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Furry news portal given second chance

Moribund furry news portal Flayrah.com has been rescued from an ignominious demise by British-born furry fan GreenReaper.

Flayrah, first launched in 2001, used to be a popular venue for furry and animal-related news. By 2005, traffic had slowed, as other furry news sources became available. A spam attack forced a lock-down in 2006, further decreasing the variety of new posts and comments.

Site leaders Aureth and Frysco decided not to renew the domain in November 2009, but GreenReaper - best known for founding WikiFur in 2005 - convinced them to let him try to turn the site around.

The new editor-in-chief has pledged to make Flayrah "the best furry news site ever . . . again," merging WikiFur's own news project into the new site.

Flayrah now runs on modern web platform Drupal, but retains previous posts and accounts. It is hosted by French administrator Timduru.

9 comments

Guest AmandaHuggenkiss commented on February 22, 2010 at 8:05am
Really not impressed with the way GreenReaper is running the once-great Flayrah (i.e., into the ground).
Oh Xydexx . . . at least Peter had the decency to use his real name when complaining. ;-)

He also took the time to contribute a news post. The last time you posted on a topic other than AC's conbook was seven years ago.

The fact is, if I hadn't taken over the site, it would already be in the ground. If you don't like how I run it, perhaps you should step up the next time a once-great site goes onto the chopping block.
Guest HortenseP.Noodlehouser commented on March 15, 2010 at 4:11pm
Oh Greenreaper... you're in no position to talk about decency.

The fact remains that the former furry news site Flayrah is now essentially your blog rather than a news site... offering up half-baked opinions and precision guesswork on current furry events rather than facts, and arguing about corrections instead of... correcting them.
Guest Brandon commented on March 26, 2010 at 1:47pm
Oh, Xydexx. I bet you wish you could delete your comments above, just like you deleted that Blogspot post of yours where you rambled on about Greenreaper! And what a post!

"...because while Flayrah claims to be a Furry news site, these days it's little more than GreenReaper's personal blog..." and "GreenReaper's palling around with the CYD crowd. Or his envy of Encyclopedia Durrmatica. When you add it all up, it doesn't exactly paint a flattering picture of what GreenReaper's priorities are, does it?"

I wonder why you felt you had to go and delete it though? Or are you gonna take the line that it never existed in the first place? Hey, hope GR didn't keep a copy! Though I guess you can always just say he made it all up!
Guest Whocares.Rumpetypump commented on March 27, 2010 at 5:31pm
It never ceases to amaze how easily people lose their shit and wig out over OMG XYDEXX.
Guest triggur commented on March 27, 2010 at 7:28pm
lololololololololololololol

tard fight
Guest mountains.molehills commented on March 28, 2010 at 6:05am
In your mind, perhaps.
Guest HelloZeebaNeighbor! commented on July 25, 2010 at 7:04am
It's hilarious when people make wild speculations over all the BIG SEKRITS!!!!! they found—or at least they think they found—in my deliberately-deleted posts.

Seriously, this is like having an argument with the Crocs in Pearls Before Swine.
Guest NOTHING.TO.HIDE commented on July 25, 2010 at 7:26am
PS: I dunno why people like Brandon get all bent out of shape and freak out over deleted posts. I use the backspace key at lot too. BFHD.

The comments I supposedly wish I could delete are available for viewing on one of my many sprawling pieces of internet real estate here:
http://www.angelfire.com/weird2/xydexx/

It's encouraging to see Greepy trying to salvage some credibility of his blog Flayrah of late by having folks with hopefully some more journalistic integrity than him contributing. I dunno if that translates to a change in the speed in which inaccuracies are corrected on Flayrah and WikiFur, so the issues I raised are probably discussions still worth having.
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