Editing ZooVille (section)

== Origin ==
ZooVille's creation was instigated by the [[Beastforum]] announcement in January 2019 that it was preparing to shutdown operation. The primary founder is known as [[ZTHorse]], with assistance from several other active posters at Beastforum who felt the need for a public zoophile forum to remain on the open web. The nascent moderation team soon opened private chat rooms on Beastforum to invite prominent users into the initial funding phase and to begin circulating the news of a safe space for zoophiles who were seeking a replacement forum to the membership there at-large. As that stage, it was identified using the working codename "Project Exodus."
[[File:Zooville logo 1.png|right|thumb|300px|alt=ZooVille wordmark light theme|Light theme forum logo]]

Project Exodus was considered to be complete once the initial startup funding goal had been achieved, domain name was registered (originally ''zooville.org'', now ''zoovilleforum.net'') and the web server brought online.