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South Australian Furry Community

2023-12-26T11:17:55Z

64r613: Update history to include Discord rename

{{cleanup}}
{{wikify}}
:''For the defunct [[Something Awful]] IRC channel see [[Something Awful#.23safurs|#safurs]].''
The '''South Australian Furry Community''', more commonly referred to as '''SAFurs''' or '''SA Furries''', is a decentralized group of communities for [[wikipedia:South Australia|South Australian]] [[furries]]. While the SAFurs community exists in its current form across many platforms, almost all of these different spaces share userbases and administrators. The term SAFur is also used to denote an individual who is a part of the South Australian Furry community, and the plural term SAFurs can refer to select community members or the community as a whole.

== History ==
[[File:SAFC logo.png|thumbnail|right|300px|An older logo to represent the South Australian Furry Community (SAFC)]]

In 2006, Tech Wolfox opened the '''#Safurs''' IRC channel on [[FurNet (IRC)|Furnet]], which attracted furs from Australia and the around the world. This is the first recorded use of the longstanding SAFurs name. SAFurs frequently meet for coffee nights and often help organize events for regional [[furmeet]]s such as [[MiDFur]]. SAFurs.org went offline in October 2007, due to failure of the server hardware and consequent loss of data. This, coupled with internal conflicts within the group, a lack of administrative support, and the availability of the [[Furstralia]] forums, led to a meeting of senior group members where the decision was made to not re-establish safurs.org. 

A new SAFurs site at the address safurs.ausfa.org was formed by [[CynWolfe]] in February 2008 as part of the infrastructure built by the recently formed [[Australian Furry Association]]. The site took off after an awkward start resulting from some bad promotion by some SAFurs who started arguments on the Furstralia forums. SAFurs was moved from safurs.ausfa.org to the safurs.net domain in February 2010. From this point, the site no longer ran as a subsidiary of the Australian Furry Association. However, SAFurs remains linked to [[RADFur]]. The contents of the old site were lost in the move. 

The SAFurs [[Facebook]] group was created in July 2012. This group is still active as of December 2023. 

In December 2013, SAFurs was moved from safurs.net to the safurs.forumotion.com forum after the safurs.net domain expired and [[Firey]] moved away from the group. The contents of the old forum were lost in the move. The forums reached their peak activity in August 2017 with 58 active users, though the authenticity of this peak is debatable since most posts were made during 2014 and 2015. Posts detailing upcoming events on the forum contained links to the SAFurs Facebook group, suggesting a large amount of overlap in users as well as events occurring on the SAFurs Facebook around 2015<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20230511114808/https://safurs.forumotion.com/t11-group-photo-at-the-malls-balls</ref>. The forums are no-longer in use but still viewable. New users are unable to register new accounts without admin approval, and the forums reached a total of 126 registered users. 

A Discord server was created in March of 2020 that included a userbase of mostly South Australian furries. At its inception, this group served as a Discord offshoot of the active SAFurs Facebook - primarily to encourage those who do not use Facebook to engage with the local community. The group began coordinating small events two months after its creation and eventually grew to focus on its primarily South Australian identity.

A Twitter account was registered under the handle ''sa_furs'' by the Telegram and Facebook administrators in September 2021 and began primarily retweeting and sharing tweets from South Australian furries as well as pictures from Facebook SAFurs events. 

Until December 2022, the Telegram and Facebook were administrated separately from the Discord. After a change of administration in December 2022, the Discord server was officially renamed to ''SA Furries''. Around this time, administration of the Telegram and Facebook also changed. Communication between both parties of administrators increased in June of 2023 and officially overlapped in August of that year when all platforms began sharing administrator permissions.

In December 2023, the Discord was renamed ''SAFurs'' to align with the other social media platforms.

== Media Appearances ==
In November 2023, the Nikola Van de Wetering of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Broadcasting_Corporation Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)] interviewed attendees of an Adelaide furmeet after reaching out to [https://kusakidesu.carrd.co/ Kusaki], a prominent South Australian furry. Van de Wetering was also present at the September ''FurBall'' and ''FurTrader!'' events to speak to participants. These interviews culminated in an episode on ''The Other Me'', season four of the ABC's flagship documentary series ''Earshot''. The episode is entitled ''The Animal Outside'' and was released in December 2023, it covered the fundemantal concepts of furry fandom, the individual stories and identities of some furries as well as the present discrimination furries face <ref>Van de Wetering, N., & Melville, K. (2023, December 18). ''The Animal Outside'' (T. Henry & Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Eds.; No. 8) [Radio broadcast ''The Animal Outside'']. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/earshot/earshot-the-other-me-drag-king-furries-boy-michael-animal/103077604 ‌</ref>.

