Happy TetrisConcept Independence Day!

Thread in 'Discussion' started by Rosti LFC, 30 Jun 2012.

  1. I have been a member of this community since May 2006, so over six years now (which I'm fairly sure puts me as one of the four or five oldest still-active members), yet in my profile my join date is apparently 29th June 2009. Three years ago today. For those of you who haven't been around for three years, a mild history lesson:

    Back in the middle of 2009, TC was going great. Blockbox was popular, and had just been released in English after a large amount of input from TC members. TGM4 was about to be announced. TGM3 was becoming playable to those who couldn't afford an arcade machine at home. We had planned TC meetings in London, Philadelphia and NorCal.

    Not everything was rosy. We were still having issues with crackdowns on YouTube videos, TetrisConcept had come under criticism for the vulgar language in the community IRC, in particular the use of the notorious P, D, T and M words (those being 'penis', 'dick', 'testicles' and 'masturbate', for those who couldn't figure it out). We were a repeated target for spambots and their "porno pub".

    But still, times were fairly good. And then what came to be colloquially known as The Great Dildo Explosion happened.

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    Without any prior warning signals an announcement came from the current administrator, caffeine, that the forum would be closing with near immediate effect, that all posts would be deleted and the wiki would be whored over to Wikia. The pretty much unanimous reaction from the community was that this was a complete bullshit idea, that an administrator had no right to do something like that, and the backlash and reasoning begun. The backlash and reasoning then got nowhere, and turned into a scenario where on 26th June (far sooner than the original two week deadline), TC.com ceased to exist.

    However, only a few days later TetrisConcept was back (a bit like Jesus) as TC.net on 29th June, which aside from the three letter difference in the URL was an almost carbon copy of the site aside from an improvement in the forum software. All posts and precious Tetris wiki data was retained (almost).

    Around half my time with this community has now been spent with TC.net instead of the original TC.com, and whilst a lot of the faces are different I honestly feel that this community has stayed fantastic, and that the quality of the Tetris players and personalities here is easily second to none in the (English-speaking) world of Tetris.

    TC 3.0 is in the works, and should be fantastic (no pressure to the guys working on it lawl). And when this place is still around in three years, despite the unlikelihood of any new games from Arika, or any new not-completely-fucking-casual-shite games from TTC, I'm sure the people here will continue to be as awesome have they have been before and since I joined six years ago.

    Happy TetrisConcept Independence Day, and long live TetrisConcept!
     
    Last edited: 30 Jun 2012
  2. IMO, the worst thing that came from this is that there is three identical wiki, and that wikia is the 1st one that comes off in a search engine.
     
  3. Three years, wow. I think I originally joined in 2997 2007, but I remember browsing tc.com two years prior to that.

    Congrats and stuff.
     
    Last edited: 7 Jul 2012

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