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Hey there fuzzies!
First and foremost we are going to steal the spotlight from Rednef for a minute to give praise to
Ltoo for this adorable banner! Be sure to flood them with watches, faves, and comments on the original here!
Thanks for hanging in there during our scheduled downtime this morning. Everything went smoothly! Though we recognize that this journal and social media posts didn't come as quickly as they should.
We’ve applied all the necessary changes to implement IPv6 support across our entire system. Up until now, all IPv6 requests were translated into IPv4 and then served normally. With this update, native IPv6 support means increased security for those on IPv6 only connections (most mobile users) and paves the way for easier implementation of upcoming features down the road. This update is part of our 2025 road map we introduced in this year's town hall back in March.
IPv6 is an improved networking protocol that has been seeing rapid adoption in recent years, especially by mobile carriers. While we have always supported the traditional IPv4 addressing format, this update allows us to future-proof Fur Affinity by providing native support to IPv6!
There is one more step we need to take that will require a small amount of downtime tomorrow morning (November 12 at 5 AM ET) to fully finish the IPv6 update. The downtime is expected to last about 30 minutes. We do not expect any further downtime needed for this specific update and we thank you for your patience!
To see the other updates we’ve pushed, visit our changelog page here.
We are also introducing a brand new status site that you can use to check Fur Affinity site status and keep up-to-date with ongoing maintenance during the outage without a Discord or Social Media Account! You can visit it any time at https://status.furaffinity.net/
We want to address some concerns with internet safety and scamming, especially with the upcoming holidays which typically have an increase in suspicious and fraudulent activities.
Whether you use Fur Affinity, Discord, Bluesky, Reddit, Telegram or any other form of social media, furries by and large have been seeing a rise in attempts for commission and art scams. While our moderation team works behind the scenes to stop them, the only way to truly stop scammers is with the knowledge of their existence and tactics. We have seen a very small, but persistent group continue to try to cause issues, and we want to remind our users of some safety best practices.
– Staff Impersonation Scams: We have recently seen an increase in scammers pretending to be site staff. Fur Affinity staff will never ask you to change your email to something that is not yours, nor will we ask you to give us your password. In addition, our staff will not contact you about matters related to the website or your account in the Fur Affinity Discord or as a private message on Discord. Legitimate notifications from Fur Affinity Staff will always appear in one of two forms:
– Notes on site from the official official "Fur Affinity Staff" account (look for the star shield icon before the display name, like the one next to my name, and double-check the account name).
– An email from an [at]furaffinity.net address.
Fur Affinity staff will never...
– Contact you and ask you to change your password.
– Contact you and ask you to change your email to a different email which you do not own.
– Discuss an action or possible action for a user through a third party.
– Contact you through another platform [Discord, Twitter, Bluesky] about an issue occurring on our site.
– Contact you as an individual staff member in a direct message (DM) to you on Discord, another platform, or on our site.
Users with questions, comments, or concerns about moderation actions should open a Trouble Ticket or send an email via appeals.
– YCH Scams:
One of the more common scams is the claim that an older YCH (“your character here”) commission has suddenly become available again after the original buyer backed out. They target previous highest bidders on YCHs in an attempt to dupe them into paying. Most of the time, they use new accounts with a name that is very close to the original artist’s username, but the spelling/formatting is just slightly off.
– Commission Scammers:
If someone messages you first with an unsolicited commission offer, that is a red flag. Scammers love to impersonate existing artists via stolen or AI-generated content to lure people in with the promise of affordable, high-quality commissions with fast turnaround times. They then send out mass notices in an attempt to catch as many people as they can. This type of scammer will often request for further communication to continue on another platform, such as Discord or Telegram. If somebody messages first, always be wary and do your research before committing to a commission.
– "Accidentally Reported You" Scams:
Another common tactic is the scammer pretending they've reported your account, then telling you what to do to make sure action isn't taken against you. The directions and links they give are malicious and should not be followed. If you're ever unsure about the status of your account please open a Trouble Ticket and staff will assist you.
– Invoice When Paying:
Always ask for an invoice, and NEVER pay with “friends and family” options unless you know and trust the person. Doing so waives your rights to a refund and any money sent is considered a non-refundable gift. Again, always request an invoice; they come with buyer protections built in.
– Double-Check Their Profile:
Take a moment to double-check that the person you are messaging is who they say they are. New accounts will have a green leaf icon in place after their display name.
Ensure they are not using a new account, and their profile takes you to a user page that has been registered for a while and has an established gallery. Galleries without a visible history of completed works can be a red flag. Be cautious if you receive a message from an account you do not know or appears new, especially if you get an unfamiliar link encouraging you to click it.
