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Some who pay attention to the news may be aware that the UK Online Safety Act is coming into effect ( https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-content/guide-for-services/ ) in the c...
*Edit: This journal is now locked and applications are closed. See a summary of the initiative so far at the bottom of this journal. Commenting is now locked.* In 2020 Inkbunny performed its first ad...
We're adding to the Inkbunny Philosophy ( https://wiki.inkbunny.net/wiki/The_Inkbunny_Philosophy ) to address a rise in undesired behaviour in recent years. The section on Acceptance ( https://wiki....
It's been years since the launch of Inkbunny's first Netherlands cache and backup server, phagos ( https://inkbunny.net/j/164831 ) - aided by a surplus from our donation drive. As is often the case,...
Due to an influx of support tickets and confusion surrounding AI-generated artwork and the use of AI tools and services this is a quick news post to clarify our stance on such things and how we will b...
We gladly received support from French and Quebec hosting provider OVH earlier this year ( https://inkbunny.net/journalview.php?id=225829 ) , helping us to improve service in the Americas. But good th...
It's that time of year again… brushes, pens and pencils are out, while watercolours and markers stand by to assist! Last year saw seven artists complete the Inktober challenge ( https://inkbunny.net/j...
It seemed like the summer of code would never end… but we're here at last, with a fresh release! Our shiny new feature is *mentions*. Ever wanted to know when someone said your name? Now you can, as ...
Furry fandom's second-busiest artist community now has a presence in the USA's Second City! Host1Plus has provided a cloud server ( http://www.host1plus.com/cloud-servers ) in Chicago for us to try ...
*Recent upgrades ( https://inkbunny.net/journalview.php?id=219043 ) * increased our bandwidth use by 35%, so we're glad to announce an agreement with hosting provider OVH ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...
*2015 was a busy year ( https://inkbunny.net/news_archive.php ) *: *over 210,000 submissions ( https://inkbunny.net/search_process.php?days=365&orderby=favs ) * - a ~15% increase - and *55,000 new me...
A week since our huge release ( https://inkbunny.net/journalview.php?id=206073 ) , we have a smaller update to improve performance, security and usability. *Key issues resolved* * Alphabetic sort i...
Seeing your response to Inktober ( https://inkbunny.net/journalview.php?id=204011 ) and registering our 300,000th member ( https://inkbunny.net/stats.php ) has filled us with determination! This is ...
We hope you enjoyed Inktober! We've seen *hundreds of pictures ( https://inkbunny.net/search_process.php?text=inktober&stringtype=and&keywords=yes&title=yes&orderby=create_datetime ) * from members ho...
It's been a fun summer! While Inkbunny's administrators were busy adding content servers ( https://inkbunny.net/journalview.php?id=189014 ) , our development team has been hard at work bringing you a ...
Our new cache network ( https://inkbunny.net/journalview.php?id=180922 ) reduced the volume of Inkbunny's international public content traffic by up to 86%. This was great for members on the West Coa...
This release has something for everyone! As usual, we've bolded the most important parts. *-Beta- Release 71* * Added: *A database-driven content-distribution network ( https://inkbunny.net/journalv...
Inkbunny's main server is in Europe – the Netherlands, to be precise. As noted in our donation drive Q&A ( https://inkbunny.net/journalview.php?id=160243 ) , this limited access speeds for many of our...
Inkbunny's "Popular" section ( https://inkbunny.net/popular_process.php ) is intended to give high-quality work an extra chance to be seen, and to give visitors a fair impression of what's available ...
A reconfiguration of Inkbunny's main storage array has increased usable submission storage by 50% ( https://inkbunny.net/journalview.php?id=166817 ) . This brings us in line with our new backup serve...
Last month's donation drive ( https://inkbunny.net/journalview.php?id=161011 ) was an outstanding success, with *over a hundred individual donors ( https://inkbunny.net/donations.php ) *. After a fe...
*In brief:* Cox cable ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cox_Communications ) users, you should be able to upload and surf Inkbunny reliably again. Over the last fortnight we've received reports of upl...
*Update:* We met our goal, then exceeded it by 30%! Read about what we spent the excess on ( https://inkbunny.net/journalview.php?id=164831 ) . Hosting fees are always at the back of your mind when ...
Going to Midwest FurFest ( https://www.furfest.org/ ) ? Got ideas for how to make the fandom better with innovative new software? Drop by the CompuFur hackathon ( https://www.anthrobot.org/mff-2014/ )...
