Congrats on 5 years. You guys rock. Best RPG news site there is.
One of the ol' timers here can probably better answer that question since I was just a lurker back then. For years I didn't even know about the forums. I just came to RPGDot for the excellent CRPG new coverage.
Here is what I do know; RPGDot was sold to Jolt. For awhile it was fine. Dhruin and the rest helped the transfer from the old staff to the new by still posting newsbits and whatnot, but a lot of us didn't like what Jolt was doing with RPGDot. So RPGWatch was born. I found out about RPGWatch by searching the forums there and seeing it mentioned that it was created by the old staff. That was when I stopped going there everyday for the news and started coming here.
I can't really remember what was different about RPGDot with Jolt in command, but since I preferred the original crew as opposed to the new crew I left and came here.
That's pretty much all I know. I was still an internet newb back then and didn't start reading/posting in the forums until I came to RPGWatch. Some of the others could probably fill in the gaps
Yea, I should have been clearer. I forgot some people might not know about the Politics & Religion forum
Anyway, here is something that may interest some of you. This is what RPGDot looked like back when Arcanum and Wizards & Warriors were still in the headlines.
You can view most of RPGDot throughout the years as well as RPGWatch. It's changed a bit since 2000
RPGDot internet archive from 2000 to 2008.
RPGWatch's internet archive.
Thanks for the links! It deosn't look like the forums were archived though. I click on a topic and get a "not archived" error. Can forum archives be found somewhere else?
Thanks for the links! It deosn't look like the forums were archived though. I click on a topic and get a "not archived" error. Can forum archives be found somewhere else?