IcelandFurs

IcelandFurs is the group in Iceland for the local furries, though foreigners are welcome to mingle. Officially it is a forum based community that has recently set up a Discord server for it's members. There are other platforms where the group tries to reach it's members, such as facebook, telegram and Fur_Affinity

History
It can be said that the IcelandFurs started to take shape back in 2006 when a few local Icelandic furries decided to hang out. Redward could be considered the one to initially gather people together. Myra Midnight did host many of the meetups over the years, having a convenient burger-joint and the local mall located very close to her home. Among the attendees in those early meetups were Karno and IceMan.

It wasn't until around 2009 that the group officially settled on the name IcelandFurs when Redward attempted to create a website for the group under that name. This is when IcelandFurs appeared on FurAffinity in order to post news about gatherings and events.

It was only after 2013 that the group really started growing, when Redward handed over leadership of the group to Abby-Fennec and their partner Harr who began planning regular events and convention trips. This is also when the group found it's way onto Facebook to act as a news center for the group. That year was surely the most eventful one since the group's creation.

Main form of communication within the group since then has mainly been Telegram.

Then in May 2014 there was finally a website established under the domain icelandfurs.org, with Myra Midnight managing the hosting for it. Though the community was noticeably too small to have a functioning forum community, there were attempts to establish a forum on the website along with a news blog, both of which ended up inactive.

Since then there have been annual cabin trips with foreign visitors attending the gatherings and even planned groups that would attend Nordic Fuzz Con together.

There was change in management within the group in 2019, with no specific person in the lead.

The group currently has at least 30 members as of 2020, including a few foreign friends that mingle with the crowd.

Social platforms
The group mainly resides on a Discord server and Telegram channels, and current way to gain access is through existing members until there can be established a virtual lobby that can filter out bots.

The Facebook and Furaffinity managed by the group has been deemed inactive due to lack of people to manage them or being inaccessible by those currently in charge.

The website has not being maintained for information or news.