Cub Central News

• 2008-11-14 - Nicol Firefox
  Thank you very much to everyone that's offered to help out. The files area is now back and working again, and we should be a couple more new mirror sites really soon so we'll be back to having a bit of spare server capacity again.
• 2008-11-04 - Nicol Firefox
  Hi everyone, apologies for the lack of updates about what's happened to the files area. Unfortunately we're short on working site mirrors, so access to the files is restricted to avoid overwhelming the remaining three. We do hope to have this resolved as soon as possible, watch this space for updates (also, sorry to everyone that's emailed me about his and hasn't gotten a personal reply). As always, if you can help out by offering us space on your server, please let me know. Cub Central mirrors need about 700Mb or disk space and do around 5Gb of traffic in an average month.
• 2008-10-10 - Possum Cub
  Come and join us at Further Confusion Furry Convention in San Jose on 22-26 January '09. Furry conventions are lots of fun and plenty of cub fans and artists go to them. Let's show the world again that we know how to party! Website is http://furtherconfusion.org/ and discussion thread for cubs going is http://softpawmagazine.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=609
• 2008-09-23 - Possum Cub
  The Rainfurrest furry convention is on this weekend 26-28 September at Seatac, WA, USA. http://www.rainfurrest.org/ It is a cub-friendly event and everyone is welcome!
• 2008-07-08 - Possum Cub
  Finding Avalon - the latest comic book by Softpaw publishing is now shipping! http://softpawmagazine.com/ Come to FA:United furry con 1 - 3 August in Newark, NJ. We're trying to get as many cubs to come as we can! Come party with us. http://faunited.org/
• 2008-05-05 - Possum Cub
  Finding Avalon is a new comic book continuing two stories started in Softpaw Magazine. Preorders have started so please show your support! Buy now and you save $5. Help us make this little dream a reality. :3 More info at http://softpawmagazine.com/
• 2008-04-02 - Nicol Firefox
  OK, due to popular demand, ipv4 access is back :) But congratulations to everyone that figured out how to get ipv6 access to the site yesterday. IPV6 isn't not a complete joke, so we're keeping complete support for it for anyone that does use it.
• 2007-12-28 - Possum Cub
  Preorder Softpaw Magazine #3 now and get a $5 discount while you still have the chance! We go to print in a few days time and the mag will go back to the regular price. Please help support the world's favourite (and only) cub magazine! http://www.softpawmagazine.com/
• 2007-07-02 - Possum Cub
  Come visit Softpaw Magazine at Anthrocon 2007 this July 5 - 8 in Pittsburgh, PA (www.anthrocon.com). We will be launching the brand new Issue #2 there and it will be on sale from our dealer's table! Don't miss the Softpaw room party on Friday night. Details will be posted at www.softpawmagazine.com closer to the day!
• 2007-05-15 - Possum Cub
  This is it cubs! Softpaw Magazine #2 is only two weeks from print, if we are going to get done in time for AnthroCon! We still need a heap more preorders and donations to make our funding target or we just won't be able to afford it. Check out the latest (and final!) teasers at http://softpawmagazine.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2426#2426 I think you'll agree it'd be a shame if Tyler didn't make it to AC! :3 Please give us a helping paw!
• 2007-04-02 - Nicol Firefox
  Yes, yesterday's change was a joke. But thanks to everyone that posted or emailed me to say how much they liked the 'old' site layout better, I was worried I might get so much support for CubChan we'd have to keep it running. :)
• 2007-03-04 - Possum Cub
  Softpaw Magazine Issue #2 is now available for preorder. A $5 discount is offered and funds from sales go toward printing the magazine. We rely on your help to reach the funding target to get the magazine released! Rabbit Valley Comic Store is now selling Issue #1 and offers more payment options than just Credit Card. Visit us at http://www.softpawmagazine.com/ for more details!
• 2006-12-18 - Possum Cub
  Give the gift of Softpaw Magazine this Xmas! Order now before the 25th and get $3 off each copy. Featuring art by Inuki, Artdecade and many more. Nothing says "I love you" more than a big colorful magazine full of yiffy cub art. ^^ http://www.softpawmagazine.com/
• 2006-11-17 - Possum Cub
  Softpaw Magazine, the world's first furry cub magazine, is HERE and now shipping! Featuring art by Inuki, Artdecade and many more. Hurry because it's selling fast. If you can't buy it, we are also taking donations, and donators can get their name printed in the next issue of the mag! http://www.softpawmagazine.com/
• 2006-09-17 - Possum Cub
  Softpaw Magazine, the world's first furry cub magazine, is now available for preorder. Help this community-funded project by reserving your copy now. We are also taking donations, and donators can get their name printed in the mag! http://www.softpawmagazine.com/
• 2006-08-21 - Nicol Firefox
  Cub Central now has its own BBS, check it out by following the General Chat link from the main page.
