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FailAffinity
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BAHAMUT - Database/File Backups
SERVERS
BAHAMUT - Fileserver
VARIOUS
TROGDOR - Fileserver
TIAMAT - Search
TIAMAT - Database
NOVASTORM - Database
NOVASTORM - Front End
GECKO - Front End (?)
Dragoneer’s FA account
compromised via. unsecure WiFi.
FIGMENT - Ads/Wiki/pss.ms/FA: U/Email/IRC/Ferrox/Etc.
SPARKZ - Logging
AUGUST 11, 2007
Registration is disabled due to
rampant abuse. It returns for good
8 months later with a CAPTCHA
and Email verification.
FEBRUARY 26, 2007
FurAffinity comes online.
The lead developer for
Ferrox, Eevee, quits
the
project, later citing
FurAffinity is taken offline due to a “hardware
poor
leadership and
fault”. It is decided a new server should be
lack
of
support from
ordered and Dragoneer requests donations. the FA staff
as reasons
The community eventually donates more than
MARCH 17, 2009
$16,000 for the purchase of new equipment,
Dragoneer announces plans for
despite the fact details of the failure were
raising funds for FA, including
account upgrades, printing service, vague. Trogdor and Novastorm are purchased.
and a FA store.
JULY 1, 2008
DECEMBER 23, 2005
Ferrox (v.2?) in development
2006
FEBRUARY 2010
Ferrox’s code is
frozen. FA dev
Net-cat throws
it out because
“Nobody knows
Python”.
The project was a few
DECEMBER 17 2010
Changes are made to
existing UI in preperation
for the new UI, which is
“coming”.
JULY 24 2010
Registration disabled
SEPTEMBER 2007 - SEPTEMBER 26 2009
2007
FurAffinity is hacked
twice in two days due
to exploitable coding
and poor security
practices. 41 user
accounts are
compromised.
features away from entering
beta.
SEPTEMBER 26, 2009
Ferrox v.3 in development
BEFORE JUNE 2006 - SPRING 2007
2005
TROGDOR (?) - Front End
GECKO - Team Fortress 2
Plans for a “FA Dance Track Pack CD”
are announced. CD could be printed
“within two weeks” but never materializes.
JANUARY 16, 2005
TROGDOR - “FA Content Distribution Network (FACDN.net)”
FEBRUARY 27 - SEPTEMBER 4 2010
2008
2009
2010
2011
New UI in development
APRIL 2007 - ONGOING
Dragoneer purchases
FurAffinity.
OCTOBER 2007
Dragoneer announces project
to overhaul UI.
The Commission Information
profile page is taken offline
due to XSS vulnerabilities.
No ETA is given to it’s return,
despite this page being a
popular, useful FA feature.
Cub porn is
banned after
AlertPay
cancels FA’s
account.
The filters mentioned
four years earlier
are still not in place.
MARCH 3, 2009
NOVEMBER 24 2010
APRIL 9, 2007
Official policy on “cub” art is released.
Dragoneer announces content filters
will be implelemented in the “near future”.
NOVEMBER 5, 2006
A call for artists is made regarding
a comic involving FA’s mascot, Fender.
Discussion continues for a month before dying.
SEPTEMBER 7, 2006
Ferrox in development. Will enter
closed Beta “soon”.
JUNE 3, 2006
FurAffinity debuts
comment hiding.
Within hours, the
code is found to be
insecure and is
exploited.
Preview of new UI is released, To debut
in late 2009, later pushed off to
“Summer 2010”.
MID TO LATE 2009
Server “Figment” is purchased
with the intent of offering hosting
services on it sometime in 2010.
MARCH 2010
Logins to FA are now
encrypted, nearly three
years after this became a
problem.
MAY 7 2010
OCTOBER 13 2010
Inkbunny.net leaves
closed beta with several
features that FA has been
planning on adding for
years and continues to
add more.
Months later, Inkbunny becomes selfsustaining before AlertPay terminates
their account as well.
JUNE 12 2010