We've updated the site with the following changes, fixes and new features! *Beta 70* * Added: *A bunch of new site banners!* Many thanks to the artists who created them. Hover over the site logo to ...
Due to a new attack ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security#POODLE_attack ) , Inkbunny has removed support for an old protocol used for secure connections. Like SHA-1, which we disco...
*In brief:* Inkbunny is now more secure, but some very old browsers and devices may no longer trust it. *Why change?* Google and Microsoft are driving a migration to SHA-2 ( https://en.wikipedia.org...
It's been a long while since we posted updates about site development, but you can rest assured that work has continued at a rapid pace and updates are being applied to the live site regularly. We h...
Many of you will have heard of the "Heartbleed" bug ( http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-26969629 ) , which has been present in a widely-used security library for the last two years. Inkbunny keeps it...
More updates! * Added: *Users can now choose to remove their own accounts* via the Account Settings page. Account removal has a *two day delay* once chosen, during which you can choose to cancel the ...
We are now running site revision Beta 66 ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEDq34Ah2UA#t=106 ) . Thanks everyone for your patience with these frequent mini-updates. We're focusing on database optimis...
We have recently upgraded the site to Revision Beta 65. The focus for this update has been optimisation and speed improvements, and we have had some great success! *Updates* * Added: *Steam account...
We have updated the site to version 64. The most significant changes in this version are a *greatly improved image processor* that should provide better quality resized images and fix some known imag...
Hi everyone, I feel this news journal needs more of a personal touch than usual, so allow me to introduce myself. I am starling, founder and creator of Inkbunny. Without further ado, I would like to...
*Hosting costs for our servers are due at the end of this month, so we need donations ( https://inkbunny.net/donations.php ) !* If you have even just a few dollars to spare, please see our donations ...
We have updated the site to version 63. The most interesting additions today are the Gallery Statistics page and the Faving Users list. *Gallery Stats* is a link at the top of every userpage that wi...
Just thought we'd mention that Inkbunny is fast approaching an exciting milestone. At the preset signup rate, we should hit 200,000 total registered members in about one month's time! Since our rece...
A small number of Inkbunny users are reporting access problems since our last server move. ~~~ Quote: Note: If you have access issues and you use software called Hamachi or EasyVPN, or have eve...
The Inkbunny site has been updated to Revision Beta 62. The most noticeable change is the loss of Tweets from userpages. Due to policy and code changes by Twitter, it is no long practical for us to l...
Hi everyone Some users have been reporting access problems since we moved to the new server. We have found that in some cases those users have been using VPN software called Hamachi ( https://en.wi...
We have just completed the move to a shiny new server! It is much bigger and more powerful than our last one, which was getting to be over two years old ( https://inkbunny.net/journalview.php?id=97079...
Thanks to a whole pile of much-appreciated donations ( https://inkbunny.net/donations.php ) , we're able to afford a shiny new server ( https://inkbunny.net/journalview.php?id=97079 ) ! As we're movi...
Inkbunny is growing fast ( https://inkbunny.net/stats.php ) , and it's time to upgrade our main server, which is now over two years old. The new server will give us twice the processing capacity, more...
A recent (planned) outage of the Twitter API servers has ended, so the Post to Twitter functions on Inkbunny should be working again too. If you still get an Authentication Failed error when trying t...
We updated the site yesterday! Full details follow. *Updates for Revision Beta 61* * Added: *New sponsor ranks! ( https://inkbunny.net/donations.php#details ) * There are now *Emerald, Ruby and Diam...
A bug was causing the sponsor system to mistakenly message past sponsors every hour about a downgraded sponsor level. This has been happening since the update about 4 hours ago. The messages will st...
Due to service disruptions on Twitter's servers, user's may notice errors when trying to post items with "Announce on Twitter" turned on. The Twitter service status can be seen here: https://dev.twit...
Our next quarterly hosting fees are due! If anyone could spare a few dollars and donate to help us out ( https://inkbunny.net/donations.php ) , that would be much appreciated. If you could spread the ...
This is just a quick update about some recent changes! Full details about the latest site version will be announced in the next few days. *Please report any new bugs ( https://inkbunny.net/ticketview...
This is some tech info for people using the API ( http://wiki.inkbunny.net/wiki/API ) . We forgot to mention one addition to the API in the update for revision Beta 58 on 6th May 2013 ( http://wiki.i...
