Though I'm one of the quiet ones typically, I have to say I do hope flayrah continues and grows. It provides a very useful resource for the fandom, with a lot of interesting links and content that would otherwise be missed due to the background noise.
I'd like to make a quick suggestion, which is that you have an excellent staff, but exposure is hard to come by. FNN kind of handled some of this by just writing little tidbits about everything so that there was a serious information base coming out, but it always seemed too scatter-shot and too much. Convention-related news (note that my bias will show in the next paragraph here) seems to be the most long-lived news type, and something that kind of has that multiplier effect by default. It teaches people what's going on, who's who, and really shows what the fandom can be at its best, when we come together to do things for each other and others too.
Amusingly enough, Arizona Fur Con (full-disclosure: I'm a staff member) is actually going through the reverse of the exact problem you describe with social networks! Between the various social networks and already established Arizona Furs forums, we end up in a situation where the main website is only really used as a reference and registration point. It's been sort of fragmenting our content and making it fairly difficult to have a cohesive image, though our new site should help with that when it launches in a few days. I'm guessing we're not the only convention with that problem, as there are quite a few now, and it must be difficult to track who's going where, for guests, friends, and everything else.
Though I'm one of the quiet ones typically, I have to say I do hope flayrah continues and grows. It provides a very useful resource for the fandom, with a lot of interesting links and content that would otherwise be missed due to the background noise.
I'd like to make a quick suggestion, which is that you have an excellent staff, but exposure is hard to come by. FNN kind of handled some of this by just writing little tidbits about everything so that there was a serious information base coming out, but it always seemed too scatter-shot and too much. Convention-related news (note that my bias will show in the next paragraph here) seems to be the most long-lived news type, and something that kind of has that multiplier effect by default. It teaches people what's going on, who's who, and really shows what the fandom can be at its best, when we come together to do things for each other and others too.
Amusingly enough, Arizona Fur Con (full-disclosure: I'm a staff member) is actually going through the reverse of the exact problem you describe with social networks! Between the various social networks and already established Arizona Furs forums, we end up in a situation where the main website is only really used as a reference and registration point. It's been sort of fragmenting our content and making it fairly difficult to have a cohesive image, though our new site should help with that when it launches in a few days. I'm guessing we're not the only convention with that problem, as there are quite a few now, and it must be difficult to track who's going where, for guests, friends, and everything else.