== External Links ==
* [https://linktr.ee/safurs SAFurs] on Linktree
* [https://www.facebook.com/groups/safurs SAFurs] on [[Facebook]]
* [https://discord.gg/safurries SAFurs] on Discord
* [https://twitter.com/sa_furs SAFurs] on [[Twitter]]
* [https://t.me/SAFurEvent SAFurs] on [[Telegram]]
* [https://www.tiktok.com/@sa.furs SAFurs] on [[TikTok]]
* [https://www.flickr.com/photos/197912358@N03/albums SAFurs] on Flikr
* [http://safurs.forumotion.com SAFurs] on Forumotion (inactive)
* [http://s285.photobucket.com/albums/ll80/SaFurs/ SAFurs] on PhotoBucket (down)
* [irc://irc.furnet.org/safurs SAFurs] on IRC (down)

== References ==
<references/>

[[Category:Regional groups]]
[[Category:South Australia]]

{{Australia}}

South Australian Furry Community

2023-12-26T10:51:43Z

64r613: Change Discord link title, add Linktree and Flikr

{{cleanup}}
{{wikify}}
:''For the defunct [[Something Awful]] IRC channel see [[Something Awful#.23safurs|#safurs]].''
The '''South Australian Furry Community''', more commonly referred to as '''SAFurs''' or '''SA Furries''', is a decentralized group of communities for [[wikipedia:South Australia|South Australian]] [[furries]]. While the SAFurs community exists in its current form across many platforms, almost all of these different spaces share userbases and administrators. The term SAFur is also used to denote an individual who is a part of the South Australian Furry community, and the plural term SAFurs can refer to select community members or the community as a whole.

== History ==
[[File:SAFC logo.png|thumbnail|right|300px|An older logo to represent the South Australian Furry Community (SAFC)]]

In 2006, Tech Wolfox opened the '''#Safurs''' IRC channel on [[FurNet (IRC)|Furnet]], which attracted furs from Australia and the around the world. This is the first recorded use of the longstanding SAFurs name. SAFurs frequently meet for coffee nights and often help organize events for regional [[furmeet]]s such as [[MiDFur]]. SAFurs.org went offline in October 2007, due to failure of the server hardware and consequent loss of data. This, coupled with internal conflicts within the group, a lack of administrative support, and the availability of the [[Furstralia]] forums, led to a meeting of senior group members where the decision was made to not re-establish safurs.org. 

A new SAFurs site at the address safurs.ausfa.org was formed by [[CynWolfe]] in February 2008 as part of the infrastructure built by the recently formed [[Australian Furry Association]]. The site took off after an awkward start resulting from some bad promotion by some SAFurs who started arguments on the Furstralia forums. SAFurs was moved from safurs.ausfa.org to the safurs.net domain in February 2010. From this point, the site no longer ran as a subsidiary of the Australian Furry Association. However, SAFurs remains linked to [[RADFur]]. The contents of the old site were lost in the move. 

The SAFurs [[Facebook]] group was created in July 2012. This group is still active as of December 2023. 

In December 2013, SAFurs was moved from safurs.net to the safurs.forumotion.com forum after the safurs.net domain expired and [[Firey]] moved away from the group. The contents of the old forum were lost in the move. The forums reached their peak activity in August 2017 with 58 active users, though the authenticity of this peak is debatable since most posts were made during 2014 and 2015. Posts detailing upcoming events on the forum contained links to the SAFurs Facebook group, suggesting a large amount of overlap in users as well as events occurring on the SAFurs Facebook around 2015<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20230511114808/https://safurs.forumotion.com/t11-group-photo-at-the-malls-balls</ref>. The forums are no-longer in use but still viewable. New users are unable to register new accounts without admin approval, and the forums reached a total of 126 registered users. 

A Discord server was created in March of 2020 that included a userbase of mostly South Australian furries. At its inception, this group served as a Discord offshoot of the active SAFurs Facebook - primarily to encourage those who do not use Facebook to engage with the local community. The group began coordinating small events two months after its creation and eventually grew to focus on its primarily South Australian identity.

A Twitter account was registered under the handle ''sa_furs'' by the Telegram and Facebook administrators in September 2021 and began primarily retweeting and sharing tweets from South Australian furries as well as pictures from Facebook SAFurs events. 

Until December 2022, the Telegram and Facebook were administrated separately from the Discord. After a change of administration in December 2022, the Discord server was officially renamed to ''SA Furries''. Around this time, administration of the Telegram and Facebook also changed. Communication between both parties of administrators increased in June of 2023 and officially overlapped in August of that year when all platforms began sharing administrator permissions.

