, Jobs, Families, and things. I honestly don't think the site could of gone down at a better time- summer. Go and have fun outside! Even if it's raining, you can do a lot more then sit here and bitch and whine at Yak for taking a break. I say let'em rest. Go watch a movie? Play some games? Call your parents you don't talk to? Something... Don't let these withdrawels from Fur Affinity being down cause a riot on the forums. . . We Are A Minority. We Are Alike. We Are A Family. We Do Not Need To Go At One Another's Throats Over This.

Please, just get along?

The uproar isn't about the length of the wait, it's that a final deadline was given and missed, and if Yak was up 48 hours, it's clear it wasn't going right quite some time ago, and something should have been said before that. Pushing the date up a day or three over a day before the posted final deadline would be less of an uproar than the site not coming up and at the last minute the reasoning being posted.

I'm not personally angry, but I could understand why some would be.

 

[raidy_and_dobe]

The uproar isn't about the length of the wait, it's that a final deadline was given and missed, and if Yak was up 48 hours, it's clear it wasn't going right quite some time ago, and something should have been said before that. Pushing the date up a day or three over a day before the posted final deadline would be less of an uproar than the site not coming up and at the last minute the reasoning being posted.

I'm not personally angry, but I could understand why some would be.

Understandable, but the fact that he worked 48 hours to meet a deadline that he did not meet... that's a lot, and I mean a lot of work. And dedication as well. So he missed the deadline but there is a small amount of work needs done now. Does this site coming back by said date mean more then the health and well being of one of our most devotees?

 

[lapinbeau]

Could be worse. At lest it's near to completion.

Uh... Yeah. I'm sure it isn't. >_>

 

[isthisagoodname]

Had a feeling. =/

*shrug*

 

[Rufferstuff]

I don't get why a minor issue with the message notification subsystems compatibility with the database is enough of a problem to delay the sites return. If it were me and I knew it was an okay thing to do, I'd just disable the notification system and fix it while the sites up rather than miss a deadline over it :/

Most servers are capable of having stuff like that tweaked a bit while their online anyway, as long as the particular thing isn't running... right?
Sometimes requiring a reset depending on what your doing...

I get the feeling there really has to be just a little bit more to it than what their telling us.
Why? Because I'll bet you anything people could and would rather live without being told when people their watching submit a new piece of art stuffs & without being able to PM people than not have a head start on submitting/browsing. Unless you left out some details and that wouldn't even work if it were brought online...

There could be cascade issues with other parts of the site if a major part like that is not working.

 

[Petrock]

Well, best of luck to Yak on his rest/relaxing/recouperation. If it was honestly believed (until today at least) that he'd have it up by today, then I don't see any reason to get angry...extremely disappointed? Yeah, but I'm sure everyone's getting used to that feeling now.

And to everyone who keeps going "quit whining", I want to see you go thirty five days without your favorite thing. You'll quickly learn you're either a hypocrite or a man of steel.

 

[anyare]

The uproar isn't about the length of the wait, it's that a final deadline was given and missed, and if Yak was up 48 hours, it's clear it wasn't going right quite some time ago, and something should have been said before that. Pushing the date up a day or three over a day before the posted final deadline would be less of an uproar than the site not coming up and at the last minute the reasoning being posted.

I'm not personally angry, but I could understand why some would be.

Thank You!

 

[Arbiter]

Holy Crap! Yak has been busting his ass! He deserves to have some rest! Rest well Yak and thanks for your hard work! ^^ Plus LOL! Furries are whinning! XD It's sad really that we all can't find something else to do, but smash F5 a bazillion times, hoping it'll get FA up faster. Wonder how many keyboards in total have been smashed now? When FA gets back up, we need statistics...

XD too many big bro, too many . Not to be a whiner or anything, i think the mods are doing there best to get the site back online, but what's got alot of people mad including me is the lack of updates. And when they do update, they seem to joke alot about stuff and not get serious. We don't want laughs, we want updates, and answers

 

[Auros]

When the site comes back on, a lot of things that weren't working properly before better be fixed. I was getting tired sorting through people's favorites when I had no clue how many there actually were because the counts were wrong. I'd rather be pleasantly surprised if FA takes several more weeks to come back up with tons of improvements than if it came back on tomorrow morning, broken. If the site needs to be down for coding improvements to be done, I see no problem with waiting.