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The Delver's Guide to Beast World is an upcoming campaign setting and supplement compatible with all Fifth Edition Dungeons and Dragons games. The book has over 300 pages of new content for playing characters in the Beast World: 24 new furry-themed races, 12 new subclasses, and a lot more. There are also rules for customizing the traveling wagons which carry adventurers across this setting, acting as mobile strongholds for your party. Our Kickstarter campaign launches August 31st!

The publisher of The Delver's Guide is a small team of furries who have been in the fandom for years. We noticed that there aren't many good options for creating anthro characters in 5e D&D (especially for certain species). We wanted to make a world centered around this aesthetic we all love, while still bringing new ideas to the world of fantasy tabletop.

There are over 30 artists contributing their talents to The Delver's Guide to Beast World. A few of them are:
Stasya Danilova (Lead character designer)
Mattia Tomasi
Wings & Strings
SleepingWoolf
Shamerli
Nomax
CeeHaz
Oz
Nik Rouz
Charlie Nax
ZeusDex
FeatherFleeks
Mousecry
Ornella Greco
Andy Bongao
Natalie de Corsair
Guree Ookami
Ilya Royz
Fenriz
FortunataFox
WoadedFox
KittyDee
Sherwind
MDsf
Furstang
Kiaun
Travis
Kobalt Rad
OccultGay
zombi3bun
Liath S
Alma-Abyss
MightyDubz

And so, so many more. We are passionate about bringing you an awesome tabletop book that will make your game more fun and hopefully improve your life in some small way.

We are doing our best to get the word out about our book, so we are running a HUGE giveaway contest! Your odds of winning are the same no matter how many enter, and we hope to give out a TON of prizes. We have an ad budget for the book that we would much rather spend giving back to our own community.

To enter, all you need to do is be on our email list on August 30th, the day before the Kickstarter campaign launches. Just sign up to get notified when our Kickstarter launches, and you have the chance to get the book for yourself. That's it! And don't worry, if you've already given us your email, you're already in the contest.

It gets better, too: if someone you tell about the book puts your email in the "Who Referred You?" box on our website application, you win whatever prize they won, just as thanks for helping us get the word out!

`Click here to enter!`

Official Prizes

3rd Prize (1 per 50 entries): Littfeld Pin
2nd Prize (1 per 100 entries): Sunset Wagon Shirt
1st Prize (1 per 1,000 entries) The Essential Delver's Kit, our all-physical backer reward tier!

Official Contest Rules

-- Only email addresses received by 11:59 PM EST on August 30, 2021 will be considered.
-- One entry per person.
-- Entrants must be at least 13 years of age, and may not be employees, contractors, or volunteers (or their immediate families) of Fur Affinity or Heartleaf Games.
-- Entrants under 18 must have their parental permission to enter the contest.
-- Winning entries will be selected randomly by Heartleaf Games staff after the end date of the contest.
-- The payment of prizes is handled by Heartleaf Games, within sixty days of contest closing, by contacting the winners through their email address. The winner is responsible for the shipping cost of the prize, as well as any state, local, or federal taxes due as required by law.
-- Sponsor: Heartleaf Games. This contest is solely sponsored by Heartleaf Games, and financial liability for it falls upon Heartleaf Games.
-- Void where prohibited by law. In the event of a dispute, the laws of the State of New York apply.
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We've updated the site. In today's update:
-- Refactored the upload system, reducing the amount of pages to submit new content from 3 to 2.
-- Implemented drag-and-drop uploads on all desktop pages to make submitting content to the site easier.
-- Made improvements to our anti-bot/spam systems.
-- Other minor fixes and improvements.

Please note that the changes to the upload system may break the functionality of tools like Postybirb. We have notified the tool's creator ahead of time to make them aware that these changes were taking place to give them advance notice.

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The FA Team is LGBTQIA+ and we are excited to join our community in celebrating Pride Month by letting our colors shine with our new rainbow logo! Together, we will continue to fight and raise awareness until every person is free to live and love freely without persecution.

"Equality means more than passing laws. The struggle is really won in the hearts and minds of the community, where it really counts."
– Barbara Gittings, Activist for LGBTQIA+ Equality

The furry community has always celebrated artistic and personal diversity, accepting of all forms of love, orientation, and gender identity within the LGBTQIA+, and we at Fur Affinity pride ourselves to have been founded with those very same core beliefs. We will always strive to give you a platform to express who you are!

Mid-Summer Ad Sale

We're offering an advertising blowout! For the rest of June, save 10% on advertising when buying 6 months of time, and 20% on ad buys of 12 months or more!

You can find out more by visiting:
https://www.furaffinity.net/advertising.html

FA Swag Now Available

We've officially launched a new merch store!

https://shop.furaffinity.net/

Pre-orders are now available for our fresh new line of swag. These piping hot initial offerings feature the Fur Affinity "splat" logo on shirts, pins, and vinyl stickers. Show off your furry flair* by supporting the site and helping fund site development.

Khajiit has wares if you have coin.

