Flayrah
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Flayrah is a furry news portal, influenced by Slashdot, and spun off from an older news site hosted by Cornwuff Press. It was founded by Aureth, who remained webmaster until mid-2006, handing the site over to Frysco.
In 2010, Flayrah was relaunched by GreenReaper with new software. Existing users and content were preserved.
- Address: http://www.flayrah.com
- Webmaster:
- Aureth (2001 - 2006)
- Francisco "Frysco" Azinsan (2006 - 2009)
- GreenReaper (2010 - present)
- Past staff: Gene Breshears (story editor), Mwalimu (story editor), M.C.A. Hogarth (assistant editor)
- Motto: Unusually Good Information
- Ran from/to:
- January 21, 2001 - June 2006
- August 2006 - December 2009
- January 2010 - present
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[edit] Content
Flayrah was intended to provide a "more topical, less flammable, and more enjoyable" alternative to alt.fan.furry, covering "fandom and convention news, product announcements and reviews, interesting websites, and other related tidbits."
The site was also meant to include similar material to the e-zine Fuzzy Logic, but this never really materialized in significant amounts. However, some content did attract a significant amount of debate, especially in early years.
Over 100 articles dating from 2007-2009 were originally published on WikiFur, and are used under license.
[edit] History
Staff members posted 1992 news items in the first four years, starting with a story about World Tree RPG.[1] Over its active years, it became a regular stop for many furry fans, despite sometimes irregular updates.
The site went offline at the end of June 2006 due to webhosting issues, together with declining interest and a lack of time on the part of the webmaster. It returned in mid-August after Frysco expressed an interest in taking over operation of the site. However, there was little activity, partly because the site had to be locked-down to registered users due to a lack of anti-spam software features.
On 28 November 2009, Frysco announced that Flayrah would be closing for the second and perhaps the final time.[2] However, GreenReaper decided that the site had too much historical content and promise to lose, and took over the site, rewriting it using Drupal and merging in free content from WikiFur News for a relaunch in January 2010. However, while being owned by GreenReaper and being used as the primary news source of WikiFur as of January 2010, it remains separate and independent from the WikiFur family of projects.
[edit] References
- ↑ 2005 State of the Website - Aureth, Flayrah (10 January 2005)
- ↑ Flayrah Closing - Frysco, Flayrah (28 November 2009)
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