== Media Appearances ==
In November 2023, the Nikola Van de Wetering of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Broadcasting_Corporation Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)] interviewed attendees of an Adelaide furmeet after reaching out to [https://kusakidesu.carrd.co/ Kusaki], a prominent South Australian furry. Van de Wetering was also present at the September ''FurBall'' and ''FurTrader!'' events to speak to participants. These interviews culminated in an episode on ''The Other Me'', season four of the ABC's flagship documentary series ''Earshot''. The episode is entitled ''The Animal Outside'' and was released in December 2023, it covered the fundemantal concepts of furry fandom, the individual stories and identities of some furries as well as the present discrimination furries face <ref>Van de Wetering, N., & Melville, K. (2023, December 18). ''The Animal Outside'' (T. Henry & Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Eds.; No. 8) [Radio broadcast ''The Animal Outside'']. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/earshot/earshot-the-other-me-drag-king-furries-boy-michael-animal/103077604 ‌</ref>.

== External Links ==
* [https://linktr.ee/safurs SAFurs] on Linktree
* [https://www.facebook.com/groups/safurs SAFurs] on [[Facebook]]
* [https://discord.gg/safurries SAFurs] on Discord
* [https://twitter.com/sa_furs SAFurs] on [[Twitter]]
* [https://t.me/SAFurEvent SAFurs] on [[Telegram]]
* [https://www.tiktok.com/@sa.furs SAFurs] on [[TikTok]]
* [https://www.flickr.com/photos/197912358@N03/albums SAFurs] on Flikr
* [http://safurs.forumotion.com SAFurs] on Forumotion (inactive)
* [http://s285.photobucket.com/albums/ll80/SaFurs/ SAFurs] on PhotoBucket (down)
* [irc://irc.furnet.org/safurs SAFurs] on IRC (down)

== References ==
<references/>

[[Category:Regional groups]]
[[Category:South Australia]]

{{Australia}}

South Australian Furry Community

2023-12-26T10:32:21Z

64r613: Facebook is no longer most active platform

{{cleanup}}
{{wikify}}
:''For the defunct [[Something Awful]] IRC channel see [[Something Awful#.23safurs|#safurs]].''
The '''South Australian Furry Community''', more commonly referred to as '''SAFurs''' or '''SA Furries''', is a decentralized group of communities for [[wikipedia:South Australia|South Australian]] [[furries]]. While the SAFurs community exists in its current form across many platforms, almost all of these different spaces share userbases and administrators. The term SAFur is also used to denote an individual who is a part of the South Australian Furry community, and the plural term SAFurs can refer to select community members or the community as a whole.

== History ==
[[File:SAFC logo.png|thumbnail|right|300px|An older logo to represent the South Australian Furry Community (SAFC)]]

In 2006, Tech Wolfox opened the '''#Safurs''' IRC channel on [[FurNet (IRC)|Furnet]], which attracted furs from Australia and the around the world. This is the first recorded use of the longstanding SAFurs name. SAFurs frequently meet for coffee nights and often help organize events for regional [[furmeet]]s such as [[MiDFur]]. SAFurs.org went offline in October 2007, due to failure of the server hardware and consequent loss of data. This, coupled with internal conflicts within the group, a lack of administrative support, and the availability of the [[Furstralia]] forums, led to a meeting of senior group members where the decision was made to not re-establish safurs.org. 

A new SAFurs site at the address safurs.ausfa.org was formed by [[CynWolfe]] in February 2008 as part of the infrastructure built by the recently formed [[Australian Furry Association]]. The site took off after an awkward start resulting from some bad promotion by some SAFurs who started arguments on the Furstralia forums. SAFurs was moved from safurs.ausfa.org to the safurs.net domain in February 2010. From this point, the site no longer ran as a subsidiary of the Australian Furry Association. However, SAFurs remains linked to [[RADFur]]. The contents of the old site were lost in the move. 

The SAFurs [[Facebook]] group was created in July 2012. This group is still active as of December 2023. 

In December 2013, SAFurs was moved from safurs.net to the safurs.forumotion.com forum after the safurs.net domain expired and [[Firey]] moved away from the group. The contents of the old forum were lost in the move. The forums reached their peak activity in August 2017 with 58 active users, though the authenticity of this peak is debatable since most posts were made during 2014 and 2015. Posts detailing upcoming events on the forum contained links to the SAFurs Facebook group, suggesting a large amount of overlap in users as well as events occurring on the SAFurs Facebook around 2015<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20230511114808/https://safurs.forumotion.com/t11-group-photo-at-the-malls-balls</ref>. The forums are no-longer in use but still viewable. New users are unable to register new accounts without admin approval, and the forums reached a total of 126 registered users. 

A Discord server was created in March of 2020 that included a userbase of mostly South Australian furries. At its inception, this group served as a Discord offshoot of the active SAFurs Facebook - primarily to encourage those who do not use Facebook to engage with the local community. The group began coordinating small events two months after its creation and eventually grew to focus on its primarily South Australian identity.

A Twitter account was registered under the handle ''sa_furs'' by the Telegram and Facebook administrators in September 2021 and began primarily retweeting and sharing tweets from South Australian furries as well as pictures from Facebook SAFurs events. 

