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The website plays host to other services for its members, such as the Oekaki drawing system, Pokémon Battle Server, Minecraft server and IRC chat-room, as well as providing a mobile version for users to browse the forums on-the-go. It has a significant social media presence, sporting Facebook and Google+ pages, YouTube and Twitch channels, a DeviantArt group, Tumblr blog, and Twitter feed. | The website plays host to other services for its members, such as the Oekaki drawing system, Pokémon Battle Server, Minecraft server and IRC chat-room, as well as providing a mobile version for users to browse the forums on-the-go. It has a significant social media presence, sporting Facebook and Google+ pages, YouTube and Twitch channels, a DeviantArt group, Tumblr blog, and Twitter feed. | ||
The forums were launched sometime in September 2002 by user Master Kwesi Nkromah, and aside from various outages, have been online ever since. It has 500,000 members and eight-and-a-half million posts as of August 2015. It is currently running the vBulletin forum software and is owned and administered by user | The forums were launched sometime in September 2002 by user Master Kwesi Nkromah, and aside from various outages, have been online ever since. It has 500,000 members and eight-and-a-half million posts as of August 2015. It is currently running the vBulletin forum software and is owned and administered by user Sheep. It has a large, staggered staff team, who coordinate to run every part of the site. | ||
PokéCommunity is known for it's yearly forum-wide '''Get-Together''' mega-events, held once a year usually around summer time in which many members volunteer to run and participate in a wide range of events and competitions. In 2012, PokéCommunity celebrated its tenth anniversary online in a special Get-Together dubbed '''PCX'''. | PokéCommunity is known for it's yearly forum-wide '''Get-Together''' mega-events, held once a year usually around summer time in which many members volunteer to run and participate in a wide range of events and competitions. In 2012, PokéCommunity celebrated its tenth anniversary online in a special Get-Together dubbed '''PCX'''. | ||
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Staff members of PokéCommunity are constantly leaving and being promoted. To see a real-time list of the staff, visit [http://www.pokecommunity.com/showgroups.php this page]. | Staff members of PokéCommunity are constantly leaving and being promoted. To see a real-time list of the staff, visit [http://www.pokecommunity.com/showgroups.php this page]. | ||
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* Hiroshi Sotomura | * Hiroshi Sotomura | ||
* Morkula | * Morkula | ||
* shenanigans | * shenanigans | ||