Community:Zelda Dungeon

Zelda Dungeon is a Legend of Zelda fan website created by Mases Hagopian on August 19th, 2001. The site's main purpose is to provide the most in-depth Zelda game guides possible, utilizing screenshots, maps, and artwork.

History
Zelda Dungeon was initially launched by Mases Hagopian on August 19th, 2001. The website has a rocky history which includes seventeen different layout designs, several site mergers, three different major forum incarnations, and dozens of staff members. In March of 2008, Zelda Dungeon won Exploding Deku Nut's Golden Mirror Shield Award, a lifetime achievement award given to a website who has had significant contributions to the Zelda community. The website currently stands as one of the most popular Zelda websites, reaching an audience of over 7500 unique visitors per day.

Community Forums
The current forum community at Zelda Dungeon was established on October 16th, 2007. As of May of 2009, the forum has has accumulated over 740 members and 46,000 posts.

As of August 11th, Zelda Dungeon lost over 20,000 posts (The post count stood at around 60,000 at the time) when one of the Moderators accounts was hacked, The hacker proceeded to ban people from the Shoutbox but then began deleting all the Zelda Sections that he was able to moderate. Luckily, A Super Moderator at the site, DarkLink01, Realised that he could move all threads to sections in the forums the hacked moderator had no power over, This saved around 13-14,000 posts.

The plans to upload the back ups for the site failed as the Shoutbox caused for all backups since February 2009 to fail, The Webmaster Mases then decided that we should just build up the site from its damaged state. As it stands Zelda Dungeon now has just under 44,000 posts as of August 29 2009.

Staff
Zelda Dungeon currently has ten listed staff members, including three active webmasters. Below is a listing of the site staff and their duties.


 * Mases - Webmaster who runs the day to day operations of the website, including providing news, writing walkthroughs, writing game content, as well as acting as the diplomat of Zelda Dungeon.
 * Caleb - Webmaster who is the master behind the design and coding of Zelda Dungeon. Caleb also writes walkthroughs, game content, and works directly with some of the other Zelda Dungeon staff members.
 * Dabombster - Webmaster who works on much of the Wind Waker content at the website, including writing the walkthrough. He also designs many of the templates used for the smaller guides.
 * Josh - Works with Dabombster on writing content for The Wind Waker. Also provides video material for Zelda Dungeon.
 * Kybyrian - Kybyrian has worked on Oracle of Ages content.
 * Yumil - Writes detailed guides for A Link to the Past and Link's Awakening
 * Zenox - Working on writing a walkthrough for the original Legend of Zelda
 * Alder Dragon - Creates specialty guides for Link's Awakening.
 * Brandikins - Working on the walkthrough for Link's Awakening.