Version Information

2.23

This version contains fixes for a few artists that refused to download

• Fix: Artists with special characters in their name that were supported by FA in the past can now be downloaded
• Fix: Scanning a new artist for content should no longer report the artist as already scanned but then scan it anyways
• Fix: Scanner should no longer report an artist as "already scanned more than a minute ago" when scanning an existing artist for new content

2.22

This release contains a few experimental changes in the hope that the queue is not always full.

• Change: Artists cannot be scanned more often than once every 30 days instead of 14
• Feature: A captcha is now necessary for scanning new content
• Change: The IP restriction was expanded so it includes similar addresses to thwart people using multiple addresses
• Change: An IP can scan at most once every 12 hours instead of 30 minutes

2.21

Bugfix

• Fixed a bug that caused an overflow on the artist page if they have a lot of big files

2.20

Database update

• The database system was changed due to furarchiver occasionally crashing unexpectedly
• Furarchiver was updated to .NET 8
• The downloader will no longer try to repeatedly download broken files

2.19

Bugfix

• Fix broken stats on the main page

2.18

Bugfix

• Fixed a bug that had a small chance to crash furarchiver if the timing was just right

2.17

Security update

• Updated libraries this application uses to keep up with safe versions. This has no visible effect to users

2.16

Small improvements and bugfixes

• New images from the downloader only stream in on the first page of the gallery
• Show the file size in the file info box on the artist info page
• Add link to the gallery to get back to the artist information view
• Add menu option to blur gallery images in your browser. Can be useful for screenshotting or if you have people around you that can see your screen.

2.15

Gallery improvements

• Adds paging to the gallery to no longer load all images at once, which becomes problematic with big artists

2.14

Artist scan bugfixes

• It was not possible to search for existing artists if the IP is restricted by a new artist scan
• Scan restriction lowered to 30 minutes

2.13

Artist scan tweaks

• This update limits users to scan for at most one artist per hour
• A specific artist cannot be scanned more than once every 14 days

2.12

Cache improvements

• This update improves handling of cached content

2.11

Performance updates

• Galleries should now load faster and not gobble up all your bandwidth
• Resolved a problem that caused an error if the artist list was not yet available directly after a restart

2.10

UI updates and scanning tweaks

• The artist count in the footer should be more accurate.
• You cannot rescan an artist as often to give less popular artists a better chance

2.9

UI and functionality tweaks

• The footer now shows the number of artists too. It also shows the limits now
• The directory scan queue should no longer overflow when a scan gets stuck

2.8

SEO improvements

• The site was improved to make it work better with search engines. There should be no visual change for visitors.

2.7

Various bugfixes

• This should fix a few things behind the scenes that have accumulated over time but were not worthy of their own release.

2.6

Fix downloader incompatibility

• This should fix the "Invalid chunked encoding line: ###" type of error

2.5

Better error information

• The red error box that appears on some pages has had its error message improved.

2.4

Better downloader implementation

• This should fix the "Unimplemented transfer type" problems.

2.3

More downloader fixes

• The previous fix from 2.2 did not work for long. This should be a more permanent solution.

2.2

Fix downloader and directory scan no longer working since latest backend outage

• Directory scan and file downloader should be working again now

2.1

Add fixes for the artist and file name handler

• Permit download of artists with some special characters in their name
• Permit file names consisting of an outdated name format
• Directory scan for some artists can now show progress

2.0

Add 3rd party login

• This version adds Patreon support.

1.11

Fix directory scan queue

• Resolved an issue where the directory scan would occasionally show that an artist was not in the queue at all after sucessfully scanning for it.

1.10

More improvements

• The artist scan page occasionally failed to load which should now be fixed
• Monitored artists should no longer be prematurely be marked as complete

1.9

This contains various improvements

• File creation date is now retained when creating a zip file
• You can now have files grouped by type in the archive
• The FA "Image Not Found" file is no longer downloaded for new artists.

1.8

This version introduces a new directory scan mechanism that should avoid a proxy response timeout in your browser for big artists. A few UI changes have been made to make Furarchiver easier to use.

• Long directory scans no longer cause a server error response
• Fix "Open Gallery" button in message boxes occasionally not working
• The green/red backend status boxes now update periodically
• The artist overview now has a link to open the original FA profile
• The artist search page has a new feature where you can fix some wrong FA user names
• Future version updates will show a popup

1.7

This version mostly contains changes not visible to users.

• The artist search now makes suggestions again
• Artists that still have files in the download queue cannot be scanned for new content anymore
• Added hotlink protection that can be turned on if people start hotlinking too many images

1.6

Ya'll horny bastards made it necessary that we add a limit to the queue size. This is to ensure that all pending artists complete in a timely manner. Otherwise people keep adding more artists faster than the system can download them, and you end up with a ton of artists that take ages to download instead of a few that are reasonably fast.

• Queue size now has a limit for pending artist count and pending file count

1.5

Contact form

• This version introduces a contact form to reach us easier

1.4

Download fixes

• This fixes the broken zip download

1.3

General performance and reliability improvements. Only a few visible changes.

• Fixed possible memory leak
• Task list is now occasionally saved
• Watch list will only fully expand when hovering over it
• Completed artists no longer show a dialog on their own if notification permission was not granted

1.2

Fixed a problem that prevented some files from showing up in the gallery viewer

• Fixed file name encoding

1.1

First update after the big influx of users and tasks

• Downloads are now evenly distributed across artists. This stops the archival process of small artists from getting punished by big artists
• Status API was optimized to not bog down the server too much if the task list is large
• Restarting the service adds all directory scans from the last 24h to the task list again
• Ability for the application to be locked, or global messages to be displayed

1.0

First public version of the new system. Compared to the old system this one brings many major improvements. Versioning has been reset to 1.0 because this uses completely different underlying technology and is a full rewrite from scratch.

• Introduced a database to hopefully speed up file scans
• Downloads from the backend no longer require the user to be present and happen fully on the server
• Limited number of download threads should remove some pressure from the backend
• Regular backend health check that halts all downloads if the backend is down
• Notification system to alert visitor when his artist completes all downloads
• Validation of downloaded images to reject most corrupt image files
• Optimized zip archive mechanism for faster downloads
• Zip file can be downloaded with and without descriptions
• Visitor can monitor multiple artists at once now without opening multiple tabs
• Directory scan cache to take futher pressure off from the backend
• Gallery viewer