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In December 2003, Pokémon Fan Universe was moved to 1&1, who were offering free 3-year hosting packages. Unfortunately, 1&1's servers were insufficient to serve Pokémon Fan Universe's visitors so in January 2004 Pokémon Fan Universe switched to a web host that was created for the sole purpose of giving away cheap webhosting. It later evolved into A Small Orange Software, and continues to provide Pokémon Fan Universe with a reliable and inexpensive hosting as of 2005. | In December 2003, Pokémon Fan Universe was moved to 1&1, who were offering free 3-year hosting packages. Unfortunately, 1&1's servers were insufficient to serve Pokémon Fan Universe's visitors so in January 2004 Pokémon Fan Universe switched to a web host that was created for the sole purpose of giving away cheap webhosting. It later evolved into A Small Orange Software, and continues to provide Pokémon Fan Universe with a reliable and inexpensive hosting as of 2005. | ||
In September 2008, the co-admin of the site, Jax Malcolm, put the site on maintenance which effectively prevented all access to the forums. She did this to raise awarness of the lack of main adminstrator's presence. Shining Arcanine restored the forums only few days later. Afterwards Jax demodded herself and left the forums. Later a super moderator, by the alias of El Niño took a similiar stand and password protected all the forums he could. One of the fewer forums unaffected by this lockdown was Chit Chat, which was soon the place of discussion of the current state of forums. The topics mostly contained flames toward either the resigning staff that very loudly voiced their opinions about the current lead administrator or toward the lead administrator and the members deciding to stay with the forums. Shining Arcanine restored the forums and demodded the staff that were involved with either the lockdown or some bannings that he found questionable. This was followed by a small exodus of older members. There was also an issue with the anime style battling league which some of the older members tried to take with them. That league was later decided to be built on new basis using the old system. | |||
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Revision as of 04:14, 26 November 2008
Pokémon Fan Universe is a fan site owned by Shining Arcanine. It was started on November 13, 1999. It was and remains run by Shining Arcanine alone.
History
Pokémon Fan Universe was first hosted on Homestead, where it had little content and didn't have much popularity.
After a 18-month period of inactivity due to exhaustion, Shining Arcanine eventually met individuals such as Meowth346 and Pojo staff members who gave him advice. One particular Pojo staff member wrote a Digimon site, showing him what hard work can do over a summer while Meowth346 showed him how to code webpages in HTML and CSS.
In October 2002, Pokémon Fan Universe was published on AlwaysWebHosting, having been completely recoded by hand. The Pokédex was still being coded by hand in HTML at the time. Meowth346 suggested implementing the Pokédex in PHP to Shining Arcanine and helped him do so.
Faced with rising bandwidth cost, Pokémon Fan Universe moved to The Forum Host, which offered free web hosting in exchange for a text advertisement. The host went under a few months later and was taken over.
In December 2003, Pokémon Fan Universe was moved to 1&1, who were offering free 3-year hosting packages. Unfortunately, 1&1's servers were insufficient to serve Pokémon Fan Universe's visitors so in January 2004 Pokémon Fan Universe switched to a web host that was created for the sole purpose of giving away cheap webhosting. It later evolved into A Small Orange Software, and continues to provide Pokémon Fan Universe with a reliable and inexpensive hosting as of 2005.
In September 2008, the co-admin of the site, Jax Malcolm, put the site on maintenance which effectively prevented all access to the forums. She did this to raise awarness of the lack of main adminstrator's presence. Shining Arcanine restored the forums only few days later. Afterwards Jax demodded herself and left the forums. Later a super moderator, by the alias of El Niño took a similiar stand and password protected all the forums he could. One of the fewer forums unaffected by this lockdown was Chit Chat, which was soon the place of discussion of the current state of forums. The topics mostly contained flames toward either the resigning staff that very loudly voiced their opinions about the current lead administrator or toward the lead administrator and the members deciding to stay with the forums. Shining Arcanine restored the forums and demodded the staff that were involved with either the lockdown or some bannings that he found questionable. This was followed by a small exodus of older members. There was also an issue with the anime style battling league which some of the older members tried to take with them. That league was later decided to be built on new basis using the old system.