We have updated the site to Revision Beta 59. There were a few important security improvements to the Private Message system that we wanted to push through fast, so this update is focused almost enti...
We've added Donation and IB Gear links to the top menu bar. Did you already notice? :P It was a shame to lose that nice empty space. But to help keep the site funded, we have to draw more attention t...
We are pleased to announce the winners for the Inkbunny T-Shirt Competition ( https://inkbunny.net/journalview.php?id=77698 ) , which was held to celebrate Inkbunny's 3rd birthday. The Inkbunny staff...
Hi everyone Yep, another site update! Two in two weeks is probably some kind of record for us. :P Just a small one compared to the last, but with one major security improvement. *Changes for Revisi...
Hi everyone The Inkbunny T-Shirt Competition ( https://inkbunny.net/journalview.php?id=77698 ) has officially closed and the moderators are now considering their decision! We will announce the winn...
Hi everyone This notice is for anyone using the Inkbunny API ( http://wiki.inkbunny.net/wiki/API ) . We have changed from a simple 4-bit per character md5 style session ID, to a 6 bit per character ...
Hi everyone We just updated our security system to be a bit stronger (see this journal ( https://inkbunny.net/journalview.php?id=81398 ) ). The side effect is that everyone has had to log in again, ...
Hi everyone, There is a site security update we're about to roll out that will increase the strength of our session IDs. This update will be run in the next day or two and we will announce a new sit...
Hi everyone! A couple of days ago we updated the site to a new version. There have been about 100 fixes and changes since the last version, so it represents a lot of work. Many of the changes are sub...
Hi everyone We're running a new version of Inkbunny. There have been about 100 changes and bugfixes so there's a lot to go through when we finally get the changelog published (next journal, in a da...
Hi everyone The issue stated in our previous journal ( https://inkbunny.net/journalview.php?id=79456 ) should be fixed now. There may be a bit of a delay whenever you create an account or sign in o...
Hi everyone There is a problem with Google Captcha that is making Account Creation impossible at this time. It also affects anywhere the Google Captcha appears (that box with the random words you ha...
Hi everyone More tech stuff for those interested! This post will be interesting to some people, and gibberish to others. Just what does adding SSD disks and doubling our RAM to 32GB do for our site ...
Hi everyone This post is for anyone curious about what hardware goes in to keeping Inkbunny ticking. Inkbunny's user base is growing rapidly so it's time to upgrade our main server "Fluttershy" agai...
Hi everyone This is just a reminder that the Inkbunny 3rd Birthday T-Shirt Competition only has about *3 weeks left!* Make sure your T-shirt design submissions are uploaded to Inkbunny and tagged wi...
Hi everyone *Happy 3rd Birthday!* Inkbunny is turning 3! We've grown up in leaps and bounds from our early days. We have a thriving community that is fun to be a part of, and that is growing rapidly...
Hi everyone *The Inkbunny API ( http://wiki.inkbunny.net/wiki/API ) now has an interface to return the logged in user's watchlist. http://wiki.inkbunny.net/wiki/API#User_Watchlist* This may be usef...
Hi everyone Embedding of Inkbunny images directly (hotlinking) on other sites is now blocked. You can still have links on other sites that users click to go see the submission just fine. The new blo...
Hi everyone Thanks to a bug report by mobkiller ( https://inkbunny.net/mobkiller ) we have discovered a problem with very very long Private Message threads. *If you have a Private Message thread w...
Hi everyone Inkbunny was offline for about 7 hours today and we have just come back online. A power supply and UPS failure meant the server was hard-reset 3 times within a few minutes before going o...
Hi everyone Our Wiki site is back. Please take a look at http://wiki.inkbunny.net/ and please report any problems. *Note: Some users may have to wait up to 24 hours for the new Wiki site to appear....
Hi everyone Due to technical issues on our new host, our Wiki site has been offline a lot longer than expected. The new hosting company is apologetic and they are working on figuring out why their a...
Hi everyone We just had to replace the Twitter widget that appears on Inkbunny userpages (if the user has Twitter enabled for their Inkbunny account). Twitter changed their API which meant our old w...
Hi everyone Some of you may have noticed the Inkbunny Wiki is down. We're moving it to a new host and it's taking a bit longer to than expected to get the new account set up. We hope it'll be back o...
Hi everyone Here are the updates for revision 56, which was released yesterday. *Updates* * Added: There are now -Strikethrough- and *Title Text* options for text formatting using our BBCode. Thes...