Shipping for FA merch is available globally, with exceptions to the following:
Europe: UK
Africa: Ascension Island, Tristan da Cunha, Somalia
Oceania: Chatham Islands

* Don't worry, you won't need 37 pieces of flair to rock this new line of gear.

As of today (March 5, 2021) our new reminder policy is now in effect. As you may remember from our journal announcing the change, we have updated Section 2.1 (Reminders, Advertisements, and Promotions) of the Upload Policy.

As a quick reminder, here is the policy in full with the new changes in bold.

2.1 Reminders, Advertisements, and Promotions
Users may post reminder submissions with the following requirements: The rating must match the highest rated content being promoted. Users may post a total of up to 3 reminder submissions every 24 hours. This limit applies to ALL accounts owned by the user; NOT up to 3 per account. Only one reminder per original sale is permitted in this time frame.

Reminders, advertisements, and promotions must still comply with all other policies, such as Section 2.9 - Duplicate Content, where the image in the reminder cannot be identical to another image on your account.

Reposting submissions in an attempt to circumvent these limitations is not permitted. Attempts to bypass this policy or its limitations is prohibited.

In addition to these changes going live, we also have new tools to help cut down on submissions being removed and reposted in an attempt to bypass our policies. This should help both artists who are trying to get their sales seen while they are following our policies as well as users who are trying to browse non-sale content.

Front Page Changes for New Submissions

We have identified an issue with thumbnails not always loading immediately and are implementing a 5 second delay before uploads first appear on the front page and the browse section. This should give the time needed for thumbnails to generate properly.

New FA+ Perks

Good news, everyone! FA+ rewards just got a little bit better!

Some new tasty features:
- Browse content faster with up to 128 submissions per page on browse, search, and gallery views
- Get larger, more robust thumbnails up to 300px
- Increased maximum caps on folders (75) and folder groups (30)
- Skip the lines with reduced flood protection on new uploads, notes, and comments

What's FA+? It's a way to support Fur Affinity and help fund site development all while getting some spiffy benefits in the process. Sign up today by clicking the following shiny link: https://www.furaffinity.net/plus/

NOTE: As some of these new settings are user togglable they must be manually applied in your Site Settings.

Video Embeds

We've also made changes to the way YouTube video embeds work in journals. The [yt] tag will now recognize more of youtube's embed URLs and embedded videos will now scale down to fit smaller screens.

As a reminder, YouTube videos can be added to your journals by using the following format:
[yt]Video URL Here[/yt]

Your FA+ subscription helps us improve the site and add more perks. Thanks for your support!

`Express Yourself 2021's voting will be open until March 5th, 11:59PM (EST)`

Welcome back to the #FAMusicMonday contest— we covered it at the beginning of the year.

The Express Yourself Contest, hosted by furry_musicians, has finished its public submission stage, has selected the top 12 songs, and has curated an excellent selection of artists to provide prizes for the top 3 contenders!

Now the contest has moved to its second public voting round, and Furry Musicians need your help! Follow THIS LINK and have a listen. After you've finished listening, vote for the song you liked most to be entered into a raffle for free artwork of your fursona!

It's a win win… so, what are you waiting for?!

Find the contest's second public voting round here: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/40862402/

And, while you're at it, consider following furry_musicians for future contests, a biweekly newsletter pertaining to the musical happenings in the fandom, and a biweekly spotlight which features fresh talent every episode!

We have updated Section 2.1 (Reminders, Advertisements, and Promotions) of the Upload Policy. The new change, highlighted in bold below, introduces new limits which restricts users from posting more than 3 YCH reminders in a 24 hour period across all accounts they own.

This new limit goes into effect March 5, 2021. Until then, the previous policy of "Users may post up to 3 reminder submissions every 8 hours." still applies.

We want to allow users the freedom to promote their work, but we also understand users have been experiencing frustration with the amount of reminder notices. We feel this new change is a fair balance to those wishing to promote their content without risk of spam.

2.1 Reminders, Advertisements, and Promotions
Users may post reminder submissions with the following requirements: The rating must match the highest rated content being promoted. Users may post a total of up to 3 reminder submissions every 24 hours. This limit applies to ALL accounts owned by the user; NOT up to 3 per account. Only one reminder per original sale is permitted in this time frame.

Reposting submissions in an attempt to circumvent these limitations is not permitted. Attempts to bypass this policy or its limitations is prohibited.

We are currently investigating an issue with Cloudflare delivering files from facdn.net.

Update #1 - We've opened a ticket with Cloudflare support to understand the issue. We will keep you updated.

Update #2 - The error messages state "this video has been restricted". As FA does not currently support video, we're hoping this may have been an error. We'll keep you updated when we hear back from Cloudflare.

Update #3 - We've temporarily paused uploads to the site while we continue to look into the Black Box of Death™.

Update #4 - As a short term measure we've redirected image server traffic through the main site while we work on resolving the problem.

Update #5 - Cloudflare has informed us that the issue has been resolved.

It's 2021 and change is in the air!

