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FurAffinity is the world's largest furry community. Founded in 2005, it hosts 15,000,000+ images, stories, songs, videos, poems, and other files (mostly images). Recently a new administrator was appointed, who has a history of trashing websites he administrates when he's angry and/or bored with them. Luckily in all previously recorded cases, the services came back online thanks to competent admins who kept good backups. FurAffinity's administrative team has proven themselves to be anything but competent.
{{Infobox project
| title = FurAffinity
| logo = Fa_logo.png
| URL = http://furaffinity.net
| image = Furaffinity_homepage_screenshot.png
| project_status = {{online}}
| archiving_status = {{saved}} (2015-04)
| irc = iceking
| tracker = [http://tracker.archiveteam.org/furaffinitydisco/ furaffinitydisco] [http://tracker.archiveteam.org/furaffinity/ furaffinity]
| source = [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/furaffinity-items items] [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/furaffinity-discovery furaffinity-discovery] [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/furaffinity-grab furaffinity-grab]
}}


The new admin is apparently a very close friend of the site's owner, so perhaps it's a bit of an overreaction to assume he'll destroy the site. Still, better safe than sorry.
'''FurAffinity''' is an art gallery website, and the largest web community of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furry_fandom furry fandom].  It was recently acquired by IMVU (see [http://www.furaffinity.net/journals/fender/ the recent journals of the site's mascot account]), and while the site and community have endured multiple prior divisive events, the prior owner's continued control of the site's maintenance is now uncertain due to the acquisition, and the site's future is similarly uncertain as a consequence of that.


When crawling FA, please bear in mind that it recently suffered a major DDoS, and the admins are likely still a bit jumpy about seeing unusually large amounts of traffic.
The site allows artists to hide their account information, including submitted content, from guest viewers, and mature and adult submissions are hidden from everyone except for registered users over the age of 18 who have enabled the viewing of such content.  Backing up the site's submissions in their entirety, therefore, can only be done from a registered account with this setting enabled.


== Archives ==


== Things to be saved ==
A [[Warrior]] project was done. The archives are in [[WARC]] format and are in the [https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_furaffinity archiveteam_furaffinity] collection. It includes the adult items.


* Media files (including jpg, gif, png, bmp, mp3, txt, swf, doc, and probably many others)
There is a bare bones but extensive backup of user hosted FA content on a Tor hidden service hosted by an unknown party ([http://vj5pbopejlhcbz4n.onion.ly/ cleartext proxy URL] [http://g6jy5jkx466lrqojcngbnksugrcfxsl562bzuikrka5rv7srgguqbjid.onion/ onion URL]).  This website hosts a backup of user submissions and their descriptions, but not of comments, user profiles, journal entries, or other website data.
** Thumbnails for files (Even for image files, as they are often different than a simple crop/resize)
* Comments
* Metadata (Author, submission date, category, theme, species, gender, tags, maturity rating)


* User pages
== References ==


* Forums
<references/>
 
== External Links ==
 
* https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Fur_Affinity
 
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Revision as of 21:58, 18 July 2021

FurAffinity
FurAffinity logo
Furaffinity homepage screenshot.png
URL http://furaffinity.net
Status Online!
Archiving status Saved! (2015-04)
Archiving type Unknown
Project source items furaffinity-discovery furaffinity-grab
Project tracker furaffinitydisco furaffinity
IRC channel #iceking (on hackint)

FurAffinity is an art gallery website, and the largest web community of the furry fandom. It was recently acquired by IMVU (see the recent journals of the site's mascot account), and while the site and community have endured multiple prior divisive events, the prior owner's continued control of the site's maintenance is now uncertain due to the acquisition, and the site's future is similarly uncertain as a consequence of that.

The site allows artists to hide their account information, including submitted content, from guest viewers, and mature and adult submissions are hidden from everyone except for registered users over the age of 18 who have enabled the viewing of such content. Backing up the site's submissions in their entirety, therefore, can only be done from a registered account with this setting enabled.

Archives

A Warrior project was done. The archives are in WARC format and are in the archiveteam_furaffinity collection. It includes the adult items.

There is a bare bones but extensive backup of user hosted FA content on a Tor hidden service hosted by an unknown party (cleartext proxy URL onion URL). This website hosts a backup of user submissions and their descriptions, but not of comments, user profiles, journal entries, or other website data.

References


External Links