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

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S.G.

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Sorry if this has been posted already, as I didn't want to bother sifting through all the crybaby temper-tantrums thrown on this thread because they feel they feel as if their human (furry?) rights have been trampled upon or some other unforgivable act of injustice inflicted upon them...

NOTE: Before reading the following, understand that this does not apply to all, nor does all of it necessarily apply to one person. Part or all of this may apply to you, and for some, this doesn't apply at all...cliff's version below for those who have a shorter attention span than a 4-year old.

Seriously, you rotten brats need to outgrow the "I want it here, I want it now" phase. You need to sit back, take a deep breath, and contemplate the fact that the "powers that be" at FA are doing what they can to resurrect the flawed and fallen site. Trust me, I think I can confidently assure you that they want FA to be up and running as much as you do- I'm not a betting man, but I'd say it'd be quite safe to assume they want it to be operational MORESO than you do, simply to quell all the incessant whining and moaning.

Yes, I understand that many of you donated money to bring FA back. YES, IT'S COMING BACK, WORRY NOT. Be extremely grateful that you have folks like Dragoneer, Yak, and others (sorry, I don't know all involved) care enough to bring FA back at all. These guys are busting their asses, and not only that, but they're taking the TIME and EFFORT to make sure EVERYTHING is done CORRECTLY. So many of you bitch and complain about FA being so flawed and such...well, would you rather have them throw FA back online to satisfy your impatient, thoughtless urges, only to hear you cry about FA having problems, even after being down for over a month? I don't know about you, but I could wait indefinitely, so long as those @ FA were making an active effort (which they are) and showing us they are doing so.

Most of you don't even know what the meaning of hard work is, living off parents or working a low-income job, simply because you expect little of yourself and far too much of others. You demand far more than what you put in- simple as that. You don't like what they're doing with FA? Fine, go start your own site up then. Maybe then you'll understand what all is involved when you're running your own FREE site, paid for OUT OF POCKET, and you've got 100k+ members (according to statistics) to please.

If you're not willing to do that, then please, for the sake of the rest of the community...SHUT UP. Why not do something productive for the fandom...some art, music, or fiction perhaps? Can't? Why not try and learn to then? Say you're good enough already? Well hell, then why don't you make some tutorials for the rest of us, or maybe start your own paysite?

Too long for your attention span? I'll give you the cliffs:

Quit your crybaby whining. They're doing all they can to bring FA back up. You don't like it? Do something productive for the fandom. Stop demanding so much of the world, and start demanding more from yourself.
 

SamBlob

New Member
Hmmm....

If you keep it offline for another two or three days, would you be able to repair the search feature?
 

sd2522

PROCEED WITH CAUTION
Meh, guess I'll read a book or something. Besides it's better to be late but have everything working then being on time and then a bunch of other problems surface.
 

Jonas-Shifu

Satire writer
No great loss.
 

Ebon Lupus

Banned
Banned
Too long for your attention span? I'll give you the cliffs:

Quit your crybaby whining. They're doing all they can to bring FA back up. You don't like it? Do something productive for the fandom. Stop demanding so much of the world, and start demanding more from yourself.
But what else is there to do? I've already cleaned the house and mowed the lawn... had a whole month to enjoy the earth and sky... my woofs are rubbed raw... I mean... what else?
 

Typheus

New Member
I'd say something to S.G. like "I couldn't have said it better myself," but then I'd sound like an asskisser.

I think, in all honesty, everyone just needs to realize that some dudes are working on it and that there's nothing we can do to help. Yeah, I know you're pissed, I'd probably feel just as pissed if Xbox Live went down for longer than it should, but just try to relax :/
 

Arbiter

Totally Gay For Bridget!!
Hmmm....

If you keep it offline for another two or three days, would you be able to repair the search feature?

the search is a lie. or at least that's what we might get told
 

The Muffin Man

New Member
You know, this is funny, the people who are angry about FA being down still are actually coming across pretty maturely in this topic. While the people who are all ready to spring and complain that all the complainers are acting like babies are making 'BAWW' jokes and generally being fairly...yeah.

So, it's a case of the 'complainers' being much less annoying than the people who are complaining about the complainers. This is ironic...
It's funny.
"Man, I wish FA were back already. It's really frustrating to be promised something and then not see it happen."
"SHUT UP GOD ALL YOU DO IS WHINE ALL THE TIME AND MASH F5 GO OUTSIDE OR SOMETHING GOD"
 

Kaeko

peace keeping minx
Sorry if this has been posted already, as I didn't want to bother sifting through all the crybaby temper-tantrums thrown on this thread because they feel they feel as if their human (furry?) rights have been trampled upon or some other unforgivable act of injustice inflicted upon them...