– Double-Check Their Username:
While display names can have duplicates, usernames cannot. Make sure to check the username, not just the display name! On our website the username is in place to the right of the display name in a smaller font. This image uses the official Fur Affinity staff account as an example (and highlights the staff icon):
On Discord you can check a user’s profile by clicking their name and the username will show just under their display name:
(This example is from the official Discord “Custom Profiles” documentation, and isn’t a real user.)
- Have them tell you their Discord/Messenger name:
Multiple scammers may use one gallery account as “theirs”. They avoid detection of moderators by avoiding saying their off-site names because it will make it obvious they are either repeat offenders or multiple people using the same account. Never give your username first.
– Reporting suspicious activity and accounts helps our team moderate them and keeps our community safer.
If you have evidence of a scam, impersonation, or are contacted in a way on Fur Affinity that seems suspicious or gives you “red flags,” please submit a trouble ticket so we can look into the issue further.
It’s getting close to that time of year again so we wanted to let everyone know that we will be doing some Black Friday sales this year! We didn’t last year due to everything we had going on but we have some important happenings for this one.
Advertising Discounts
We have run ad discounts in previous years so we will be doing that again this year! We encourage you to take advantage of this deal—ad prices WILL be going up Jan 1st, 2026. Ad prices have been kept low for many years now but the time has come where we need to evaluate the pricing to make sure we can continue funding the site. We will still strive to make these affordable to our community members and offer more add-ons and customization options as well as multi-month discounts.
We hope to add other fun items to the Black Friday Sales but want to be 100% sure we can implement these ideas before announcing them. Keep your peepers PEEPED! 👀
It’s been a few months so we wanted to update you all on where we are with the 2025 roadmap:
Main ticket items
⭐ Tag Blocking Part 1 - Completed ✅
⭐ Display Names (FA+ Launch) - Completed ✅
⭐ Display Names (Everyone Launch) - Completed ✅
⭐ Technical Debt Fixes - Completed ✅
⭐ Large Bugfixes Round 1- Completed ✅
⭐ Implementing Cloudflare Turnstile (Tool to verify users and block bots) - Completed ✅
⭐ IPv6 Support - Completed ✅
⭐ User Block Improvements Phase 1 - Completed ✅
⭐ 2FA (Two-Factor Authentication) - In Development ✏️
⭐ Audio Player Updates - Completed ✅
⭐ Writing Upgrades - Completed ✅
⭐ Fixing Thumbnails - Researching 📖
⭐ Dev Friendly Initiative - In Development ✏️
⭐ User Block Improvements Phase 2 - Researching 📖
Side Projects
✏️ Site page “Banner Museum” -Completed ✅
✏️ Site page “I Was Here” - Completed ✅
✏️ Site page “Wall of Awesome” - Completed ✅
✏️ Moved ads to Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) standard sizes - Completed ✅
✏️ Added a Mature rating to ads - Completed ✅
Thank you all for your continued support and being a part of FA! Remember to be excellent to each other in the comments.
First and foremost we are going to steal the spotlight from Rednef for a minute to give praise to
Ltoo for this adorable banner! Be sure to flood them with watches, faves, and comments on the original here!Thanks for hanging in there during our scheduled downtime this morning. Everything went smoothly! Though we recognize that this journal and social media posts didn't come as quickly as they should.
We’ve applied all the necessary changes to implement IPv6 support across our entire system. Up until now, all IPv6 requests were translated into IPv4 and then served normally. With this update, native IPv6 support means increased security for those on IPv6 only connections (most mobile users) and paves the way for easier implementation of upcoming features down the road. This update is part of our 2025 road map we introduced in this year's town hall back in March.
IPv6 is an improved networking protocol that has been seeing rapid adoption in recent years, especially by mobile carriers. While we have always supported the traditional IPv4 addressing format, this update allows us to future-proof Fur Affinity by providing native support to IPv6!
There is one more step we need to take that will require a small amount of downtime tomorrow morning (November 12 at 5 AM ET) to fully finish the IPv6 update. The downtime is expected to last about 30 minutes. We do not expect any further downtime needed for this specific update and we thank you for your patience!
To see the other updates we’ve pushed, visit our changelog page here.
We are also introducing a brand new status site that you can use to check Fur Affinity site status and keep up-to-date with ongoing maintenance during the outage without a Discord or Social Media Account! You can visit it any time at https://status.furaffinity.net/
Internet Safety and Scamming
We want to address some concerns with internet safety and scamming, especially with the upcoming holidays which typically have an increase in suspicious and fraudulent activities.