We're happy to announce that Fur Affinity is independent once again! Effective today, the site is under sole ownership of Dragoneer (operated under Frost Dragon Art, LLC). We're looking forward to a productive year of new features, bug fixes, and continued site improvements.

Here's a sneak peek of things currently in development:

* Improvements to FA+ to make supporting the site more rewarding and giving more value
* Higher resolution and larger file support
* Trending sections for popular submissions and work by up-and-coming creators
* Account renaming
* Additional UI improvements and tweaks
* Submissions filters for Browse and Search
* Video upload and support
* Improved block and privacy settings
* Improvements to writing and poetry

Fur Affinity +

FA is independent once again, and we need your help! Want to support the site? Considering signing up to FA+. For $5 a month, you can help support development and fund our coding team to deliver new features and improvements!

Support FA by signing up at https://www.furaffinity.net/plus/

New Logo Get

In addition to the sale, we're proud to unleash our new logo! Designed by Sciggles, the new logo represents the creativity of the community and tosses a throwback to FA's original trademark icon, the classic paint can.

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Banner Update

In addition, we've updated the site banner to a fantastic piece done by korichi korichi! Go give him a shout!

Code of Conduct Update

We are taking additional steps to combat misinformation by adding a new Code of Conduct policy. This new policy goes into effect in two weeks time (Feb 15, 2021).

COC 2.8 - Do not promote ideologies harmful to public safety.
Examples include: Covid misinformation, anti-vaccination, QAnon.

Flash Update

Adobe has discontinued use of the Flash player. To preserve 15 years worth of content, Fur Affinity is implementing a Flash emulator called Ruffle.

https://www.adobe.com/products/flas.....d-of-life.html

Ruffle is still in development, and admittedly has mixed results on emulation. Some Flash will simply not work at this time. However, Ruffle's developers post new builds almost nightly which constantly improves playback and compatibility. We will be keeping Ruffle updated to improve the emulated Flash experience on Fur Affinity.

On Wednesday, January 6th 2021, an armed insurrection of Trump supporters directly instigated by the President himself assaulted the Capitol building in an attempt to overthrow America's democratic process. This assault was fueled by conspiracy theories that are not only lacking evidence, but have also been dismissed by courts in over 50 lawsuits. This seditious attack resulted in the desecration of our US Capitol and at least 5 deaths. Lawmakers and experts have identified these rioters as domestic terrorists. We at Fur Affinity agree and will be taking immediate action upon any users or content sympathizing with or promoting this terrorist attack upon our country.

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For this #FAMusicMonday (as you've seen on Twitter) we're doing something different. Furry_Musicians are hosting their Express Yourself contest and are open for submissions! Promotions and prizess are available for the winners!

Read the rules, then submit your entries over at https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/9730280

* SUBMISSIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED, TENTATIVELY, UNTIL THE 31ST OF JANUARY, 2021
* READ BEFORE POSTING, FOLKS.

Hello, folks! Puppy here. As I alluded to at Christmas, we're going to be taking another crack at The Express Yourself Contest this year. It's been a while, hasn't it?
WHAT IS THE EXPRESS YOURSELF CONTEST? WHAT IS THE PROCESS?
The contest is, well, to express yourself through a minute long (or less) musical piece. The first round is a Public Submission Round, meaning anyone can submit a song and so long as it abides to the rules, be considered.

The contest then undergoes a private voting round, where the songs from the Public Submission Round are placed on a rating criteria (see below) and at least fifteen are selected to move on. A few, the (5) that were rated the lowest of the top (15) but still show a lot of potential, will enter the Wildcard Round. The remaining, those that scored the highest on our rating criteria (again, see below) will be moved directly into the Semifinal Round. (2) of the songs in the Wildcard Round will move on to complete the Semifinal Round, making the Semifinal Round the top (12).

Both the Wildcard Round and the Semifinal Round will be publicly voted on by you, the community.
We are considering two options to facilitate the voting. Stay tuned to see how you can help us decide on this.

After the Semifinal Round, a Final Round consisting of 5 submissions will occur to pick this year's winning 3. This is also a public voting round. As an outcome to this round, the top 3 submissions will be chosen and prizes given (see Prizes below)!

THE RULES

Of course, this contest has rules. Failure to follow any of these rules could lead to your song being removed from the contest, or, in extreme cases, yourself to be disqualified.

Rule 1) Submit all songs for this contest to this journal , and in DIRECT response to the comment below.

Rule 2) Your song must be one minute or less and every second past one minute will deduce points.

Rule 3) Your song must have been submitted to FA after this journal was posted.

Rule 4) Your song must be PG .

Rule 5) You may submit up to three songs for the contest.

Rule 6) All genres are welcome and covers are accepted so long as they diverge from the original.

Rule 7)

Your submission must be submitted to FA

. FA must be the only place where this submission is found.

Rule 8)

You cannot modify your submission in any way after it is submitted to the contest

. If you would like to remaster or tweak a song, ask me and I'll fill it in like it's your 2nd or 3rd song slot.