Until December 2022, the Telegram and Facebook were administrated separately from the Discord. After a change of administration in December 2022, the Discord server was officially renamed to ''SA Furries''. Around this time, administration of the Telegram and Facebook also changed. Communication between both parties of administrators increased in June of 2023 and officially overlapped in August of that year when all platforms began sharing administrator permissions.

== Media Appearances ==
In November 2023, the Nikola Van de Wetering of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Broadcasting_Corporation Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)] interviewed attendees of an Adelaide furmeet after reaching out to [https://kusakidesu.carrd.co/ Kusaki], a prominent South Australian furry. Van de Wetering was also present at the September ''FurBall'' and ''FurTrader!'' events to speak to participants. These interviews culminated in an episode on ''The Other Me'', season four of the ABC's flagship documentary series ''Earshot''. The episode is entitled ''The Animal Outside'' and was released in December 2023, it covered the fundemantal concepts of furry fandom, the individual stories and identities of some furries as well as the present discrimination furries face <ref>Van de Wetering, N., & Melville, K. (2023, December 18). ''The Animal Outside'' (T. Henry & Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Eds.; No. 8) [Radio broadcast ''The Animal Outside'']. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/earshot/earshot-the-other-me-drag-king-furries-boy-michael-animal/103077604 ‌</ref>.

== External Links ==
* [https://www.facebook.com/groups/safurs SAFurs] on [[Facebook]]
* [https://discord.gg/safurries SAFurries] on Discord
* [https://twitter.com/sa_furs SAFurs] on [[Twitter]]
* [https://t.me/SAFurEvent SAFurs] on [[Telegram]]
* [https://www.tiktok.com/@sa.furs SAFurs] on [[TikTok]]
* [http://safurs.forumotion.com SAFurs] on Forumotion (inactive)
* [http://s285.photobucket.com/albums/ll80/SaFurs/ SAFurs] on PhotoBucket (down)
* [irc://irc.furnet.org/safurs SAFurs] on IRC (down)
== References ==
<references/>

[[Category:Regional groups]]
[[Category:South Australia]]

{{Australia}}

South Australian Furry Community

2023-12-26T10:30:25Z

64r613: Updated history to include information about administrator merger

{{cleanup}}
{{wikify}}
:''For the defunct [[Something Awful]] IRC channel see [[Something Awful#.23safurs|#safurs]].''
The '''South Australian Furry Community''', more commonly referred to as '''SAFurs''' or '''SA Furries''', is a decentralized group of communities for [[wikipedia:South Australia|South Australian]] [[furries]]. While the SAFurs community exists in its current form across many platforms, almost all of these different spaces share userbases and administrators. The term SAFur is also used to denote an individual who is a part of the South Australian Furry community, and the plural term SAFurs can refer to select community members or the community as a whole.

== History ==
[[File:SAFC logo.png|thumbnail|right|300px|An older logo to represent the South Australian Furry Community (SAFC)]]

In 2006, Tech Wolfox opened the '''#Safurs''' IRC channel on [[FurNet (IRC)|Furnet]], which attracted furs from Australia and the around the world. This is the first recorded use of the longstanding SAFurs name. SAFurs frequently meet for coffee nights and often help organize events for regional [[furmeet]]s such as [[MiDFur]]. SAFurs.org went offline in October 2007, due to failure of the server hardware and consequent loss of data. This, coupled with internal conflicts within the group, a lack of administrative support, and the availability of the [[Furstralia]] forums, led to a meeting of senior group members where the decision was made to not re-establish safurs.org. 

A new SAFurs site at the address safurs.ausfa.org was formed by [[CynWolfe]] in February 2008 as part of the infrastructure built by the recently formed [[Australian Furry Association]]. The site took off after an awkward start resulting from some bad promotion by some SAFurs who started arguments on the Furstralia forums. SAFurs was moved from safurs.ausfa.org to the safurs.net domain in February 2010. From this point, the site no longer ran as a subsidiary of the Australian Furry Association. However, SAFurs remains linked to [[RADFur]]. The contents of the old site were lost in the move. 

The SAFurs [[Facebook]] group was created in July 2012. This group is still active as of present and is the largest active South Australian furry group. 

In December 2013, SAFurs was moved from safurs.net to the safurs.forumotion.com forum after the safurs.net domain expired and [[Firey]] moved away from the group. The contents of the old forum were lost in the move. The forums reached their peak activity in August 2017 with 58 active users, though the authenticity of this peak is debatable since most posts were made during 2014 and 2015. Posts detailing upcoming events on the forum contained links to the SAFurs Facebook group, suggesting a large amount of overlap in users as well as events occurring on the SAFurs Facebook around 2015<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20230511114808/https://safurs.forumotion.com/t11-group-photo-at-the-malls-balls</ref>. The forums are no-longer in use but still viewable. New users are unable to register new accounts without admin approval, and the forums reached a total of 126 registered users. 

