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The forums were created in January 2003 and used the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/phpBB phpBB] software. They featured three categories: an English, a French and a German section. They were characterized by a high frequentation, but also by inactive administrators and unfair bans. Despite the rumours of a group of skilled revengeful members already responsible for numerous spam attacks, which were largely disregarded, the system version was never updated and it resulted in the first deletion of RZ on December 20th 2004. This attack was soon proved to have been performed by the [[Anti RaymanZone Organization]], commonly abbreviated ARZO, who sent a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_worm webworm] to exploit a security issue. They claimed to have been unfairly banned from the forums and wanted to take their revenge. [[Pirate-Community]] was falsely accused of being linked to ARZO, as it was created by Hunchman801 in August 2003 after he was also unfairly banned from RaymanZone.

The first era was by far the most profilic period of RaymanZone. It is estimated that it reached more than 400,000 messages, which was only beaten by [[Pirate-Community]] in 2009.

After several months of absence, the forums were created again from scratch in May 2005, but they were merged with the [[Ubisoft]] forums, powered by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Strata Infopop] software. This decision was highly criticised, but a certain number of users stayed, in hope of reconstructing their community, while others joined [[Pirate-Community]]. On July 3rd 2006, an attack performed by ARZO caused a hard disk to break, resulting in the loss of two days of posts for the whole [[Ubisoft|Ubi]] forums. Then, in July and August, the English forums were repeatedly spammed, until they were entirely deleted by the [[Kill RaymanZone Klan]], commonly abbreviated KRZK, a small group of ARZO die-hard members, on August 24th 2006. Those spam attacks were later proved to be a cover for a graduated deletion which purpose was to render any backups useless.

The English forums started from scratch for the second time, and several members left because of the lack of action from [[Ubisoft]]. On January 20th 2007, an unidentified problem resulted in the loss of three months of posts, but the [[Kill RaymanZone Klan|KRZK]] never claimed to be responsible for this. The forums were however deleted by the KRZK for the third time on March 3rd 2007.

The English forums were deleted by the KRZK for the fourth time on January 27th 2008.

On April 10th 2008, RaymanZone was heavily flooded with explicit pictures. Then, only four months after the last deletion, the English forums were deleted again by the KRZK for the fifth time on May 2nd 2008.

The entire [[Ubisoft|Ubi]] forums were backed up after the fifth deletion, but most of the content had already been deleted by the KRZK several days before, rendering the backup hardly useful and resulting in the wrath of the other game forums. On October 17th 2008, the English forums were deleted by the KRZK for the sixth time.

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