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Tabby Road, New Furrsey, Foo S. A.
i am a seven-year-old virtual Cream Persian FooCat (born on Little Christmas, 1/5/10), the mascot and spokesfurson for FooBA4U, the FooPets members' cooperative service site.

20100723

your source for what's going on in and around FooPets...or as it will become more commonly known henceforth, "FooGets".

MAY EDITION : Black April edition now in Back Issues, as are all but the more recent Comments, each in their own heading.
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5/18/11...Halleluia! finally a positive step - in response to member requests to adopt shelter Pets-Not-Found, the site has not only released the specific pets requested, but virtually ALL of them...sing praise!

5/17/11...
putting some pieces together - has anyone else noticed different behaviors in the widgeted PNFs? linking that together with the new Rivet bait-and-switch app on FaceBook has got us thinking...may have to bite the bullet and try it out to compare them. if nothing else, it may be a honeytrap to keep the disenfranchised foopetters - many of whom came to the site when it was a FaceBook app - content and unsubscribed. the new membership drive is targeting new people only - old members are not eligible. why bring back educated troublemakers who know what happened here and will ask uncomfortable questions? (of course, they didn't succeed in getting rid of us altogether...)

5/16/11...
well, well. could it be their new plan for pay-to-play isn't going quite as well as planned? can't think of any other reason they'd be offering a 100foo$ bounty for bringing in new fish...or relanding existing ones. check your Friends tab...

5/8/11...
Happy Mother's - and Father's! - Day to all of our members, struggling so hard to save and protect the foochildren in the face of all odds and resistance...bless you all!

5/6/11...
it is now confirmed from various sources that the shelf life of a FooShelter inmate is at best 30 days before they go Pet Not Found.
Please - do NOT release a pet to the shelter unless you have an adopter standing by - we have lost far too many already.

5/5/11...
Care Logs back to the old system of data-dumping on Wednesday nights - and we understand there are now a host of cheerful little activities to keep us all amused over in the Forums now...how very - belated - of them.

5/3/11...
well, the Pet Sams finally made an appearance - i wish i could take that as a good sign, but i've learned to be suspicious of any seemingly-charitable act on the part of the site...
on the positive side, pets fed by widget register the care on their profiles, so if you don't mind a little extra work setting them up (i bookmark mine), all fosters not care-blocked by owners can now be tended. for some reason, the care menu on the bottom of mine vanishes if i move the cursor off it, but reloading the page brings it back.
just add the pet's link number to this -
http://www.foopets.com/widget?pet_id=

5/2/11...
it appears they have adjusted the Care Logs so that they "float" at the seven-day mark. pardon our cynicism, but we suspect this is so that they can check on uncared-for pets with an eye to repossessing them...and as the FooSlaughter ("Adoption Center" my left toenail) is now eliminating pets that go unadopted for a fairly short length of time, we rather expect that to start soon. still no sign of the Pet Samaritans who were supposed to provide such tender care for the pets they denied us access to...and all the ownerless pokeys are now throwing Mad Kitty...not good...
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Word has gone out through the grapevine that other new rules and changes are in the wings - watch your back and keep your eyes and ears open. FooMojo now appears to be a wholly owned subsidiary of SoftBank, and we are ferreting out the new cast of characters in charge. (this was put up nearly a year ago...and we have yet to find reason to change it...sigh)
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WE NEED INPUT! This is NOT supposed to be a monologue.

32 comments:

  1. I've noticed that some members are buying the items that still have both FD and FG prices so they can buy with a few thousand FG and sell it back to the Mart for FD's.

    How long before this turns into The Art Submission Scandal, Part II? As upset as they got at members for what was FooPets own glitch, I'm sure they'll blame the members for this one as well.

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  2. ...they dealt with it by getting rid of the Foo$ option - punishing those who had the items legitimately along with the creative, as usual - but that just became small potatoes indeed...see top of blog.

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  3. Everything needs to be like they use to.

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  4. I see they've done away with gifting as well...I was going to go in and gift all of my old inventory since most of it is FooDollar items but they're too greedy even to allow that.

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  5. only CF's can gift...ain't they clever? but the worst news is the fooshelter extermination...and apparently your account is locked onto your last pet even if you place the rest, so they can keep the "warm body" accounts without having to deal with noisy, messy members...

    EVERYONE WHO CANNOT JOIN CF AT THE MOMENT-
    find a friend with CF to oversee the well-being of the pets who remain in your account until you can return!
    unless they are deliberately destroying the site (a possibility, but then it doesn't matter anyway, might as well try, okay?), this ghastly new system will collapse under its own weight in short order - like by the end of the next fiscal quarter.
    i'd almost suggest that those who have one CF account simply record the links of and tend the others, even if they CAN Club-Foo the other accounts...just to bust their financial balls...

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  6. I can't take all the changes anymore, I deleted all my accounts, don't want to give those people money.

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  7. DO NOT DELETE! your last pet and any not transferred are now permanently attached to the acount and will remain in limbo indefinitely, helpless and unreachable. have a CF'd friend - or us - ready to tend your pet(s)...please!

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  8. Still getting the "503 Service Unavailable - No server is available to handle this request" notice at 9:40am EST - wonder what the hell they're up to now??? The last time I saw a post about someone getting the Service Unavailable notice they were clearing out the Mart to make shopping for stuff "easier"....
    Peach :0)~

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  9. the whole fancy new cloud server crashed...and it's looking more and more like enemy action (and not FooMojo/Rivet, sad lol), as we have graduated to a more severe 500 error as of this am. more as we find it...

