How FAC came to be?

SweetxinsanityxSarah · Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 5:35 am Post subject: How FAC came to be?

Ok I am not entirely sure if this was asked yet, so be gentle on me people.
Let's sit the admins down and ask them; how did Fanart central come into existance? And no not as in "Through the power of the internets." I mean as in what inspired you guys to make this site?

[b]Serious discussion [/b]please and thanks in advance. =P
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Stratadrake · Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 10:28 am Post subject:

It's a long story that doesn't get much exposure.

From what I've heard, around late 2003 there was a small group of South Park fans and while there were already sites catering to South Park fan [i]fiction[/i], they wanted one for South Park fan [i]art[/i]. They built it, people used it for awhile, but as people lost interest with the group and broke up, the staff decided what they should do with a site that nobody's using much anymore, and it became re-envisioned as Fanart Central.
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Battou · Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 11:22 am Post subject:

[quote="Stratadrake"]It's a long story that doesn't get much exposure.

From what I've heard, around late 2003 there was a small group of South Park fans and while there were already sites catering to South Park fan [i]fiction[/i], they wanted one for South Park fan [i]art[/i]. They built it, people used it for awhile, but as people lost interest with the group and broke up, the staff decided what they should do with a site that nobody's using much anymore, and it became re-envisioned as Fanart Central.[/quote]

Actually the site dates back to 2001. We started out as strata mentioned as a site for South Park, initially named "SP Fanart" that. Since then we have changed the site's theme to general fanart, and its name changed to "Fanart Central". Fanart Central registered its domain name on January 18, 2004. On May 19 2006, Fanart Central went offline for a short period, At that time version 2.0 of the site's layout was unveiled and again on September 5 of 2007 version 3.0 of the site's layout was released.

Answer the question at to the inspiration for Fanart Central....Almost All the South Park fans where gone and leaving and the staff at that time broadened the scope by a few metric tons ....OK that is just pure speculation and not the answer but it sounded good.
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Stratadrake · Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 11:48 am Post subject:

Either way, South Park is one of the oldest categories (ID #8) in our system.
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Brianhjh · Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 2:37 pm Post subject:

If you are interested in the personnel:

The very first admin and owner of the site is CstDenis. In the beginning, Lasher, Fallen and Kate eventually became the first forum/chat admins. (Lasher might have come later) Not too sure who was involved in the mainsite cause I never really commented/hung around there. Lasher comes by here regularly, Fallen and Kate went to DA.

Layzcarter eventually became one of the admins, I know she contributed a lot to the blue version of FAC that a lot of you remember. During this time, DG-Sama, Powtaz, Gray, Flea, Amy and Raymei all contributed to the early FAC in some capacity (I think mostly AP). I came here at the end of that period. Eventually Strata got involved and later became one of the admins. (The guy up there). He mostly did category work, I think.

Eventually, Fayore and DF became roleplaying moderators back in the days when we had 20+ people doing rp. DG-Sama was anime/manga moderator. James and Kitzy was made a general moderator. I think he was involved with the grey version we have now. Breloom and I did AP around this period. Battou came by around this time and became heavily involved in the sister project Photo Lucidity. He's also one of the current admins (The second guy up there).

Now most of the former sitehelpers and moderators are gone. Layz still posts here sporadically. Gray is pretty much gone permanently. London was made part of the AP and now she's one of the general moderators. Dark Angel of Light (she really needs a shorter name) is one of the newest site helpers.

Sora does something, I think mostly forum and mainsite coding. Which is a basically invisible job.
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Stratadrake · Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 3:12 pm Post subject:

[quote="Brianhjh"]...forum and mainsite coding. Which is a basically invisible job.[/quote]
True true, and invisible also means thankless. Nobody ever thanks the developers for the new features we melt our brains building....
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cstdenis · Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 5:54 pm Post subject:

Thanks you developers Very Happy

Now get back to work Twisted Evil

Classic FAC: http://web.archive.org/web/20021025131609/http://fanart.ctgameinfo.com/
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unfocused · Moderator Joined: 17 Jul 2004 Posts: 6983 Location: Texas

I've thanked you before Smile

Here are a couple old FAC things:
http://www.frappr.com/fanartcentral
http://s7.photobucket.com/albums/y273/fanartcentral05/A-F/
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Brianhjh · Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 6:42 pm Post subject:

oh shit, Battou lives closest to me.

