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|title = Flayrah
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|image = [[File:Flayrah.png]]<br>'''Motto''': ''Furry food for thought''
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|author = '''Editor-in-Chief''':<ref>[https://www.flayrah.com/credits Credits] - Flayrah</ref>
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*[[GreenReaper]] (2010–)<br>
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*Francisco "[[Frysco]]" Azinsan (2006–2009)
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*[[Aureth]] (2001–2006)
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'''Contributors''':  [[dronon]], <!-- dronon's total on 2019 May 8: 81 stories (latest dated 2019). -->
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[[EarthFurst]], <!-- EarthFurst total on 2019 May 8: 13 stories (latest dated 2018 July) + 3 recent Newbytes. -->
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[[Fred Patten]], <!-- 655 stories. Fred Patten contributed until shortly before his death in 2018. -->
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[[Greyflank]], <!-- Greyflank's total on 2019 May 8: 25 stories (latest dated 2017). -->
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[[Joe Strike]], <!-- Joe Strike's total on 2019 May 8: 4 stories (latest dated 2018 Aug). -->
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[[Rakuen Growlithe]], <!-- Rakuen Growlithe's total on 2019 May 8: 77 stories (latest dated 2019). -->
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[[RingtailedFox]], <!-- RingtailedFox's total on 2019 May 8: 44 stories (latest dated 2018Nov). -->
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[[Rod O'Riley]], <!-- Rod O'Riley's total on 2019 May 8: 1656 stories (latest dated 2019). -->
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[[Sonious]], <!-- Sonious's total on 2019 May 8: 106 stories (latest dated 2019). -->
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[[Lamar]], <!-- Lamar's total on 2019 May 8: 17 stories (latest dated 2017 Sept). -->
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[http://www.flayrah.com/contributors more]<br>
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'''Former staff''': [[crossaffliction]] (managing editor), [[Gene Breshears]] (story editor), [[M.C.A. Hogarth]] (assistant editor)
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|url = https://www.flayrah.com<br>[https://uwashington.on.worldcat.org/oclc/753564884 ISSN 2163-730X]
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|began = January 21, 2001–June 2006<br>August 2006–December 2009<br>January 2010–present
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|ended = Ongoing
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|genre = News
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'''''Flayrah''''' is an online [[furry]] [[Wikipedia:News magazine|news magazine]], consisting of contributions by community members. Its stories have been [[wikipedia:Web syndication|syndicated]] by [[Furry 4 Life]], [[FurNation]], [[Furry News Network]] and [[Wikipedia:Google News|Google News]].<ref>[https://www.flayrah.com/about About] - [[GreenReaper]], Flayrah</ref><ref>[https://news.google.com/news/section?hl=en&csid=87650a54bfe403d4 Flayrah on Google News]</ref>
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''Flayrah'' was founded in January 2001 by [[Aureth]], who remained webmaster until mid-2006, handing the site over to [[Frysco]]. In 2010, ''Flayrah'' was relaunched by [[GreenReaper]].<ref>''[https://www.flayrah.com/2857/flayrah-relaunches-new-software-editor-chief Flayrah relaunches with new software, editor-in-chief]'' - [[GreenReaper]], Flayrah (11 January 2010)</ref><ref name="Aureth2010">[https://aureth.livejournal.com/296089.html Flayrah]'' - [[Aureth]], LiveJournal (14 January 2010)</ref>
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==Content==
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[[File:FlayrahFrontPage.png|right|thumb|[[WikiFur:WikiFur News|WikiFur News]] content on Flayrah]]
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===Articles===
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''Flayrah'' was influenced by [[Wikipedia:Slashdot|Slashdot]] and 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."<ref>''[http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.furry/browse_thread/thread/92266768cb646df/ Flayrah.com launches!]'' - [[Aureth]], [[alt.fan.furry]] (21 January 2001)</ref> Stories after the 2010 revamp focused on original reporting and slightly longer pieces, with the addition of regular reviews (such as ''Furry Movie Award Watch (FMAW)''<ref>[https://www.flayrah.com/category/tags/fmaw FMAW tag] - Flayrah</ref>) in 2011, and interviews in 2012.
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Over 100 articles<ref>[https://www.flayrah.com/category/tags/wikifur-news ''WikiFur News'' articles on Flayrah]</ref> from 2007-9 were imported [[WikiFur:Copyrights|under license]] from [[WikiFur]], while more than 130 pieces<ref>[https://www.flayrah.com/category/tags/furtean-times ''Furtean Times'' work on Flayrah]</ref> came from the ''[[FurteanTimes.com|Furtean Times]]'' upon its closure in November 2010.<ref>''[https://www.flayrah.com/3191/furtean-times-closes-content-brought-flayrah The Furtean Times closes; content brought to Flayrah]'' - [[GreenReaper]], Flayrah (12 November 2010)</ref> Syndication of [[Rod O'Riley]]'s ''[[In-Fur-Nation]]'' began November 2011. "Newsbytes", a front-page [[Wikipedia:shoutbox|shoutbox]] introduced in November 2010<ref>''[https://www.flayrah.com/3822/september-2010-september-2011-newsbytes-archive September 2010 to September 2011 Newsbytes archive]'' - [[crossaffliction]], Flayrah (12 January 2012)</ref> and extended to Twitter and Facebook in May 2013,<ref>''[https://www.flayrah.com/5043/may-2013-newsbytes-archive May 2013 Newsbytes archive]'' - [[crossaffliction]], Flayrah (4 June 2013)</ref> is used to post breaking news, and links which do not merit a full story.
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===Other content===
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Comments are a key component of ''Flayrah'' – over 4,300 were posted in 2011, and 4,800 in 2012.<ref>''[https://www.flayrah.com/3816/why-you-should-give-flayrah-2011-ursa-major-award Why you should give Flayrah the 2011 Ursa Major Award]'' - [[GreenReaper]], Flayrah (12 January 2012)</ref><ref name=TopStories2012 /> They are user-moderated by ratings, including a sense of [[Wikipedia:Trust metric|karma]] for registered and anonymous posters.<ref>''[https://www.flayrah.com/3361/flayrah-adds-rating-based-comment-visibility Flayrah adds rating-based comment visibility]'' - [[GreenReaper]], Flayrah (16 December 2010)</ref>
