Post by Fenris on Feb 6, 2008 8:49:00 GMT -5
For those of you who are curious about the history of this website in itself, and not the RP history, this is the thread for you.
(Any members who have been here a while, yell at me if I have left something out. This is going off mine and Tor's memories, which aren't exactly too reliable.)
Back in late 2002, Tor decided to make a website based on her favourite book, The Sight by David Clement-Davies. It was always a work in progress, because everyone was quite new to coding, moderating, etc.
Some members here have been around long enough to remember TS1, which was, larka.proboards21.com or some url simliar to that.
But unfortunately, someone managed to hack into our website, and decided that they wanted to delete all the boards, all the posts, they turned the background and the font black, so one minute I was looking at the main page, and the next, into a black hole.
It took a lot of effort from everyone to get things back to vague normality, and then we took another hit. TS1 was deleted by proboards. Not enough people were adhering to the Proboards own Terms of Service, and things weren't exactly PG13, and too many people were swearing etc.
In December 2004 however, Tor had made another wolf website, and since TS1 was lost, we decided to relocate to this website, and renamed it and let every member that we could know that we had moved. This would have been in January 2005, and we've been running on here ever since then.
Since then, The Sight has grown. We learnt a lot from TS1, and that helped to make this website better, and TS2 (as we old-timers call this website from time to time) has grown much better than TS1 ever was. It includes more RP boards (since TS1 only had four packs, Deor, GeRad, Frecne and the Balkar, the kerl no man's lands, and in the end, (i think) 5 RP boards - The River, The Waterfall and Lake, The Cave, The Meadow and The Stone Castle).
We've seen countless staff changes since then, of the original packs only 3 survive, and the Alphas of those aren't the same as the original Alphas.
TS1 only had 3 admin positions (Zostar was not one of them), and since The Sight as a whole has been running, both the Zostar and Wolfbane accounts have changed hands once. (and as much as some people would like it, Fenris has been the same grouchy weirdo as ever. And she ain't going that easily. =P)
More about the reigns of the pack Alphas though, can be found in Pack Histories here.
I think that's it. Well, it is for now anyway. =P
(Any members who have been here a while, yell at me if I have left something out. This is going off mine and Tor's memories, which aren't exactly too reliable.)
Back in late 2002, Tor decided to make a website based on her favourite book, The Sight by David Clement-Davies. It was always a work in progress, because everyone was quite new to coding, moderating, etc.
Some members here have been around long enough to remember TS1, which was, larka.proboards21.com or some url simliar to that.
But unfortunately, someone managed to hack into our website, and decided that they wanted to delete all the boards, all the posts, they turned the background and the font black, so one minute I was looking at the main page, and the next, into a black hole.
It took a lot of effort from everyone to get things back to vague normality, and then we took another hit. TS1 was deleted by proboards. Not enough people were adhering to the Proboards own Terms of Service, and things weren't exactly PG13, and too many people were swearing etc.
In December 2004 however, Tor had made another wolf website, and since TS1 was lost, we decided to relocate to this website, and renamed it and let every member that we could know that we had moved. This would have been in January 2005, and we've been running on here ever since then.
Since then, The Sight has grown. We learnt a lot from TS1, and that helped to make this website better, and TS2 (as we old-timers call this website from time to time) has grown much better than TS1 ever was. It includes more RP boards (since TS1 only had four packs, Deor, GeRad, Frecne and the Balkar, the kerl no man's lands, and in the end, (i think) 5 RP boards - The River, The Waterfall and Lake, The Cave, The Meadow and The Stone Castle).
We've seen countless staff changes since then, of the original packs only 3 survive, and the Alphas of those aren't the same as the original Alphas.
TS1 only had 3 admin positions (Zostar was not one of them), and since The Sight as a whole has been running, both the Zostar and Wolfbane accounts have changed hands once. (and as much as some people would like it, Fenris has been the same grouchy weirdo as ever. And she ain't going that easily. =P)
More about the reigns of the pack Alphas though, can be found in Pack Histories here.
I think that's it. Well, it is for now anyway. =P