A Discord server was created in March of 2020 that included a userbase of mostly South Australian furries. At its inception, this group served as a Discord offshoot of the active SAFurs Facebook - primarily to encourage those who do not use Facebook to engage with the local community. The group began coordinating small events two months after its creation and eventually grew to focus on its primarily South Australian identity.

A Twitter account was registered under the handle ''sa_furs'' by the Telegram and Facebook administrators in September 2021 and began primarily retweeting and sharing tweets from South Australian furries as well as pictures from Facebook SAFurs events. 

Until December 2022, the Telegram and Facebook were administrated separately from the Discord. After a change of administration in December 2022, the Discord server was officially renamed to ''SA Furries''. Around this time, administration of the Telegram and Facebook also changed. Communication between both parties of administrators increased in June of 2023 and officially overlapped in August of that year when all platforms began sharing administrator permissions.

== Media Appearances ==
In November 2023, the Nikola Van de Wetering of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Broadcasting_Corporation Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)] interviewed attendees of an Adelaide furmeet after reaching out to [https://kusakidesu.carrd.co/ Kusaki], a prominent South Australian furry. Van de Wetering was also present at the September ''FurBall'' and ''FurTrader!'' events to speak to participants. These interviews culminated in an episode on ''The Other Me'', season four of the ABC's flagship documentary series ''Earshot''. The episode is entitled ''The Animal Outside'' and was released in December 2023, it covered the fundemantal concepts of furry fandom, the individual stories and identities of some furries as well as the present discrimination furries face <ref>Van de Wetering, N., & Melville, K. (2023, December 18). ''The Animal Outside'' (T. Henry & Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Eds.; No. 8) [Radio broadcast ''The Animal Outside'']. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/earshot/earshot-the-other-me-drag-king-furries-boy-michael-animal/103077604 ‌</ref>.

== External Links ==
* [https://www.facebook.com/groups/safurs SAFurs] on [[Facebook]]
* [https://discord.gg/safurries SAFurries] on Discord
* [https://twitter.com/sa_furs SAFurs] on [[Twitter]]
* [https://t.me/SAFurEvent SAFurs] on [[Telegram]]
* [https://www.tiktok.com/@sa.furs SAFurs] on [[TikTok]]
* [http://safurs.forumotion.com SAFurs] on Forumotion (inactive)
* [http://s285.photobucket.com/albums/ll80/SaFurs/ SAFurs] on PhotoBucket (down)
* [irc://irc.furnet.org/safurs SAFurs] on IRC (down)
== References ==
<references/>

[[Category:Regional groups]]
[[Category:South Australia]]

{{Australia}}

South Australian Furry Community

2023-12-26T10:10:45Z

64r613: Added media appearances section

{{cleanup}}
{{wikify}}
:''For the defunct [[Something Awful]] IRC channel see [[Something Awful#.23safurs|#safurs]].''
The '''South Australian Furry Community''', more commonly referred to as '''SAFurs''' or '''SA Furries''', is a decentralized group of communities for [[wikipedia:South Australia|South Australian]] [[furries]]. While the SAFurs community exists in its current form across many platforms, almost all of these different spaces share userbases and administrators. The term SAFur is also used to denote an individual who is a part of the South Australian Furry community, and the plural term SAFurs can refer to select community members or the community as a whole.

== History ==
[[File:SAFC logo.png|thumbnail|right|300px|An older logo to represent the South Australian Furry Community (SAFC)]]

In 2006, Tech Wolfox opened the '''#Safurs''' IRC channel on [[FurNet (IRC)|Furnet]], which attracted furs from Australia and the around the world. This is the first recorded use of the longstanding SAFurs name. SAFurs frequently meet for coffee nights and often help organize events for regional [[furmeet]]s such as [[MiDFur]]. SAFurs.org went offline in October 2007, due to failure of the server hardware and consequent loss of data. This, coupled with internal conflicts within the group, a lack of administrative support, and the availability of the [[Furstralia]] forums, led to a meeting of senior group members where the decision was made to not re-establish safurs.org. 

A new SAFurs site at the address safurs.ausfa.org was formed by [[CynWolfe]] in February 2008 as part of the infrastructure built by the recently formed [[Australian Furry Association]]. The site took off after an awkward start resulting from some bad promotion by some SAFurs who started arguments on the Furstralia forums. SAFurs was moved from safurs.ausfa.org to the safurs.net domain in February 2010. From this point, the site no longer ran as a subsidiary of the Australian Furry Association. However, SAFurs remains linked to [[RADFur]]. The contents of the old site were lost in the move. 

The SAFurs [[Facebook]] group was created in July 2012. This group is still active as of present and is the largest active South Australian furry group. 