Hey, Frapper is going offline, It's sad to see a lot of free web services bonking. Not really missing geocities though, or netscape.
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cstdenis · Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 7:49 pm Post subject:

[quote="Brianhjh"]It's sad to see a lot of free web services bonking.[/quote]

I blame the increasing use of ad blockers. SOMETHING still has to pay for a free service.
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SweetxinsanityxSarah · Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 11:53 am Post subject:

Woooow, you guys were a [i]south park [/i]fanart site first?! Now I love you guys even more. xD

And whos says I don't thank Sora? If it werent for Sora, this place would be alot harder to attend to. =P

Blah we gotta start dragging the oldies back from DA, that place is taking wayyyyy too many good people. -sniff-

Ok another serious question, well sorta.

What inspired pheral's design? (Ten bucks kitty from SP! -shot!- xD)
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Stratadrake · Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 11:54 am Post subject:

[quote="SweetxinsanityxSarah"]Blah we gotta start dragging the oldies back from DA, that place is taking wayyyyy too many good people. -sniff-[/quote]
They got good features Sad

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SweetxinsanityxSarah · Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 11:56 am Post subject:

Yeah but I think this place is better, IMO. :3
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London · Moderator Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 6474

It would be difficult to get this information, but it'd be interesting to know what percentage of active FAC users also have deviantart accounts.

It's obvious why an FAC user would also want a deviantart account or vice versa, but I don't really know why someone who is active on dA would want to abandon dA in favor of FAC. I don't really know why I have an FAC account, as I was active on dA long before I even knew this place existed.
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SweetxinsanityxSarah · Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 12:03 pm Post subject:

I saw DA, and to be truthful, wasent all that impressed by it, plus it irked me that you have to sign up to look at certian pictures.

However I have the "Simple and clean" fan-made KH forum to thank for stumbling across FAC. I saw an excellent Bankotsu picture by a fellow forum goer and decided to look around the site more, I had to say I liked the look of the site and all the amazing artwork. (This was before it got over run with thousands of Sonic oc fanart. =x) So yeah, signed up and never looked back. xP
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London · Moderator Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 6474

I have never, ever run into a picture on dA that required a subscription to view. You need a subscription to search for pictures that were submitted ages ago (years and years and years), but the pictures themselves are accessible to everyone.

If you mean you have to sign up to view adult or potentially offensive pictures, then most websites are like that. I think FAC is like that. Youtube is like that. It's not unusual.

Amazing artwork? Are there [i]any[/i] amazing artists on this site that don't also have a dA account?
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Battou · Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 12:14 pm Post subject:

[quote="London"]I have never, ever run into a picture on dA that required a subscription to view. You need a subscription to search for pictures that were submitted ages ago (years and years and years), but the pictures themselves are accessible to everyone.

If you mean you have to sign up to view adult or potentially offensive pictures, then most websites are like that. I think FAC is like that. Youtube is like that. It's not unusual.

Amazing artwork? Are there [i]any[/i] amazing artists on this site that don't also have a dA account?[/quote]

Actually no we don't, the adult content filters where set to show warning thumbnail for guests. Perhaps maybe we should though.
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London · Moderator Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 6474

Ah, okay.

It doesn't really make that much of a difference either way. The time it takes to sign up and log in for FAC, dA, YT, etc, is barely anything.

..on the subject of waiting, is the AP going away any time soon?
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Battou · Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 12:21 pm Post subject:

Not to my knowledge.
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SweetxinsanityxSarah · Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 12:22 pm Post subject:

[quote="Battou"]

Actually no we don't, the adult content filters where set to show warning thumbnail for guests. Perhaps maybe we should though.[/quote]

Nooooo~! I beg thee not to do this! D=

Also not all sites do this, I stumbled across one the library didnt block out that had...ahem interesting pics. X_x oh the horrors. -still scarred-

And another thing, who's idea was it for Sam? Was that Denis's idea as well? o3o
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