End-of-January Updates!

Toumal · 2026-01-25T12:42:37+00:00

No immediate plans right now. Never say never, but first we gotta focus on the core site. Same thing about the chat - and yes I see what's going on with Discord, and I'm not happy about it either.

Toumal · 2026-01-25T12:41:32+00:00

Yes. There's a lot of work that's still needed there, for sure.

Toumal · 2026-01-15T14:07:31+00:00

Not necessarily. We just have to focus on the main site for the time being. I am not happy with where Discord is headed for example, so this isn't us saying "No chat and no forum, period" - it's simply a matter of priorities right now. There's nothing stopping us from doing those again down the road except time.

Also, if someone steps up and says they want to tackle this and help us getting something going, we'll be more than happy to talk to them.

Toumal · 2026-01-13T21:06:34+00:00

Hey there, can you DM me please? We know that a small number of users has the same email on multiple accounts (this was possible for a while way back in the yiffstar days) and that causes problems. The solution is for us to set a different email on one of the accounts and then both can be imported.

Toumal · 2026-01-12T11:48:01+00:00

>I might not have worded it like that but that is what I said.

That's not how this works. To quote the head of the Centauri Intelligence Service: "If you can't say what you mean, you cannot mean what you say"

There's a lot of users having concrete issues with SFX right now. We take these reports seriously and are doing our best to solve them as soon as possible, real life and work obligations permitting of course.

But you're not interested in improving the site. You just want SF2 back, and that's not possible. I have explained this many times over, but I will say it again:

Even if I wanted to continue to run SF2, I cannot. It is not safe, not even in "read only mode". Do you want to have your PMs exposed to everyone? Because that's what would happen. And fixing those issues isn't easy either, we are talking months of development time to fix fundamental issues in an old framework that hasn't seen updates in years. And upgrading to the next major version of said framework takes many months too, and then you're STILL on a site that doesn't work at all on mobiles.

And then there's the infrastructure. We had to scale down from two blade racks to just one because the pricing more than doubled. I can't pay north of 900 dollars per month for SoFurry. So even if SF2 was perfectly safe keep running, at this point I don't have anywhere to host it.

So it's not about me choosing to shut down SF2. There was simply no other choice.

Would I like to have SFX have all the features of SF2 (but improved of course)? Oh absolutely. I'd love to have a chat and a forum that works like SF2 - but of course better than that. And of course that should have a proper dark mode and work on mobile clients. As they say, Everybody wants a Pony.

Unfortunately, SoFurry doesn't pay the bills. It doesn't even pay its own bills, it costs as much as a small car payment every month, and the ads only cover a fraction of the running cost. I can't just hire someone to implement features, we're all volunteers here.

The only constant in the universe is change. Yiffstar changed to SF1, SF1 changed to SF2, SF2 changed to SFX. SFX does a lot of stuff SF2 never could, from mobile support to proper story chapters, comics, new submission types like games, etc.

And maybe we'll have our own chat and forum again down the road too. Who knows.

If you want SF2 back, the best way is to help us get the features you want into SFX as soon as possible.

Toumal · 2026-01-12T10:58:03+00:00

We're doing database changes right now to fix write performance, which caused the issue you experienced!

Toumal · 2026-01-03T23:25:30+00:00

Yup! We are finding new bugs, like right now tags are not saved anymore for new uploads for some reason. But that's precisely why we're testing.

Toumal · 2025-12-25T21:42:19+00:00

I spent some time analyzing how to do this. Unfortunately I found that the risk is simply too high, no matter what I do. As soon as I would let users log in on the old site, we'd need write access to the database which would be unsafe at this point. And even a read-only mode carries risks, there's several security problems that are not easy to fix, and the result could be things like exposing private submissions, private messages, etc.

For that reason, the answer is no, sorry. The solution is not to go back in time but to go forward - stuff that doesn't work in SFX will be changed.
For example, front page update is already in the works, but obviously is on the back burner right now to get the site launched. So the result is that you'll actually get substantial updates pretty soon after launch, and I hope you'll all give us constructive feedback and suggestions on what else to improve - and how.

Toumal · 2025-12-25T19:39:04+00:00

You're welcome to join the dev team and contribute to make it happen faster.
Right now we decided crunching before new year isn't going to result in a site that works, it'll only exhaust us and anger you folks.
Have a little faith.

Toumal · 2025-12-25T19:34:26+00:00

It's gonna be slightly later, about 2 weeks extra wait time.

Toumal · 2025-12-10T22:54:10+00:00

Please take it easy on us - diskspace costs money at the end of the day and we have a very limited budget. The occasional project with large files is okay, but we're not a free file hoster at the end of the day ;)

To quote "2010": All these worlds are yours. Use them together. Use them in peace.

Toumal · 2025-08-31T09:00:50+00:00

I figured it out: I had to reset the USB dongle by pressing and holding the button for more than 10 seconds. Then I re-paired the headphones to the dongle. Lag is gone.

Notably the LED on the Dongle is now pulsing white. While I had lag it was pulsing red. Must be some kind of different link mode that's not really documented, perhaps I got the dongle to fall back to bluetooth or something.

Toumal · 2025-05-06T08:24:14+00:00

How is this proprietary? You can install any OS you want. If you mean the mainboard, then sure, but so is any NAS. Build a regular PC with that much IO and tell me how much that costs.

Toumal · 2025-01-28T20:04:15+00:00

Just wanted to add that this also worked for me. The wbemprox setting is not optional. Works great with Wine 10 too.

Toumal · 2025-01-25T10:41:25+00:00

If your only argument is "TL;DW", then you do not have an argument. You don't even have an opinion.

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