Rule 9) No remixes.
THE RATING CRITERIA
Our panel of judges and I have determined this to be how we will rate your submission and select them for the Semi-Final and Wildcard Rounds.

Technicality: /30
Mixing and mastering: /15
Cohesiveness: /15
Interpretation*

Musicality: /70
Originality: /35
Time Management: /35
Motivation

Time Constraint
For every second over, points are deducted. A five second fade/reverb is permitted after the 1 minute mark if no new notes are played.

*Applies only to covers and replaces cohesiveness

Results in a bonus point. Those submitting are encouraged to explain how their submission(s) express themselves in the description of their submission.

Details...

Mixing and Mastering pertains to…
Audio levels and frequency/pitch issues
Does it sound right? Does anything stand out awkwardly? Are the notes clean and identifiable (within the genre's consideration)?

Cohesiveness pertains to…
If using loops, are they integrated well with one another?
Is there an over reliance on loops with little modifications?

Originality pertains to…
Does the artist demonstrate concise decision making and a clear focus while creating/composing/mixing their expression piece?
Does it challenge the artist or the genre using ingenuity, genre-blending, genre twisting, and/or clear instrument and sound choices?

Time management pertains to...
Does the artist present a complete song within the time limit (lead in, lead out, diverse/identifiable sections)?
Does the artist go over the one minute mark?

PRIZES AND A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY

There's prizes! Not a musician? We would love to work out a way to promote you.

Here's the fun part, ya? Too bad it's still a work in progress. See below for what's already set in stone.

+ 1st Place: Your song will be promoted as our featured submission for an entire year! You will receive a prepaid half body commission of your fursona from [ ]. You will also receive True North Audio's full 2020-2021 product catalog, which includes high quality samples, sample instruments, and synthesizer presets. You will also receive...

+ 2nd Place: You will receive True North Audio's full 2020-2021 product catalog. You will also receive...

+ 3rd Place: You will receive True North Audio's full 2020-2021 product catalog. You will also receive...

As you can see, there's a lot of opportunity here for the non-musical members of our community. If you are interested in having your very own placement prize promoted like this, you can send Furry Musicians a note or DIRECTLY reply to the designated comment below. Yes, you will be paid.

As a reminder, entries must be submit to the journal at https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/9730280

In Development for 2020

We've been quiet on the development font, but we're happy to announce some new features currently hitting internal testing and coming soon to a Fur Affinity near you.

* Trending Pages - We're introducing not one, but two new trending pages! A Top 100 Daily Uploads and a Top 100 Daily Uploads by Up-and-Coming Artists. You'll be able to keep tabs on the spiffiest new uploads every day, all while discovering new artists who are on the rise! It's our hope that the up-and-coming will help the community discover new artists and help promote their work.

We're happy to announce that the Trending pages will have been made possible thanks to our FA+ users helping support site development! We appreciate the community's support.

* UI Improvements - We've been going through user feedback, and will be making a quite few changes to the interface for both desktop and mobile. These changes aren't quite as drastic as our update earlier this year, but refine the site to be more fluid and smoother.

Site Changes

* Black Lives Matter - We've added a community resource page to give more information and in our support of the Black Lives Matter movement.

* Advertisement Shuffle - We've standardized our advertisement placements on the Modern UI to better promote FA's community ads, while also removing the interruption between content, submission descriptions, and comments. These changes mirror the ad placements we've had on the Classic UI.

We know advertising is not the most exciting update, but as a reminder Fur Affinity is supported almost entirely through ad placements and we greatly appreciate those who choose to white list our advertising. We've done a lot of work to ensure our advertising is safe and reliable.

Want to support the site, but don't like third party advertising? No problem! By subscribing to FA+ for just $5 a month you can support the site and opt out of third party advertising for a 100% community ad-based experience. FA+ subscriptions contribute 100% to site development and support coding development.

For more information FA+ click here: https://www.furaffinity.net/plus/

* Changes to Links - We've made some changes to links on specific pages to help make them better stand out.

* Referrer Change - Updated our site referrer information based on user suggestion.

* Navigation Tweaks - We've changed the names of some of the Control Panel links (Modern UI only) to make them easier to read.

* Other minor fixes.

With only 14 days left until Election Day, your friends at Fur Affinity want to remind you of not only the importance of being registered and ready to vote, but also being informed about the candidates running for office so that you can use your voice to make a difference here in the United States of America.

Here is a list of resources to empower and encourage you to Vote:

1. https://www.vote.org
2. https://www.betterknowaballot.com
3. https://www.votelikeabeast.com
4. https://www.isidewith.com

And as always, Fur Affinity will continue to stand alongside people of color and support Black Lives Matter. This movement does not end on Election Day. We must push to get our voices heard. For additional information on our stance, educational resources, and trusted organizations, please visit:

https://about.imvu.com/blacklivesmatter

We will also be adding a link to these resources under "Support" in Fur Affinity's navigation bar in a future update.

