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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).
{{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)<br />{{notsaved}} (more recent content)
| irc = iceking
| irc_network = EFnet
| irc_abandoned = true
| 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]
| data = {{IA collection|archiveteam_furaffinity}}
}}


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.
'''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.


== Things to be saved ==
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.


* Media files (including jpg, gif, png, jpeg, txt, swf, doc, docx, rtf, txt, pdf, odt, mid, wav, mp3, mpeg, and others?)
== Archives ==
** Descriptions
** 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, photographic meta data)


* User profiles
A [[Warrior]] project was done in April 2015. The archives are in [[WARC]] format and are in the [https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_furaffinity archiveteam_furaffinity] collection. It includes the adult items.
** Blogs
** Page comments
** Favorites


* Forums
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.
 
== 2022/2023 Forum closure ==
 
In 2022-12-16 Fur Affinity announced that it would close Fur Affinity Forums (FAF). In a journal post it was stated that "The forums will go read-only effective January 1, 2023."<ref>https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10411624 - titled "Dec 16, 2022 - Forum Closure, FA Discord Coming Soon -- Fender's Journal -- Fur Affinity [dot] net"</ref> Additional, Fur Affinity stated that they would use a [[Discord]] server instead of forums: "Fur Affinity Discord" (at discord.com). Discord is harder to archive than public forums.
 
== References ==
 
<references/>
 
== External links ==
 
* https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Fur_Affinity
 
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Revision as of 03:01, 20 December 2022

FurAffinity
FurAffinity logo
Furaffinity homepage screenshot.png
URL http://furaffinity.net
Status Online!
Archiving status Saved! (2015-04)
Not saved yet (more recent content)
Archiving type Unknown
Project source items furaffinity-discovery furaffinity-grab
Project tracker furaffinitydisco furaffinity
IRC channel #archiveteam-bs (on hackint)
(formerly #iceking (on EFnet))
Data[how to use] archiveteam_furaffinity

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 in April 2015. 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.

2022/2023 Forum closure

In 2022-12-16 Fur Affinity announced that it would close Fur Affinity Forums (FAF). In a journal post it was stated that "The forums will go read-only effective January 1, 2023."[1] Additional, Fur Affinity stated that they would use a Discord server instead of forums: "Fur Affinity Discord" (at discord.com). Discord is harder to archive than public forums.

References

  1. https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10411624 - titled "Dec 16, 2022 - Forum Closure, FA Discord Coming Soon -- Fender's Journal -- Fur Affinity [dot] net"

External links