I also see the last archive is from just before Legion and others turned the board into a mess (switching user id's and such), so there was a backup after all ... where did that even come from

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I can think of at least 2 others that came through about 5 incarnations, so it's probably not too uncommon for long lasting communities (server moves, etc.)

But the first one could definitely have lasted longer if I had stayed the only one with access and if backups were easier to make at the time ...

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Heh, I remember the staff application I got onto staff with.

Practically everyone who were moderatly active and wrote a staff application that wasn't random words randomy put together, got a staff position.

Heh, I remember that earlier in the same week as the first incarnation died, I actually told Acmlm to backup the board in IRC as I had bad feelings about something happening. Of course, back then I didn't really know how hard it was backupping with the acmlm.overclocked.org host, and people got tired on squid errors and wanted a server change. I wanted to stay at the old host, as I didn't trust erkdog back then, and the community eventually winded up abonding erkdog server in favor for being hosted on Mouse server, which is the same server that tRO was hosted on.

When Mouse was going to stop paying for his server, Acmlm board and tRO split servers, Acmlm board being hosted on Mouse new server and tRO on blackhole's own. Then Acmlm board moved over to a server owned by ||bass, and then later on Acmlm board II was created on... the same server as tRO.

As far I know, on this board three people have access to DB and code, but I notice there's a precaution to not stepping on anyone's toes nowdays. In the past there were questionable admin decisions made by people having access.

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