With that said, we've been made aware that some do not believe or stand with the movement. Racist slurs, harmful generalizations about racial groups, and harassment on Fur Affinity are a violation of our Code of Conduct. Rather than engage with these people, we encourage you to report them to us via Trouble Ticket.

Recently, Fur Affinity has been experiencing an influx of spammers. We're currently implementing measures to reduce their effectiveness. We want to inform users that Fur Affinity will never DM you with requests for passwords, promotions for prizes, or any "special offers". Official communication sent by FA staff can be identified by our staff shield icon before the username (as seen in this journal notice).

We appreciate your patience while our internal kobolds work towards a solution.

In addition, the FA Forums are back online! We apologize for the extended time it took to get the forums back up and running, but they're online once more, and on a new and improved version of XenForo.

We have completed our server migration to the new server cluster, King Ghidorah. This new platform features all new hardware from top to bottom, oodles of RAM, and a full SSD storage array.

This server upgrade is one of the single largest upgrades in Fur Affinity's history and has been made possible thanks to the generosity of FA+ subscribers. It will allow us to expand the site and more easily allow us to implement new features over time.

King Ghidorah
112 total CPU cores
1,536GB of memory
153.6TB of enterprise SSD storage

We greatly appreciate your patience during the migration.

Our staff is monitoring the site for performance and stability issues, and are working on a few minor issues (as seen below). We will update the known issues list with changes as needed.

Known Issues

- Micro Outages - The site is experiencing micro-outages under very specific conditions. UPDATED:When these outages occur images will not be visible on the site. This tends to last 30-60 seconds and will automatically resolve. We have determined the cause of this and are investigating a fix.
- Thumbnails - Loading time may vary for thumbnails. The site is currently rebuilding its thumbnail library, and until the rebuild is complete there may be instances where thumbnails take 2-3 seconds to load. This issue will resolve itself once it finishes the rebuild.
- Time Zones - We have reports that custom time zones are not saving for some users after the move. We are investigating.

Our planned server migration maintenance window has been postponed until Sept 9, 2020.

The site will have limited functionality during this maintenance window, and may take an estimated 18 hours to complete as we perform a final data synchronization. During this time users will not be able to upload or delete content, but the site will still be accessible and users will still be able to comment and interact with others as normal.

Because of this extended maintenance we want to give users a chance to plan ahead as needed.

UPDATE 9/9: Site is live. We will be monitoring the site over the course of the day for any performance and stability issues. We appreciate your patience while we moved the site cross country.

Fur Affinity is moving! On September 7, 2020 Fur Affinity will be transitioning to our previously announced new hardware platform, King Ghidorah -- all new servers, a chonkier bandwidth upgrade, and complete SSD storage across all servers. This hardware overhaul is years in the making, and funded in part thanks to FA+ subscribers.

This upgrade will be one of the largest, most substantial upgrades in the site's history. It will provide faster loading times, make it easier for us to provide new services and features as well as allowing us to implement some quality-of-life changes to help improve the user experience.

Some downtime may be needed to complete the transfer. We have worked to minimize the amount needed as much as possible by pre-loading the website on the new hardware, but we will need temporary downtime to perform a final sync. Downtime estimates will be posted closer to the migration via site announcement and the Fur Affinity Twitter.

Moderator recruitment is open!

Roles and Responsibilities

• Respond to Trouble Tickets professionally.
• Discuss and resolve issues within a team.
• Follow policies and staff hierarchy.
• Have good and respectful communication.
• Be active and efficient in your role.

Best Moderator Traits

• Neutrality - Moderators respect the opinions of others and maintain a balanced perspective.
• Authority - Moderators are firm yet professional while performing their duties.
• Confidence - Moderators familiarize themselves with the rules and enforce them with ease.
• Improvisation - Moderators are flexible and able to adapt to different situations.
• Knowledge - Moderators stay up to date with all policies and master the ones in place.

If you believe that you can perform the roles and responsibilities listed above and possess the best traits of a Moderator, then you are encouraged to continue applying below. This form will be accessible until August 1st, 2020. If you have applied on a past form, you may apply again now.

You will be contacted at the email address you provide in the form if we are interested or have further questions for you. If you have not received a response from us by Oct 1, 2020, then you were not selected this time, but we greatly appreciate you taking the time to apply and your interest in devoting time to maintaining our community.

Click here to apply to be a moderator!

Code of Conduct Update

In addition, we have also made a minor change to the Code of Conduct regarding malicious content. The changes are highlighted below in bold.

Code of Conduct 2.6 - Do not engage in malicious content.
Do not make derogatory use of caricatures, slurs, nor disparaging remarks about others' race, ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, veteran status, sexual orientation or similar, or make maliciously misleading statements about cultures, religions, etc. This does not apply to fictional works when used as part of a narrative.

We have been reviewing feedback and concerns from our recent site policy update, and have made adjustments based on collected feedback.

Changes listed are in bold.

