Hey there fuzzies!
We weren’t expecting to make an announcement on this quite yet, but some of you have noticed some things that were unintended to go live. Hopefully we can get everyone caught up on what transpired over the weekend.
There has been some restructuring to our coding team as we had a departure in our Tech department. We thank them for their many years of service, and wish them the best in their future endeavors. This may cause some delays in our current Road Map items, so pardon our dust as the new tech staff get acclimated to our infrastructure!
As a result of this, when one of our techs pushed some staff-related updates and general bugfixes live, they also pushed out what the previous dev was working on before they were given more time to be fully tested and implemented for our upcoming update. Please provide us with feedback on this item and how it works (or doesn’t!) via our ticketing system
here
In the future we will ensure that this doesn’t happen by establishing a better review process for new code submissions; however, the part of the feature that went live has already seen some good feedback, so we decided to keep the changes live while cleaning up the rough edges.
Feature we’re talking about that was unintended to be pushed live at this time-
Meta Keywords - These reflect the selections under our submission upload dropdowns. They can now be blocked via our tag blocking feature. The ability to use them in search as searchable terms has yet to be added and will be implemented in a future update.
Bug fixes also pushed live-
Fixed a bug where pressing enter on the search page did not reset the search results back to page 1
Moved “General Art” to the top in the Theme drop down when uploading
Added the following categories in a new "Animation & Media" category group:
-2D Animation
-3D Animation
-Pixel Animation
-Interactive Media
Reworded Neer’s Famous Taco Recipe for Clarity
Adjusted coloration of the Mature Art labels in the Modern Light Theme to be more readable
Fixed an issue with replacement thumbnails using the dimensions of the original thumbnail and not resizing appropriately.
Upcoming changes in advertising
THIS APPLIES TO LOGGED OUT USERS ONLY
In short, Fur Affinity will be implementing video ads in the near future. They will be visible to
logged out guests only, and will be a big help in bringing on new paid staff. If you are signed in, you will
NOT see these. Again, these are going to show for
signed out users only.
We are planning an update to our in house ads in the near future in regards to different pricing options and sizes that we hope many will be interested in but it isn’t something we are ready to launch just yet. One such option is geotargeting for community ads, which has been highly requested!
Even though these were pushed early, we hope it’s something that helps improve the site experience for you all!