In December 2013, SAFurs was moved from safurs.net to the safurs.forumotion.com forum after the safurs.net domain expired and [[Firey]] moved away from the group. The contents of the old forum were lost in the move. The forums reached their peak activity in August 2017 with 58 active users, though the authenticity of this peak is debatable since most posts were made during 2014 and 2015. Posts detailing upcoming events on the forum contained links to the SAFurs Facebook group, suggesting a large amount of overlap in users as well as events occurring on the SAFurs Facebook around 2015<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20230511114808/https://safurs.forumotion.com/t11-group-photo-at-the-malls-balls</ref>. The forums are no-longer in use but still viewable. New users are unable to register new accounts without admin approval, and the forums reached a total of 126 registered users. 

A Discord server was created in March of 2020 that included a userbase of mostly South Australian furries. At its inception, this group served as a Discord offshoot of the active SAFurs Facebook - primarily to encourage those who do not use Facebook to engage with the local community. The group began coordinating small events two months after its creation and eventually grew to focus on its primarily South Australian identity.

A Twitter account was registered under the handle ''sa_furs'' in 2021 and began primarily retweeting and sharing tweets from South Australian furries as well as pictures from Facebook SAFurs events. 

After a change of administration in late 2022, the Discord server was officially renamed to ''SA Furries''. 

== Media Appearances ==
In November 2023, the Nikola Van de Wetering of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Broadcasting_Corporation Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)] interviewed attendees of an Adelaide furmeet after reaching out to [https://kusakidesu.carrd.co/ Kusaki], a prominent South Australian furry. Van de Wetering was also present at the September ''FurBall'' and ''FurTrader!'' events to speak to participants. These interviews culminated in an episode on ''The Other Me'', season four of the ABC's flagship documentary series ''Earshot''. The episode is entitled ''The Animal Outside'' and was released in December 2023, it covered the fundemantal concepts of furry fandom, the individual stories and identities of some furries as well as the present discrimination furries face <ref>Van de Wetering, N., & Melville, K. (2023, December 18). ''The Animal Outside'' (T. Henry & Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Eds.; No. 8) [Radio broadcast ''The Animal Outside'']. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/earshot/earshot-the-other-me-drag-king-furries-boy-michael-animal/103077604 ‌</ref>.

== External Links ==
* [https://www.facebook.com/groups/safurs SAFurs] on [[Facebook]]
* [https://discord.gg/safurries SAFurries] on Discord
* [https://twitter.com/sa_furs SAFurs] on [[Twitter]]
* [https://t.me/SAFurEvent SAFurs] on [[Telegram]]
* [https://www.tiktok.com/@sa.furs SAFurs] on [[TikTok]]
* [http://safurs.forumotion.com SAFurs] on Forumotion (inactive)
* [http://s285.photobucket.com/albums/ll80/SaFurs/ SAFurs] on PhotoBucket (down)
* [irc://irc.furnet.org/safurs SAFurs] on IRC (down)
== References ==
<references/>

[[Category:Regional groups]]
[[Category:South Australia]]

{{Australia}}

FurBall (Australia)

2023-05-13T08:29:10Z

64r613: Added event category

FurBall is a [[furry]] dance party held in [[Wikipedia:Adelaide|Adelaide, South Australia]].<ref>https://www.facebook.com/FurBallADL</ref>
== References ==
<references/>

{{stub}}

[[Category:Events]]

FurBall (Australia)

2023-05-13T07:57:19Z

64r613: Started Furball Page

FurBall is a [[furry]] dance party held in [[Wikipedia:Adelaide|Adelaide, South Australia]].<ref>https://www.facebook.com/FurBallADL</ref>
== References ==
<references/>

{{stub}}

Furball

2023-05-13T07:48:05Z

64r613: Added FurBall Australia

'''Furball''' may refer to:

* '''[[Furball (Germany)|Furball]]''', a [[furry]] and [[staff|convention staff member]] from Germany.
* '''[[Furball (Illinois)|Furball]]''', a [[furry]] [[Wikipedia:Vlog|vlogger]] from [[W:Chicago, Illinois|Chicago, Illinois]], USA
* '''[[Furball (Oregon)|Furball]]''', a [[fursuiter]] from Oregon
* '''[[Furball (Canada)|Furball]]''', also known as Kaibun, an artist from Canada
* '''[[Lilfurbal|Furball]]''', also known as '''Lilfurbal''', a fursuiter from Texas
* '''[[Furball Run]]''', a [[Wikipedia:non-profit|non-profit]] two-way [[Wikipedia:road trip|road trip]] from the United Kingdom to [[Eurofurence]] in Germany
* '''[[Furballd]]''', a weekly furry [[podcast]]
* '''[[FurBall (Australia)|FurBall]]''', a furry party night held in [[Wikipedia:Adelaide|Adelaide, South Australia]].