Hi everyone We have just updated to a new site version. Please report any new bugs you see! There have been a lot of fundamental changes to the database code that will improve speed, but they could ...
Hi everyone We have just released *build 55* of Inkbunny (well okay it was 12+ hours ago but who's counting?). :P This update was mainly to take advantage of new features in the database software we...
Hi everyone The site was updated a few hours ago and we are now running *build 54*. There's just a few changes in this one but they are important enough that we felt they warranted an early release ...
Hi everyone We have just updated the site to a new version. This is just a quick announcement about the most interesting changes. We have added *Comment Locking to Submissions and Journals*, which m...
Hi everyone We were recently contacted by a researcher from University College Cork, Ireland. They have asked if we could encourage members of the Inkbunny site to take part in a simple online surv...
Hi everyone Site access has been a bit patchy in the last couple of hours due to some network issues and some misbehaving downloader scripts. We have reconfigured the firewall so everything should be...
Hi everyone This update is for users of the Inkbunny API. The Search and Submission Details interfaces now return the pagecount per submission. This means you can quickly find out the number of page...
Hi everyone We have just upgraded the network to better deal with connection flooding. But a result of this may be that people with unusual settings or modules installed in their browsers designed to...
Hi everyone We have just made a couple of changes to the Community Keywording feature in response to feedback. Previously it would give you a maximum of one notice per submission when new keywords w...
Hi everyone We are pleased to announce the launch of a brand new feature called *Community Keywording*. The feature is now live and available for everyone. Community Keywording allows users to make ...
Hi everyone I forgot to mention one important update to the API in our last newsletter. * Changed: *API* – The Keywords field in the Submission Edit interface is no longer required. Previously you h...
Hi everyone We are very pleased to announce that we have finished live closed-beta testing of a brand new Community Keywording feature. This will allow users to suggest keywords on other user's accou...
Hi everyone We have just made some major updates to the site. There will be a full announcement about them soon, so watch this account for more info! In the meantime please do not be concerned if yo...
Hi everyone We used to limit gallery view to 30 thumbnails per page, but we are now trialling a maximum of 60 per page. This lets you see more thumbnails without having to click "Next Page" so ofte...
Hi everyone Inkbunny now supports the "Do Not Track" feature which is becoming widely supported by modern browsers. This tells our web tracker that you do not want your browsing data included in our...
Hi everyone We just upgraded Inbunny to version 52. There were a few bugfixes and smaller changes and a couple of big ones. The most important are that you can now sort your Private Messages by rea...
Hi everyone, It's been a while since our last official update announcement. Lots of changes have been made during this time but each one has been applied as required and we have either chosen not to ...
Hi all We have made some improvements to the keyword auto-suggester. It's that thing that pops up when you start typing keywords in to a new submission or in to the Search page, plus a few other plac...
Hi everyone Some people may be getting SSL certificate errors when accessing the site. We're fixing that issue now and it should be resolved shortly! Thanks IB *Update:* A new SSL certificate has...
Hi everyone This is for anyone programming apps using the Inkbunny API. We have added new output fields but this should not affect any existing apps. We have just added fields to the Search and Subm...
Hi everyone Some Chrome users may have noticed that Flash video or games/animations/etc weren't playing correctly. It's actually a regression bug in Chrome itself. That bug should now be fixed with ...
Hi everyone To make MP4 video play correctly in the embedded player on the site, you need to ensure it has certain encoding options set. Help for the correct video encoding settings can now be found...
Hi everyone Some users have noticed upload issues in the past two hours or so. Usually this would show up as a blank submission with no file attached. It was caused by a disk space issue in the temp...
Hi everyone A bug was preventing users from changing descriptions on submissions (and possibly prevented changing other details too). That issue should now be fixed! Please report any other bugs y...
Hi everyone We haven't had a major update announcement for a while, but there have been only small but urgent security and efficiency changes made in the last couple of months. We will summarise thos...
Two galleries in downtown San Jose will be hosting open-to-the-public furry art shows concurrent with Further Confusion 2012, from January 12-21. Inkbunny is not associated with these shows, but we wa...
Hi everyone The dimension limit on image uploads has been increased from 16 to 36 megapixels. This means any pixel ratio (such as 6000x6000) that multiplies to no more than 36 megapixels (36,000,000...
Hi everyone We have re-enabled some of the Search filter options that were turned off for a long time. https://inkbunny.net/search.php *Please go and try out a few searches with various options and...
