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When crawling FA, please bear in mind that it recently suffered a major DDoS, and the admins are likely still a bit jumpy about seeing unusually large amounts of traffic.
When crawling FA, please bear in mind that it recently suffered a major DDoS, and the admins are likely still a bit jumpy about seeing unusually large amounts of traffic.
== Things to be saved ==
* Media files (including jpg, gif, png, bmp, mp3, txt, swf, doc, and probably many others)
** Thumbnails for files (Even for image files, as they are often different than a simple crop/resize)
* Comments
* Metadata (Author, submission date, category, theme, species, gender, tags, maturity rating)
* User pages
* Forums

Revision as of 02:11, 19 November 2014

FurAffinity is the world's largest furry community. Founded in 2005, it hosts 15,000,000+ images, stories, songs, videos, poems, and other files (mostly images). Recently a new administrator was appointed, who has a history of trashing websites he administrates when he's angry and/or bored with them. Luckily in all previously recorded cases, the services came back online thanks to competent admins who kept good backups. FurAffinity's administrative team has proven themselves to be anything but competent.

The new admin is apparently a very close friend of the site's owner, so perhaps it's a bit of an overreaction to assume he'll destroy the site. Still, better safe than sorry.

When crawling FA, please bear in mind that it recently suffered a major DDoS, and the admins are likely still a bit jumpy about seeing unusually large amounts of traffic.


Things to be saved

  • Media files (including jpg, gif, png, bmp, mp3, txt, swf, doc, and probably many others)
    • Thumbnails for files (Even for image files, as they are often different than a simple crop/resize)
  • Comments
  • Metadata (Author, submission date, category, theme, species, gender, tags, maturity rating)
  • User pages
  • Forums