Kategorie: General Topics

At our table in the Eurofurence Dealers Den,
you can find the very first Rover Sr completing the Rover line by FurryStyle with a large toy.
While we have a number of discounted protoypes at discounted prices,
we can show the very first production toy.

Having only one yet, the toy will be on sale on Saturday and only on display for the first two days of Dealers Den.
After EF more will be made by FurryStyle as fresh materials arrive.

We seem to be getting some strange error messages from Paypal.
German and UK customers are fine. Only US customers seem to be affected.

Please use a Credit Card or bank transactions (with the new QR code to avoid typing)
if Paypal doesn’t work for you.

An investigation into random errors shows that at least one of the 4 ram modules in our server seems to start showing issues.
The YiffyToys shop will be shut down to replace the memory some time within the next 24 hours.

Upate: memory replaced. All tests are fine and all problems are gone as far as we can see.

Update2: It seems we forgot to restart elesticsearch last night. We did this morningand tested that categories and search results displayed fine again.

Looks like our January mail to renews our banner on FurAffinity was lost.
We just made sure to show up for another year with a small banner.

We are testing an account in the #BlueSky bubble
https://bsky.app/profile/yiffytoys.bsky.social ,
in addition to our Mastodon account in the wider Fediverse.
https://rect.al/@YiffyToys

It has a tighter character limit then Mastodon, so we aren’t sure yet.
As opposed to Mastodon and X, we don’t have much control over the content of the automatically posted entries either.
(title, excerpt. hash tags, use of a URL shortener, exclude posts from being posted to BlueSky)

We have this blog since basically the Neolithic.
Started as Blogspot exporting the pagers via ftp to out own server,
later self-hosted with WordPress after the shutdown.
Long before microblogging on centralized platforms run by a 3rd party became a thing.

We have been on Google+ with it’s fine grained „Circles“ until it was shut down.

Even though we have a Mastodon account in the Fediverse since 2022,

we still maintain our presence on X (the one that started as Twitter).
As of today it has been exactly 10 years since we created our account there.

The past

The platform started out as genuinely „good enough“ back then and was popular.
With it’s all-or-nothing privacy model, users found out that they had to have multiple accounts.
But as everyone was there, everyone had to.
This was a time long before Telegram after all.
Contrary to the private X account, the YiffyToys account hasn’t been arbitrarily deleted without a given reason or any method of ever contacting a human once.

The future

With the mass exodus after the Twitter takeover and renaming and mass firings,
we started our Mastodon account mentioned above.
That’s where all the small stuff that doesn’t need a Blog posting gets posted.
With the new platforms all federating (at least until they are big enough for the bait-and-switch), that seems to be fine.

Long format stuff is still posted here and automatically mentioned in Fediverse and X.

We will maintain our account on X.
Even if it’s just to keep anyone else from grabbing our name and to be able to contact new manufacturers via private messages.
With so many people gone, there isn’t much interaction going on anymore.
It has deteriorated to people posting links to websites and others forwarding these with no comment or reply for a long time.
Let’s hope the same doesn’t happen on the Fediverse.

We got a delivery of Sidewinder Creations toys (English / German).
All of the 56 toys, except a few of the plugs, are back in stock.
We are about to change the very small and small version of Plugs,
to make them only build-to-order

(Yes, postings in the category „Disturbing Dildo Deliveries“ are basically copy&pasted.
There is just nothing original to write about such a thing but many people are waiting
for toys of a specific manufacturer to come in, so it’s important we post these.)