Georgia Furs

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Georgia Furs refers to a number of similarly-named communities which cater to the general furry population in the U.S. state of Georgia:

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[edit] History

The georgiafurs.com forum was stared in 2003 by Kiran Lightpaw with assistance from Tiger Paw and a number of the Atlanta-area furs. After an attack caused by a flaw in the message board software, the site was down from late 2005 until 2008, when it was restored by a steering committee consisting of a number of the Atlanta area furs. In June of 2008, the site underwent an ownership change and redesign, as well as a relaunch of the forums using different software.

[edit] FLORA as de-facto mailing list

In the meantime, the intermittent downtime of the forum forced otherwise active members in other parts of Georgia and nearby locales in surrounding states (Alabama, Tennessee, Florida, South Carolina) to use the FLORA mailing list, which is primarily focused around the furry population of the Atlanta metropolitan area (site of the Furry Weekend Atlanta convention). As a result, the present incarnation of the GeorgiaFurs.com has not yet gained back its original membership, but is rapidly growing again in popularity as an alternative to the unmoderated FLORA list.

With many member applying to FLORA and never being able to be added, some locals started another Yahoo group called the Atlanta Regional Furry List.

Another active in-state regional group is the Savannah Furs, while neither a mailing list nor a LiveJournal community for Middle Georgia Furs have yielded noticeable discussion or membership.

[edit] 2009 changes

In early 2009, following an intense debate, the FLORA mailing list was deleted, and other main members founded the ARFlist as an alternative successor. On July 1, the Georgia Furs forum underwent an ownership change and software change, with georgiafurs.com temporarily redirected to georgiafurs.furryweekend.com as a temporary testing address before launching on georgiafurs.com with new software and an improved design. The old georgiafurs.com message board was forked onto georgiafurs.net and is no longer associated with georgiafurs.com.

[edit] See also

  • FLORA - a now deleted mailing list for Georgia Furs, primarily focused on the Atlanta area.
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