Whether you use Fur Affinity, Discord, Bluesky, Reddit, Telegram or any other form of social media, furries by and large have been seeing a rise in attempts for commission and art scams. While our moderation team works behind the scenes to stop them, the only way to truly stop scammers is with the knowledge of their existence and tactics. We have seen a very small, but persistent group continue to try to cause issues, and we want to remind our users of some safety best practices.
Common Examples of Scams
– Staff Impersonation Scams: We have recently seen an increase in scammers pretending to be site staff. Fur Affinity staff will never ask you to change your email to something that is not yours, nor will we ask you to give us your password. In addition, our staff will not contact you about matters related to the website or your account in the Fur Affinity Discord or as a private message on Discord. Legitimate notifications from Fur Affinity Staff will always appear in one of two forms:
– Notes on site from the official official "Fur Affinity Staff" account (look for the star shield icon before the display name, like the one next to my name, and double-check the account name).
– An email from an [at]furaffinity.net address.
Fur Affinity staff will never...
– Contact you and ask you to change your password.
– Contact you and ask you to change your email to a different email which you do not own.
– Discuss an action or possible action for a user through a third party.
– Contact you through another platform [Discord, Twitter, Bluesky] about an issue occurring on our site.
– Contact you as an individual staff member in a direct message (DM) to you on Discord, another platform, or on our site.
Users with questions, comments, or concerns about moderation actions should open a Trouble Ticket or send an email via appeals.
– YCH Scams:
One of the more common scams is the claim that an older YCH (“your character here”) commission has suddenly become available again after the original buyer backed out. They target previous highest bidders on YCHs in an attempt to dupe them into paying. Most of the time, they use new accounts with a name that is very close to the original artist’s username, but the spelling/formatting is just slightly off.
– Commission Scammers:
If someone messages you first with an unsolicited commission offer, that is a red flag. Scammers love to impersonate existing artists via stolen or AI-generated content to lure people in with the promise of affordable, high-quality commissions with fast turnaround times. They then send out mass notices in an attempt to catch as many people as they can. This type of scammer will often request for further communication to continue on another platform, such as Discord or Telegram. If somebody messages first, always be wary and do your research before committing to a commission.
– "Accidentally Reported You" Scams:
Another common tactic is the scammer pretending they've reported your account, then telling you what to do to make sure action isn't taken against you. The directions and links they give are malicious and should not be followed. If you're ever unsure about the status of your account please open a Trouble Ticket and staff will assist you.
Protecting Yourself
– Invoice When Paying:
Always ask for an invoice, and NEVER pay with “friends and family” options unless you know and trust the person. Doing so waives your rights to a refund and any money sent is considered a non-refundable gift. Again, always request an invoice; they come with buyer protections built in.
– Double-Check Their Profile:
Take a moment to double-check that the person you are messaging is who they say they are. New accounts will have a green leaf icon in place after their display name.
Ensure they are not using a new account, and their profile takes you to a user page that has been registered for a while and has an established gallery. Galleries without a visible history of completed works can be a red flag. Be cautious if you receive a message from an account you do not know or appears new, especially if you get an unfamiliar link encouraging you to click it.
– Double-Check Their Username:
While display names can have duplicates, usernames cannot. Make sure to check the username, not just the display name! On our website the username is in place to the right of the display name in a smaller font. This image uses the official Fur Affinity staff account as an example (and highlights the staff icon):
On Discord you can check a user’s profile by clicking their name and the username will show just under their display name:
(This example is from the official Discord “Custom Profiles” documentation, and isn’t a real user.)
- Have them tell you their Discord/Messenger name:
Multiple scammers may use one gallery account as “theirs”. They avoid detection of moderators by avoiding saying their off-site names because it will make it obvious they are either repeat offenders or multiple people using the same account. Never give your username first.
– Reporting suspicious activity and accounts helps our team moderate them and keeps our community safer.
If you have evidence of a scam, impersonation, or are contacted in a way on Fur Affinity that seems suspicious or gives you “red flags,” please submit a trouble ticket so we can look into the issue further.
Black Friday Sales!
It’s getting close to that time of year again so we wanted to let everyone know that we will be doing some Black Friday sales this year! We didn’t last year due to everything we had going on but we have some important happenings for this one.
Advertising Discounts
We have run ad discounts in previous years so we will be doing that again this year! We encourage you to take advantage of this deal—ad prices WILL be going up Jan 1st, 2026. Ad prices have been kept low for many years now but the time has come where we need to evaluate the pricing to make sure we can continue funding the site. We will still strive to make these affordable to our community members and offer more add-ons and customization options as well as multi-month discounts.
We hope to add other fun items to the Black Friday Sales but want to be 100% sure we can implement these ideas before announcing them. Keep your peepers PEEPED! 👀
Roadmap Update!