== See also ==

* '''[[When Furballs Strike]]'''

{{disambig}}

Furball

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64r613: Fixed extra `

'''Furball''' may refer to:

* '''[[Furball (Germany)|Furball]]''', a [[furry]] and [[staff|convention staff member]] from Germany.
* '''[[Furball (Illinois)|Furball]]''', a [[furry]] [[Wikipedia:Vlog|vlogger]] from [[W:Chicago, Illinois|Chicago, Illinois]], USA
* '''[[Furball (Oregon)|Furball]]''', a [[fursuiter]] from Oregon
* '''[[Furball (Canada)|Furball]]''', also known as Kaibun, an artist from Canada
* '''[[Lilfurbal|Furball]]''', also known as '''Lilfurbal''', a fursuiter from Texas
* '''[[Furball Run]]''', a [[Wikipedia:non-profit|non-profit]] two-way [[Wikipedia:road trip|road trip]] from the United Kingdom to [[Eurofurence]] in Germany
* '''[[Furballd]]''', a weekly furry [[podcast]]

== See also ==

* '''[[When Furballs Strike]]'''

{{disambig}}

Furball

2023-05-13T07:43:14Z

64r613: Added Wikipedia link and changed outdated terminology for vlogging

'''Furball''' may refer to:

* '''[[Furball (Germany)|Furball]]''', a [[furry]] and [[staff|convention staff member]] from Germany.
* '''[[Furball (Illinois)|Furball]]''', a [[furry]] [[Wikipedia:Vlog|vlogger]] from [[W:Chicago, Illinois|Chicago, Illinois]], USA
* '''[[Furball (Oregon)|Furball]]''', a [[fursuiter]] from Oregon
* '''[[Furball (Canada)|Furball]]'''', also known as Kaibun, an artist from Canada
* '''[[Lilfurbal|Furball]]''', also known as '''Lilfurbal''', a fursuiter from Texas
* '''[[Furball Run]]''', a [[Wikipedia:non-profit|non-profit]] two-way [[Wikipedia:road trip|road trip]] from the United Kingdom to [[Eurofurence]] in Germany
* '''[[Furballd]]''', a weekly furry [[podcast]]

== See also ==

* '''[[When Furballs Strike]]'''

{{disambig}}

Furball

2023-05-13T07:40:17Z

64r613: Fixed missing Wikipedia links

'''Furball''' may refer to:

* '''[[Furball (Germany)|Furball]]''', a [[furry]] and [[staff|convention staff member]] from Germany.
* '''[[Furball (Illinois)|Furball]]''', a [[furry]] [[vblogger]] from [[W:Chicago, Illinois|Chicago, Illinois]], USA
* '''[[Furball (Oregon)|Furball]]''', a [[fursuiter]] from Oregon
* '''[[Furball (Canada)|Furball]]'''', also known as Kaibun, an artist from Canada
* '''[[Lilfurbal|Furball]]''', also known as '''Lilfurbal''', a fursuiter from Texas
* '''[[Furball Run]]''', a [[Wikipedia:non-profit|non-profit]] two-way [[Wikipedia:road trip|road trip]] from the United Kingdom to [[Eurofurence]] in Germany
* '''[[Furballd]]''', a weekly furry [[podcast]]

== See also ==

* '''[[When Furballs Strike]]'''

{{disambig}}

Talk:South Australian Furry Community

2023-05-13T07:36:27Z

64r613: Added talk comment regarding wikified/clean-up status

Should there be a disambiguation for SAFurs between South Australian Furs and Something Awful Furs...as well as #safurs in the same context (since it was the name of the Something Awful furs channel on FurNet way back when)? [[User:Sgatsby|Sgatsby]] 23:04, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
:You mean like [[Safurs|this one]]?-[[User:KendricksRedtail|Kendricks Redtail]] 00:02, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
::Exactly. You win the internet. [[User:Sgatsby|Sgatsby]] 12:56, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

== site shutdown and restart? ==

Article says "South Australian Furry Community, also known as SA Furs or SAFurs.org, ... The site was shut down in late October 2007 ..., but was reinstated by Archon. " Did Archon restart the forum at safurs.org or ausfa.org ? --[[User:EarthFurst|EarthFurst]] 19:42, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

== Wikified and Cleaned Up ==
I am wondering if the changes made to this page qualify it as cleaned and wikified. Outwardly it follows the standards and style of WikiFur. --[[User:64r613|Barbie]] ([[User talk:64r613|talk]]) 03:36, 13 May 2023 (EDT)

South Australian Furry Community

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:''For the defunct [[Something Awful]] IRC channel see [[Something Awful#.23safurs|#safurs]].''
The '''South Australian Furry Community''', more commonly referred to as '''SAFurs''' or '''SA Furries''', is a decentralized group of communities for [[wikipedia:South Australia|South Australian]] [[furries]]. While the SAFurs community exists in its current form across many platforms, almost all of these different spaces share userbases and administrators. The term SAFur is also used to denote an individual who is a part of the South Australian Furry community, and the plural term SAFurs can refer to select community members or the community as a whole.