• 2006-07-19 - Possum Cub
  Advertisement: Come and check out Softpaw Magazine, the world's first furry cub magazine! In print September 2006. Our new website http://www.softpawmagazine.com/ has details and teasers for the mag. Be sure to sign up to the forum there to receive announcements. *hugs from Kiffin Softpaw and Jery Softpaw (aka Possum Cub)*
• 2006-07-09 - Nicol Firefox
  Eep, apologies to anyone that encountered the bug in the new notify system and got a flood of email this morning. It's been fixed and shouldn't happen again.
• 2006-05-08 - Nicol Firefox
  Apparently a the change to a 64bit system upset the crypto modules the accounts system uses, so if you got a verification code recently it may not work. If that happens, go the user settings page and generate a new one.
• 2006-04-27 - Nicol Firefox
  OUTAGE: Cub Central's master server is being replaced this weekend. This will mean: no account updates, no password changes, no new accounts, no new uploads and no access to the mailing lists. Everything should be back to normal by Monday.
• 2006-04-01 - Nicol Firefox
  Wow, I collected over $1000 in IOUs in just 18 hours, if only yestday's update hadn't been a joke. :) Thinks should be back to normal now, so everyone can go back to enjoying the site for free.
• 2006-03-31 - Nicol Firefox
  Hi everyone, big changes today as the private section of Cub Central is becoming a pay site. The funds will be going towards our ever-increasing hosting costs. You shouldn't notice much difference yet except for the little credit counter on each page that will eventually decrease to 0 the more you download and require you to top it up. Since the system is new, everyone is getting 100Mb in free traffic credit.
• 2006-02-16 - Nicol Firefox
  Oops, I broke the feedback form when I changed the way it looked up contact addresses last week, so it wasn't finding anyone except the site admin. If you got a "no contact address for that person" error trying to use the feedback form recently, please try it again now.
• 2006-01-27 - Nicol Firefox
  The last news update was missing the important addition: "EXCEPT where permission has been given by the artist or author" as we certainly appreciate the contributors helping to increase the exposure of furry cubs by allowing wider distribution or their work. Sorry for any confusion this has caused.
• 2006-01-25 - Nicol Firefox
  First, sorry for the brief outage yesterday. We didn't have enough active mirror sites to handle the traffic load, so the www.cubcentral.org DNS entry got ungracefully yanked. Second, read the paragraph at the bottom of the title page again and NEVER upload ANYTHING you've downloaded from Cub Central to any other site. This especially includes BBS sites like fchan.
• 2005-12-09 - Nicol Firefox
  We're back! Barring any more unexpected crashes from the database server, Cub Central is fully operational again. Sorry it's taken so long, but we've taken the time to build something more robust than our last setupe that should hopefully last through temporary outages. Thanks again to all our server admins that have made this possible. It's great getting so much support for the site.
• 2005-09-26 - Nicol Firefox
  Once again, we're looking for server admins that would like to host a mirror copy of cubcentral.org, see the last news item for what kind of server capacity you'd need to do this, also: 1) You MUST be root on the server, and ideally should own it yourself. 2) No Windows servers, unless you want to port ~6000 lines of perl code to your system. If you can help, contact the site admin.
• 2005-06-23 - Nicol Firefox
  I've made more updates to the gallery and library pages, we've got expermental sub-folder support working now. Something I forgot to mention in the last update is there's now an easy way to make a semi-permanent link to a picture or story on the site, either right-click on the name while viewing it and copy the URL, or left-click and copy it from the location bar.
• 2005-05-17 - Nicol Firefox
  I've updated the look of the indexing scripts a bit and they now have a completely redesigned search system using swish-e to do full-text search of picture descriptions and stories.
• 2005-04-30 - Nicol Firefox
  Many, many thanks to GrBear for donating us some space to host www.cubcentral.org and all his help getting the new mirror site up and running, which will be taking over from the old main server as the DNS change takes effect. We're still interested in offers of space elsewhere if you'd like to run a backup or mirror of Cub Central, especially in other parts of the world.
• 2005-04-23 - CyberLeo
  Sorry! The main US site went down earlier Saturday morning because the colo hosting pizzabox.cyberleo.net (and ninetails.cubcentral.org) thought it was a good idea to change the server's IP address three days ahead of schedule without telling us, so neither Nicol nor I knew to update the DNS servers to point to the new address. Please use us2.cubcentral.org or nz.cubcentral.org until the DNS updates are complete. Thanks! Fuzzy love, -CyberLeo
• 2005-04-05 - Nicol Firefox
  We need a new home for www.cubcentral.org as the current server it's on cannot continue to cope with the 20Gb or more of traffic a month it generates. If you can help out by donating some space on a server you run, please let the admin know urgently using the feedback form.
