Furry Art Pile

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Furry Art Pile (also known as FAP) was an furry art community which opened to the public on 24 September, 2006. It relied on a system of tagging for organizing content.

Addresses:
- Website: http://www.furryartpile.com/
- Livejournal: http://community.livejournal.com/furryartpile/
Founder: ekigyuu
Administrator: ekigyuu
Ran from/to: 24 September 2006 - 27 August 2008

Mature artwork is permitted, but hidden by default. 12,358 works had been uploaded to the site^[1] as of 10 June, 2007. The site hosted 30,077 works as of April 2, 2008.^[2]

The addition of an image-hosting feature named "Embedded FAP" was announced on June 29, 2007.^[3]

Furry Art Pile went down for week in late March 2007, as part of an upgrade to its most recent version.

Furry Art Pile was taken down on August 27, 2008, with the admin stating that it wasn't fun anymore.^[4]^[5]

1 Tagging
2 Full featured search
3 Filters
4 RSS feeds
5 Developer API
6 References

[edit] Tagging

Furry Art Pile's art classification is handled entirely using user-created and selected tags. However, certain tags carry a specific meaning, including the following:

mature: Marks the work as mature, preventing it from being shown by default
draft: Marks the work as unfinished, hiding them from appearing in the user's gallery (unless specifically searched for)
featured: Places the work in the user's "Featured works" gallery, displayed above their normal gallery on their user page

In addition, some tags are used to identify works based on other properties:

user:username Identifies the user that created the work
favby:username Identifies works marked as favorites by the user
type:genre Identifies images (art), writing (prose), or flash-based works (flash)
color:hue Identifies works using the specified color
workid:number Returns works related to the specified work

[edit] Full featured search

Besides being able to browse by tags, Furry Art Pile allows users to search with boolean search operators and spans of time. Search results can be sorted by date uploaded, popularity and relevance to the search string with up to 120 thumbnails per page.

[edit] Filters

Individual tags and users can be filtered or "hidden" with Furry Art Pile's tag filter.

[edit] RSS feeds

Tags, artists and all works are available as RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds:

[1] returns all recent works.
[2] returns recent works that match a tag string.
[3] returns recent works for a specific user.

Syndication feeds for message centres and comment threads are being developed.^[6]

[edit] Developer API

Furry Art Pile features an open developer API called fAPI that allows developers to create their own applications using the information on Furry Art Pile. At the time of writing, Furry Art Pile is the only furry art website that offers an open API.