Hi everyone We're now running a totally new version of the database software at the core of the site. While we don't expect it to cause any problems, please report any strange new bugs via the Suppo...
Hi everyone We're expecting an extended downtime as we upgrade the database software to a new major version. We will be taking the system down in about 6 hours from the time this journal was posted. ...
Hopefully we squashed the bugs this time! New time-of-day changer code is in place so the Equestria background should change as your local time changes, as long as you choose "Dynamic" as the time of...
We'll be going offline in a few minutes for a restart. All going well, it should only take 5 minutes or so. Watch the Site Notice at the top of the page for the exact restart time! This is to fix a ...
Hi everyone After this news email goes out, *we are setting EVERYONE's Site News email option to OFF*. *If you want to keep receiving these site news emails you must OPT BACK IN* to site news on you...
Hi everyone We are now running site version Beta 50. The latest changes include: * many fixes for the Keyword Autosuggester to make it more useful and less annoying. * a new logo option by Roare...
IB will be offline for maintenance soon. We will be offline for up to 2 hours for a site upgrade. Watch the Site Notice bar for the exact time the shutdown will occur. It should be about 1 hr from th...
Nothing too exciting; but we have to upgrade the OS due to a minor denial-of-service vulnerability in the webserver software we use. It's something the OS and software package providers have reported....
Hi everyone The keyword suggester feature is brand new and experimental so it has some issues. It should now remain for a maximum of 3 seconds unless a selection is made within the suggester or you ...
Hi everyone, We have a bunch of site feature updates to report. But before we begin... *Congrats to SoFurry 2.0* Firstly we'd like to say congratulations to Toumal and all the developers at SoFurr...
Just a quick note about the latest feature updates. A full news journal about them will be posted soon. *Keyword Autocomplete* You may notice we now have a keyword autocomplete feature when you go ...
Our database needs scrubbing. It eats too much disk! But to fix that we have to put the site in to maintenance mode or you'll all wonder why everything is going soooooo slooooooooow. Scrubbing is hard...
We upgraded the site again yesterday after a bug was confirmed in the New Submissions counter. Thanks again to Zeikcied ( https://inkbunny.net/Zeikcied ) for figuring out the exact circumstances tha...
Thanks to the live site notice feature, we can now actually tell you when this is about to happen. :D You've got one hour before that big scary countdown hits zero! We may be totally off the air for...
Hi everyone *The Big Stuff* The important things in this update have already been discussed in a previous journal ( https://inkbunny.net/journalview.php?id=11996 ) that we quickly put up after the...
We just ran a mini update to add a few really important features and changes. This is just a quick note about what they were. A full official update journal will come later. We have a *new Live Site ...
[largethumb]114672[/largethumb] An absolutely epic gift to Inkbunny from Kantra ( https://inkbunny.net/Kantra ) with art by kerijiano ( https://furaffinity.net/user/kerijiano ) It is now part o...
Zeikcied ( https://inkbunny.net/Zeikcied ) spotted an odd problem where Updated submissions weren't being counted under New Submissions. They'd still appear in the list but the counter wouldn't go u...
Hi everyone Lots of updates to list. The site was actually upgraded yesterday. These journals take a long time to write as I have to dig through the task tracker to find the interesting stuff! *Upd...
Hi everyone As you might have noticed, we are trying out a new dropdown menu system. In theory it should work for people with modern mobile devices. But there's a chance it will cause trouble! Some...
Anyone experiencing problems with the Quote and Edit Comment buttons should find it all working properly now. Please report any ongoing issues! Thanks IB...
Some users may have noticed that for the last 24 hours they weren't being notified of New Submissions. The New Submissions counter that appears in the menu was not being updated correctly. All the s...
*It's Inkbunny's 1st birthday!* The site went live to the public 1 year ago today. Thank you to everyone for your support. We've grown up much faster than we expected. All the help we have receive...
Hi everyone Developers working with the API will notice that the types returned for values in JSON mode can often be unpredictable. Sometimes they are string or integer types when you were expecting...
You know that whole thing where the submission page reloads when you fav it? Bloody annoying. I finally got sick of it. Doesn't do that any more. :D Enjoy! IB PS Please report any bugs with the new ...
Hi everyone The Site Code Revisions List ( http://wiki.inkbunny.net/wiki/Revisions ) has been updated. It now includes details of the three most recent site code changes: * Beta 45 - 2nd May 2011 *...