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===License===
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As of 2010, posts on ''Flayrah'' are by default licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike], although this may be changed by the submitter.
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==History==
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[[File:FlayrahClassic.png|right|thumb|Flayrah pre-2010]]
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''Flayrah'' was originally spun off from a news site hosted by Aureth's [[Cornwuff Press]]. Staff members posted 1,992 news items in the first four years, starting with a story about [[World Tree RPG]].<ref>''[https://www.flayrah.com/2046/2005-state-website 2005 State of the Website]'' - [[Aureth]], Flayrah (10 January 2005)</ref> Its name means "unusually good food" in the [[Lapine (language)|Lapine language]] used in ''[[Watership Down]]''. The site was also meant to include similar material to the e-zine ''[[Fuzzy Logic (e-zine)|Fuzzy Logic]]'', but this never materialized in significant amounts. However, some content did attract significant debate.
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''Flayrah'' became a regular stop for furry fans, despite sometimes irregular updates, but went offline at the end of June 2006 due to hosting issues, together with declining interest and a lack of time on the part of the webmaster.<ref>''[http://aureth.livejournal.com/226316.html RIP Flayrah, Long Live Flayrah?]'' - {{lj_user|aureth}} (1 July 2006)</ref> It returned in mid-August after Frysco expressed an interest in taking over 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 features.
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On 28 November 2009, Frysco announced that ''Flayrah'' would be closing for the second and perhaps the final time.<ref>''[https://www.flayrah.com/2503/flayrah-closing Flayrah Closing]'' - [[Frysco]], Flayrah (28 November 2009)</ref> GreenReaper decided that the site had too much historical content and promise to lose, and took it on, rewriting it using [[Wikipedia:Drupal|Drupal]] and merging existing stories with free content from [[WikiFur:WikiFur News|WikiFur News]] for a relaunch in January 2010.<ref name="Aureth2010" /> While owned by GreenReaper and used as WikiFur's primary news source since January 2010, it is run as an independent project.
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Traffic has increased steadily since 2010.<ref>[https://www.flayrah.com/4995/what-flayrahs-future#comment-53887 Comment to ''What is Flayrah's future?''] - [[GreenReaper]], Flayrah (27 May 2013)</ref> ''Flayrah'' contributors posted over 300 stories in 2010, rising to 365 in 2011 and 677 in 2012.<ref>''[https://www.flayrah.com/3376/flayrahs-top-stories-2010 Flayrah's top stories in 2010]'' - [[GreenReaper]], Flayrah (3 January 2011)</ref><ref>''[https://www.flayrah.com/3785/flayrahs-top-stories-2011 Flayrah's top stories in 2011]'' - [[GreenReaper]], Flayrah (25 December 2011)</ref><ref name=TopStories2012>''[https://www.flayrah.com/4589/flayrahs-top-stories-2012 Flayrah's top stories in 2012]'' - [[GreenReaper]], Flayrah (3 February 2013)</ref>
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== Accolades ==
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After being moved from the "Best Anthropomorphic Website" category,<ref>''[https://www.flayrah.com/3656/ursa-major-awards-cover-websites-flayrah-recategorized Ursa Major Awards to cover websites; Flayrah recategorized]'' - [[Fred Patten]], Flayrah (16 August 2011)</ref> ''Flayrah'' has been nominated for the [[Ursa Major Award]] for Best Anthropomorphic Magazine every year since [[2011 Ursa Major Awards#Best Magazine|2011]];<ref>''[https://www.flayrah.com/3933/2011-ursa-major-awards-voting-now-open 2011 Ursa Major Awards voting now open]'' - [[Fred Patten]], Flayrah (16 March 2012)</ref><ref>''[https://www.flayrah.com/4658/2012-ursa-major-awards-voting-now-open 2012 Ursa Major Awards voting now open]'' - [[Fred Patten]], Flayrah (16 March 2013)</ref><ref name="UMA2013">[http://www.ursamajorawards.org/UMA_2013.htm "Award Winners 2013"] on the Ursa Major Award website. Retrieved June 2, 2014.</ref><ref>[https://www.flayrah.com/6073/2014-ursa-major-award-winners-announced-morphicon-2015 "2014 Ursa Major Award winners anounced at Morphicon 2015"] - Fred Patten. Dated May 2, 2015, retrieved August 21, 2017.</ref><ref>[https://www.flayrah.com/6490/2015-ursa-major-award-final-ballot "2015 Ursa Major Award final ballot"] - Fred Patten. Dated March 15, 2016, retrieved August 21, 2017.</ref><ref>[https://www.flayrah.com/7003/2016-ursa-major-award-winners "2016 Ursa Major Awards winners"] - Fred Patten. Dated July 1, 2017, retrieved August 21, 2017.</ref> it won the award in 2011<ref name="UMA2012Winners">''[https://www.flayrah.com/4064/2011-ursa-major-award-winners-announced-califur-viii 2011 Ursa Major Award winners announced at Califur VIII]'' - [[GreenReaper]]/[[Fred Patten]], Flayrah (3 June 2012)</ref> and [[2013 Ursa Major Awards#Best Anthropomrphic Magazine|2013]].<ref name="UMA2013" />
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==References==
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==External links==
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*[https://twitter.com/FlayrahNews FlayrahNews] on [[Twitter]]
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*[https://www.facebook.com/Flayrah Flayrah] on [[Facebook]]
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*{{lj_user|flayrah}} on [[LiveJournal]]
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*[https://plus.google.com/+Flayrah Flayrah] on [[Wikipedia:Google+|Google+]]
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*[http://flayrahnews.tumblr.com Flayrah] on [[Wikipedia:Tumblr|Tumblr]]
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*[http://vk.com/flayrah Flayrah] on [[W:VKontakte|VKontakte]] (vk.com)
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*[http://www.amazon.com/Flayrah/dp/B003G2Z7Q6 Flayrah] on Kindle
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*[https://www.flayrah.com/rss.xml Flayrah's RSS feed]
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Latest revision as of 18:55, 28 June 2023

