2016
Sep 2016
SSL is implemented. It only took 11 years, oh but its not enabled by default. You have to manually ENABLE it for now. At an unknown date, it was implemented site wide.
May 2016
Major site hack - Dragoneer announces that someone broke in earlier that month using the "ImageTrack" exploit. The attacker stole a copy of the source code and distributed it on USB drives at (presumably) BLFC several days prior.
The attacker deleted chunks of the database, and the most recent full backup was six days old. It's unclear whether the attacker also stole a copy of the database.
The attacker's identity is unknown at this point.
Feb 2016
FA Forums restored using different software but preserving the post history.
Silver Eagle reports that IMVU's legal department is sending him strongly-worded emails regarding his own attempt at a furry art site. Other developers distance themselves from Silver Eagle for fear of also attracting legal attention.
A few people who brought this up on FA report having their comments hidden, submissions deleted, or accounts suspended.
This causes Silver Eagle to quit the rewrite of FA code.
Silver Eagle posts a YouTube video saying he asked to be paid a pittance for his work, and FA agreed. Bureaucracy repeatedly got in the way of actually producing a check, so he escalated to IMVU, who revealed that they never received his contract.
In a comment, he says that since posting the video, Dragoneer has agreed to pay him.
He also describes the internal FA politics as wildly distrustful and is particularly critical of Yak, who intensely dislikes outsiders meddling with the code or servers.
Zaush quits the code team, not knowing how to code even if his life depended on it.
Jan 2016
FA Code rewrite attempt Ferrox v7 (Project Daedalus) Attempt 7!
In his video, Silver Eagle explains that he was actually working on yet another clean-room rewrite of FA, named Daedalus.
The code, not mentioned publicly until now, was under the Apache license since the beginning, and was at the time put on GitHub.
