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Dec. 27th, 2009 08:23 pmWell, other than cooking a fairly elaborate dinner, I didn't get much done today. The reason?
SoFurry.com has gone live, and apparently before they were really ready. The code bugs and holes are enough to make several termite hills. It's all quite strange to me, why they would take a successful, long-lived site like YiffStar and rebirth it into something that looks like a bloated copy of FurAffinity, with extra bugs. But that's what they did.
About nine months ago, users of FurRag.com, the writing site I have frequented for several years, learned that there were plans to shut the site down, merging it into YiffStar which would be reborn as SoFurry. Not surprisingly, the resistance was strong. Though FurRag allows erotica and fetishes, those are not the primary focus necessarily. Quite a few of us had no wish to move to YiffStar or SoFurry, and said so. The forced exodus was at least delayed indefinitely if not cancelled. Today I was greatly amused to watch the erupting controversy over at SoFurry, as long time users there threatened to move to FurRag if they didn't get back the features they liked about YiffStar, and pronto. The forum section on FurRag hit a peak user count of 152 on Saturday, by the most users who had ever been online at once there. I believe it was YiffStar users checking us out. It appears that some of the migration may go in the opposite direction from what was originally planned.
Snow finally stopped late this morning at an official accumulation of somewhere around ten inches. Driving to work tomorrow may be an adventure. Winds are picking up and this stuff is all powder and will blow around very easily.
SoFurry.com has gone live, and apparently before they were really ready. The code bugs and holes are enough to make several termite hills. It's all quite strange to me, why they would take a successful, long-lived site like YiffStar and rebirth it into something that looks like a bloated copy of FurAffinity, with extra bugs. But that's what they did.
About nine months ago, users of FurRag.com, the writing site I have frequented for several years, learned that there were plans to shut the site down, merging it into YiffStar which would be reborn as SoFurry. Not surprisingly, the resistance was strong. Though FurRag allows erotica and fetishes, those are not the primary focus necessarily. Quite a few of us had no wish to move to YiffStar or SoFurry, and said so. The forced exodus was at least delayed indefinitely if not cancelled. Today I was greatly amused to watch the erupting controversy over at SoFurry, as long time users there threatened to move to FurRag if they didn't get back the features they liked about YiffStar, and pronto. The forum section on FurRag hit a peak user count of 152 on Saturday, by the most users who had ever been online at once there. I believe it was YiffStar users checking us out. It appears that some of the migration may go in the opposite direction from what was originally planned.
Snow finally stopped late this morning at an official accumulation of somewhere around ten inches. Driving to work tomorrow may be an adventure. Winds are picking up and this stuff is all powder and will blow around very easily.