It’s been a few months so we wanted to update you all on where we are with the 2025 roadmap:
Main ticket items
⭐ Tag Blocking Part 1 - Completed ✅
⭐ Display Names (FA+ Launch) - Completed ✅
⭐ Display Names (Everyone Launch) - Completed ✅
⭐ Technical Debt Fixes - Completed ✅
⭐ Large Bugfixes Round 1- Completed ✅
⭐ Implementing Cloudflare Turnstile (Tool to verify users and block bots) - Completed ✅
⭐ IPv6 Support - Completed ✅
⭐ User Block Improvements Phase 1 - Completed ✅
⭐ 2FA (Two-Factor Authentication) - In Development ✏️
⭐ Audio Player Updates - Completed ✅
⭐ Writing Upgrades - Completed ✅
⭐ Fixing Thumbnails - Researching 📖
⭐ Dev Friendly Initiative - In Development ✏️
⭐ User Block Improvements Phase 2 - Researching 📖
Side Projects
✏️ Site page “Banner Museum” -Completed ✅
✏️ Site page “I Was Here” - Completed ✅
✏️ Site page “Wall of Awesome” - Completed ✅
✏️ Moved ads to Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) standard sizes - Completed ✅
✏️ Added a Mature rating to ads - Completed ✅
Thank you all for your continued support and being a part of FA! Remember to be excellent to each other in the comments.
My name is
My name is Ralsei
(THE REPLY BAR IS GETTING SO SMALL AAAAA-)
Sidenote, I'd like to have the "Tags & Codes" link that is below the message box for notes to be above said textbox so that it matches that of submission comments please. I like to tab down and hit enter once I'm done typing something, but since that helpful link has appeared for notes, I have to conciously hit tab twice before enter, or else I lose everything I spent a lot of time on and have to redo a second time. Which has happened to me more than a few times already.
Thank you for listening to my NoteTalk.
So long as I have only one tab to do, I'll be happy.
We're aware, and the Tech team is already investigating what's going on.
Hopefully, we'll have a fix for that soon!
Also check me out for noms arts :)
Bird and pokes mostly~
Love the banner
11/10 banner, best banner ever made
I was fooled last year and lost £50 to an artist impersonator, it’s sad to see how many people are not only being impersonated on here, but also thru discord.
I've had residential native dual-stack for... uh... a decade, now?
Online services I run for people, I'd say (at least) 80% of incoming connections from residential users are over IPv6. I'd definitely say "in use" is accurate.
The "security issues" thing is just nonsense that I hear from people that think IPv4 NAT is a security feature (it's not).
That said, some of the AI scammers I report seem to get off with a mere warning instead of having their accounts nuked... They're not cases of honest mistakes from otherwise legit users, but rather week-old accounts whose only interactions have been to peddle ai slop while posing as artists looking for commissions. I doubt they're going to turn into model users overnight if they're only here for nefarious purposes!
As for the AI folks, we still do have to follow our escalation process in order to be fair. Rest assured tho, if they keep it up they will get bopped.
- sudden page shift
- now you're being redirected to a latex cow dragon dildo store
So. Many. Times. 😭
We do not~ Unfortunately, it's simply a matter of the scale needed to maintain the page as we have many user ads that rotate out pretty often.
Also, solicitors are annoying, too. That's why I made an important warning journal that discourages people from doing so, otherwise, I'll block anyone that ignores it and cold-call me anyway (though not without politely telling them no, that I owe them nothing, and how rude it is to solicit other people out of the blue). It's both my official golden rule AND my strict law.
And finally, I happen to get this "I accidentally reported you" message from someone on Bluesky and that almost gave me a jumpscare until someone pointed out that it's a scammer.
Thanks for the heads-up! 👍
Thank you for your hard work 💜 and for educating people about scammers, which is very prevalent these days!
(I created my art account a couple of months ago and have already encountered phishing attempts on BlueSky, even though I have few subscribers)
Keep your guards up folks. The "suspiciously wealthy furry" stereotype has attracted the bad types.
The "suspiciously wealthy furry" thing has always attracted them (Russian artists are very familiar with "adopt/YCH farms" that exists just to get as much money as possible from recoloring bases)
The fur I'm speaking to tracked a group of them to a legit armed group in west Africa. I can't remember what country it was, but it was this separatist group. It's mad.
Wonder if it's Nigeria, a lot of weird telegram accounts (which exposed where your phone number is from if you get contacted by a stranger) popping up lately
I can check with the fur in question, see if they have a central spot for their reporting.
