and joins vc's like every day.

well, i just joined today, so i wouldn't know XD

He's directly asked me a question perhaps twice. And one of those was just recently.

that's cool. i am not worthy, however

I

I've probably had just as wide of an audience, perhaps even larger, but no one would know me.

I'd been a big part of some major fan sites.

The first one was dying and fading into irrelevance before me. And after I saved it and brought it from the brink of death turning it into a juggernaught that was the web standard for that subject, I got betrayed and shoved out.

As with most stories like that. Sorry that had to happen. Build something up just to be shat on. Must've been hard.

Heard of Zelda Wiki?

Yeah, that place.

It was dead and dying in 2008. No one on its staff knew what the hell they were doing and the place was falling apart. I came in, vastly overhauled it, and shoved it beyond the rival Wikia wiki on Zelda and now it dominates in search results.

Some of the others got jealous of me and plotted to get rid of me. And made their move after I proposed forming a network of other independent Nintendo wikis. They got me kicked out and stole the idea for the network and went to Bulbapedia to form the network.

...

jeez

jealousy is a wonderful thing, isn't it?

i love gaytorad

They still use the framework I built today. They have to because they still don't understand how to do any coding.

I'm looking at the page now. It's well put together. What was it like before? 😐

They've changed how some of it looks. But the vast majority of the coding it uses is mine.

sue dem ez gaem

it has ads that get past my adblock

What have you done to try and get it back?

I didn't.

I made a rival wiki.

Zeldapedia?

Ew. No.

XD

Never go corporate.

feelsbadman

Zelda Dungeon Wiki. I haven't be able to get in edgewise in search results because we did too good with Zelda Wiki.

I've actually seen that around.

be an elite hackzer and ddos them

Yeah, well that's mine. I made it and run it.

jk

Ah~ Internet history.

if you were smorc you would haxded dem

Short version:
It was poltical. The people at Zelda Wiki cared more about their personal power and glory than actually making a functional site. Anyone who knew what they were doing would find themselves removed because they'd have to tell the people in power that certain things couldn't be done or that they had to be done a certain way and the pride of those people wouldn't allow that.

So it was like putting career politicians in charge of tech support.

Ugh, tech support

Or to have politicians run a server.