Flayrah
Flayrah.png
Motto: Furry food for thought
Author(s) Editor-in-Chief:[1]

Contributors: dronon, EarthFurst, Fred Patten, Greyflank, Joe Strike, Rakuen Growlithe, RingtailedFox, Rod O'Riley, Sonious, Lamar, more
Former staff: crossaffliction (managing editor), Gene Breshears (story editor), M.C.A. Hogarth (assistant editor)

Website
https://www.flayrah.com
ISSN 2163-730X
Launch date January 21, 2001–June 2006
August 2006–December 2009
January 2010–present
End date Ongoing
Genre News

Flayrah is an online furry news magazine, consisting of contributions by community members. Its stories have been syndicated by Furry 4 Life, FurNation, Furry News Network and Google News.[2][3]

Flayrah was founded in January 2001 by Aureth, who remained webmaster until mid-2006, handing the site over to Frysco. In 2010, Flayrah was relaunched by GreenReaper.[4][5]

Content[edit]

WikiFur News content on Flayrah

Articles[edit]

Flayrah was influenced by Slashdot and 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."[6] Stories after the 2010 revamp focused on original reporting and slightly longer pieces, with the addition of regular reviews (such as Furry Movie Award Watch (FMAW)[7]) in 2011, and interviews in 2012.

Over 100 articles[8] from 2007-9 were imported under license from WikiFur, while more than 130 pieces[9] came from the Furtean Times upon its closure in November 2010.[10] Syndication of Rod O'Riley's In-Fur-Nation began November 2011. "Newsbytes", a front-page shoutbox introduced in November 2010[11] and extended to Twitter and Facebook in May 2013,[12] is used to post breaking news, and links which do not merit a full story.

