A Long List of Failed Projects

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2021-06-14 21:00:05

One of the modules in the second year of my Digital Arts degree was around creating online community platforms (I forget the precise name of the module), which I took entirely too literally and thus built a forum and wiki website for this game. The site was a simple vBulletin forum with a MediaWiki wiki, running on a crappy shared hosting provider.

While the community picked up quickly and I managed to do remarkably well on the SEO front for this site, ultimately the game was never a big success which led to the site slowly dying off. Thus would begin a recurring theme with online communities I've tried to build...

I first discovered Path of Exile through Total Biscuit's WTF is... - Path of Exile video (this was before TB turned out to be a massive chud) and was instantly hooked as it reminded me so much of Diablo 2, which I'd played a ridiculous amount of.

The site went live on September 25th 2011 and quickly picked up steam within the community - I'd got the timing right and got in there before anyone else, which was pure luck.