There's individuals and then there's groups who work together.
also maybe adding ADs tags? not everyone wants to see straight up porn even with NSFW filter off (for example i draw gore arts and its NSFW as well but i dont wanna see sexual stuff at all)
People have been asking for this since the site exist, even though it's a feature of all known platforms have by default
The situation has become really awful especially since there is currently no option to remove unwanted watchers. Such a feature (common in most social platforms) would nice in managing these empty accounts that mass-follow thousands of people. and of course due fraudulent activities.
it would be cool to have a system that allows the verification of users’ Discord and social media accounts to the artists. This would enable artists to confirm the authenticity of their identities and ensure that the accounts are legitimate, not managed by third parties. similar to the verification methods adopted by other sites.
Also seeing that thumbnail fixes are still in the research page makes it seem that whatever bug they have it runs DEEP
Nice to see FA 2FA is in development now too!
Also I just noticed that the tag blocking was just part one, what is part two gonna be? Tag aliasing? Being able to add tags?
This past year has been a great time, so many updates after years, I'm really glad FA is catching up and making our experience better
And yes, the thumbnail fix opens up a can of worms called "how do we store files, really?" which is a book we sadly cannot close for another time
(Sidenote but I think the design is cute! Makes me wonder how a FA redesign might look)
Oh boy, that does NOT sound like a fun can of worms, and probably explains why no one dared to touch it for the past decade or so, oop
Hopefully y'all can figure it out though
Also I didn't know about YCH scams! Good to be aware of that...
....sorry, went on a lil bit of a tangent there. Have I mentioned what a pain in the ass it is to log into half the sites on the 'net these days? Or how much I hate captchas? >_>;;
But ye. Passkeys good.
Because if someone "accidently" reports you and you done nothing wrong, its a 99% chance that the moderator who checks the report will not find anything that violates the rules and drop the report.
The staff are able to check comments, posts and activities you've done, and if don't see anything that's concerning, they won't take action.
In the events they do find something, you are able to respond and explain your side, which again, isn't necessary because it's a scam, you're not reported.
Stay safe everyone and remember to always 'Stop, Look & Think.'
Seeing "Dev Friendly Initiative" as "In Development" is also pretty swood. Looking forward to that!
And yes, APIs. Gotta OAuth 'em all.
And it's been like this for 13 years
Have a nice day/night =)
Thank you for the call-out to scammers, that seems to be a common thing with people online, especially on DeviantArt. Joke's on them because I hardly use my account on there, then I come on to see messages from many months ago lmao
Thank you.... That means a lot to me personally, and I'm sure it means a lot to other people as well.
I'd love to hear what exactly does 'User Block Improvements Phase 1' consist of? I'm afraid I missed the specifics somewhere, apologies if this were explained. Thanks in advance!
Since there seems to be no check for uniqueness (you can now have the exact same display name as any other user) it would be trivial for someone to convincingly clone an artist's name/avatar/profile when attempting to deceive their clients, who may not always be scrutinising the small details.
Not something I've seen (yet) but I would definitely appreciate some precautionary protections for display names.
In DM's, same thing, and for those who have longer usernames or display names it scrolls after a little bit to make sure you see it all. Stay vigilant!
I don't mind how it is, though when looking for certain people I sometimes cant find them as it seems the search feature (and Google) doesnt know which name to use.
Also the little
Tl;dr: One day, yes. It will come. But we wanted to give people something now while we could!
But what about second downtime?
If you upload a story with a thumbnail, it shows correctly in gallery view. However, if you upload a new thumbnail afterwards (Update Thumbnail button), the new image will not appear on the submission page (It still shows correctly in the gallery view). It says "Image not found". I can recreate this consistently.
If you've created a trouble ticket we will fix it as soon as we are able to do so. Thank you for reporting it!
And with that it's also easy to add AVIF image support which is just a miracle compared to WebP/JPG/PNG
Hopefully it's something that will come in due time
(Obviously way down the road as well, not anytime soon, heh.)
Maybe go the Itaku route and have multiple tiers with increasing storage
Always nice to see staff interact with the community, makes it feel welcoming ^^
I'm never seeing my money, or the fursuit. I guess the "friend discount" just meant I got scammed for less than somebody who wasn't their buddy.
1. 2FA
2. IPV6 Support
thanks, it's about time FA site was modernized to support these 2 as ipv4 is oudated and can only support so many addresses and as far as 2fa, ill be happy when its finally finished being developed and implemented as this protects my account in the event my password is compromised. i mostly use my account to post my game stream schedules here for anyone interested and as a watcher account for art i like.
thanks for the update Fender
There is something though, When day light saving time ends we have to change that in settings. I've always done it so that uploads show my time zone correctly. As it stands now, it does not work no matter what, change time zone, tick and untick the DST button. The only time that changes is my profiles creation time and nothing else.
