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Automated sergals. Please ignore.
What is this?
Sergals helps deliver instant notifications about new submissions and journals from various furry websites to Telegram IM users.
To learn more about Telegram, check telegramfurs profile.
Why did I get watched?
Someone who watches you here on FA also wanted to get a private Telegram notification as soon as you upload a new submission or journal.
To see how many users and who exactly is watching you, you can search yourself here: http://sergals.shy.cat/watchlist/fa/ (will be completed someday).
See below about rewatching.
I get FA notifications like "1S, 2J" already. Why is this service useful?
It's true you can already see when a new submission or journal was posted on FA. But you need to manually check FA to do that.
This service automatically lets you know what's new wherever you are by sending a notification to your Telegram account, much like a Facebook or Twitter notification!
How can I get notifications for someone?
1. Find and start the bot. Its username is @FAwatchbot.
2. Upon starting, the bot asks a link to your FA account page (password is NEVER required, the bot needs only your watchlist, but keep in mind that you will need to confirm your account ownership within a week through FA notes);
3. Service will scan your watchlist and ask you who should be added to watch notifications (no more than 200; you may ask me for a limit raise, but please be rational on how many :> );
4. Lastly, the service will add users from your newly created custom watchlist on this account.
Done! When someone from your watchlist submits something (submission or journal, it's up to you) - you will receive a notification in Telegram with an optional preview.
Why use this dedicated account, why add someone to its watchlist?
In short: Using this account helps to keep performance impact at the lowest point.
Long answer: This technical account was created in order to obey the TOS 3.9.4: to carefully minimize the impact as much as possible. Instead of fetching the countless galleries, bot fetches only his submissions notifications and cleans them up after it's done, keeping it empty. More of this, the service tracks the number of requests to a website, to limit them and to make a time gap between them. (I will gladly discuss the service internals and any concerns over its behaviour, so please contact me if in doubt.)
On FurAffinity, the service noticeably limits its activity when the registered user count exceeds 10k.
Why did I get REwatched?
When the last user unwatches a watched person, this service waits for two weeks and then unwatches that person on this account. But it is always possible that someone will add that person again.
Few tips:
If you find notifications annoying, just disable "Notifications" in a bot's profile (screenshot) - they will still arrive, but will not bother you with sound/vibration.
If you want to completely disable the notifications, there're buttons called "Submissions" and "Journals". Yes, it's that easy! When you re-enable it, the bot won't send you what you have missed, instead, it will show you the number of missed notifications (works only with submissions), and that all.
If you want to disable your account, just block the bot. But if you want to change FA username, please contact @feathers directly.
Contacts, chats:
Humble chat group in Telegram: @fachatroom (created and maintained by service users). You may also ask service-related questions there.
Channel with service status and updates: @fawatchlog
For any questions, poke @feathers on Telegram. She also monitors this account for notes and discussions here on FA.
Shouts are disabled because they got flooded with "thanks for the watch", eh... Sorry about that.
Last profile update: 2021-06-21
(Sergal species ©Mick39, Snoo ©reddit, sergal snoo by me)
What is this?
Sergals helps deliver instant notifications about new submissions and journals from various furry websites to Telegram IM users.
To learn more about Telegram, check telegramfurs profile.
Why did I get watched?
Someone who watches you here on FA also wanted to get a private Telegram notification as soon as you upload a new submission or journal.
To see how many users and who exactly is watching you, you can search yourself here: http://sergals.shy.cat/watchlist/fa/ (will be completed someday).
See below about rewatching.
I get FA notifications like "1S, 2J" already. Why is this service useful?
It's true you can already see when a new submission or journal was posted on FA. But you need to manually check FA to do that.
This service automatically lets you know what's new wherever you are by sending a notification to your Telegram account, much like a Facebook or Twitter notification!
How can I get notifications for someone?
1. Find and start the bot. Its username is @FAwatchbot.
2. Upon starting, the bot asks a link to your FA account page (password is NEVER required, the bot needs only your watchlist, but keep in mind that you will need to confirm your account ownership within a week through FA notes);
3. Service will scan your watchlist and ask you who should be added to watch notifications (no more than 200; you may ask me for a limit raise, but please be rational on how many :> );
4. Lastly, the service will add users from your newly created custom watchlist on this account.
Done! When someone from your watchlist submits something (submission or journal, it's up to you) - you will receive a notification in Telegram with an optional preview.
Why use this dedicated account, why add someone to its watchlist?
In short: Using this account helps to keep performance impact at the lowest point.
Long answer: This technical account was created in order to obey the TOS 3.9.4: to carefully minimize the impact as much as possible. Instead of fetching the countless galleries, bot fetches only his submissions notifications and cleans them up after it's done, keeping it empty. More of this, the service tracks the number of requests to a website, to limit them and to make a time gap between them. (I will gladly discuss the service internals and any concerns over its behaviour, so please contact me if in doubt.)
On FurAffinity, the service noticeably limits its activity when the registered user count exceeds 10k.
Why did I get REwatched?
When the last user unwatches a watched person, this service waits for two weeks and then unwatches that person on this account. But it is always possible that someone will add that person again.
Few tips:
If you find notifications annoying, just disable "Notifications" in a bot's profile (screenshot) - they will still arrive, but will not bother you with sound/vibration.
If you want to completely disable the notifications, there're buttons called "Submissions" and "Journals". Yes, it's that easy! When you re-enable it, the bot won't send you what you have missed, instead, it will show you the number of missed notifications (works only with submissions), and that all.
If you want to disable your account, just block the bot. But if you want to change FA username, please contact @feathers directly.
Contacts, chats:
Humble chat group in Telegram: @fachatroom (created and maintained by service users). You may also ask service-related questions there.
Channel with service status and updates: @fawatchlog
For any questions, poke @feathers on Telegram. She also monitors this account for notes and discussions here on FA.
Shouts are disabled because they got flooded with "thanks for the watch", eh... Sorry about that.
Last profile update: 2021-06-21
(Sergal species ©Mick39, Snoo ©reddit, sergal snoo by me)
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Comments Made: 241
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Comments Made: 241
Journals: 2
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8 years ago
Suggestions, comments, questions, anything we can discuss.
Please make sure you've read my profile - it answers most of the questions you might have.
NOTE: Blocking this account does nothing with +watch, but only prevents me from answering to you. This is how FA works.
Please wait until you've been added to DNW list or write a ticket if you want this FA behaviour to be changed.
Regarding hidden comments: I hide only those, that does not contribute in conversation (for example if they absolutely lack opinions and impressions). Others will stay, no matter if I share their point of view or not.
Please make sure you've read my profile - it answers most of the questions you might have.
NOTE: Blocking this account does nothing with +watch, but only prevents me from answering to you. This is how FA works.
Please wait until you've been added to DNW list or write a ticket if you want this FA behaviour to be changed.
Regarding hidden comments: I hide only those, that does not contribute in conversation (for example if they absolutely lack opinions and impressions). Others will stay, no matter if I share their point of view or not.
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Shame I still can't see who watched since it's broken
I'm so flattered that someone feels my art is good enough to receive notifications when I post new content! :'D
To whomever created this thing, keep up the good work!
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