Hi everyone *I'd like to say thank you to all our Sponsors ( https://inkbunny.net/donations.php ) (including the anonymous ones)*, as their generosity over the last few weeks has allowed us to upgra...
Just a quick note about some important fixes. * Fixed some bugs with the private files (friends-only) security system. Friends-only music/flash/video files now stream properly and won't lock your who...
I know I said we wouldn't add more for a while.. but the results are just too fun. Thanks to Mitzeh ( https://inkbunny.net/Mitzeh ) (swirly paint bunny), @tiler (bunny with scroll) and Skwirl ( ht...
We just made some changes to ensure that direct image source URLs will be blocked if the file is "Hidden" or set "Friends-only", unless the user viewing the file has logged in to Inkbunny and is allow...
Anyone experiencing problems with the Banner or Background changer buttons may find that disabling Adblock Plus just for the Inkbunny site will fix it. We have made changes for the next version that ...
Thanks to DrJavi ( https://inkbunny.net/DrJavi ) and @CLTheRaccoon for the new banners. Wave your mouse over the image in the banner to get the banner changer controls. Press the left and right arro...
Some of you might have noticed all the embedded thumbnails in comments, journals, etc were showing as blocked. It affected any thumbnails embedded using BBCode in text. That was a nasty bug but we squ...
I'm super late with the update journal again, sorry! Most of the following changes were made to the site about 4 days ago. Be sure to check out the journal about the Friends-only private content feat...
Just fixed two Friend-feature-related bugs... * Friends-only submissions will now correctly increase your Unread Submissions count (assuming you are a friend of the person who posted it). * Nuking a...
Hi everyone We just upgraded Inkbunny and there's a bunch of new stuff to tell you about. But it takes us a while to get the list of changes together and write a journal about it. So we'll tell you ...
Hi everyone There's a bunch of people who still have a small balance on their Inkbunny sales account. To check if you have a balance in your sales account, click the Sales button in the menu bar. T...
The Inkbunny Mailserver is down so outgoing mail from the system will be delayed. Nothing has gone out since about 6hrs ago. Fixing now! *Update*: All fixed!...
The biggest change this week is the addition of Sponsor Icons. As a way of saying Thank You to all the members whose donations keep Inkbunny running; we have added a Sponsor icon that displays next t...
We're currently trying to fix an odd SSL Certificate error that some users are experiencing. Usually the issue will show up once out of every few pageloads and will show a message something like "ssl...
Anyone trying to access Inkbunny for the next few hours will get security certificate errors. Our security certificate expired! Sorry about that. Totally the head admin's fault. HE SHALL REMAIN NAMELE...
Mostly cosmetic enhancements this week. There is one that makes a big difference to browsing; Thumbnails that lead to multi-page submissions now tell you how many pages there are. It shows the page c...
It's been a whole month since our last update announcement. But this has largely been due to one very busy developer who has only had time to make changes but not update the revisions page and make a ...
Anyone experiencing login and password reset problems in the last 15 hours should now try again. A problem with our firewall configuration was preventing the Google reCaptcha image challenge software...
Hi everyone! *HTTPS Everywhere – Firefox Addon to enhance security* Advice about using the HTTPS Everywhere add-on to enhance security on Firefox has been added to the Wiki. http://wiki.inkbunny.ne...
We have made some major updates to our software that may cause problems for some users. If anyone is having problems logging in, posting submissions or leaving comments, or any other problems at all, ...
Just a mini news update. We have now made Keywording and Ratings tags compulsory. When you first upload a submission, the Edit Submission screen will not let you progress without adding keywords and ...
Hi everyone Another small but big change has been made to the site. And it's actually something a bit experimental for a high bandwidth image site like ours. Sorry you all had to remember your horrib...
Hi! It's been a short week for Inkbunny, with us being offline for half of it! Thank you to everyone for being patient. The downtime was absolutely necessary and was worthwhile in the end. *Upload...
Hi everyone We may be offline for a couple of days as we repair a major hardware fault. If everything goes well, then we may be back much sooner. Fingers crossed! For the latest updates on the repa...
Hi everyone More site updates to report! Details are at the end of this journal. Many people have been asking about our “Stars” system. The following is from our help page on Stars in the Inkbunny ...
*Community HOWTOs* Inkbunny has a lot of features and new concepts that can take some time to master. Community members are starting to contribute HOWTO guides, which help explain common tasks or n...
Hi everyone, Many people have reported upload issues when sending files over about 3MB to Inkbunny. This problem has gone on for quite a while and we still have no idea what is causing it. It does ...