Is this a known issue that is currently in the works to be fixed and is there an automatic setting to change this? FA is the only site I use where I have to change DST manually.
Everything for me still shows one hour ahead.
Edit: I see that
I didn't give them any money but the bad news is, they took over my Discord and Twitter accounts and they stole my other Gmail which I had for a longtime. But, I'm still working on getting them back from those scammers.
For us, a user who's unfortunately fallen for any account swiping scams can email us at either appeals[at]furaffinity.net (in the event the account was banned) or accounts[at]furaffinity.net and we will begin the process of trying to reunite them with their stolen account.
Long story short, was confirmed a scam attempt.
And thankful I was smart enough not to open any links the scammer sent me.
And am hoping that the Blue White Paw will be brought back this year or some something similar. I did inquire about it via a Ticket and got the following response.
We appreciate your feedback! I’ve passed this along to the rest of the team for review. So I'm hoping that it's being considered.
For those who are unfamiliar with what paw I'm talking about, it is this.
https://www.furaffinity.net/themes/.....g?u=2025101209
If you tap it and hold it then this message is displayed.
I paid $8 for this.
My spending is limited this time of year but I've already set aside some money in case the Blue White Paw is brought back for purchase or something different but similar is introduced.
It is still being discussed, that's all I can say for the moment.
I thought it was just a Furaffinity thing. : (
Thank you for letting me know.
*kaboom*
3FA IS BETTER
:)
I enjoy it as the silly doodle it is, but the brightness is too much of a contrast for the frontpage.
I have been buying ads for the last three years. They are a cornerstone of marketing what I do. I greatly appreciate all you do to provide ad space for those in the Fandom!
Of course, folks are always welcome to switch out their banners for free (within reason) mid campaign if they want to freshen up their creatives.
Thanks for keeping the site working, upgrading it and also taking time to read tickets. I think this is the best staff FA has had, love you all for your hard work ; v ; 🩷
The report was on purpose but we have a problem: The furaffinity admin wants FA Staff to contact him directly on furaffinity to confirm to him that they are as cool as I claimed, otherwise nothing will happen. That's why I'm not worried.
(Jokes aside, thank you to FA staff for keeping us safe! And I hope that any of you who read this comment got a good chuckle out of it. c: )
As for someone who's done SQL work and the like, though not on a database of this scale... yeah, sometimes just making sure that all your functions are actually going for the same thing is a mess. I sadly have some personal experience in the 'where did we actually store this and how can we guarantee getting it back after edits' aspect.
Like User Block Improvements Phase 2 - Researching 📖
Makes me feel like it will be more hurtful when someone does it because of a stupid like they dont like your character or something and not just ignore you and move on
I ldont like a lot of things people post but I dont block them over it
Oh you dont like my character - blocked
Oh you dont like that I'm not into something you like - blocked
Oh I'm watching someone you hated or blocked before - blocked
Oh you have a disability - blocked
What I am saying is that its not fair to be blocked when you did nothing wrong and it makes me feel scared to come on to like things and try to talk to people when they could do it anytime and it makes me question what I did wrong
So far it is your blocked and you can go on the profile and look at the faves so youre not even trying to comment but if blocking gets harder to where you cant just look
It wont stop stalkers or harassers just give them a harder time to do it
Damn that's ableist as fuck, not even a clear reason as to what bothers them, no just straight up "you are disabled so get lost".
Anyway besides the fact blocking right now is not completely offensive because I can still see art others make, if they do it like deviantart or bluesky I can guarantee folks are gonna make alt accounts which I don't think the staff wants even then it's not that much of a problem on bluesky because private accounts are just a suggestion, so all posts someone makes are wholly public to guests and back when I was using deviantart it had no restriction for guests. Furaffinity doesn't have either of those caveats other that blocking only prevents interactions, if blocking were to also hide art made by other artists that's where the problem lies and that's why if they go with it all it's gonna do is encourage folks to sock.
I do it and then next time I reload, sometimes the same submissions are still there.
Also, wasnt there a road map about adding folders to the favorites ? Whatever happened with that.
Who's a good FA staff member? Who's a good little FA staff member???? You are! Yes you are!
Something I've always thought, and I may he wrong, but ....
Paying for any service through PayPal - you need to use goods and services as its against the user agreement for PayPal...
While I'll never pay for anything with F&F because of this, I guess it is up to the individual...
I've been scammed before - ghosted (almost lost $400) but this is the only reason I got my money back.
