2009
Dec 2009
Sometime between the last commit and this date, the Ferrox v3 bug tracker and source code quietly go offline. It never returns.
Nov 2009
Downtime - FA shuts down for 10 days due to datacenter issues. It returns in a new datacenter.
Sep 2009
Date of the last code change ever made to Ferrox v3. 3rd attempt to a code rewrite fails.
Jun 2009
FA previews the new UI, drawn by Zaush and apparently in progress at the same time as Ferrox v3. Announced a release in late 2009.
A new UI would eventually be put into open beta in Apr 2015 (6 years later), though it's unclear whether it was based on this preview.
Mar 2009
The commission information page is disabled due to XSS vulnerabilities. The link to it is quietly removed after maintenance in Feb 2011, seemingly marking its permanent demise.
Eevee resigns from the Ferrox v3 project, leaving it without a lead developer
Feb 2009
Hundreds of passwords are hacked.
Many multiple user accounts are compromised; in the chaos Dragoneer accidentally gives one of the compromised accounts administrator permissions instead of banning them.
Later, FA admins discovers that there are 738 users are still using passwords that predated a password leak three years prior, and forces them to finally change them.
Jan 2009
Dragoneer reaffirms that a printing service is in progress.
As of this writing no such service has been launched. Broken Promise
