Since then, Rednef has appeared on many of the monthly and holiday-based banners, either alone or with Fender.įur Affinity: United! Main article: FA: United In May 2007, it was announced that the female dragon form would become a separate character from Fender, and a second mascot for Fur Affinity, named Rednef ("Fender" backward). Fender's appearance returned to normal after about a week. Fender's account avatar displayed the dragoness as well. On April Fools' Day 2007, the FA banner depicted site mascot Fender as a busty female dragon, with similar coloration's to the original ferrox form and wearing his signature blue tie. Over 10,000 submissions were made in the first 12 hours subsequent to Fur Affinity's official re-opening, including both arts from returning users and pieces not previously posted.
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Over the course of 2005, Fur Affinity raised $1,500 in donations towards the purchase of a new primary server, though it did not go online until the middle of 2006.įur Affinity returned to operation in December 2005 with a solid backbone and more efficient coding, though full operational status was not reached until December 10 due to a defect in the motherboard which powered the server. Thanks to the community, Fur Affinity was able to build a stronger, faster server than the site originally used for the operation. Arcturus and his supporters went on to create ArtPlz. At that time Fur Affinity had 12,174 user accounts and nearly 100,000 submissions. The site was shut down on 1 August due to a disagreement between lead coder Jheryn and host provider Arcturus, the primary administrators of the site. Many of those who abandoned SheezyArt went on to sites such as Fur Affinity and y!Gallery when the latter decided to ban anthro art in May 2006 to refocus on its core topic, Fur Affinity gained further traffic.įur Affinity suffered from major security holes and hacking during the summer of 2005. This migration left many with few alternatives. Much of Sheezy's community was abandoned after the rules change took effect. Warnings were supposedly issued from the site's service provider, advising SheezyArt that they were not permitted to host adult content on their site. During that time period, Sheezy abruptly changed policies to both remove adult art and take a stronger stance against users and their uploads. The following is a history of Fur Affinity and its properties.į was launched on January 16, 2005, as an alternative to SheezyArt with the forum going live on that date and the main site being transferred a few days later from FurPaws.
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1.17 Server Hack/Source Code Leak (2016).1.8 Server problems (November/December 2009).1.7 Server problems and IRC bans (July 2009).