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Shower thoughts: Give people something to think about by putting braille dots onto the surface of avionics equipment.

There's some spicy database changes pending that should improve performance. SFX has mostly been running great, but we want to fix those few overload situations as soon as possible.

My hobby is to add the word "metric" in front of imperial units.
Thanks to the metric pound they can never be sure if it's actually a thing or not.

Heya, feel free to message me anytime please.

We also have to resize the storage array from the beta sizing before going live, and fix a few other issues. But we're getting there!

Expect more news soon! We know it took a while but the goal is in sight! Thanks for sticking with us ❤️ [2/2]

#SoFurryServerMoveUpdate

We're in the process of fixing some important bugs before opening the site. SF2 users who never logged into SFX should now be able to recover their account if their password doesn't work (provided their email still works). [1/2]

Thanks bud <3

I know we haven't been communicating enough about the recent progress in bringing #SoFurry back online - there's gonna be some updates in a few hours. We also have a dedicated sfx-discussions channel on Discord.

Switching to librewolf also worked :)
I think I had these changed, but not sure TBH

Normally we would've done all that in the background, but the forced move made that impossible. Also, the business model of SF is to be there for the users. We don't have a budget, employees, or really a business. (handful of ad banners that don't cover the cost notwithstanding)

I have been on a business trip for the past week, with no chance to work on SF. Terra is still on a business trip. We're the two critical resources for this.
Money isn't the issue right now, it's people. And it's more than just a server move, it's also about migration etc.

Every single update of Firefox now re-enables the sidebar. Time to switch to LibreWolf.

3) Backup server is up and running, has SF2 db loaded & working for the migration. This server will also get approx. $1000 worth of SSDs added once SFX is going.

4) Noticed the games changing every day on sofurry.com?

Thanks! We know this takes longer but we wanna do this the right way [3/3]

2) Firewall is almost ready, after some issues initially, it seems to work now. We're gonna do some more testing just to be sure, then send it to the data center.
If this firewall shouldn't work out, there is a fallback solution but that's an additional $1500 - which we try to prevent [2/3]

#SoFurryServerMoveUpdate

1) The SFX server gets moved soon. We've already received the neccessary network config information for the new data center. No concrete date yet, but we hope it's not much longer now [1/3]

email from Microsoft stating that their TOS have changed

Yesterday it was announced that GitHub's CEO resigned and GitHub would be folded into CoreAI.

I got this email 10 minutes ago. Microsoft has updated the TOS of many of their products and it includes a large section on AI and the use of your "content".

We mourn the recent passing of @ofthewilds.bsky.social, one of the most prolific writers on SoFurry. You will be missed :(

My most sincere condolences to you. He's been a part of @sofurry.com for a long time and was always cheerful and positive. The best people are taken from us the earliest.

Thank you! And yesh, not the kind of news we wanted to get, but at least the colo host gave us a very good discount compared to normal pricing these days.

Update regarding the down time: Still in the process of creating redundant off-site backups prior to the server move.

The whole process until we're online again will take a few weeks. We will keep you updated on the progress.

For everything else, please refer to the FAQ: www.sofurry.com/faq.html

REMINDER! Tomorrow around 12:00 AM CEST (in about 15 hours) the extended downtime will begin! And again: SoFurry 2.0 will be DEPRECATED! Read up on it in the quoted skeet.

How to make me instantly hate your project:
☑Vibecoding
☑Visual Editor
☑React
☑Cursor

Terramaster NAS Security Alert Uninstall qBittorrent ASAP

PSA: If you're running a TerraMaster NAS and have qBittorrent installed - go and uninstall that immediately. This is getting exploited right now. Also check if there's any processes with random letters running that don't look familiar.
playspoon.com/2025-06-02/

So I trained a nice HAL9000 voice for my local LLM and now it gives me this...

We were internally thinking about bringing it back in a different form. Maybe a "clapping hands" button or a "chapeau button". The inadvertedly funniest thing about the cum button on Yiffstar was that it worked on journals.

FYI, I am no longer on Twitter.

I seem to have misplaced my portal gun.

A wild #SFXFeatureShowcase #4 appears!

Do you have any artwork that looks rubbish if blown up? Like #PixelArt? We got the solution for you! 🖼️❗

Use the #PixelPerfectDisplay option in our uploader, so artwork won't fill out the whole screen!

Check out the example here 👇

Really, #GNUParallel?
savannah.gnu.org/news/?id=10687

https://meow.social/@sofurry

Did you know? We are on other websites, too! You can find us on #Mastodon, as well.

meow.social/@sofurry

We could link you that other social network formerly portrayed with by that #BlueBird, but none of you would want that on here, right?

Feel free to like and reshare to spread the message! ❤️