Ever since their partnership with IMVU caved in, this site has been on a downward spiral ever since 2016. Say what you will about the rampant degeneracy of the users of this site - there are plenty of reasons to avoid using this site if you are part of the furry subculture, yet you are forced to do so because this is the one which everyone uses.

The site's infrastructure is permanently locked to using a long since obsolete build of the backend used by DeviantArt circa 2005. This is because the staff never paid the web developer for any of his work and kept fobbing it off, saying IMVU would be covering their fees (which they weren't). After having enough of their backpedalling and getting ghosted for so long, he simply hardlocked the entire site's root access behind a password, then left without telling them what it is. This is why they can't do much else with this site other than edit a.css file every now and again to give it the illusion of actual work being done on the site. Naturally, this leads to certain complications regarding site stability, mainly that it's frequently attacked and taken down by trolls. The most recent attack having took place only a few weeks after the site's founder Dragoneer passed away during the end of August 2024.

The site's moderation and admin team are also chronic virtue signallers and frequently align themselves with the most radically left-wing positions possible. Any dissenting opinion would result in endless harassment and moderation will simply turn a blind eye to it. There are countless examples of pedophile/zoophile content which is morally wrong, except the moderation team also comprises of pedophiles and zoophiles so they conveniently ignore it. They will make rules about involving real world politics in art, yet it is clear with the art that involve things like BLM or pride/progress flags that only a few will be tolerated. They will make arbitrary rules regarding Pokémon, AI or whatever, yet they're very selective of how these rules should be enforced, if at all. It all depends where you land politically, and whether you are stupid enough to give them money for literally no reason.

I'm not sure if I can convince furries to stay away from this site, because let's face it - they could do a lot better for themselves than a deprecated image gallery from two decades ago. If I can though, I would like to say e621.net is way better to use, it has good enough blacklist features to filter out the stuff you won't like, and the moderation team actually does their job properly.

I used to be a member of FurAffinity for over ten years until I finally decided it was time to deactivate and leave it for good.

FurAffinity was once a decent place to be in terms of long time discoverability because of how well everyone can easily remember the name FurAffinity regardless if you are a furry or not, however that is also a conundrum in itself.

Because unless if you are a successful "popüfur" (which is a nickname for being a popular furry, or have a higher audience on some other website to self-promote and advertise your profile), then good luck getting noticed. Because unless if you make fursuits or flooding tons of explicit nsfw works into your gallery for a more perverse audience, nobody really cares who you are on FurAffinity if you don't meet anyone's extremely high and biased expectations.

No matter how hard you try to improve your art, your view counts will always remain low, people rarely bother to comment and favourites are also low.

You'd be better off sticking to DeviantArt if you're that adamant about getting noticed; they offer a groups function that allows you to get your art pushed out into other people's inboxes, regardless if they follow you personally or not, for those watching art groups and you'd have a better chance of exposure on there unlike FurAffinity's way of having a temporary display on the front page before it gets lost in the art portal where it'll be forgotten.

FurAffinity has also frequently known for being targeted under multiple DDoS attacks causing it to shut down temporarily, so if that also isn't a warning sign about how unorganized and outdated this website is then I don't know what is. There was also a rumor they once hired a hacker as one of their admins years ago which also left some damage on the reputation of the types of people they hire on their staff team.

Another thing to include, there has been a lot of creepy stuff coming around FurAffinity. A lot of people have been coming out as either a pedophile and/or have a real life interest in beastiality.

I have been a member of FurAffinity for over ten years. It is a decent place to be in terms of long time discoverability because of how well everyone knows the name FurAffinity regardless if you are a furry or not, however that is also a conundrum in itself.

Unless you are a successful "popüfur", which is a nickname for being a popular furry, or have a higher audience on some other website to self-promote and advertise your profile, then good luck getting noticed. Because unless if you make fursuits or flooding tons of explicit nsfw works into your gallery for a more perverse audience, nobody really cares who you are on FurAffinity if you don't meet anyone's extremely high and biased expectations.

No matter how hard you try to improve your art, your view count is low, people rarely comment and favourites are also low. You'd be better off sticking to DeviantArt, they offer a groups function that allows you to get your art pushed out into other people's inboxes, regardless if they follow you personally or not, for those watching art groups and you'd have a better chance of exposure on there unlike FurAffinity's way of having a temporary display on the front page before it gets lost in the art portal where it'll be forgotten.

The website is also frequently known for being targeted under multiple DDoS attacks causing it to shut down temporarily, so if that also isn't a warning sign about how unorganized and outdated this website is then I don't know what is. There was also a rumor they once hired a hacker as one of their admins years ago which also left some damage on the reputation of the types of people they hire on their staff team.