2010 April Fools

If you're curious about the accuracy of yesterday's reporting, read on . . .

For the record:

• The report from the Onion is pure satire, as usual
• The story about PafCon is true as far as it goes (I don't know if the con exists, but the flyers and site do exist)
• The Beaver did change its name, but not to North American Pussy – the point was to get away from being a sexual innuendo, of which they were perfectly aware
• Fur Affinity didn't announce a new feature; however, they do have real security vulnerabilities that work as described in the article (which I told them about); perhaps fortunately, there really is no easy way to delete your whole account
• Furry to Furry probably isn't removing their most popular features, though the report is based on a real administrative message
• Similarly, people really were turning into floofs in Furcadia yesterday, but this was by design

The things we didn't cover:

• Rabbit Valley is now Coyote Valley
• Anti-Furry Coalition seizes Yiffy International
• Crush! Yiff! Destroy! acquired by Vivisector (though we might now, as they claim it's true)
• Nexxus fires Reyedog, takes back FurNation
• DutchPaw closes their doors
• fchan redirects all boards to /f/ (female)
• Furry Teens makes all regular users administrators
• Analogues ran a broken two and a half minute loop for twenty-five minutes.