Timeline of Felicifia

This is a timeline of Felicifia, an online forum about theoretical and applied utilitarian ethics.

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Year	Month and date	People involved	Details
2006	September 3	Seth Baum	Seth Baum publishes the first post on felicifia.blogspot.com, his personal blog about utilitarianism, explaining that the name of the site derives from Bentham's felicific calculus.^[1]
2006	(late?)	Seth Baum, David Pearce, others	The first iteration of the Felicifia.com forum was launched. The site ran on the SoapBlox platform.^[2]
2008	August	Seth Baum	Seth Baum starts a discussion on Felicifia.com about the future of the site, noting that activity has died down.^[3] Several options were discussed, including launching a new site on a different platform.
2008	September	Sasha Cooper	Felicifia user Jinksy (Sasha Cooper) discusses different forum software options that could be used for a new version of the site.^[4]
2008	October?	Sasha Cooper, Ryan Carey	The phpBB iteration of the Felicifia.org forum is launched.
2010	December	Ryan Carey	Ryan Carey proposes creating a Felicifia wiki. ^[5]
2011	April	Ryan Carey, James Evans	Ryan Carey announces the launch of Wiki Felicifia, originally hosted at felicifia.org/wiki.^[6]
2011	July	Ryan Carey	Wiki Felicifia is moved to Felicifia.com, in lieu of the old forum.^[7]
2013	April 18		The domain name for the Effective Altruism forum is first registered.^[8]
2014	October	Peter Hurford	Peter Hurford announces that Felicifia is no longer accepting new users.^[9]