All you need to know about Pirate-Community

[Xenon]

Off Topic is quite spammy atm, I'll be taking refuge here for a bit.

[Matyuv]

That's all I need to know about Pirate-Community.

[Xenon]

What do you think of the first post in this thread?

[Matyuv]

I think it's pretty good, but it's the first time in a really long time that I checked it. I wonder how many newcomers actually read it.

[Xenon]

I read it about a year ago and found it quite informative. I also think it's amazing that we've found a use for the arrow smiley!

[Matyuv]

The opening line is somewhat misleading though:

"Pirate-Community was founded on August 8th 2003, as a consequence of the deterioration of the official Rayman forums."

RaymanZone was still quite lively in 2003. I think they got hacked in... 2005?

[PluMGMK]

2004. The announcement topic is still on page 1!
But deterioration is code for "Hunch was fired".

[Xenon]

They only started deteriorating when Ubi hosted them on the dreadful Infopop and Groupee. This forum does owe a lot to the old phpBB boards.

[PluMGMK]

But what about the cries that RZ was already "defaced" (by noobs/spammers) even before the Santy worm got it?

[Hunchman801]

RZ definitely started going down in the summer of 2003, which is why I created PC and many members joined. The later hacks were just an unfortunate consequence of the forum becoming shit.

[Matyuv]

I don't know, I liked the 2003-2004 RZ. I wasn't around in summer 2003 yet though, I joined in winter.

[Hunchman801]

I see what you mean, it still had a certain charm to it, which was completely lost after they moved to the Ubi forums. But I guess no one would have joined this place if I had been the only one disappointed with the way RZ was going in 2003-2004.

[Matyuv]

I was joining every fan-made forum back then. This is the only one that survived longer than a month.

[Hunchman801]

I was joining every fan-made forum back then. This is the only one that survived longer than a month.

That's a good point, it's still a mystery why people never left this one.

[Matyuv]

Not the smallest factor was the theme and all the custom images, I think. Others didn't put much effort into their fan-forums at all, I think.

[Hunchman801]

Not the smallest factor was the theme and all the custom images, I think. Others didn't put much effort into their fan-forums at all, I think.

It was just a stock theme for a good while though.

[Matyuv]

I had no idea. It had Solaris already when I joined.

[Hunchman801]

Yeah that's the one I was talking about.

[Matyuv]

Oh. Well, that's still better than most of Rayman fan-forums back then.

[Hunchman801]

True, it was a pretty neat one at the time.