• 2005-02-14 - Ben Raccoon
  tanuki.cubcentral.org, also cubcentral.org (no www) finally got swapped over to the newer, better Debian server. Please notify if anything breaks, thank you. ^^
• 2005-02-04 - CyberLeo
  The account signup, password recovery and feedback forms are once again available on www.cubcentral.org. The mail problem has been located and fixed. Thank you.
• 2005-02-04 - Nicol Firefox
  The account signup, password recovery and feedback forms are currently broken on www.cubcentral.org because of an unexpected mail problem. If you need to use one of these, please go to one of the other mirror sites until we can fix it.
• 2004-12-12 - Nicol Firefox
  As a reminder to keep your contact details up to date, the accounts system has now been set to probe all its stored email addresses every three months or so.
• 2004-10-24 - Nicol Firefox
  The email addresses part of the user settings page has been updated to verify email addresses via the same cookie system the new application form uses, and the new email notify system has been enabled.
  To get notifications of news updates and new file uploads, go to the user settings page, and for every email address you want to get notifications sent to, select the types of updates you want to be emailed about and whether you want them in text or html format.
  Notifies won't be sent to the chat list, but any replies to them will still be directed there, so you might want to stay subscribed anyway.
• 2004-10-20 - Nicol Firefox
  We have a new server for www.cubcentral.org, which should hopefully be faster and more reliable than the previous one. Many thanks to Ashiki/CyberLeo for donating the space for this.
• 2004-08-28 - Nicol Firefox
  All the comments on pics are back again, and you can now add new ones as well as new comments on stories now too. Also, many bugfixes made to the interface. Thank you to everyone that's passed on bug reports and suggestions to help out.
• 2004-08-04 - Nicol Firefox
  Welcome everyone to the Cub Central "It won't happen overnight, but it will happen" update. I hope enough people like the new layout that it was worth it. :) Remember to click on the 'Filter' link when in the pics or stories displays to configure the site to show or hide content you do or don't want to see. There are a few things still under construction: * comments. * pics/stories search. * new uploads notices on the chat list. These are all being worked on, along with a couple of features that were planned but didn't make it into the update. Any comments or problems you have, please use the feedback page to send us a note, otherwise enjoy the site.
• 2004-08-01 - Nicol Firefox
  Thank you for your patience everyone, the files area should now be sorted out again. Also, I've caught up on the backlog of account requests now the password and user info changer works again too. New uploads should be coming shortly. Please head over to the user settings page to check out the new features of the site. In particular, the extreme pictures area has been merged back into the main archive as each picture and story now has an individual content rating that you can use to filter out anything you don't want to see.
• 2004-07-23 - Nicol Firefox
  Hi everyone, welcome to the new-look site. Firstly, sorry about the lack of progress reports on what's been happening the past few days, it wasn't until after I shut down the old updater process that I realised I needed it to write to the old news page. This is just a preview for everyone so you're not kept waiting any longer, most of the older files haven't been added to the new content database so won't show up with the default filter list, and uploads are still disabled, but both of those should be sorted soon and I will post a full news update to tell you all about the new features that have been added. --Nicol.
• 2004-03-16 - Nicol Firefox
  Apologies for the FTP server downtime. There is a problem with SQL support in the latest version of the ftp server, so I've reverted back to the previous version, and it should now be working for everyone again.
• 2004-02-06 - Nicol Firefox
  The problems with our primary mirror web server are finally sorted and we now have two operational mirror sites in the USA again. This also means that the Playground BBS is now accessable again too, but it has a new URL, which you can find on the Private index page.
• 2003-11-30 - Nicol Firefox
  1) The Playground BBS is currenty unavailable due to problems with the server it's hosted on (this was also the cause of the site unavailable page some people saw last week). Apologies for the late notice about this, I was expecting it to be fixed much quicker than this.
  2) Please remember that all official announcements will be posted to the news page and not to random usenet groups.
• 2003-10-22 - Nicol Firefox
  In order to keep the accounts list under control, any account that isn't used for over 90 days is now disabled. If this happens to you and you want it enabled again, just fill out the 'lost password' form and it will be re-enabled, and your password reset if required.