2.1 - Reminders, Advertisements, and Promotions
Users may post reminder submissions to accounts they own with the following requirements: The rating must match the highest rated content being promoted. Users may post up to 3 reminder submissions every 8 hours. Only one reminder per original sale is permitted in this time frame.

Reposting submissions in an attempt to circumvent these limitations is not permitted. Attempts to bypass this policy or its limitations is prohibited.

2.2 Selling
Goods being sold through submissions may only be user-created or handcrafted items. The submission rating must reflect the final product. Sale posts cannot be removed and reposted more than once every 8 hours.

5.1 Disruptive Audio
Audio that is intentionally disruptive (e.g. loud, screeching) is not permitted.

New Hardware

Fur Affinity is currently in the process of rolling out one of our largest upgrades ever! Thanks to FA+ subscribers we've been able to invest in a full site hardware upgrade, the largest upgrade in Fur Affinity's history. Every last server, switch, router, and cable are new.

Introducing King Ghidorah! This new cluster-based server platform is a powerful hydra featuring the following specs:
112 CPU cores
1,536GB of memory
153.6TB of enterprise SSD storage

This new hardware platform will vastly increase site performance, improve thumbnail loading time, and allow us to increase upload sizes and resolutions! We will begin our migration to the new platform over the next month.

Again, thank you to everyone who has subscribed to FA+ to help out the community. This is one of the first major upgrades made possible due to your support. Want to help support FA? Sign up for FA+ here!

Policy Updates

Code of Conduct

Over two years ago Fur Affinity came together with the international community in solidarity against hate by announcing policies to combat hate on our site. These policies have been revisited as needed to ensure Fur Affinity is a safe, welcoming place for our community. As such we are announcing the following changes (effective immediately).

Section 2.7 Do Not Identify With or Promote Real Hate, Terrorist Organizations, Mass Murderers, Serial Killers and Their Ideologies
A hate group is one that advocates and practices hatred, hostility, or violence towards members of a designated sector of society (e.g. Nazism, ISIS, KKK) that are reflected in the real world. Users who identify with or promote real hate or terrorist organizations and their ideologies may be permanently banned from Fur Affinity without warning.

Upload Policy

As our community grows, our policies must also be updated to reflect the changes a larger user base brings. That's why we're announcing the following changes (effective immediately).

Section 2.1 Reminders
Submissions used as reminders for sale/promotion are permitted with the following exceptions: The reminder's rating must match the highest rated content being promoted. Users may post reminders for up to 3 of their own unique sale submissions every 8 hours. Posting to multiple accounts is permitted; however, using them in an attempt to bypass this policy is prohibited.

Reminders must still comply with all other policies, such as Section 2.9 - Duplicate Content, where the image in the reminder cannot be identical to another image on your account.

Section 2.7 Content Involving Minors
Content featuring minors is prohibited when the minor is in the presence of sexual activity, sexual objects, or nudity, though exceptions may be made for non-sexual depictions of birth and breastfeeding. Presence is defined as being in the same scene, such as sharing a comic panel, contiguous image, reference sheet, or specific section of a story where characters are engaging each other.

Minors may not have detailed bulges or outlines of normal or hyper genitalia, clothed or otherwise. Minors may not have their pregnancies fetishized. Minors younger than 13 may not be depicted as pregnant. Minors are real or fictional humanoids with a childlike body or younger than 18 years old, and any adolescent animals.

Section 2.12 - Content Involving Real Hate Groups or Terrorist Organizations
Content which displays imagery, language, or rhetoric associated with real world hate groups (e.g. Nazism, ISIS, KKK), terrorists, mass murderers, or serial killers is prohibited.

Section 5.1 Disruptive or Sexual Audio
Content containing sexual or obscene sounds is prohibited unless part of a relevant animation or loop. Audio that is intentionally disruptive (e.g. loud, screeching) is not permitted.

Questions

Why use the term "real" hate or terrorist organizations?
It is important to differentiate between real organizations and fictional ones such as Hydra (Marvel), COBRA (G.I. Joe), The Foot Clan (TMNT), or the Death Eaters (Harry Potter).

What about fictional content that I find offensive?
Fur Affinity provides a platform for our users to exchange ideas and works of art that include a variety of different themes. We understand that some users may create content that is political, religious, or incorporates themes that may be perceived as offensive. However, artistic expression that may be offensive to some users does not necessarily mean the content violates our rules.

With that said, we have had a lot of feedback since our previous update concerning the usage of real hate groups, terrorists, and their symbols. Based upon this feedback, we have decided to remove these groups and their symbols from ALL content on the website whether that content promotes, denounces, or incidentally features these groups and their symbols. This includes Civil War Confederate Flag and World War II Nazi imagery. You may post content containing German soldiers, but not Nazis. You may post Civil War content, but it may not include The Confederate Flag on uniforms, etc.

Will you be removing existing content that violates the new rules?
We will be removing existing content, but will not be issuing penalties for 14 days per the Terms of Service. Users have until May 1st to bring their galleries in line. After that point penalties for content found in violation will be issued as per normal. Any new content uploaded after this journal posting will be in violation.