*Welcome to our new users* Please be patient with Support requests as our admin staff are a lot busier than usual lately! Things should settle down before too long. To open a Support Ticket, log in...
Just a bunch of fixes this week! And one optimisation. Nothing too exciting, unless bug squashing is your kink. I noticed this is the update to revision *34*. I now declare this "34 week". You know w...
Boo! Happy Halloween! We have tricks AND treats to list this week. *Feature Updates and Fixes* * *Elapsed times in the Notices Portal now update dynamically* without page reload (eg: where it says...
Today we made the most important change to our site since we launched. To the outside world it probably doesn't look too much different. But to regular users of the site, the difference will be dram...
"The chaos of the art of the furry fandom is one of its strengths. Unlike other fandoms, the gods of this cult were made by its members." -nightphaser Here's the fun upda...
Some artists expressed concerns about making the HiRes/Sales MD5s public. So we have changed the display so the HiRes/Sales MD5s are now only visible to the submission owner. The submission owner wi...
Some very useful updates to report this week! *Share Buttons for Social Networking* *Every submission and journal now has “Share” buttons* that make it quick and easy to share links to that page vi...
We have just added social networking share buttons to the Submission view page. So right next to the "Fav" star buttons on every submission, and on every journal, there are now buttons to quickly link...
Hi everyone, Just some new features and bug fixes to report this week. *Upload for the API* The Inkbunny API ( http://wiki.inkbunny.net/API ) is a nifty set of scripts that allow external applica...
Just updated the Revisions page and moved it over to our wiki http://wiki.inkbunny.net/wiki/Revisions I think that list looks pretty good for just a few months of development. :D...
Hi everyone, *Back to the Tweet again* The most important news this week is that our Twitter functionality is back. We finally got Twitter authentication working again after they pulled the rug out...
Hi everyone, Just a handful of updates to report. But they are important ones! *Site Updates* * New Feature - *The API (Application Programming Interface) has been officially released*. This allow...
Hi everyone, There's a few little tidbits to report this week! Things have been quiet lately on the News front, so we've been saving things up to cram into one more flavorsome journal. Remember you ...
We need to get the word out there about our little site so it can grow up big! If you'd like to give us some support then one great way is to place our advertising banners on your site or in your for...
Just a note to anyone taking part in the Ad Banner Competition this week; you are allowed to use the official site backgrounds as part of your ad banners. Thanks to Lando ( https://inkbunny.net/Lando ...
Want to give us a helping hand and get a chance to win some money? Inkbunny needs ad banners! We are running a competition to get some good ad banners created quickly. The banners will be used to he...
We're still managing one update a week. Hopefully we can keep up that pace! It's satisfying watching our art and user base grow. Even though I'm impatient to see it grow faster, this gives us time to ...
We managed to get a nice assortment of features and bug fixes finished this week. Character Sheets are probably the most interesting addition. It's a brand new feature and we're still in the process ...
Hi everyone, We just finished updating Inkbunny to Beta Version 22. There's one big important change and a bunch of smaller useful ones. Full list is at the end of this journal. *No More Gray Boxes...
Another week has gone by. And we just keep growing! It's going to take time before we get to the level of submissions and activity we are really aiming for, but this is a great start. Inkbunny is a s...
I added a couple of new Gallery Management features today: * New Feature - *Mass select and move items to/from your Scraps Gallery*. You an choose this action in the dropdown of actions on your G...
By popular demand, we have set Guest Blocking ON for all submissions rated Adult. You need to turn it OFF for any Adult submissions that you want Guests to be able to see. Guests are users who do not...
Hi everyone We have just released Inkbunny Beta 19. In this edition we have added two important new features. *Guests can now choose to see Mature/Adult work* "Guests" means anyone who is viewin...
Hi everyone, Just a small software update today, but an important one! *We now accept Mastercard* as a payment method. You can pay for purchases and donations via Visa or Mastercard now without havi...
One week has gone by since we launched. 4,500+ new members have signed up, 7,000+ new submissions have been posted, and we're still growing. It may seem like a lot of signups for one week, but it's g...
It's great to see so much excellent work being uploaded for Print and Digital sales! We're always trying to find ways to encourage customers to buy artists' work. So as part of that effort we've drop...
Hi everyone, A special welcome goes to our thousands of new members! We weren't expecting such a big response so soon. We got 2,000+ new members in about 24 hours so things have been running a bit s...