• 2003-08-18 - Nicol Firefox
  Things may almost be back to normal now. us1.cubcentral.org has found a new home and is now hosting www.cubcentral.org for us again. The us2.cubcentral.org mirror is back and running at full speed too, and nz.cubcentral.org is not looking quite so overloaded anymore. Finally, we've escaped the budget colo provider that hosted data.cubcentral.org for us and moved it to a real machine room with UPS power and proper networking.
  Big thanks to: Story Teller for donating us1.cubcentral.org to us, and Ben Raccoon for the mirror space on us2.cubcentral.org
  Want your name here? As the site is getting more and more popular, we're always looking for extra mirror capacity, particularly in other countries. Update: Special thanks also to Boo for our new UK mirror site, uk.cubcentral.org
• 2003-08-15 - Nicol Firefox
  Good news: us1.cubcentral.org and us2.cubcentral.org are now back.
  Bad news: data.cubcentral.org will be down this weekend as I relocate the server. This means account changes, comments and mail will be offline for a bit.
• 2003-08-10 - Nicol Firefox
  And the server issues continue... us2.cubcentral.org is up but currently not able to be updated. www.cubcentral.org is now pointed at the NZ mirror, so please excuse slowness as it's not the fastest server we have. If you have a server that runs apache, perl, mysql and ssh and would like to host a copy of Cub Central, the email address to contact is below.
• 2003-07-29 - Nicol Firefox
  Yes, server problems again. Access to the artists/database/mail server has been patchy but should hopefully be OK now until we can move that server to somewhere more reliable. Also we've lost our big US mirror server due to the owner running out of money, so we've redirected the main site to Ben's mirror for now... offers to host new mirrors of the site to help out are more than welcome at this point!
• 2003-06-03 - Nicol Firefox
  Apologies everyone for the slowdowns and parts of the site not working this weekend. Our master database server suffered a disk failure last Thursday and was down until I could get access to it and rebuild it. This means that account management, file uploads, feedback/comments, mailing lists and email to @cubcentral.org addresses were all unavailable. The majority of services should be back now, though new uploads, account updates, and responses to any email you've sent over the past 5 days will be a little slow, please bear with us.
• 2003-05-23 - Nicol Firefox
  I made the feedback script a little better by letting you change the subject now, and adding an option for it to remember your email address so you don't have to type it in everytime. So everyone go test it now by sending out a few encouraging messages to your favourite authors and artists.
• 2003-05-11 - Nicol Firefox
  We've recieved an apology from the owner of The Shodenta group, and would like to thank him for his prompt response to this matter. The link to the group has been moved to the private links page.
• 2003-04-15 - Nicol Firefox
  AOL has earned itself a permanent home on the RFC-Ignorant Blacklist thanks to its latest round of email blocking. So, after Easter break, I will be terminating all accounts that list only AOL contact addresses and banning *@aol.com from the mailing lists. If you are an AOL user and have a problem with this, tell your ISP to get its act together. Don't email me to complain, I've got a DSL connection at home and won't be able to send you a reply.
• 2003-04-03 - Nicol Firefox
  This may sound obvious, but you must tell us what email addresses you'd like password reminders sent to before you lose your password and need it reset. Once you have an account, you do not need to enter only ISP-based email addresses on settings page, so put at least one that isn't likely to change, e.g. your personal webmail address. As a reminder to keep a current address set, I've changed the title page for private logins to show any current addresses you have set.
• 2003-02-07 - Nicol Firefox
  For everyone that's been asking if Cub Central will ever get an Oekaki board, Ben as has just started not one, but two on the Secretmoon site, which you can find here.
• 2003-01-20 - Nicol Firefox
  Server flakiness: Our database/email/dns/etc. machine apparently crashed over the weekend, which stalled email lists, comments and account processing :( but everything should be back to normal now it's been rebooted.
• 2002-11-18 - Nicol Firefox
  Due to repeated problems with AOL, we are no longer accepting account requests from @aol.com and related addresses. The question of what to do with existing accounts registered to AOL users is still pending, but if this includes you, nominating an alternative email address is strongly recommended.
• 2002-11-05 - Nicol Firefox
  Finally a cleanup of our links database, and a whole new page to handle them, including feedback buttons to send notes to whoever posted the link (point out dead links and updates this way) and a form so anyone can suggest new links to add to our pages.
• 2002-10-23 - Nicol Firefox
  More downtime: Sometime tomorrow night (24/10/2002 17:00NZDT) I'll be switching off our master database server to physically relocate it. This might cause some slowdowns particularly with mail, and artists' access will be unavailable until it's happy in its new home.
• 2002-10-07 - Nicol Firefox
  And we're back! With a brand new server running OpenBSD 3.1, everything is up and running on the new box now, so all the services should be back to normal.