Can I post 3 reminders on my main account and another 3 on my alt or a friend's account?
Using multiple accounts you own to post more than 3 reminders per 8 hours is not allowed. You can't post reminders for content that isn't yours.

Can I post 3 reminders for the same sale in the 8 hour window?
No, each individual sale can only be advertised once every 8 hours.

FA+ News

FA+ is active! We've had great support so far with quite a bit of interest and people joining. We want to thank everyone for their support.

You can sign up for FA plus here:
https://www.furaffinity.net/plus/

We're also prepping a new server to specifically handle thumbnails upload and generation. This will greatly help improve the upload process, as well as allow us to finally increase the resolution size limit on images.

January UI Update Notes

BBCode: Fixed an issue where header tags did not have noticeable differences between header 3, 4, or 5.
Browse: Submission previews are restored when clicking the info button over thumbnails. The icons have been hidden on mobile due to space/formatting issues.
Gallery: Folders are now visible on mobile view (folders are located after the gallery).
Journals: The journal list now properly shows when managing journals (allowing you to edit/delete them better on mobile).
Menu: Reorganized the notifications so they appear in the same order that they do in the message center (watches, comments, favorites, journals).
Menu: Renamed "Edit User Page Info" to "Edit Profile". This page contains more settings than just the user page so it's been updated to reflect that.
Menu (Desktop): Removed a minor delay on the drop down menu bars.
Menu (Desktop): Changed option spacing to help those on lower resolutions.
Message Center: Moved message center options (select all, remove selected, nuke) to the top.
Message Center: Fixed journal link on the nav bar. Will properly link to the journal section now.
Message Center (Notes): Removed bolding on the notes lit.
Message Center (Notes): Mobile notes are now slightly less annoying to use. More improvements are slated to be made.
Message Center (Notifications): Moved button options to the top and improved placement on mobile.
Message Center (Notifications): Made the nuke buttons less angry.
Theme: Light theme has been greatly improved.
Theme: Retro now has a more FA Classic feel to it.
Theme: All themes have had minor adjustments based on user feedback.
Settings: Fixed white space issues on mobile/tablet view.
Submissions: Changed submission titles on mobile (they will no longer be cut off).
Submissions: Fixed an issue with readability on stories (mobile).
Submissions: Prev/Next buttons have been added to the submission action bar.
UI (General): Slightly adjusted sidebar spacing.
UI (General): Added more white space to UI elements to give the site room to breathe.
UI (General): Made adjustments to commenting templates
UI (General): Improved styling on links provided by users (in profiles, journals, submissions, comments, and notes) to stand out more. We've also removed the paw left over from beta. While we know many people enjoyed the paw icon, it could cause some linking issues in certain cases when using bbcode markup.
User Page: Restored user page was missing categories such as Watchers/Watched.
User Page: Fixed consistency in banner colors when browsing various tabs.
User Page: Journal Headers/Footers now appear on the user page.
User Page: Separated large previews for the featured submission and the latest upload.
User Page: Fixed an issue that was causing clipping on profiles in mobile.
User Page: Gallery previews restored on submissions for the user gallery and favorites.
Other: Various fixes, tweaks, and improvements.

Site UI Update

Happy new year eve! We figured we'd start 2020 off right by introducing Fur Affinity's brand new site design.

The beta site design has been in development for some time and has gone through various iterations and changes in development. We've listened to your suggestions and incorporated vast amounts of user feedback into the final release. Additionally, we'll be rolling out new features and making incremental improvements to the design over time.

Designed with mobile, tablet, and desktop devices in mind, the new UI allows for a much smoother and modern site experience regardless of your device.

The site update contains three new themes:
- Dark (Crisp platforms of cool gray on top of an icy black background).
- Light (For fans of lighter displays, this lighter theme is eye-pleasing and subtle -- no robin's egg blue this time, we promise!)
- Slate (The colors of the Beta UI you've grown to love with new blue text headers to match our new logo featuring Fender).
- Aurora (A fresh interface reflecting the splendor of the aurora borealis passing through).
- Retro (The tried and true colors of FA's Classic Dark UI have been sampled for a nostalgic feel of familiarity across our new layout).

Not a fan of the new UI? No worries, you can swap back to the Classic UI at any time by visiting Account Settings. Please note that the Classic UI is being retired, will no longer receive updates, fixes, or improvements.

Issues with the new UI? Please report them via Trouble Ticket under "User Interface".

New Coding Staff

We've brought on additional staff to rewrite and modernize Fur Affinity. They are currently working on laying down the groundwork, and we will provide a roadmap once they've had time to get acclimated.

Fur Affinity Plus (FA+)

Ever wanted to help contribute to Fur Affinity? Now you can! FA+ offers you the chance to directly support the site and get a few perks in the process.

Why FA+? A website of Fur Affinity's size needs resources (such as web developers, servers, bandwidth, and licensing costs). Those can cost quite a bit of money. While FA is owned by IMVU, we're still run as a small independent site and need additional funding to secure long term improvements.

