Friday Q&A

Questionable Compilation

Greetings, crickets and trolls. Welcome to an all-new edition of the Friday Q&A. This weekly feature takes a look at issues facing Fark's Photoshop community. I've been the hate blogger of record for quite some time now. Over the years, I've been called upon to report the latest facts and opinions. Occasionally I even differentiate between the two.

Q: What new resources are being developed for Fark?

A: There have been several sites created to serve our community, but most of them are unfortunately no longer active. A replacement for the Scrutinizer has been in the works for a while, but so far no results have been forthcoming. This week, however, a new type of resource was discovered. You can try it out by clicking here.

Q: How will that site benefit our community?

A: A longstanding problem with Fark has been tied to the fact that image hosting is always handled by a third party. These image hosts have a penchant for being unreliable, which leads to a lot of archived threads filled with broken links. It's gotten so bad that newcomers just have to take veterans at their word when told how much better the Golden Age used to be. By storing all the images in a requested thread, this new site will allow us to effortlessly put future generations in their place.

Q: What limitations does this new resource have?

A: The biggest fault I can see is that every image is pulled from a given thread, including unaltered GIS postings and any NSFW images that haven't been deleted by the mods. The site also doesn't cater exclusively to Photoshop, so we're forced to share space with political trolls and TSA grope threads.

That's all for this time, gentle reader. Thanks again for stopping by. I'd like to close by expressing my gratitude to the creator of this new resource. There has long been the need for a way to store contest entries independent of the crappy free image hosts that everyone seems to use.

Stay tuned for more sincere appreciation from the Doctor!