== History ==
[[File:SAFC logo.png|thumbnail|right|300px|An older logo to represent the South Australian Furry Community (SAFC)]]

In 2006, Tech Wolfox opened the '''#Safurs''' IRC channel on [[FurNet (IRC)|Furnet]], which attracted furs from Australia and the around the world. This is the first recorded use of the longstanding SAFurs name. SAFurs frequently meet for coffee nights and often help organize events for regional [[furmeet]]s such as [[MiDFur]]. SAFurs.org went offline in October 2007, due to failure of the server hardware and consequent loss of data. This, coupled with internal conflicts within the group, a lack of administrative support, and the availability of the [[Furstralia]] forums, led to a meeting of senior group members where the decision was made to not re-establish safurs.org. 

A new SAFurs site at the address safurs.ausfa.org was formed by [[CynWolfe]] in February 2008 as part of the infrastructure built by the recently formed [[Australian Furry Association]]. The site took off after an awkward start resulting from some bad promotion by some SAFurs who started arguments on the Furstralia forums. SAFurs was moved from safurs.ausfa.org to the safurs.net domain in February 2010. From this point, the site no longer ran as a subsidiary of the Australian Furry Association. However, SAFurs remains linked to [[RADFur]]. The contents of the old site were lost in the move. 

The SAFurs [[Facebook]] group was created in July 2012. This group is still active as of present and is the largest active South Australian furry group. 

In December 2013, SAFurs was moved from safurs.net to the safurs.forumotion.com forum after the safurs.net domain expired and [[Firey]] moved away from the group. The contents of the old forum were lost in the move. The forums reached their peak activity in August 2017 with 58 active users, though the authenticity of this peak is debatable since most posts were made during 2014 and 2015. Posts detailing upcoming events on the forum contained links to the SAFurs Facebook group, suggesting a large amount of overlap in users as well as events occurring on the SAFurs Facebook around 2015<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20230511114808/https://safurs.forumotion.com/t11-group-photo-at-the-malls-balls</ref>. The forums are no-longer in use but still viewable. New users are unable to register new accounts without admin approval, and the forums reached a total of 126 registered users. 

A Discord server was created in March of 2020 that included a userbase of mostly South Australian furries. At its inception, this group served as a Discord offshoot of the active SAFurs Facebook - primarily to encourage those who do not use Facebook to engage with the local community. The group began coordinating small events two months after its creation and eventually grew to focus on its primarily South Australian identity.

A Twitter account was registered under the handle ''sa_furs'' in 2021 and began primarily retweeting and sharing tweets from South Australian furries as well as pictures from Facebook SAFurs events. 

After a change of administration in late 2022, the Discord server was officially renamed to ''SA Furries''. 

== External Links ==
* [https://www.facebook.com/groups/safurs SAFurs] on [[Facebook]]
* [https://discord.gg/safurries SAFurries] on Discord
* [https://twitter.com/sa_furs SAFurs] on [[Twitter]]
* [https://t.me/SAFurEvent SAFurs] on [[Telegram]]
* [https://www.tiktok.com/@sa.furs SAFurs] on [[TikTok]]
* [http://safurs.forumotion.com SAFurs] on Forumotion (inactive)
* [http://s285.photobucket.com/albums/ll80/SaFurs/ SAFurs] on PhotoBucket (down)
* [irc://irc.furnet.org/safurs SAFurs] on IRC (down)
== References ==
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[[Category:Regional groups]]
[[Category:South Australia]]

{{Australia}}

South Australian Furry Community

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User:64r613

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== About me ==

My name is Barbie ''(he/him)'', I'm a [[South Australian Furry Community|South Australian furry]] cat with a keen interest in my state's community, DevOps, digital art and other silly things.

== Contact me ==
I answer fastest to messages on Discord and Twitter, feel free to get in touch if you need me.
* BARBIE#7777 on Discord
* [https://twitter.com/64r613 64r613] on Twitter

South Australian Furry Community

2023-05-11T12:30:32Z

64r613: Added reference to web archive page

User:64r613

2023-05-11T12:22:12Z

64r613:

My name is Barbie ''(he/him)'', I'm a [[South Australian Furry Community|South Australian furry]] cat with a keen interest in my state's community, DevOps, digital art and other silly things.

User:64r613

2023-05-11T12:21:36Z

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My name is Barbie ''(he/him)'', I'm a very [[South Australian Furry Community|South Australian furry]] cat with a keen interest in my state's community, DevOps, digital art and other silly things.