NOTE: Before reading the following, understand that this does not apply to all, nor does all of it necessarily apply to one person. Part or all of this may apply to you, and for some, this doesn't apply at all...cliff's version below for those who have a shorter attention span than a 4-year old.

Seriously, you rotten brats need to outgrow the "I want it here, I want it now" phase. You need to sit back, take a deep breath, and contemplate the fact that the "powers that be" at FA are doing what they can to resurrect the flawed and fallen site. Trust me, I think I can confidently assure you that they want FA to be up and running as much as you do- I'm not a betting man, but I'd say it'd be quite safe to assume they want it to be operational MORESO than you do, simply to quell all the incessant whining and moaning.

Yes, I understand that many of you donated money to bring FA back. YES, IT'S COMING BACK, WORRY NOT. Be extremely grateful that you have folks like Dragoneer, Yak, and others (sorry, I don't know all involved) care enough to bring FA back at all. These guys are busting their asses, and not only that, but they're taking the TIME and EFFORT to make sure EVERYTHING is done CORRECTLY. So many of you bitch and complain about FA being so flawed and such...well, would you rather have them throw FA back online to satisfy your impatient, thoughtless urges, only to hear you cry about FA having problems, even after being down for over a month? I don't know about you, but I could wait indefinitely, so long as those @ FA were making an active effort (which they are) and showing us they are doing so.

Most of you don't even know what the meaning of hard work is, living off parents or working a low-income job, simply because you expect little of yourself and far too much of others. You demand far more than what you put in- simple as that. You don't like what they're doing with FA? Fine, go start your own site up then. Maybe then you'll understand what all is involved when you're running your own FREE site, paid for OUT OF POCKET, and you've got 100k+ members (according to statistics) to please.

If you're not willing to do that, then please, for the sake of the rest of the community...SHUT UP. Why not do something productive for the fandom...some art, music, or fiction perhaps? Can't? Why not try and learn to then? Say you're good enough already? Well hell, then why don't you make some tutorials for the rest of us, or maybe start your own paysite?

Too long for your attention span? I'll give you the cliffs:

Quit your crybaby whining. They're doing all they can to bring FA back up. You don't like it? Do something productive for the fandom. Stop demanding so much of the world, and start demanding more from yourself.

*applauds* :3
 

flir

use POSIX qw/ rabbit /;
Those rushing to FA's defense here or saying that the administration doesn't get anything in exchange for their work really need to take a step back and look at what's taken place over the last month. The FurAffinity staff raised over $16,000 from the community in a matter of weeks, at a rate of a little under a dollar every two minutes. Why couldn't some of that money have been put towards doing some real development for the site -- not this hobby stuff, but actually paying somebody to work on it, even for a short time? All the expensive hardware in the world can only do so much to prop up a codebase as messy as FA's. Instead of treating the symptoms, as everybody's seemed perfectly happy to do up to this point, why not take a moment to consider the root cause?

(And please don't mention Ferrox, because I'll believe that when I see it. ;p)

Every day that FA remains down -- especially after a lengthy hiatus like this -- is another day that artists, many of whom may actually depend on the site to do their commissions, can't give their clients an update, can't solicit more work, etc. It may seem silly to those of you trying to get on the administration's good side, but yes, there are actually people out there who derive some portion of their livelihood from the site's operation. These artists bring users, traffic... and ad revenue. Stop taking them and the rest of your userbase for granted by making promises you can't (or won't) keep.

Not all of us will be so eager to throw money at you next time.
 
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Snapai

New Member
At the time, we had every reason to believe the goal was attainable. It wasn't until less than 3 hours ago that it was decided the only way to meet the deadline would be for yak to work himself to death.

I know it's a deadline....but you're not supposed to take it quite that literally, yak! XD
 

Rabid

New Member
It's funny.
"Man, I wish FA were back already. It's really frustrating to be promised something and then not see it happen."
"SHUT UP GOD ALL YOU DO IS WHINE ALL THE TIME AND MASH F5 GO OUTSIDE OR SOMETHING GOD"

Hehe, this pretty much seems to sum it up ^_^
 

Typheus

New Member
I wish I was a good enough artist to do commission works.