Regardless, stay safe out there people. 🙏
Enjoy the holidays.
also, I'd be interested in how the Dev Friendly Initiative is coming along so far; having to scrape HTML content is getting really tiring
I know that's a big quagmire that has to get sorted, but I'm curious if this initiative is just "API" or if it involves open-sourcing any portions. (And the API is a very good, big step, don't get me wrong!)
also would be nice to know if something is an animation without clicking it and counting on them to write animation
That roadmap is looking real good so far!
I wanted to ask if a few small features are things you are working on, or would consider:
* An option to see if an account follows you. I feel like sometimes, I need to go through my watchlist to see if someone is following me or not. Having a small notification next to the Watch/Unwatch icon would be very helpful.
* An option for limited watch: there are some people on this site I watch because we are friends, but I don't particularly care about their art or subject matter. I feel tag blocking isn't an option because sometimes they may do topics that I broadly am interested in, just not in their cases. I know it is very specific, but having a "only display art/journals" tickbox could be helpful.
* A notification when a user we watch is flagged deceased. I've had the misfortune of finding out the passing of a few furs I've known long after the fact, and only because I happened to check my watchlist. And I find that is a very common thing when I look at the shouts where people didn't know someone had passed away.
* A username search option. Inkbunny has this really cool feature where you can search someone by their name, separate from the art search itself. It really helps find users whose names we may only remember as fragments. There are a few users on this site whose names I can't fully recall and who don't have enough art to show up on search. It'd be nice to find them again.
* A last thing that is probably a bit more fanciful: is there a way of implementing some sort of AI detector? AI images are getting better and while we are still good at telling them apart I've also seen some users upload images that were lightly doctored by AI and only found out when they admitted. I feel we may reach a point that is hard to tell apart from actual art. That's a tough one I know, and it isn't a subject I'm familiar with, but some sort of filter that can flag AI images could help prevent them fully.
1. The colors and lighting are often blown off, it's extremely ugly in a unique way that before generative ai I could instantly tell when a drawing was a phonk/trap remix background, I wonder if ai was trained on this stuff (it won't work if they trace over the ai art though)
2. Ai can't yet draw more than 1 (or 2) characters and they're always front and center on the drawing.
3. Check background elements, ai still sucks at it.
If in doubt ask the artist questions, for example what they use to make the art. I've done it once when I was suspicious of one artist that hit 2 of the 3 points above and they said it looked weird because it was made on blender and I guess they added a lot of saturation and obnoxious visual effects to the render.
I am not concerned about the artists I commission from, I usually pick mine carefully. I am concerned about a point where AI images start passing the casual glance and quickly escalate to a flood, leaving us where DeviantArt and the likes are right now.
Sorry!
Oh, and I also want to extend a great big middle finger to any AI “artist” scammers who try to ruin the fun. 🙃
I may have misunderstood, as English is not my native language and I use a translator. Sorry if there are any mistakes in the words
1 “ Commission Scammers:
If someone messages you first with an unsolicited commission offer, that is a red flag. Scammers love to impersonate existing artists” I would also like you to add warnings about scammers for artists. There are many cases where artists receive private messages about commissions, and these people deceive them by asking them to draw strange commissions, such as "a portrait of a pet." Unfortunately, this is common.
2 “ – Invoice When Paying:
Always ask for an invoice, and NEVER pay with “friends and family” options unless you know and trust the person. Doing so waives your rights to a refund and any money sent is considered a non-refundable gift. Again, always request an invoice; they come with buyer protections built in.”
And here, too, there's the opposite situation, when a scammer poses as a client. They pay by invoice, the artist sends them the finished work, and then the scammer issues a refund, leaving the artist without a salary for their honest work. That's why many prefer to accept payments via F&F from those they're working with for the first time, and send invoices to those they've worked with for a long time and trust. This is fair. And yes, it's very important to conduct the verification you described before payment. I did this with my regular client: before payment, he sent me a specific message (for example, "Hello, Igni, this is my nickname") just in case, using several of my contacts. As soon as I received messages from him, I responded immediately. After this verification, we confirmed that everything was fine, and only then did he send me the payment via F&F. I highly recommend this verification method.
Artists, please share other instances where you've encountered scammers.
It does happen of course where a client commissions an art, then does something like chargeback or refund (as you described) to get the money back and run off with the art. However, it needs more effort, and is not always as reliable. Fact is, the common pattern is that Money goes to the Artist, so people pretending to be artists to get money is more common.
Organised scammer rings are almost universally based out of groups pretending to be artists.
They aren't saying what you describe isn't happening, but the other way is just more common, and targets more people.
But scammers often use font trickery and other things to hide that their contacts are different are from the actual artists, and what the FA staff are doing here is to point out these tricks.