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  10. (from a friend - removed from message board for mutual protection)
    Hi FooBA, Some interesting links you will enjoy foopets.com/friends , talkreviews.com/foopets.com , statistics.allfacebook.com/applications/single/foopets-/10062052582/ , commonsensemedia.org/website-reviews/foopets . Enjoy!

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  11. Gold Rush,
    Hi, I am trying to access my cat Panther
    through http://www.foopets.com/widget?pet_id= (number),I know my number, and all I get now is a Foopets Logo splashing, and my cat is not shown. I have deleted browser history and have the latest adobe flash player, but I can't get my cat to appear on the screen, Please help. This was the problem on the several occasions, Today, I accessed my Black cat this morning, and tried to get to her this evening without any luck , please help

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  12. Gold Rush, for the more information re: problem please look at the : http://lifeboat-ark.blogspot.com/2011/04/operation-lifeboats-share-to-care.html#comments

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  13. posting this in the event the mobile links to pets 'frozen' still work. I can't see them and should have given the links to someone but didn't.

    Cats
    Rainbow http://m.foopets.com/play/5062088

    Sparky http://m.foopets.com/play/5111026

    Chaos http://m.foopets.com/play/5612616

    Dianchect http://m.foopets.com/play/6584640

    Onyx http://m.foopets.com/play/9567866

    Sasha http://m.foopets.com/play/10446038

    Tycho http://m.foopets.com/play/6098438

    Aziraphale http://m.foopets.com/play/8842323

    Fiona http://m.foopets.com/play/11280628

    Sebastian http://m.foopets.com/play/11276681

    Dogs
    Triti http://m.foopets.com/play/11424703

    Juggernaut http://m.foopets.com/play/5068471

    Abigail http://m.foopets.com/play/5162268

    Iris http://m.foopets.com/play/5336950

    Thistle http://m.foopets.com/play/6699036

    Topper http://m.foopets.com/play/5933158

    Charlotte http://m.foopets.com/play/6942691

    Pickles http://m.foopets.com/play/7777221

    Madeline http://m.foopets.com/play/948

    Francis http://m.foopets.com/play/81567

    Nutty http://m.foopets.com/play/11408354

    if you can care for them, that'd be awesome. if not no worries. I don't think they're really going to change it back to free being allowed, but if they do I'd like to have the option to return.

    -- calankh

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  14. Norwegian - you can only use the widget from an "active" foopet account - we are trying to figure out how to slip people in under the radar without getting the new site shut down as well. with the widget, friending is no longer necessary, but we will have to do a lot of prep, so please try to be patient.

    calankh - if that is your username here, i can go into the account and check on them, and try to get your CF'd friends to help tend - all else failing, i can set them all up in widget form and tend them that way.

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  15. Hi Gold Rush. I was just wondering if there were any updates to the suspended accounts. I haven't seen any further posts about it here or on the blog. Was just wondering what was going on and if my pets are being taken care of or not. Is the Lifeboat account permanently suspended cuz I tried logging on and it still said it was? Any update would be good to have even if it is bad news. Did Foo say why they suspended the account if none of the terms were violated?

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  16. yes calankh was my username on foo as well. I don't have my member number on this computer but I can get it for you tomorrow. Thank you.

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  17. we have fought our way up to the next level of authority, and they are falling back on a catchall clause "anything Rivet Games decides is inappropriate ot not ok for the site" - we have them on the ropes...we have all the accounts covered, either by us, Canaan, or CF'd friends - we've contacted them and everyone stepped up to the plate beautifully.
    (Norwegian, if that's you, i've been watching Panther and he's doing well)

    calankh, your pets are under good care by some of your friends that i was able to contact!

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  18. awesome, thank you so much. hopefully they will reverse this ridiculousness and come to their senses.

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  19. Gold Rush, where's my Panther, I don't have access to her. Did they change URL?

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  20. Gold Rush, where's my Panther, I don't have access to her. Did they change URL for the Wid..
    you know the site for foopets where we can play!

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  21. the widget only works if you have a foopets login to access it from...if you do, here is his widget code - http://www.foopets.com/widget?pet_id=9911432 - he is our "poster pet" up on the page, you can just click that to get to him...but it looks like you have his care restricted, i get "not permitted" when i try to feed or water him. he is being well cared for by your friends, though, i check on him daily. we are still fighting to get 4theGG back online.

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  22. Hello Gold, I was wondering if there was any way to see your pet's profiles without actually being logged in, because I am very scared that my pets are not doing well with me gone. If there isn't, I was wondering if you could maybe check my pets to see if they are ok? My username on there is TwilightRox453.

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  23. doing so now...and i will make sure they are under care if your friends are not already doing so, via widget if i can't find any other way. no worries.

    (and we are working on another angle - see "Tertius" in the new Foop post)

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  24. Telepak has them covered, Towilight, but i will continue to keep an eye on them.

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  25. Hi Gold Rush. Telepak here.
    I wanted to let TwilightRox453 know that their pets are fine :) The account is on my daily care list.

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  26. Thank you soooo much! (It's Twilight again). I am so scared that Foo will decide that they have waited too long for the members to come back, so I thought they would take them away! Theank you to Gold and Telepak!

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  27. What's pet Sams? Can we tend for our pets , for those of us who can't pay?

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  28. Did you know they stopped the "Pet Tails" game on face book, they shut it down, and didn't say why.

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