Then again, I couldn't draw furry art save for Lucario. I'm more into the anime scenes where someone is being at least 10% emo with a bigass gun or sword, or they're kicking someone's ass.
 

johnnyblanco

New Member
Sorry if this has been posted already, as I didn't want to bother sifting through all the crybaby temper-tantrums thrown on this thread because they feel they feel as if their human (furry?) rights have been trampled upon or some other unforgivable act of injustice inflicted upon them...

NOTE: Before reading the following, understand that this does not apply to all, nor does all of it necessarily apply to one person. Part or all of this may apply to you, and for some, this doesn't apply at all...cliff's version below for those who have a shorter attention span than a 4-year old.

Seriously, you rotten brats need to outgrow the "I want it here, I want it now" phase. You need to sit back, take a deep breath, and contemplate the fact that the "powers that be" at FA are doing what they can to resurrect the flawed and fallen site. Trust me, I think I can confidently assure you that they want FA to be up and running as much as you do- I'm not a betting man, but I'd say it'd be quite safe to assume they want it to be operational MORESO than you do, simply to quell all the incessant whining and moaning.

Yes, I understand that many of you donated money to bring FA back. YES, IT'S COMING BACK, WORRY NOT. Be extremely grateful that you have folks like Dragoneer, Yak, and others (sorry, I don't know all involved) care enough to bring FA back at all. These guys are busting their asses, and not only that, but they're taking the TIME and EFFORT to make sure EVERYTHING is done CORRECTLY. So many of you bitch and complain about FA being so flawed and such...well, would you rather have them throw FA back online to satisfy your impatient, thoughtless urges, only to hear you cry about FA having problems, even after being down for over a month? I don't know about you, but I could wait indefinitely, so long as those @ FA were making an active effort (which they are) and showing us they are doing so.

Most of you don't even know what the meaning of hard work is, living off parents or working a low-income job, simply because you expect little of yourself and far too much of others. You demand far more than what you put in- simple as that. You don't like what they're doing with FA? Fine, go start your own site up then. Maybe then you'll understand what all is involved when you're running your own FREE site, paid for OUT OF POCKET, and you've got 100k+ members (according to statistics) to please.

If you're not willing to do that, then please, for the sake of the rest of the community...SHUT UP. Why not do something productive for the fandom...some art, music, or fiction perhaps? Can't? Why not try and learn to then? Say you're good enough already? Well hell, then why don't you make some tutorials for the rest of us, or maybe start your own paysite?

Too long for your attention span? I'll give you the cliffs:

Quit your crybaby whining. They're doing all they can to bring FA back up. You don't like it? Do something productive for the fandom. Stop demanding so much of the world, and start demanding more from yourself.


I am not bitching about the how long it's taking. Frankly if it's done and done right it can come up next fucking month for all I care.

What pisses me off is that they set a deadline. they BLEW that deadline. They weren't even fucking CLOSE to it and they couldn't take the two minutes to post "We are so sorry. Were going to miss that deadline it'll be up by X" Did they do that?

NO.

THAT is why I am mad. You have people that make a living off this site. Me , I don't give a shit either way. Do I draw? Sure I do! But I don't charge for commissions. I don't make this site my life's blood which has been cut off for more than a month and these artists lost profits that they won't see again.

Next time don't make deadlines.. make estimates. Deadlines are final and people get pissed at you when you can't make them and yes if you don't make deadlines in the real world.. guess what..

you get FIRED.

Butttt nothing is going to happen here with that..
 

ChazFox

New Member
Right, well I'm in two minds about this.

On one hand I don't use FA that much, so I'm not really bothered about it being down.

On the other hand, I had taken part in a contest, and the winners were due to be decided on the 1st of July, when FA went down. Now I don't know if I won anything or not, and it's been over a month of waiting to find the results. I haven't been able to get a hold of said artist on her deviantART either. In this case, "Go to some other art site" can't really apply.

But hey, I've waited this long, I can wait some more. :3
 

Dragoneer

Site Developer
Site Director
Administrator
the search is a lie. or at least that's what we might get told
Did somebody say Search?

*twitch*

*twitch*

whoaoaoaoa.gif


*twitch*
 

EddyOkapi

Certified Retard
I agree that a dealine should be followed and people getting pissed when it's not. It really should have been estimated times as Deadlines and Estimated Time are two different things.
BUT! people should also be used to the typical "Dealines Type FA":
Always double the time they tell you it's going to take. They said it's gonna be up on Monday, in three days? It's actually gonna be one week. It's always been like that. XD
 
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