• 2002-10-04 - Nicol Firefox
  There's going to be some interruptions in service over the next couple of days as we take the old database server down to switch over to the new system. Hopefully website access will be unaffected, but mail to @cubcentral.org might be, and the mailing lists will be down over the weekend most likely, along with account creation, file uploads.
• 2000-04-18 - Nicol Firefox
  Cub Central officially launched, featuring Jason Canty, Shadarack, Trickster, Blue_B, Pelless and Sparky Fox.
• 2000-05-05 - Nicol Firefox
  Added a News page to keep visitors informed about changes to the site ;) Here's some of the recent happenings:
• Added the Links To Other Artists page, for artists that already have their own websites to show off their work, etc. Added Kthanid and Pelless' pages to this.
• Changed the indexing script to create all thumbnail images as jpeg files, regardless of the original picture format. This slows it down a little, but makes the thumbnails faster to download and display in most browsers. It also means we can now make indexes for GIF images, without having convert them to PNG.
• Added buttons to select 2, 3, 4 or 5 column mode in the thumbnail pages as well as the old single column. Since we don't use cookies this setting is only saved while you move around a single artists' directory.
• Added sort by size and the ability to click on any of the 'Sort by...' buttons when it's alredy sorting in that mode to reverse the sort order.
• 2000-05-15 - Nicol Firefox
  Added the option to set a cookie in your browser to save directory layout between visits. This is optional and only gets set when you click the save settings link in the directory view.
• 2000-05-27 - Nicol Firefox
  Added two new artists, Anaktis Wahl and Ben Raccoon.
• 2000-06-06 - Nicol Firefox
  Another new artist on Cub Central. This time it's Crassus.
• 2000-06-11 - Nicol Firefox
  Everyone should welcome this week's new artist Joey. Also, modified the dir.pl code again to handle spaces and other punctuation characters in filenames.
• 2000-06-12 - Nicol Firefox
  We have a new domain! Our server is now www.cubcentral.org and ftp.cubcentral.org. We're still on the same old server and the old addresses will keep working for a while, but the new ones should be easier to remember.
  To celebrate the new domain name, there's a new title grapic on the main page. It's a photo of Nicol the plushie standing on top of our server machine. Any artists that think they can do a better title logo are more than welcome to send us one. ;)
• 2000-06-15 - Nicol Firefox
  The wonderful new title logo was drawn for us by Joey, so a big thank-you to him for that. If you missed the old one, it's still here.
• 2000-06-25 - Nicol Firefox
  We have a brand new server! It's a nice dual PII-300 with 128Mb of RAM and a 4Gb SCSI disk, which will give us the space to do even more with the site hopefully. The obligatory vanity shot of Nicol posing on top of the machine is here. (sorry about the quality, it's hard taking a clear picture of a completely black computer)
• 2000-07-02 - Nicol Firefox
  Added a recent uploads dir do you can see all the files added within the last 7 days at once. Either follow the link from the downloads page or cd to /downloads/_new/ on the ftp site.
• 2000-07-09 - Nicol Firefox
  Oops! A few things broke during a total reorganisation of our site structure so the web indexes were out of sync until that got reported to us. They should be back to normal now, sorry for the inconvienience.
• 2000-07-13 - Nicol Firefox
  The Cub Central Private Archive is here! This is an invitation-only section for artists to post work that may not be suitable to post out in public. Go here for details on how to join.
• 2000-08-06 - Nicol Firefox
  For registered Cub Central users we now have a form that lets you send feedback to the artists hosted there, so head over to the private section now and tell your favourite artists how wonderful they are :)
• 2000-08-08 - Nicol Firefox
  Finally, registered users can change their passwords. Follow the Change Password link on the main page of the private section.
• 2000-08-09 - Nicol Firefox
  NEW! We now have stories on Cub Central. They have their own section on the public web site, check them out in the /downloads/stories directory, or follow the link from the downloads index.
• 2000-08-13 - Nicol Firefox
  Reworked the user interface to the site a bit, incorporating a few change requests and hopefully making it a little easier to navigate.
• 2000-09-01 - Nicol Firefox
  To celebrate the beginning of spring, we've changed ISPs. Hopefully the change in our IP address went smoothly and all you'll notice is the faster and more reliable connection.
• 2000-09-05 - Nicol Firefox
  OOps! The DNS servers got messed up during the move and were returning the wrong IP address for a bit which would have caused problems loading the site over the past couple of days... Luckily it was fixed quickly and everything should be back to normal now. Sorry for the brief interruption in service.
• 2000-09-08 - Nicol Firefox
  I'm moving house! Cub Central is staying where it is, but I will be without an internet connection for a week or so, so I won't be answering email or making manual updates to the site until then.
