Oddworld Forums
The Oddworld Forums are an unofficial Internet message board for fans of Oddworld.
History
Oddworldian Forums was first created on ezboard on 11 May 2000 to accompany Oddworldian, the fansite of Sydney Cander.{ref name="FOM10"/> Fan Corner was opened on 30 June 2000 to accomodate fan fiction stories.[1] Some time between 11 and 19 July the message board was renamed Oddworld Forums.[2][3] Sydney made Abe Babe co-administrator of the Forums at the start of July in advance of her opening of Oddworld-Web.[4][5][6]
Sydney and Abe Babe wanted to discontinue the Oddworld Forums on ezboard and switch to an advert-free message board, but neither of them was willing to pay for hosting. Pilot offered to host the succeeding Oddworld Forums, powered by an Ultimate Bulletin Board bootleg of Abe Babe’s, on his personal server at no cost. Sydney and Abe Babe accepted
that to remove the adverts ezboard placed on the Oddworld Forums, the current boards would be discontinued and the community directed to join the succeeding Oddworld Forums powered by a pirated copy of Ultimate Bulletin Board. These were hosted on a private server run by Pilot, a deed in return for which Sydney and Abe Babe granted him a position moderating the Spoiler Forum, which had been newly created for the release of Oddworld: Munch’s Oddysee.
they would be moved to Ultimate Bulletin Board, initially on
ezboard later changed to Ultimate Bulletin Board and eventually vBulletin. It has remained on vBulletin ever since, although in times when the Forums’ server went down a temporary board was created on ezboard.
Staff
References
- ↑ Cander, Sydney (30 June 2000). ‘Fan corner’. News item on Oddworldian. Archived by the Wayback Machine (23 August 2000).
- ↑ Kilgour, Kristen (11 July 2000). ‘Oddworld Feature Film’. Message 2485 on the Exoddus Club. Yahoo! Groups.
- ↑ Cander, Sydney (19 July 2000). ‘Fanart section’. News item on Oddworldian. Archived by the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Cander, Sydney (c. 2 July 2000). ‘Introducing our new Forum Administrator...’. Thread title only on p. 13 of Necrum Burial Grounds, Oddworld Forums as archived by the Wayback Machine (7 January 2002).
- ↑ Cander, Sydney (31 August 2000). ‘Oddworld-Web opens and new fanart’. News item on Oddworldian. Archived by the Wayback Machine (25 April 2001).
- ↑ Kilgour, Kristen (31 August 2000). ‘Oddworld-Web goes Online’. News item on Oddworld-Web. Archived by the Wayback Machine (1 May 2001).
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