As we approach the six month mark of the transition to MyBB, I am happy to report that the site is stable. This stability has continued despite the weekly attacks that our server host detects and vacuums up, and the occasional script-kiddie hack attempt. I wanted to wait half a year before mentioning any of these publicly lest some jackass decide to hit us right as we were getting things set up or trying to fix other issues.
Yet as you may have noticed, the site appears and functions essentially exactly as it did when we first migrated to myBB. The individuals (myself included) with the technical knowledge of how to do anything have been completely busy with our careers outside FP, and what little time we've been able to carve out to hammer at either the attachment import, the theme/layout, or other quality-of-life features did not actually result in much improvement. This was especially true starting in March as the demands of reality and the offline life meant that little progress was made on anything that would even warrant an update. I apologize for setting the expectation that there would be monthly updates in the first place; tech does not move forward at a monthly rate.
Futanari Palace will remain as it is for as long as donations continue to pay for the costs. Current donation levels pay for monthly expenses and enough to pay for the yearly expenses, so there should be no fear that FP will vanish. Stable site, stable community, stable funding - existence has largely been automated.
Unfortunately, improvements are not automated. Finding trustworthy people with technical skills who are willing to work on an adult website for no pay is also not automated. At best, pick three. Most often, pick two.
The remaining technical staff are available only in an emergency situation. Recruitment of new technical staff has failed, and I do not have the capacity to continue searching, interviewing, and verifying. Our administrative staff is also limited to 'emergency response only' likewise due to the demands of their own lives. I do have to shout-out to Dxasmodeus for stepping up and assuming many roles that had formerly been spread out amongst a wide range of administrative positions.
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What's next for Futanari Palace?
You, the community, control the future of this site. All this technical stuff and back-end jargon is just a means to an end, the end being to deliver a healthy, horny, sustainable community for Futanari lovers, people who self-identify as Futanari, our allies, and all the adjacent kink-friendly communities that either spun off from us, grew up around us, or inherited some of our mantles.
We need trustworthy people with technical skills willing to work on this adult website for no pay. These people will either come from this community or be recruited by people in this community. Until new tech staff come on board and get vetted, the site will continue as-is indefinitely. However, there is the possibility to just hire someone if the FP community bands together to self-fund a one-time payment for a professional service to do 'all the things' you want done. I do have the capacity to manage and oversee that person, but I will not start any major fundraising effort to do so.
Furthermore, if you want to join the administrative team and just generally help out, that's OK too. There isn't much to actually... do... since more or less any bad-faith jerks have been weeded out of this community long ago and the current infrastructure stops the bots. This isn't an open call for people to join the admin team; I'm just not going to outright say no off the bat. Hah. Bat. Because I'm a futanari bat furry.
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Thank you for your patience and generosity towards this community that's nearing 20 years of existence. Please continue to be kind to the newcomers who still join this site every week and share the very best of what FP has to offer.
I'm a pretty new smut writer on the scene with a love for Hyper Futanari, Growth and Expansion! I put out my first story earlier this year, "The Price of Pleasure" and I'm hoping to start sharing my stories here as well!
Hi everyone! It is my first experience with a forum but I’m sure I will love being here.
My main interest here is to play some good long term roleplay, meet fellow futalovers and also improve my English a little bit. (Who said that learning needs to be boring?).
Anyway, now something about myself. I’m studying Control Engineering and Robotics (well it sounds cool but in reality it just math with some spice) so sometimes I need to chill out with good game or anime.
So I hope I will find here some good partners for roleplay or just chatting.
Multiple things are breaking all at once, and the most likely reason is because the server that FP runs on has completely run out of space.
Why did FP run out of space? Root cause has not been identified, but it most likely has something to do with Old FP. The space it takes up suddenly ballooned and we do not yet know why.
We may need to wipe Old FP entirely. Will this affect the import? Most likely yes because that is where the old images are imported from.
Some people have reported SQL errors. Others have reported that they cannot log into FP at all.
In a few days we will have completed making a copy of the old site so none of the data is lost, and begin to look into what the hell happened and what we can do about it.
In further unfortunate news - there is no way to 'upgrade' the server. The server host does not have that functionality. We would need to buy a new server (at their new, higher prices) and then do another migration.
Not having answers is worse than having bad answers, so I will update in a few days when I learn more.
Hello everyone! I am very new due to the fact that I've never been on a forum like website and being apart of a fetish board at all. Not really sure what else to say but I hope we all get along!
Ok I do have a quick question tho. Most of the post I see have ATTACH=CONFIG on them and i dont know why. Is there something I messed up with?
Nice to meet y'all.