• 2000-09-28 - Nicol Firefox
  Cub Central will be down sometime this weekend so the server can be moved to a new RADSL connection in Hamilton, this should give it up to 800kbit of outgoing bandwidth compared to the 256kbit cable modem. The move will happen at ~12pm Sunday, NZ time, and will hopefully take no longer than 8 hours. Sorry for the inconvienience everyone.
• 2000-10-01 - Nicol Firefox
  We're Back!! Our server is now up and running on its new DSL connection. Right now only the web server is fully functional, but I'm sleepy so the rest will be sorted out tomorrow hopefully.
• 2000-10-03 - Nicol Firefox
  Everything should be back up and running as it was before (except maybe a little faster now, hopefully :) As always, please email me with any problems you have, otherwise enjoy the site.
• 2000-11-04 - Nicol Firefox
  What happened this month: Due to a sudden increase in popularity, we unfortunately exceeded the monthly traffic quota imposed by our ISP about mid way through the month and had to shut the site down for a bit to bring things under control again. :( While it was down, We've done a fair bit of maintence on the web server machine, including replacing it's old 4Gb SCSI data disk with a newer and faster IDE one, and upgrading its operating system to the latest version of Debian GNU/Linux.
  Now we're back, we also have new artwork on the site from Mathias Blackwolf and Trickster, and two new artists, Anon1 and DarkFang, and hopefully more to come. Enjoy!
• 2000-11-06 - Nicol Firefox
  If you are going to bookmark Cub Central, you should only link to http://www.cubcentral.org/ and http://private.cubcentral.org/ since I do change the location of things occasionally so links that bypass the index pages may break at random.
• 2000-11-07 - Nicol Firefox
  Tweaked the index display for the stories section to make it more readable and show update times like the pictures index. -- If you've written furry stories with young furs in them (erotic or not), that you'd like to share with other furs, now would be a good time to submit them. :)
• 2000-11-10 - Nicol Firefox
  Added a new files since you last visited link to the downloads page. It's still experimental and will display slightly weird results the first time you use it, or if you lose the cookie it sends, or use a different browser, etc.
• 2000-11-14 - Nicol Firefox
  We've just signed a hosting agreement with Fat Cow! who have fast ultrasparc web servers and redundant T3 connections to the internet, so this should fix a number of the bandwidth and speed problems we've been experiencing over the last couple of months. Unfortunately they don't have FTP support yet, so FTP access to the public and private archives has been disabled except for artists to upload new files. We apologise for the inconvenience until this is resolved.
  While we are in the process of moving to the new server you may experience some strangeness with password access to the private site. Particularly some web browers will prompt you again when ou first load an image from the new server, and if you change your password using the web form, the new server may keep accepting the old one instead for up to a day before it comes back into sync. We hope to resolve these issues soon too.
  Thank you for your patience everyone!
• 2000-11-19 - Nicol Firefox
  Some cosmetic changes to the index and downloads pages. Also, merged the indexes for art and stories in the public section into the downloads page for the private section so users with accounts can go straight there to find everything in one place instead of having to check the public archive too.
• 2000-11-20 - Nicol Firefox
  I've incorporated some of the layout suggestions I've recieved lately into the index and downloads pages, hopefully making the site quicker to navigate now. And the new since last visit script in the private archive has been adapted to find all the new files in both archives, so you can see all recent uploads on one page. If you have any comments, let me know what you think.
• 2000-11-27 - Nicol Firefox
  Yes, it's another new look for Cub Central. Big thanks to Crassus this time for the inspiration and reworking our title logo for us. As usual, comments are welcome.
• 2001-01-18 - Nicol Firefox
  Whee, first news update for the year! Many bugs have been fixed in the perl scripting so sorting and browsing files should work properly for everyone. Also, we've upgraded our primary nameserver so it's now powered by djbdns, which is much less prone to random failures.
• 2001-01-22 - Nicol Firefox
  Added a link to GloomWolfe's page, and his secret erotic art page to the links section. If you haven't seen his work yet go. now.
• 2001-01-27 - Nicol Firefox
  The extreme/hardcore pictures section in the private archive is now open. If you have a login for this go check it out now. There isn't much there yet, but we're hoping for lots more uploads now it's open.
• 2001-02-26 - Nicol Firefox
  For all users who are having trouble with their cookie settings, here's an experimental script that'll let you change the stored cookies, clear out old ones, etc.
• 2001-02-27 - Nicol Firefox
  Apologies to all those who had trouble accessing www.cubcentral.org for parts of today. We suffered from a small DNS glitch that unfortunatly managed to propogate out to many ISPs local servers before it was caught. Things should hopefully be back to normal now.
