A question:
What the hell is SoFurry? Is it just another art upload site like FA?
I apparently have an account on it... like... five years ago or something. I must have been drunk, because I SO do not remember making one. But looking at this site... and how snazzy it is, I'm thinking of uploading some of my artwork there just to have another outlet to the community.
How many people here have a SoFurry acct? Is there anything about this site I should know about? (Is it a corporate soul-suck like Deviantart? Does it crash as often as FA does? Etc...)
Thanks, in advance, for any info. <3
They just went to their 2.0 version so some areas are a bit crashy but its happening less so.
It used to be YiffStar, so I've heard, but they're rebranding themselves to appeal to more than just people looking for fap material.
I personally dig the site, it's interface is less awful than FA and the community is smaller.
: weremagnus February 03, 2012, 02:45:02 -07:00
They just went to their 2.0 version so some areas are a bit crashy but its happening less so.
It used to be YiffStar, so I've heard, but they're rebranding themselves to appeal to more than just people looking for fap material.
I personally dig the site, it's interface is less awful than FA and the community is smaller.
I'm going through the settings and am wondering what the hell this "Cum Counter" thing is. Care to explain? Or should I just disable it and forget I saw anything? :-X
And I get "General" and "Adult" content... but "Extreme?" Is that like... all the weird fetishes and stuff?
I guess extreme equals to "uncanny valley" or worse.
the cum counter is how many people have jacked off to your art, XD
I'm on SoFurry for one main reason: people actually read stories posted there, and it's better designed for searches than FA. Art wise, I suspect FA is still the better option.
: EmoFox February 03, 2012, 04:29:52 -07:00
the cum counter is how many people have jacked off to your art, XD
Im surprised FA doesn't have this lol, I will never truly understand the point of displaying faves and stuff to everyone on sights like that though. E-penis probably lol
Sofurry's search system is.. Painful. Not incredibad, but there's vast room for improvement.
The searching system further crippled by you being unable to do a Goggle site-search on it.
I have a page on SoFurry. Sometimes I interact on the forum there, but not much.
http://www.sofurry.com/user/view/profile?id=99848 (http://www.sofurry.com/user/view/profile?id=99848)
: Drake Wingfire February 03, 2012, 08:00:37 -07:00
Im surprised FA doesn't have this lol, I will never truly understand the point of displaying faves and stuff to everyone on sights like that though. E-penis probably lol
Favs, ratings, etc. are about the only way I get feedback on my work. Apparently people don't like leaving actual critique or commentary on a story, so they just bang a click on a fav button and bugger off.
SoFurry has different options for that, and I find it gives me a better indication that people have read the story than I get on FA, where I might get one or two favs on something.
: weremagnus February 03, 2012, 02:45:02 -07:00
It used to be YiffStar, so I've heard, but they're rebranding themselves to appeal to more than just people looking for fap material.
...and yet the have a feature known as the 'cum counter'. Which, personally, makes me want to avoid the site.
: Dana Dragonpaw February 04, 2012, 12:40:32 -07:00
...and yet the have a feature known as the 'cum counter'. Which, personally, makes me want to avoid the site.
I am actually morbidly curious and sort of like it when someone adds a click to that counter. XD You can always disable it though.
I'll admit, I'd be morbidly curious as well, but my participation in the fandom is decidedly clean. I'd probably be a little freaked out if someone let me know they were getting off on my art and writing. However, I'm looking at the site in another tab right now anyway and it is a lot nicer than FurAffinity.
To be honest I would actually be interested to find out if people actually have, at least I would know I can do some okay porn XD
: Dana Dragonpaw February 04, 2012, 12:40:32 -07:00
...and yet the have a feature known as the 'cum counter'. Which, personally, makes me want to avoid the site.
I don't mind the occasional yiff now and then, but I don't have intention off being on a site for the sake of whose art is meant to fulfill an objective worth blatantly pawing off over. In other words, to avoid senses of hypocrisy, adult art is fine, but this form of encouragement of sorts is a laceration beyond the line.
Please note: This is not set in stone - circumstances may change in the future, albeit not in the near future.
SoFurry is basically a creepier, better looking version of FA. Maybe that will change if FA ever decides to re-write the back end for the entire site release the new UI do anything. I wouldn't hold my breath though.
