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So i regularly checkup on other Furry Sites, including several i assist with, and i came to notice something interesting today, FurGather, which is ""supposedly"" trying to raise $5000 to develop their site, and pay for cloudflare which they alledge they are paying 200 a month for(LIES). The thing is, They have CloudFlares Universal SSL turned on, which for free accounts, doesnt work on many browsers, and Windows XPs with Chrome or IE. This essentially proves they are in fact using the free cloudflare service.... azfurs.com recently had the same problem, but they were not trying to raise money for it or lying. To me FurGather is just another Pay Site in the making, the owner likely sees it as a way to fill his wallet using advertisements, and who knows what else futher down the line. IT is my promise to our community tho, FurrTrax will NEVER be a paysite, and will NEVER become a giant advertising billboard so long as I am the owner, and so long as hell is still at least luke warm.
Rebuttal from Owner of FurGather:
Hey there, I just found this post of yours: http://furrtrax.com/indexsub.php?module=newsview&id=103
I just wanted to clear up a couple of things that I've noticed that there was a mistake in our GoFundMe page that I did not catch before when I had someone fix up the wording.
Which was part of the costs of what we pay for.
I noticed on our gofundme page that it did say we pay 200 dollars for CloudFlare, which we don't actually, nor did I ever claim to be. (But I see now that someone had made a mistake when rewriting that part up for me, and I'm actually glad you pointed that out.)
Anyway, I also wanted to point out that I only put 5000 dollars as to goal because while I was making the Page we had just reached 5000 members. So it was just a random number basically that I came up with.
Honestly, I respect that you go around to furry sites and find things that they lie about and what not.
But really, what we do pay for right now is $70 monthly for the server, $90 yearly in domain names (this includes more than just .com just to keep them from being used by other people)
and lastly a one time payment of $99 for PHPStorm which I use to work on the site.
We do have other things we hope to pay for later on, but, that's only if we are able to either raise enough money for the site or bring in enough revenue.
The site will always stay free, we only accept donations, and charge for advertisement. So no user HAS to pay at all..
Anyway, I just wanted to try to clear some of those things up with is all.
Comments:
| RinLinx: Yea, cancer may have put him on blast, but cancer also posted the rebuttal from the site. Whether the other site is covering its butt or not, xander still presented all information. |
| Lilly: Kind of a dick move on Xander's part, just going around saying how shit other sites are and then praises his own site like it's the best one out of all of them, Pfft. |
| SaiKitsune : Makes me a little sad to see that one of my favorite site's creatorsowners feels this way about my own site Though, I still respect you for trying to bring the truth out to people. |
| lake wolf: Awsome im glad to hear thatwaging tail |
| Fang: The Wolf: We are all glad to know that you are very loyal to your community I am also glad to be a part of this site Great work with all your time spent in developing the server and web base Keep up the great work |
| TAY: Furrtrax is free but accepts donations, and im planning to make a donation at tax time. Im doing this not out of my love for the sits,for the culturefandom solely. But motivated to a greater degree in light of the fact that i was given a choice. And not required,or demanded or tricked. FR3DOM ROCKS!! |
| TAY: I recently joined a few socalled free, furry and furrdatingmating sites. Some were charging for premium features. No prob there but one in particular, free mating site turns somewhat pricey when you try to veiw your messages or send them and are denied until you produce a credit card as ransom. Being this the only way to talk on the site, it struck a nerve. Insted of giving in to anger and doing dumb things, i edited my user name to include the suffix,immahotmale fromdotcom. Site seems to work fine now. And free as advertised. |
| Sam Husky: Cloud flare business is 200 a month It allows for a non shared SSL certificate such as an EV cert And also provides far superior DDoS mitigation and general control over your site |
| Dragonprince: Which were thankful for |
| Mr.Knives: Lol look at all those peepz trying to get brownie points x3 |
| Ku-Joe Kuna: I dont mind a lil advertisement personally because they can help pay 4 improvements but i do mind if they arent respectful ads like the ones on the mocospace app They pop up and disrupt the app and even cause glitches and crashes All im saying is im glad this is a free site and i would luv 2 see it grow but donations may not be enough at times Keep up the good work and keep this site going 4 all of us y |
| Luna: I love Furrtrax It has helped me meet many great people it would hurt very deeply if it became something it wasnt ment to FurGather may be just trying to raise money for itself |
| Fesothe: Oh Yea! the one that looks like facebook eh, the one most likely to get sued for looking like facebook wants 5k to develop the site to look like facebook? I would't waste money on a clone website that's likely to disappear through being sued, though they're free to waste money on it if they like I just think cloning facebook is the wrong way to go and supporting something unoriginal like that is a true waste of money. |
| Niko Eclipce: Thank you muches nice to be able to get to know pplz and not have to worry about lack of funds keeping u away |
| Emerald: keep up the good work |
| Vasuki : holy thank god for our great darkxander always so informed keep up the good work and thank you for getting me meet do many amazing people |
| Sebastian: It saddens me to see that communities now days are constructed of nothing but pay and advertise.But it does make me happy to know that FurrTrax will never stoop to those levels, and will remain a friendly place like it always has. |
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