• 2001-04-05 - Nicol Firefox
  I've added a link to our email feedback form to the bottom of every picture when it's displayed to encourage you to send more of that wonderful enouraging feedback to our contributing artists. You'll still need an account to use it though, even for the pics in the public section.
• 2001-04-25 - Nicol Firefox
  As some of you may have noticed, Cub Central, along with various other furry-related sites, were flamed on a couple of high-profile hate pages. And as a result we were also flamed on the alt.fan.furry newsgroup by some members of certain furry pressure groups. Most of which, wouldn't be of interest except for the sudden increase in site visitors that generated, and as a side-effect to our slighly higher profile, we've been brought to the attention of several law-enforcement and/or censorship agencies both in the United States where our web server is located, and in New Zealand, where the site is administered from. Having been completely cleared by these agencies, I can now say with more confidence that our content, both in the public and private areas is 100% legal.
  Finally, since being 'criticized' publically for Cub Central, I have personally recieved 50 new membership applications (most of which were checked out and approved), and dozens of additional positive comments and offers of support... oh, and exactly one piece of hate-mail, from the owner of another large furry art archive, who is so well-known for sending such flames I won't bother mentioning him here.
  Oops, and I've just noticed that I've also missed our 1st birthday this month. Time has flown, and in that time, Cub Central has succeeded even beyond my expectations when I set it up. Thank you everyone for your support!
• 2001-05-16 - Nicol Firefox
  Ooops, our web hosting provider moved our mirror site to a new IP address without telling us, which would've made it hard to reach for a day or so while the DNS change propogated.
• 2001-05-22 - Nicol Firefox
  Added new comments system that lets registered users add short comments to pictures. These are emailed to the artist as well as posted on the website. This is just the first test version so there's still a few problems with the system to be found and ironed out.
• 2001-05-22 - Nicol Firefox
  Changed the name of the extreme pictures section from cubsex to extreme. Let me know if you spot a dangling link I haven't found yet.
• 2001-05-28 - Nicol Firefox
  Added 'New stories since last visit'/'New stories in last 7 days' links to the index pages to compliment all the story uploads we've been getting lately
• 2001-07-21 - Nicol Firefox
  We're back again! Aplogies for the sudden outage folks. We had to dissappear suddenly while we reassured our contributors about some legal issues with their work. Unfortunately one of them left anyway, but the rest of us are definately staying!
• 2001-07-31 - Nicol Firefox
  To keep tech talk and arguments off the roleplay-oriented lists, there's now a Cub Central chat mailing list that you can join. This is open to everyone, not just private archive members, and you can view its' info page here.
• 2001-08-04 - Nicol Firefox
  Changed the index page to display the last news item so you don't have to keep checking the news page for updates... :)
• 2001-08-09 - Nicol Firefox
  Fixed the 'show comments for this pic' link so that it actually works now. Oops :) Also, a reminder that you can set the comments display on by default by changing 'comments off' to 'comments on' in the thumbnail display (by clicking on it), then clicking 'save settings
• 2001-08-26 - Nicol Firefox
  Yes, we know there's a problem with the latest beta of IE6 which stops it loading the directory indexes properly. :( If I can get hold of a copy of it, I'll try and debug it. Until then you'll have to go back to IE5.x, sorry.
• 2001-09-02 - Nicol Firefox
  In case you're wondering where some pics went, we've had to make a slight policy change and focus are attentions on being a furry/fantasy art archive, so some non-fur stuff has gone, and the rest should all be under 'Cartoon Artists' now so it can be skipped over more easily.
• 2001-09-04 - Nicol Firefox
  Yay! IE6 problems seem to be solved now. Thanks to G'razel for his help debugging this.
• 2001-09-17 - Nicol Firefox
  Added a little counter to the downloads pages so you can see when the next automatic update is going to happen. This is also the time until next update for accounts and passwords if you've had one created or changed that day.
• 2001-10-02 - Nicol Firefox
  Sorry about the outage folks, unfortunately we're running short of bandwidth and space on both our web server and our master server so there may be more coming while we keep looking for a new, higher-bandwidth site to host everything.
• 2001-10-11 - Nicol Firefox
  We're still having technical difficulties with our master server now it's no longer located in my bedroom, this is stopping use from making any updates to the web site, creating new user accounts and change passwords. Our apologies again for the loss of services until we get this resolved.
• 2001-10-16 - Nicol Firefox
  Hopefully now I've caught up on all the pending site updates and account requests, sorry to everyone who was waiting so long for those to happen!
• 2001-12-12 - Nicol Firefox
  Nearly there -- comments don't work right now, and access to the Extreme archives may not work for some users, neither does the Extreme application form. We're working on all of those, any other bugs, please let me now!