I am not sure why many people like to take shots at FA's setup, I find it fine just how it is. The layout isnt really hard to navigate through at all, I would cringe if it was prettied up with todays version of prefered looks. IE: the "I need to justify my graphic design course" look where its just a sea of shiny buttons and sliding menus that make everything feel slow and padded. What FA really needs is a service provider/ servers that will finally beat those lag-spike that FA is sadly know for
It's not just the look of the site. That is easy enough to change (using Stylish or something similar) if you don't like it. Furaffinity is lacking a bunch of features that are available on pretty much every other art site in existence (eg. folders) which are supposed to come out in the so-called "UI Update". On top of that FA has more security holes than I dare to count. Dragoneer, yak, etc inherited some terrible code that should have been rewritten ages ago (as was planned before they decided to "put that project on ice"). Basically they are building shit on top of more shit, even though, in the end, it is stil going to be shit.
Mmm folders would be a VERY nice feature to have for sure ^^
: Shad February 06, 2012, 10:30:31 -07:00
It's not just the look of the site. That is easy enough to change (using Stylish or something similar) if you don't like it. Furaffinity is lacking a bunch of features that are available on pretty much every other art site in existence (eg. folders) which are supposed to come out in the so-called "UI Update". On top of that FA has more security holes than I dare to count. Dragoneer, yak, etc inherited some terrible code that should have been rewritten ages ago (as was planned before they decided to "put that project on ice"). Basically they are building shit on top of more shit, even though, in the end, it is stil going to be shit.
Yeah the folder thing is the biggest thing FA is lacking. And a functioning group system (like dA but not the same) would be lovely.
I already got my account up (http://www.sofurry.com/user/view/profile?id=13693 (http://www.sofurry.com/user/view/profile?id=13693) if anyone's interested), and I must say, I do like it a lot already.
If there's one thing I like about it in comparison to the current FA, it's the emphasis on aesthetics. I love the fact that I can craft my own banner for my page, how there is fresh featured artwork on the front page, and the site itself just looks... nice. Not to mention the ability to upload images LARGER than 1280x1280 and audio files bigger than a measly 10MB. The HD viewer is also pretty kickass.
It's actually pretty funny how I got my account here. Someone said that this site used to be "yiffstar.com" It turns out that I had an account there five or six years ago that I totally let die. Then I go to make an account on SoFurry, and it's like, "the email address entered is already used on this site." I was like o.=.o? I used the password recovery and logged in and found some really old artwork. It kinda baffled me because I knew I never made an account with SoFurry before. Only after I realized the site's history as Yiffstar did I get a bit of a chuckle out of it.
SoFurry is a bit glitchy, as I've already found. Hopefully they'll work the bugs out because I'm growing quite fond of it.
: Drake Wingfire February 04, 2012, 12:55:15 -07:00
To be honest I would actually be interested to find out if people actually have, at least I would know I can do some okay porn XD
It's a novel thing at first, then it can get a bit weird, trust me. (When I first started posting stories to Usenet back in the stone ages, I'd often get rather biologically-themed comments and feedback... it'd be like "Well, glad to know that works!" But after a while, having people tell you what your story made them do can get a little creepy. =P )
: Tony Greyfox February 06, 2012, 11:08:52 -07:00
It's a novel thing at first, then it can get a bit weird, trust me. (When I first started posting stories to Usenet back in the stone ages, I'd often get rather biologically-themed comments and feedback... it'd be like "Well, glad to know that works!" But after a while, having people tell you what your story made them do can get a little creepy. =P )
Haha, you know I have yet to have that happen o.=.o lol though I think most furs do have some tact to not just go "omg fapped a LOOOT! hawt!" XD even if thats exactly what they did lol
: Drake Wingfire February 07, 2012, 12:34:02 -07:00
Haha, you know I have yet to have that happen o.=.o lol though I think most furs do have some tact to not just go "omg fapped a LOOOT! hawt!" XD even if thats exactly what they did lol
o.=.o What part of the community are YOU from? Because I'd like to come hang out there!
This is one of my watchers on FA, just read his profile. There are many of them similar to this. It makes me sad, really, to think that someone like this thought my artwork suited their tastes. =\
http://www.furaffinity.net/user/preyboy17/ (http://www.furaffinity.net/user/preyboy17/)
I have an account there, and as a writer, I have to say SoFurry owns FA. I'm happy I took the time to sign up
: Naetholix February 07, 2012, 05:28:12 -07:00
o.=.o What part of the community are YOU from? Because I'd like to come hang out there!
This is one of my watchers on FA, just read his profile. There are many of them similar to this. It makes me sad, really, to think that someone like this thought my artwork suited their tastes. =\
http://www.furaffinity.net/user/preyboy17/ (http://www.furaffinity.net/user/preyboy17/)
Lol.. oh god.. that guy is watching me too I think. But no, what I mean was direct comments on my art or user page page going "like the spooge, made me fap so hard" XD I wasn't saying those people don't exist. I can be pretty bad myself when it comes to tastes and what I enjoy, but I would never air it like that haha.