We decided to take a straightforward approach - help us and snag a few bonuses! We don't want to straddle the site with more ads than necessary, and other monetization methods tend to be annoying, frustrating, or offer less than ideal experiences. That's not something we want. Instead, we'd like to extend the opportunity for perks to those who enjoy using the site and want to support it directly.

What it is: FA+ members get a spiffy icon which appears next to their name to show their support. In addition, FA+ members can opt-out of third party advertising.

FA+ is for people who want to support Fur Affinity. Money raised via FA+ will go towards helping offset coding and development costs and to help us acquire new, better and more powerful servers. We will not be limiting current site features for users who do not choose to subscribe.

The cost? Just $5 a month. You can help support the site directly through PayPal through a subscription to FA+, and you can cancel at any time at www.furaffinity.net/plus or by following the menu link under your username!

Issues or concerns with FA+? Feel free to open a ticket under the "FA+" category.

New Logo

We've updated our logo with a new design by Sciggles, featuring everyone's favorite ferrox, our website mascot Fender!

Privacy Policy Updated

We've updated our privacy in accordance with CCPA. We've updated the wording on the California Privacy Rights section have added a new one (Verification and Response).

You may have noticed an increase in unexpected downtime on Fur Affinity lately. Over the past month we have been the target of dozens of DDOS attacks.

Nobody likes downtime, so we are working hand in hand with our host to mitigate and block the source of these attacks. DDOS attacks are not uncommon, and even major networks with vast resources contend with DDOS on a regular basis.

A DDOS (distributed denial of service) attack is when a network or computer botnet targets a website and floods it with more data than it can handle, saturating its connection to the point where it prevents legitimate data from passing back and forth from the site. A DDOS doesn't compromise any of your personal information nor any account security. It's the equivalent of a digital traffic jam.

Due to the nature of how a DDOS works finding the source of the attacks is near impossible.

Generally, we are able to mitigate and brush off these attacks with minimal issue. Recent DDOS attacks managed to bypass Cloudflare's DDOS protection resulting in unexpected downtime.

We want to make sure you, the community, are aware of the reasons for the outages and know we're working to prevent them. DDOS mitigation is not failproof, and we are working to ensure minimal disruption to the community. We have already taken measures to mitigate future DDOSes, and will take further steps in the future as needed if they continue and persist.

We have added a Help and Support section to the site (found under the Support dropdown).

In addition, we have updated both the Code of Conduct and the Upload Policy.

NEW POLICY - Code of Conduct, Section 1.4 - Do not encourage or engage in animal cruelty.
While you may openly debate the validity of current laws, you may not promote, encourage, engage in, plan, post or link to content or activities that may constitute animal cruelty, or anything that could be used as directions for committing animal cruelty. Animal cruelty includes, but is not limited to: Torturing or beating an animal, confining or transporting an animal in a way that is inappropriate for its welfare, killing an animal in an inhumane manner, failing to provide appropriate or adequate food or water for an animal, failing to provide appropriate treatment for disease or injury, and failing to provide appropriate living conditions.

REVISED POLICY - Code of Conduct, Section 2.4 - Do not harass anyone.
In this context, harassment includes creating an account with an offensive name, impersonation of another user, and remarks which discuss personal grievances, quarrels, malicious rumors, negative statements about, purposefully misgendering or deadnaming other individuals, and attempting to address or contact a user who has blocked you or whom you have blocked, including soliciting other users to pass on messages or otherwise make contact on your behalf. This does not include civil discussions about topics of public interest such as celebrities or government officials, but does include 'bewares' and similar content. If a particular type of content does not appeal to you, then do not seek it out to make disparaging comments. Users with a pattern of this behavior may be cited for harassment.

REVISED POLICY - Upload Policy, Section 3.3 - Indecent Photography
Photography depicting nudity or physical contact with nudity (exposed buttocks, breasts, bulges, outlines of genitalia, etc.), indecently-clothed models (undergarments, diapers, lingerie, etc.) is prohibited. Exceptions may be made for swimsuits worn in public locations, such as a pool or beach, but not activities such as breastfeeding.

REVISED POLICY - Upload Policy, Section 1.1. Ratings:
General-Rated Content Guidelines:
Nudity - Free of nudity of any kind, as well as outlines of genitalia, sheaths, female nipples, or detailed/exaggerated bulges. Nudity is defined as the open display of genitalia or exposed female areola or nipples.

(Note: This revision is a minor tweak to a previous policy and only applies to the General rating).

Fur Affinity recently experienced an outage which caused certain queries to become interlocked. When this happened, it resulted in our database becoming unresponsive. To correct this issue, we backed up the database, rebuilt the database, and reimported the data.

To help expedite this process, we removed unread notifications which were older than a year, and will continue to do so from this point on. Notifications are the numbers that appear at the top right of the website (and, when you click them, in the shown list) letting you know when you have new submissions, journals, etc. to review. This decision was made due to the amount of space unread notifications take up in the database.

No content or relevant data has been lost due to this outage.