Kinda curious about what's been going on with that site ever since the whole cub ban drama. Is it/has it been getting decent traffic after the fact? Has it been on a decline? Did it just sorta stagnate? Etc. I haven't really heard much about it since that whole mess.

SirBrownBear said:
Kinda curious about what's been going on with that site ever since the whole cub ban drama. Is it/has it been getting decent traffic after the fact? Has it been on a decline? Did it just sorta stagnate? Etc. I haven't really heard much about it since that whole mess.

This post again? Nothing of the sort ever happened here.

Haven't kept up with it. I don't know anything about traffic or anything else, but I do have one complaint: the browsing page should show Most Recent by default, rather than Most Popular.

If they stress community and promoting new art, and they made heavy decisions in order to keep the merchant system, then Most Popular should not be the default browse. The top artists already get enough, right?

I left Furry Network several weeks before the whole cub porn thing went down, and I haven't been back. My main gripe with them was difficulty navigating the site and having trouble finding out what the rules were. Hell, I didn't even know they allowed cub porn at all until I found out about the ban a few weeks later.

The site was just such a mess for me from the get-go that I haven't paid all that much attention to it since I left.

Haven't been a fan of FN for a while now, mainly due to the 'infinite scroll' gallery style. It hitches when scrolling down large galleries and does not remember your last state, forcing you to spend a while scrolling down from newest submission to older ones again. This goes against conventional wisdom of having a short page of static thumbnails to browse through like other furry-centric art sites.

Overall, I feel like FN is less suited as an image gallery and more as a furry social website thingy, like FA, but better in some respects, such as not compressing uploaded images to 1280x jpgs, and worse in others, such as being slow to load galleries, having a cluttered UI that is frustrating to navigate, and a more 'mobile friendly' feeling like Weasyl than the clean, traditional approach opted for by SoFurry, InkBunny, and FA. The old ticket that suggested a paginated gallery (and received a lot of support) was not addressed in favor of other priorities, the inclusion of which is long overdue at this point and a fundamental flaw with that site.

If they just fixed that one glaring issue, I would be more happy to browse through galleries. Right now, it's the least comfortable of its contemporaries to navigate and that's reflected in its middling user base.

Strongbird said:
Haven't been a fan of FN for a while now, mainly due to the 'infinite scroll' gallery style. It hitches when scrolling down large galleries and does not remember your last state, forcing you to spend a while scrolling down from newest submission to older ones again. This goes against conventional wisdom of having a short page of static thumbnails to browse through like other furry-centric art sites.

Overall, I feel like FN is less suited as an image gallery and more as a furry social website thingy, like FA, but better in some respects, such as not compressing uploaded images to 1280x jpgs, and worse in others, such as being slow to load galleries, having a cluttered UI that is frustrating to navigate, and a more 'mobile friendly' feeling like Weasyl than the clean, traditional approach opted for by SoFurry, InkBunny, and FA. The old ticket that suggested a paginated gallery (and received a lot of support) was not addressed in favor of other priorities, the inclusion of which is long overdue at this point and a fundamental flaw with that site.

If they just fixed that one glaring issue, I would be more happy to browse through galleries. Right now, it's the least comfortable of its contemporaries to navigate and that's reflected in its middling user base.

I hate when that happens in tumblr. Good thing I disabled auto scroll.

FoxFourOhFour said:
This post again? Nothing of the sort ever happened here.

What do you mean? I'm not talking about e621

Knotty_Curls said:
If they stress community and promoting new art, and they made heavy decisions in order to keep the merchant system, then Most Popular should not be the default browse. The top artists already get enough, right?

This is why I refuse to use it, emphasis mine.

From what I have been viewing the site, they seem to change stuff all the time.

They have support page which has stuff including endless scrolling and most popular:
https://support.furrynetwork.com/topics/71-ability-to-turn-off-endless-scrolling/
https://support.furrynetwork.com/topics/274-fresh-submissions-by-default-on-artwork-page/
https://support.furrynetwork.com/topics/1302-rotation-or-time-limit-on-popular-artwork/

So it does feel like they are still somewhat forming up. They most definitely have the most leisure limits on files. One issue I have noticed is that video content there can't be looped, so users have to manually make videos loop if one is being uploaded.

Lol. Once one thing is banned, more shit gets banned, and people get too sensitive cause of feelings.

hsauq said:
As far as keeping up with the artists I care about, the majority of the ones that use Furry Furry Network either also use FurAffinity, Inkbunny, or Pixiv or have their works shared on e621, all of which have less cumbersome to use interfaces. Plus, that lack of exclusivity means one less gallery I have to keep track of most of the time.

pretty much this. it had my attention for a while during all that drama but afterwards it was back to the usual places for me.

though, now that we're talking about it again. has anything else been banned since then?

treos said:
pretty much this. it had my attention for a while during all that drama but afterwards it was back to the usual places for me.

though, now that we're talking about it again. has anything else been banned since then?

Wouldn't put it past them.