Let there be light! The site can now be accessed publicly at https://inkbunny.net/ Remember we are still on a Beta version, which means we expect there to be more bugs and problems that we still nee...
This is it! The actual definite totally for real final update before we launch! How do I know? Well, once we've all played with this update for a few hours and we're happy there's no massive holes in...
Here's a few tips from your friendly Inkbunny moderator before we go live . . . I've noticed some artists uploading their best mature work here. That's good! We want that! But you should also strongl...
Another big update, when we promised no more big updates before launch. I hope you'll forgive us. :3 - There are *important changes to the Terms of Service* and Acceptable Content Policy pages. I don...
Well that didn't take days.. it's nice to be wrong sometimes! We are now running on our new server Elmo. Quad Core Xeon, 1TB disk, 4GB ram and unlimited bandwidth. The new server is waaay faster th...
Hi everyone We have made a good deal with our hosting provider to get hold of a quad-core server that is powerful enough to deal with the massive traffic we'll experience after launch day. It is bas...
Looking at our development task list, it seems realistic to set the first week of June as our target launch date. Yes, a whole week can be a launch date. Okay!? D: Shhh. It's getting close! Obviousl...
The numbers keep getting bigger! Launch day grows closer.. we promise. We haven't added any major features for a couple of weeks now and things are looking very stable. Please keep hammering the site...
We've decided to get rid of the 5% Payment Processing Fee for Alertpay payments. That means it's now cheaper for everyone to buy stuff on Inkbunny! This does not affect how much money artists make...
Lucky Version 13! We have a new background system that needs some thorough testing. It should scale to match your monitor maximum dimensions (take a look at it with your browser in Full Screen ...
I'd like to congratulate Dktorzi ( https://inkbunny.net/Dktorzi ) and [iconname]markwulfgar[/iconname] for being the first artists to receive payouts for sales and donations on Inkbunny! These tw...
We're sneaking in a couple more updates before launch. Lots of feedback from people has been helping us a lot these last few days! Please keep it coming. - Changes to the Philosophy ( https://in...
There's some nice new things for this mini-emergency-update: * Bulk Uploads feature allowing users to upload a whole lot of submissions at once in a zip file. Just go to "Create" > "Submission...
We just released a special update that adds a whole lot of fixes and some major improvements to the Story/Writing module. We also got rid of the "Radioactive" rating. More on that below. *Story ...
Hi everyone Now that we are in the final stages of testing and only weeks away from launching, we'd like you all to invite up to 5 friends to join Inkbunny Beta. If you'd like to ask anyone to j...
We expect this to be the last major update before we launch in two weeks or so. From here on, it should just be bug fixes and minor improvements. This has been a massive update and it took us a...
Sorry, I should have included this in the last announcement. Just been discussing this with some of you in the last few minutes! Our prices compare very well to other Print sales sites like RedBubb...
I've increased the base price for Prints by 10%. The Fee for Digital Sales has also gone up by 10%. There will not be any other changes to the pricing of sales items before launch. I expect the ...
Hi everyone I'd like to welcome the new Inkbunny moderators; keito ( https://inkbunny.net/keito ) , GreenReaper ( https://inkbunny.net/GreenReaper ) , bencoon ( https://inkbunny.net/bencoon ) , ...
We added some emergency updates to fix bugs with unread submission counts. The unread submissions count should now be correct all the time. Please tell me if it isn't. You might need to "Nuke all u...
We're back with a new version. Please let me know if anything behaves oddly! We're into the final part of the race towards launch day. There will probably be just one more version after this one be...
Hi everyone We have reduced the pixel size requirements for all prints sizes. This means you can print lower resolution images at print sizes that weren't possible before. So you may find that i...
We're now running Harmony version 0.9g Preflight Beta 7. Please let me know if you see anything odd happening. Mostly the big updates were to do with the Unread Messages and New Submissions screens...
Hi everyone We have just discussed the print sizes with our provider and they have agreed to make available a 5.5" x 8.5" print. This is exactly half of the smallest size we previously had. 5.5"...
Hey all Thanks for the feedback so far! A few fun bugs have been experienced by a few of you. The most common is odd counts in the New Submissions and Messages sections. We know about those prob...
...don't you feel more fully featured and less buggy now? Technically you're all now using "Harmony v0.9e Preflight Beta 5" and not horribly buggy featureless old version 0.9d Preflight Beta 4 from...
This journal is mainly an excuse to make sure the news announcements system is working. Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee!...
