F-list is the largest chat-room-based roleplaying website, and is ranked 5th most popular website worldwide under the “roleplaying” categorisation.
This includes non-adult roleplaying websites like Roll20 and Second Life. It's BIG.
F-List comes up all the time in the Vore Room chat. It's the looming, villainous roleplay website people love to hate! Here are all the sorts of comments, misconceptions, and questions about F-List.
F-list stands for “Fetish List” and while it initially started as a furry-orientated roleplaying site, the majority of characters are humanoid. At the time of writing the statistics are roughly two humanoid characters for every furry, feral or taur.
F-list has very powerful search functions so that massive list of fetishes is not just for people to oggle, but enables people to search for you, and compare their likes and dislikes with yours.
For example, you can search for characters that love "Vore as a predator" and hate "Nonconsensual" simultaneously. To drill down to the sort of characters you might enjoy playing with.
You can also search gender, writing perspective, post length, language, dom/sum role and many other details. Looking for a unicorn? Try typing unicorn in species.
In many ways F-List functions much like a dating site for roleplayers. Helping people that are into the same things find one another.
Hard to argue with this statement, but if you want to get your rocks off by roleplaying then messaging someone on F-list is not unlike messaging someone in the Library. You look at their profile and if you see what you like you message them, or if you're lucky someone will message you!
If you prefer naturally emerging public roleplay much like the kind found in the Vore Room, this sort of statement is very justified. Public roleplays still happen in the channels, which are usually for different kinks, but it's hit and miss. Sometimes they are overcrowded and 20 roleplays are going on at once, other rooms are dead.
Yes and no. In every community, you get problem people but F-list works differently to Aryion's Library and Vore Room. Aryion benefits from being a smaller community dedicated to one diverse fetish. Even so, there are still examples of people not reading profiles, pigeonholing others to play things outside their preferences, or ghosting.
F-list has very large user base, which means more people looking and doing all the taboo things you expect in roleplaying. With the added problem of people who aren't into vore finding your profile and glazing over all the vore kinks and messaging you to request that one non-vore kink in your favourites as the one focus of a roleplay.
Finding people that very specifically match your interests using the search tools, and then reaching out to them about potentially roleplaying.
The chat has a web client but also a mobile app, and a desktop app. These tools save your logs and have a number of other useful features.
You can bookmark people who interest you and see when they come online.
When someone messages you, it will highlight what kinks and roleplaying preferences you align, and disalign on. In case any of those are dealbreakers.
You can compare your fetishes with other people which colours them based on how similar they are to your own, showing a certain level of compatibility.
The chat supports BB code, emoji, custom emoji, adverts, and blocking users. Not just muting a character.
Profiles are not HTML, which basically means you have less versatility but you won't come across overwhelming animated super-profiles or Jquery that crashed your phone. You can upload your own images to the page and style it how you want (within certain constraints).
You can add custom kinks and group kinks in boxes if you want to be OCD or just keep things neat.
You can create custom rooms, make them private for friends or open them to the public.
Social interaction & community. Most of the public rooms tend to be either dead, or pandemonium clogged with roleplay adverts. It's like the bustling New York of fetish roleplaying. There are so many people, that you often get the feeling that they don't have time for one another in public rooms. Which makes these rooms difficult to feel part of.