Other content[edit]

Comments are a key component of Flayrah – over 4,300 were posted in 2011, and 4,800 in 2012.[13][14] They are user-moderated by ratings, including a sense of karma for registered and anonymous posters.[15]

License[edit]

As of 2010, posts on Flayrah are by default licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike, although this may be changed by the submitter.

History[edit]

Flayrah pre-2010

Flayrah was originally spun off from a news site hosted by Aureth's Cornwuff Press. Staff members posted 1,992 news items in the first four years, starting with a story about World Tree RPG.[16] Its name means "unusually good food" in the Lapine language used in Watership Down. The site was also meant to include similar material to the e-zine Fuzzy Logic, but this never materialized in significant amounts. However, some content did attract significant debate.

Flayrah became a regular stop for furry fans, despite sometimes irregular updates, but went offline at the end of June 2006 due to hosting issues, together with declining interest and a lack of time on the part of the webmaster.[17] It returned in mid-August after Frysco expressed an interest in taking over 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 features.

On 28 November 2009, Frysco announced that Flayrah would be closing for the second and perhaps the final time.[18] GreenReaper decided that the site had too much historical content and promise to lose, and took it on, rewriting it using Drupal and merging existing stories with free content from WikiFur News for a relaunch in January 2010.[5] While owned by GreenReaper and used as WikiFur's primary news source since January 2010, it is run as an independent project.

Traffic has increased steadily since 2010.[19] Flayrah contributors posted over 300 stories in 2010, rising to 365 in 2011 and 677 in 2012.[20][21][14]

Accolades[edit]

After being moved from the "Best Anthropomorphic Website" category,[22] Flayrah has been nominated for the Ursa Major Award for Best Anthropomorphic Magazine every year since 2011;[23][24][25][26][27][28] it won the award in 2011[29] and 2013.[25]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Credits - Flayrah
  2. ↑ About - GreenReaper, Flayrah
  3. ↑ Flayrah on Google News
  4. ↑ Flayrah relaunches with new software, editor-in-chief - GreenReaper, Flayrah (11 January 2010)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Flayrah - Aureth, LiveJournal (14 January 2010)
  6. ↑ Flayrah.com launches! - Aureth, alt.fan.furry (21 January 2001)
  7. ↑ FMAW tag - Flayrah
  8. ↑ WikiFur News articles on Flayrah
  9. ↑ Furtean Times work on Flayrah
  10. ↑ The Furtean Times closes; content brought to Flayrah - GreenReaper, Flayrah (12 November 2010)
  11. ↑ September 2010 to September 2011 Newsbytes archive - crossaffliction, Flayrah (12 January 2012)
  12. ↑ May 2013 Newsbytes archive - crossaffliction, Flayrah (4 June 2013)
  13. ↑ Why you should give Flayrah the 2011 Ursa Major Award - GreenReaper, Flayrah (12 January 2012)
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Flayrah's top stories in 2012 - GreenReaper, Flayrah (3 February 2013)
  15. ↑ Flayrah adds rating-based comment visibility - GreenReaper, Flayrah (16 December 2010)
  16. ↑ 2005 State of the Website - Aureth, Flayrah (10 January 2005)
  17. ↑ RIP Flayrah, Long Live Flayrah? -   aureth (1 July 2006)
  18. ↑ Flayrah Closing - Frysco, Flayrah (28 November 2009)
  19. ↑ Comment to What is Flayrah's future? - GreenReaper, Flayrah (27 May 2013)
  20. ↑ Flayrah's top stories in 2010 - GreenReaper, Flayrah (3 January 2011)
  21. ↑ Flayrah's top stories in 2011 - GreenReaper, Flayrah (25 December 2011)
  22. ↑ Ursa Major Awards to cover websites; Flayrah recategorized - Fred Patten, Flayrah (16 August 2011)
  23. ↑ 2011 Ursa Major Awards voting now open - Fred Patten, Flayrah (16 March 2012)
  24. ↑ 2012 Ursa Major Awards voting now open - Fred Patten, Flayrah (16 March 2013)
  25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 "Award Winners 2013" on the Ursa Major Award website. Retrieved June 2, 2014.
  26. ↑ "2014 Ursa Major Award winners anounced at Morphicon 2015" - Fred Patten. Dated May 2, 2015, retrieved August 21, 2017.
  27. ↑ "2015 Ursa Major Award final ballot" - Fred Patten. Dated March 15, 2016, retrieved August 21, 2017.
  28. ↑ "2016 Ursa Major Awards winners" - Fred Patten. Dated July 1, 2017, retrieved August 21, 2017.
  29. ↑ 2011 Ursa Major Award winners announced at Califur VIII - GreenReaper/Fred Patten, Flayrah (3 June 2012)

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