The Furry Forums - What, Why, How?

[Ventus Fall]

It suddenly occurred to me -and I became quite curious- as to why others use this forum, and how. I also thought it might be a great way to get to know one another better as well.
So here are the questions:

• What do you use these forums for?
• Why do you use these forums?
• How did you find these forums?

Any more questions? Write them down, let me know. Maybe I can add them in if there are any good suggestions

Now discuss!


For me I use these forums differently than I used to in the beginning.
Originally: I signed up here when I wanted to find out about furries and the fandom. I did create a persona (fursona) at the time. Connecting to people, see what it was all about, understanding the fandom and its inhabitants
Now: I'm on here to connect to people and stay in contact. To talk to like-minded people, to be creative. This forum was an amazing start/base for me to get a direction what I wanted to do with my art, art style, etc. I've always loved drawing fantasy things/creatures/etc. but to have more of a direction really helped me. Plus this is a great way to get a focus-group and find people who are interested in artwork overall. So yeah!

[Shoon]

• What do you use these forums for? To talk to fellow furs meet new people and see art, I also like to praticipate in some games take a prt in this kind of thing and RP. I used to be more active but now I have less time.
• Why do you use these forums? To keep in touch with the furry communty and because I made friends here.
• How did you find these forums? Google.

[Ventus Fall]

Interesting
(Also, Shoon, just so you know the post... the text turned to tiny text ^^; )

[Shoon]

Fixed. I hate it when it happens.

[Ventus Fall]

Heh, don't worry, me too
So why did you use Google to find the forums? What made you type in the search bar Furry Forums or something like so?

[Shoon]

After I finished researching what a furry is and understood I am one I searched for community that look active professional. This came up immediately.

[George]

1. Not a lot these days, but I keep an eye out for interesting/useful topics.

2. Mainly because of how much I used to hang out here.

3. Was looking for someone to talk to during a kinda low time, though a forum could be the place. It did work, too!

[Michen_S]

When I discovered the furry fandom I thought there might be a few furry forums. I went looking with Google. I wanted to join an Christian furry forum and that's how it started off. However, that forum was fairly slow so I looked further. I still remembered this site and that it had an therian/otherkin board. Since I discovered my therianthropy a few months earlier I thought I could make an account here and maybe discover other aspects of the fandom as well. (Especially RPs, though RPs didn't went all that well from the start so I dropped that later). Later on I made friends here, helped others around and even starting to love one of the other members. Now I mostly use it to keep contact with the few friends I made on here, and I still help others out sometimes.

[Faolyn]

I just thought I would make a few friends since I haven't really made the effort before.
This place seems pretty cool, so I decided to stay. And a friend recommended this site to me, though they are no longer active.

[John Red Beard]

I've been on several forums, both furry and non-furry, throughout the past... geez, must be over 15 years now. A few years ago, the forum that had been my home away from home online for a long while began to fall apart and I left.


I found that I missed it though. I'd had friends there, and though I continue to keep in touch with a few of them on Facebook, I missed having a place to socialize online. There was a hole in my online life, so I undertook a search for a new forum.


I tried the Geek and Sundry forum, since I like Felicia Day and a lot of their programming. It was okay, but very slow. There's barely a few posts a week these days.


Then I thought to do a Google search for furry forums and found this place, and I'm very glad I did.

[Adrienne_Blackfire]

What do you use these forums for?
Why do you use these forums?
How did you find these forums?

I'm looking to make friends, and this seemed like a good place to start.
The community seems pretty welcoming from what I've seen of it so far, which is great for someone like me.
I just googled "furry forums".

[Firox]

These seems fun - for me

• What do you use these forums for?
  I use them for lots of reasons, but the main important is to have fun with my fellow furs. I also use them to help out furs when they need aid and support, and learn about the various furs
  
• Why do you use these forums?
  I use them since they are much simpler and easier to understand than the two other furry related forums I know, more active in a way all the positive influences it has made in my my life keeps encouraging me to come back - in a way I'll never abandon anyone in the forums (like many other furs have) + all my furry family is here
  
• How did you find these forums?
  To be  honest, I don't even remember how I stumbled upon them, I must have been searching for something related to foxes and the Fox Den was one of the first to come up, and after a bit of lurking I decided to join. Best decision I made in my life

[Captain Degenerate]

It suddenly occurred to me -and I became quite curious- as to why others use this forum, and how. I also thought it might be a great way to get to know one another better as well.
So here are the questions:

• What do you use these forums for?
• Why do you use these forums?
• How did you find these forums?

Any more questions? Write them down, let me know. Maybe I can add them in if there are any good suggestions

Now discuss!


For me I use these forums differently than I used to in the beginning.
Originally: I signed up here when I wanted to find out about furries and the fandom. I did create a persona (fursona) at the time. Connecting to people, see what it was all about, understanding the fandom and its inhabitants
Now: I'm on here to connect to people and stay in contact. To talk to like-minded people, to be creative. This forum was an amazing start/base for me to get a direction what I wanted to do with my art, art style, etc. I've always loved drawing fantasy things/creatures/etc. but to have more of a direction really helped me. Plus this is a great way to get a focus-group and find people who are interested in artwork overall. So yeah!

I use the forums for talkin
Cuz I wanna meet people and I'm bored I guess
Google

[Raine]

● What do you use these forums for?

Socializing, for one. Secondly, to possibly get back into the roleplay scene.


● Why do you use these forums?

This site is so much better than I originally hoped. I thought it was going to be another dead, hierarchical forum, but it's not. It's a living, breathing, welcoming community.


● How did you find these forums?

I remember someone mentioning this site a few years ago, wayyy back on another forum. Just decided to make an account, and here I am.

[Hiamovi (Hunter)]

[size=78%]● What do you use these forums for?[/size]

I'm still a noob here, but I signed up to meet some more furs local to me, and to hopefully get back into the roleplay scene.

● Why do you use these forums?

Mainly because of how welcoming the community here is, plus its based on the same forum code as the other site I RP on, so its got a very similar layout

● How did you find these forums?

I found the forum through Google with 'Furry Forums' as the term lol