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Yiffstar (also known as Yiffy Story Archive) is a large repository of furry erotica fiction.
Yiffstar is a privately-funded non-commercial story archive of adult furry fiction. It focuses on furry stories with adult or sexual content, but also has a section for non-sexually oriented fiction. Submitted content is moderated by a crew of volunteer reviewers, but there is no censorship for specific content, other than the requirement of entries to be furry stories.
Since its launch on September 19, 2002, Yiffstar has grown to provide a forum, personal furry art galleries, and web hosting for the furry fandom. The creation of Yiffstar was triggered by the demise of quality archives like gotfox.com and the stagnation of Mia's Main Index. The archive seeks to actively preserve anthropomorphic fiction, rather than building a link database.
Yiffstar is currently owned by Toumal Rakesh and hosted both in the United States as well as Austria. Over 8275 stories are archived as of June 2006, with an average of five to ten new entries being submitted and approved each day.
Warning: Adult and sexually oriented content is below. See the
definition of yiff.Forum
Yiffstar features a forum with an
active furry community. Some of the more popular subforums include
"The Yiffstar Village" (General talk), "Endless Yiff Stories" (Yiffy
Roleplay), "Yiffy Pictures" (Furry erotic art) and many others.
The forum has over 9500 registered users, of which approximately 1500
are active participants who post more than 1 message per week.YiffChat
Yiffstar has its own web-based chat
room, centered around the act of online sexual
roleplay. Due to
YiffChat's availability even through
firewalls, and because of its ease of
use, it is one of the most popular services of the site.F.A.P
F.A.P is an image board in the spirit
of 2chan. Adult furry art is posted in
threads with specific topics, often grouping pictures of individual
species of anthropomorphic creatures into a single thread. Initially
started as a board similar to FChan, FAP
has switched to a software that provides a filtered, "image only" view
on its forums.
Contrary to the other 2chan-based boards, FAP does not have a DNP list.
The majority of images is being linked to, with an automated
thumbnailing system making sure that the link target doesn't suffer from
excessive traffic draining.
Images can be uploaded as well, but the artist has to give permission
for this to happen first.
This approach, combined with no thread expiry, a friendly moderation
style and a connection without any monthly traffic limit, aims to become
a long-lived image board where art does not simply vanish after a set time.Yimu MUCK
Yimu Island is Yiffstar's own MUCK,
located on muck.yiffstar.com, port 8888. Centered around a fantasy
island, Yimu sports a variety of locations like Mt. Saramei, a central
town, several beaches and of course a good number of user-operated bars
or locations. It is nowhere near as large as
FurryMUCK, even though it is
currently experiencing a surge of popularity with around 80 users online
at times.Gallery
Yiffstar's Gallery provides free
galleries for furry artists.YiffTalk
A Teamspeak server named
YiffTalk is especially geared for
furry voice chat, socializing and roleplay. Connecting and using the
service is completely free.Webhosting
Yiffstar hosts several artists; for example,
Saur and
Dragonfood.
Such hosting is free and available for all artists, but is subject to
direct negotiations with Toumal.See also
(This entry in the BDSM Dictionary incorporates text from the Yiffstar article in Wipipedia.)
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