There is also another trend I discussed above where "artists" (actually scammers) contact first with a "I really like your fursona, would you like art?" Type of message. In that case, it is irrelevant if they have their details are on the front page or not, since the whole thing is a scam.
It's so annoying that scammers are causing so much discomfort almost everywhere !
But I agree, it is really shit they ruin things for all of us.
For number 1: We are addressing scams that we see very commonly while moderating the site. Yes, there are scams where the person is pretending to be a client, but they are not as common as fake artist scams. These are organized groups who have fake artist profiles on multiple sites, and try and get money from victims.
For number 2: Accepting money as Friends and Family to make sure someone can't issue a chargeback is against Paypal's Terms of Service. If you are caught doing it, Paypal may remove the feature from your account or close your account. Depending on where you live, using Friends and Family can count as tax fraud as Paypal does not report Friends and Family payments to the government. There is no reason you, as the artist, should be using these payments when you are conducting actual business.
If the chargeback is coming because your client has stolen someone's credit card, then Paypal cannot help you. You will always be out that money, because it is the credit card taking the stolen money back. It may be different in other countries, but here in the United States, artists can claim that loss when they file their taxes.
Never use Paypal's automatic system if someone files a chargeback. Always call them to speak to a person. Your chances of winning the case go up when you do. Even if the case is because your client stole a credit card, sometimes Paypal will give you your money back out of their own money.
I'm happy to be supporting this site. Keep it up! 💙
The number of new profiles sending notes with "my main art profile was hacked, help me get my audience back" or "someone paid you to draw for me" is getting annoying.
Marketing Oriented
- Commissions Open notices
- YCHs (new and reminders)
- Adoptables and reminders
- Fundraisers/GoFundMe-style campaigns
General Permanent Gallery Works
- Completed pictures
- Works in progress
I feel like it's the least ambiguous and easiest to mentally calculate.
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Jokes aside, thank you for working on improving FA & giving info about scams ! FA is some of my favourite sites to use since all these cool updates.
About the invoice section- I've actually commissioned a number of artists that either don't (or "can't", for some reason) use those. I was offput at first, but I haven't had an issue with most of the ones I've dealt with. Still, I wish more artists would use them. (That, or a service like Artconomy etc.)
I'm curious what the dev-friendly initiative will entail. The fandom has a lot of programmers, who would be happy to lend a hand now and then on little things, but I don't know how open you all are planning on being with that stuff.
Any clues about what will be on the 2026 roadmap? =P
Please refer to this thread above for more information!
I hope this helps!
Also I meant all the methods not all the me gods. What the actual fuck, phone? It's been relentless in adding in the wrong words constantly... Driving me insane. I have enough trouble with clarity already without entirely different words that make no sense getting shoved into sentences!
But there's one problem: Cloudflare won't let me get verified and logged in on some apps like Bromite... -_-
Unfortunately, due to the nature of the Bromite browser, this is not something we can address; privacy-based browsers can prevent some information from being accessed by Cloudflare, which prevents those browsers from working with their protection system.
You might need to fiddle with your browser settings to allow it to log you in.
I'd suggest reaching out to your browser's support/community for more information on how to make it play nice with Cloudflare.
I hope this helps! :3
Like a bad joke..
Please refer to this thread for more information!
I hope this helps. :3
I won't be happy, but I accept if you make it a feature for FA+ even. Fa is still an ancient website and you have all the IT guys in the world as customers.
First.
I will take the time to mention that if you're talking about the new community banners not showing in Classic, that is by design; Classic is retired and only receiving maintenance care and is not being developed for in conjunction with Modern anymore.
Much thanks for checking in with me
Would love to see a lifetime subscription option for advertising if thats feasible :)
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Might I suggest to my fellow artists that it's okay to doodle on colors other than white. I've found using a slightly darker color actually helps me.
A artist will message in DM/PM and it usually happens on Twitter/X but it has happened on other sites.
Artist will say
"I am a artist, and I have seen you're artwork and I think it is wonderful"
[You comment]
"Can I show you some of my art?"
[You comment]
"I can make you something amazing, if you want?"
[Your comment]
"That will be [some price that is usually in the hundreads]"
So these "artists" tend to come out of thr blue. Message you, sometimes stroke your own ego by saying that your artwork is amazing.
[You could probably drae stick figures and they would still say it is a work of art ]
They show you some of their artwork, they ask you if you want one and you are probably thinking.
(Hey this furry artist is going to draw something free for me )
Then they will try and bill you at the end.
We understand times are troubling now a days but just come out with how much will it cost instead of making us assume you are doing this pro bono.
So yeah look out for these sort of "artists"