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[[File:RaymanPC_Style.png|500px|thumb|The look of Rayman Pirate Community's main page.]]

The '''Rayman Pirate-Community''', commonly abbreviated to '''Pirate-Community''' or '''PC''', has been the largest ''[[Rayman (series)|Rayman]]'' community since the first deletion of the [[RaymanZone]] forums on December 20, 2004. It was founded on August 8th 2003 by Hunchman801, an ex-moderator of the French and English sections of [[RaymanZone]], shortly after he was unfairly banned. Pirate-Community can currently be found at [http://www.raymanpc.com/ www.raymanpc.com].

Pirate-Community was originally meant to be the fusion of four fan sites ([[RayMind|RaymanBD, RaymanTCG, RaymanEncyclo]], and [http://membres.multimania.fr/fantasnip MetalGearRayman]), but soon became an influent and active internet portal, thanks to its forum, which purpose was to provide a fair and free place for [[Rayman]] fans, in opposition to the arbitrary bans occurring on [[RaymanZone]]. The first three fan sites were later merged into [[RayMind]], while the last one was discontinued.

On February 25, 2009, a new ''[[Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc|Rayman 3]]'' [[Hall of Fame]]<ref>Rayman Pirate-Community, ''Rayman 3 Hall of Fame'', http://raymanpc.com/?p=hof</ref> was created on Pirate-Community, in order to replace the official one, which was long discontinued.

The community has also seen partnerships and affiliation with [[Rayman Fanpage]], another unofficial ''Rayman'' fansite, [http://beyondgoodandevil.wikia.com/wiki/The_IRIS_Network_Wiki The IRIS Network], a wiki for the [[Beyond Good and Evil]] franchise and [http://www.youtube.com/user/HarukaTavares Haruka's YouTube channel], containing walkthroughs for many games in the [[Rayman (series)|''Rayman'' series]].

As of December 24, 2017, more than 1,222,864 messages have been posted on Pirate-Community.

Pirate-Community has had many changes to its appearance since its conception, initially using existing themes with [[Rayman (series)|Rayman]]-related icons on top. The original theme used by the forums was the [https://wiki.phpbb.com/SubSilver subSilver] theme for phpBB2,<ref>https://raymanpc.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=7631&start=40#p656845</ref> it moved to using the [http://archive.jakob-persson.com/templates/solaris/index.html Solaris] theme in 2005-2006, and currently uses a proprietary theme designed by Hunchman801, Matyuv and Hoodcom.

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File:RPC1.1.jpg |The earliest known iteration of Pirate-Community portal.

File:RPCSolaris.jpg |The portal using the Solaris theme.

File:RPCPre10.png |The portal prior to the 10th anniversary revamp, this theme is still accessible via the user control panel.

File:RPCRabbids.jpg |The forums using a [[Rabbid]]s theme as part of an April Fools.

File:RPC8thBday.png |The forums as seen during Pirate-Community's 8th Birthday.

File:RPCXmas2011.jpg |The forums as seen during the 2011 holiday period.

File:RPC10th.jpg |The forums as seen during Pirate-Community's 10th birthday.

File:RPCXmas2013.jpg |The portal as seen during the 2013 holiday period.

File:RPCXmas2014.jpg |The portal as seen during the 2014 holiday period.

File:RPC1mil.jpg |The portal as seen during the 1,000,000th post celebration.

Image:RPC April 1st - 2015.jpg |The forums using a [[Tily]]-centric theme for April Fools 2015.

Image:RPC list of ranks First day of April 2015.jpg |The modified list of ranks for the April Fools 2015 theme change.

Image:RPC_AprilFools_2016.jpg|The April Fools 2016 theme, parodying the [[Incrediball]]s and casual gaming aspect of ''[[Rayman Adventures]]''.

Image:RPC 3.1 09-11-2016.jpg|The forums as seen after the update to phpBB 3.1.

Image:RPCXmas2016.jpg |The portal as seen during the 2016 holiday period.

Image:RPC_AprilFools_2017.jpg|The April Fools 2017 theme, parodying the misspelling of "Rayman" as "Ramen".

Image:RPCXmas2017.png|The portal as seen during the 2017 holiday period.

Image:RPC April Fools 2018.png|The forums using a [[Barbara]] theme for April Fools 2018.

Image:RPC April Fools 2018 - Forum Category.png|The forum categories using a [[Barbara]] theme for April Fools 2018.

Image:RPC April Fools 2018 - List of Ranks.png|The Princess themed ranklist used for April Fools 2018.

* [http://www.youtube.com/user/HarukaTavares The Gaming Cosmos YouTube channel]