What happened to Tainted World?

[Tony 1]

I accidentally clicked on my Tainted World bookmark today and realised the site no longer works. I don't think I've been on that forum since the first day they reopened the new version of the site and split from here. What happened? Nobody went over?

[Champ213 1858]

We can't say for certain since we aren't really in contact with them anymore but from what we gathered Dai disappeared again two or three weeks after restarting the site (and since he had been very adamant to be the only one to control vital server functions it probably meant that no other staff member could do important work), then the mods bailed one by one, spambots reclaimed the site, making it impossible for the handful of remaining users to do anything, and two or three months after the rebirth it went down completely, probably due to Dai not paying the server costs.

[Biopanda 2675]

Does that mean we can finally rename the Toasted Waffles subforum to Tainted World?

[Champ213 1858]

Well, Dai still is the owner of the TW.net domain. Who knows, maybe there will be a Re:re:birth next year.

But even so, why would we want to? We renamed the spam section to Toasted Waffles as a hommage to our temporary existence under that name, since it had proven quite popular, I don't see a reason to change it.

[nekkichi 6042]

Does that mean we can finally rename the Toasted Waffles subforum to Tainted World?

FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUU I need 2 do something about my sleeping patterns

didn't realize it was actually funny lolz orz ok

[TheBistroButcher666 228]

We can't say for certain since we aren't really in contact with them anymore but from what we gathered Dai disappeared again two or three weeks after restarting the site (and since he had been very adamant to be the only one to control vital server functions it probably meant that no other staff member could do important work), then the mods bailed one by one, spambots reclaimed the site, making it impossible for the handful of remaining users to do anything, and two or three months after the rebirth it went down completely, probably due to Dai not paying the server costs.

I had dome some lurking awhile back and saw this on the Last.fm group "Dai shut it down. We could make a new one I guess. But I kind of lost interest in a lot of the scene." I would usually go back there to check archived links.

[Furik 832]

Well, Dai still is the owner of the TW.net domain. Who knows, maybe there will be a Re:re:birth next year.

Quoted because I could actually see that happening.

[Guest]

it was too fierce to live.

rip bbqurl.

I had dome some lurking awhile back and saw this on the Last.fm group "Dai shut it down. We could make a new one I guess. But I kind of lost interest in a lot of the scene." I would usually go back there to check archived links.

ahahahahaha. he finally realised all those ~j-indies metalcore~ bands with dude names like thomas and gregory are utter shit i guess

[LIDL 692]

^ nah, Jake has been losing it a little since he was still among us,

(it was Jake that posting it on last.fm group)

guessed he went into K-Pop even deeper or Hipster Rap (Lil`Wayne, DRAKE) or something.

[Furik 832]

guessed he went into K-Pop even deeper or Hipster Rap (Lil`Wayne, DRAKE) or something.

Poor guy. BTW Drake is Lil Wayne's bf right?

[ramrod 108]

Does that mean we can finally rename the Toasted Waffles subforum to Tainted World?

I think i may be the only one to get that joke. lol

[Number Girl 48]

While I know this is funny - I can't help but at the same time feel very angry about that whole drama show they put on so it could become *~Dai's~* site. Not that this wasn't expected. You clearly can't run a site about something you have zero interest in, lol.

But a good thing came out of it in the end. We have MH now and its turned out to be more awesome than TW ever was.

[evilcoconut 109]

lol, I figured something like that happened.

[237Q 154]

well the only thing I know is that, I believe-Jake opened a new forum/site named Seoul Muzik but it's as active as TW.net

[Guest]

Seoul Muzik

as far as puns go that's fucking terrible.

[Karma’s Hat 3107]

Seoul Muzik

as far as puns go that's fucking terrible.

Ahahaha

But srsly i can't even find Seou... urh...ungh... anymore. Used google and checked Jake's Last.fm account.

[Champ213 1858]

Seoul Muzik was hosted on the same server, so it went down along with TW. Though I don't think it ever really became very active.

Anyway, as Number Girl already said, the real upsetting thing os that Dai pulled us through all this drama about wanting the forum back, and then put so little effort into his new project. You can all thank the heavens that except for Jake none of the staff team gave in into his promises (or blackmail would be more like it) but opted for a rebrand. Otherwise, we probably wouldn't be here anymore. The fact that this forum is alive and kicking might have kept Dai's interest up for a while longer, but who knows when he would have bailed on us again.

So, in short: Dai killed Tainted World. The first time the rest of us picked up the pieces again and salvaged the community. And half a year later he returned, wrestled the name away from us, screwed it over a few weeks later and left it in a ditch to die. As for Jake, he made some questionable decisions and he had to bear the consequences for it.

But let's not look back. We have something better now, more varied users, a lot less spambots, the new name has caught on (though incidentally we are still the #1 Google result for "Tainted World") and, thanks to our partner, greater things coming for the future.

I believe this sufficiently answers the question of the OP, so I'll close this topic now.