• 2001-12-12 - Nicol Firefox
  It's great to be back again after nearly a month away! Welcome the (hopefully) bigger and brighter Cub Central. You'll notice that we're now spread across four mirror sites, which should hopefully provide better performance and reliability than before. Huge Thanks go to Ben Raccoon, Nimrod Simba Carmi, and The Story Teller who provided the server space and resources for use to do this!
• 2001-12-24 - Nicol Firefox
  Finally, public FTP access is back. Point your FTP client at ftp.cubcentral.org and login as anonymous for all public section files, or with your private username and password for all sections.
  Merry Christmas Everyone!
• 2002-01-06 - Nicol Firefox
  We're a couple of mirror sites short right now as Ben and Nimrod reorganise their servers, so please use the main site until then. Sorry for the inconvienience.
• 2002-01-14 - Nicol Firefox
  It seems there was a problem copying some users' extreme section access off the old mirror server. If this has affected you, try going back to the info page and clicking on the agreement form again, which should fix it.
• 2002-02-03 - Nicol Firefox
  Due to the fact upwards of 50% of all mail we try to send to hotmail.com and yahoo.com users, many users are missing out on reponses to requests or getting suspended from our mailing lists. If this is happening to you, you should consider changing email providers, or better still, using your ISP-supplied address (remember this is the only kind of address we will accept for account requests and password changes).
• 2002-02-05 - Nicol Firefox
  For those of you who have collections of link banners, here's one I've finally made up for Cub Central in PNG or JPEG format. If you have a cub-themed furry or cartoon site, you're welcome to link to us. And if you'd like a link from our links page in return, please drop me an email.
• 2002-02-13 - Nicol Firefox
  There's a new link for registered users that lets you update your settings. and change your stored email address along with your password. Also, the password change script has been revamped and now actually changes passwords instead of just pretending to.
• 2002-02-17 - Nicol Firefox
  This week's prize for most interesting spam mail goes to Dorothy Neddermeyer of Genesis Consultants, Inc. who sent me an ad for her new book on Sexual Abuse in or out of the Family, and I'm sure will be thrilled to have a front-page mention on this site :)
• 2002-03-03 - Nicol Firefox
  Today a message from our major sponsor: The Story Teller says thanks to all the authors already contributing to our story archive, but also that we still need more to catch up wtih the number of pictures being posted. So if you've ever thought about writing a cub story, now is the time! Want an editor, or just someone to bounce ideas off? Send an email to tgk@petventure.com.
• 2002-03-21 - Nicol Firefox
  Big news for registered users: Our new user database system is online and working which should hopefully be noticable as a faster turn-around time on requests and much quicker updates of passwords and group memberships. To celebrate, go to the user settings page and check that it lists your preferred email address then enter it if it does.
• 2002-04-04 - Nicol Firefox
  Fixed the email details form on our settings page so you can now delete addresses from it too. Remember, if your browswer has your password saved you can edit these without entering it again, so hopefully no more excuses for having your stored details incorrect when you ask to have your password reset.
• 2002-04-21 - Nicol Firefox
  Lots of users have emailed me with various links to articles about the US Supreme Court decision ruling in favour of common sense that images giving the illusion of minors engaging in sexual activity do not automatically count as illegal pornography. As the majority of our hosting bandwidth comes from US based servers, this is a good news for us.
  And more good news: Cub Central has no been operating over two years! So another big thanks to all the artists, authors, server admins and other helpers that made it happen.
• 2002-05-28 - Nicol Firefox
  I've fixed the comments display on 'new files since...' actually properly this time, I think.
• 2002-06-10 - Nicol Firefox
  I'm trialing a new database setup that can push changes out to the mirror sites more frequently than daily. For those of you who only check once a day the only difference should be that the update timer on the downloads pages now shows the time of the last update instead of trying to anticipate the next one. Apologies in advance for any unexpected brokenness that happens over the next few days as the new system is sorted out
• 2002-06-21 - Nicol Firefox
  New title page layout, whee! Comments/complaints to the usual place. Also, if you want to recieve an email each time there's new pics of stories on Cub Central and you haven't subscribed to the mailing list, now would be a good time to.
• 2002-07-04 - Nicol Firefox
  Cub Central now has a simple search function for the files section, though pretty basic right now. More functionality should be forthcoming.
• 2002-08-05 - Nicol Firefox
  Some more layout tweaks to the directory layouts. Plus, selecting L in the columns list will display the directory in 'long' format with the picture descriptions next to their thumbnails and info. Comments and questions to the usual place, enjoy!