Community:LegendOfZelda.com
Overview
Legendofzelda.com is one of the oldest and most prominent sites in the Online Zelda Community. Led officially by Link of Hyrule and »-LasT-ChaNcE-«, »-LasT-ChaNcE-« and Xízør™ run most of the day-to-day affairs of the site in Link of Hyrule's life in WoW while on a drinking binge-induced extended hiatus. LoZ.com culture is based around its forums, second only to the forums at Zelda Universe. Humor, freedom of expression, tolerance, and love of fun are the major motifs of LoZ.com culture. However, LoZ's reputation of having strict and sometimes stolid moderators and administrators was well earned, and is not let down in the present day.
Early History
LegendOfZelda.com was founded in 1999 by Alex Jones, better known as Link of Hyrule. Little is known about this period in LoZ.com's history, as there only two members remaining from the pre-2002 shut-down: Link of Hyrule, and the Super Moderator and Site Updater, Triforce Guardian.
Nemesis
The user Nemesis (also known as simply "Nemi"), was the first person to be left in charge of LoZ.com during an extended absence by Link of Hyrule. It was during this time that Nemi assumed full autonomous control of the site, and acted much like a tyrant. The corruption was so deep that the site was abandoned and virtually empty, left to rot until Link of Hyrule reappeared in early 2003, and announced a relaunch that did not occur until November of 2004, over a year later, and almost two years after the initial crash.
Xero Gaming
After the crash of 2002 and the relaunch promise of 2003, there were temporary forums set up on Lycos webhosting. These forums lasted for a little under a year before it became apparent that Link of Hyrule had failed to live up to his promise of recreating LoZ.com. In December 2003/January 2004, the administrators Megaman X, Remus, and Droshi all left, taking several prominent members with them and created Xero Gaming, a site dedicated to all gaming, not just the Legend of Zelda series. However, this site became obsolete in November 2004 when the promise of LoZ's return was finally fulfilled, led by Link of Hyrule, and King Krazy Link (better known as simply "KKL").
Hacking Era
After the relaunch of 2004, LoZ saw a tremendous spike in user activity, including joining, posting, logging in, et cetera. However, this activity dwindled down over the course of 2005 and leveled out at a respectable amount. However, there were no spikes in activity until the first hack of the Summer of '05. The site was hacked and many parts of it destroyed, chiefly the forums. The administrator Cartoons rebuilt the site within hours, but was promptly blamed by LoZ's ever pervasive n00b population as the actually perpetrator in the hacking. Due to this supreme ungratefulness, Cartoons abandoned the site in the face of yet another hack and left the reconstruction to the new administrator, »-LasT-ChaNcE-«. Over the course of three days in the month of July, 2005, »-LasT-ChaNcE-« rebuilt the forums, struggling through code and administrative procedures, not just to rebuild the forums, but to make great new forums that would dazzle the members of LoZ.com and hopefully spark more activity.
The relaunch after the second hack was a success, but it would not be long before disaster struck LoZ.com again.
August 2005
On August 17th, 2005, »-LasT-ChaNcE-« removed the forums of LoZ.com and replaced them with a letter of not only resignation, but an explanation of his actions.
According to the letter, he had done these things in lieu of a plot by KKL and Link of Hyrule to remove him as an administrator, barely a month after his great service to LoZ of rebuilding the site. Along with the administrator Darth X (formerly Megaman X), »-LasT-ChaNcE-« recreated the website Xero Gaming at Xerogaming.net (currently renamed "lozmedia.com", where all of the media for LoZ.com is stored). Over 20 of LoZ's best and brightest followed the two and Xero Gaming was an initial success, most of its activity focused on badmouthing LoZ. This schism was not reconciled until almost a year later, on August 4th, 2006 when Xero Gaming (XG) and LoZ merged to become one site once again
It would soon come to pass that Link of Hyrule had been on vacation during said plotting, and »-LasT-ChaNcE-« (better known as simply "Chance") apologized to Link of Hyrule and LoZ.com as a whole. Although KKL restored the forums, they were overmodded (modifications, not moderators) and the code at one point became so garbled that Link of Hyrule asked Chance to be back on the team as an administrator in order to restore them. This marked the beginning of the slow march towards the removal of KKL as an administrator.
Pre-vBulletin
After the restoration of the forums by Chance, in early 2006
Auxiliary Statistics
By January 1st, 2008:
- Most Members Online: 384 (11-16-2006 05:02 PM)
- Registered Users: 14,000
- Total Forum Post Count: 103,000
- Top Poster: Doom-Desire - 2838 (Recorded - Not all posts are included in this figure)