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=== InfraRaven ===

<blockquote>''"Eventually, InfraRaven caught notice that I was making a YWOT clone and wondered why I didn't tell him about it.''

=== Anon_guy ===

''He offered to run my clone on one of his spare servers, and the rest is history."''

- '''FP during his [https://ourworldoftext.com/Interview_with_FP interview] with Andrei'''</blockquote>

=== Anon_guy and Dzeni ===

<blockquote>"''Eventually, anon_guy and Dzeni expressed interest in my YWOT clone and I continued to work on it.''

''Anon_guy offered to run my clone on his server for a few days and we talked on there and experimented around with scripts.''

''Eventually, the codebase got progressively worse and I eventually had to scrap the whole project and start fresh.''

''However by then, we had already lost interest in this YWOT clone and we weren't planning on putting more work into it.''"

- '''FP during his interview with Andrei'''</blockquote>

=== Sammich ===

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=== AndreiXYZ ===

<blockquote>"''I mean, my internet career has definitely evolved a lot, I've gotten engaged in more big''

''communities thanks to the friends I've met on this platform. But I really like''

''OWOT's concept, and pretty much all of its sister websites' too. I look up to you,''

''especially since you singlehandedly made OWOT when you were 14, a feat I would''

''never be able to achieve, I mean heck, you started development in mid-2016, when''

''you were 13 years old.''"

- '''Andrei during his interview with FP'''</blockquote>Andrei [https://ourworldoftext.com/Interview_with_FP interviewed] FP in October of 2023(a.k.a. ''the 6th anniversary of OWOT'').

It is highly recommended that you read through the interview in its entirety, but some (summarized) snippets include:

* '''Q:''' '''[What is the story behind OWOT's creation?]'''

** '''A:''' [I began working on OWOT in mid-2016, but lost interest in mid-2017. I restarted the project after talking to Dzeni and Anon_guy, who offered to host it on their server; but the development process was still greatly inefficient and I had to remake the entire repository every time I wanted to make the change. Then InfraRaven caught wind of the project and offered to run it on one of his spare servers, and the rest is history.]

* '''Q:''' '''Have you ever felt that OWOT would go nowhere in terms of popularity while you were developing it.'''

** '''A:''' Back when I first started working on OWOT, I never anticipated anybody beyond my small group of friends on YWOT using it. Even during OWOT's first couple of months, hardly anybody ever used it. The community organically grew at a slow pace over the span of a couple years.

* '''Q:''' '''Have you had any difficulties or burnout or wanted to make a feature but it was just out of your devskill's reach?'''

** '''A:''' By November of 2017, I was already burned out from developing OWOT and nearly dropped out of developing it. By sheer miracle, I picked up work on OWOT again and started refactoring the codebase here and there.

* '''Q:''' '''Are you ever going to quit working on OWOT? Like, will you ever pass the torch to someone else, InfraRaven perhaps, as he's the one hosting the domain, or maybe some other staff member like Mr.Guy? I wonder how many generations OWOT will last, well, before getting a visit from the FBI for the actions the community has done there. I'm joking, of course.'''

** '''A:''' I plan on continuing to develop OWOT until the day I die. I'm not aware of any viable heir to OWOT since I'm not aware of anybody else who's as interested in OWOT as I am. By then, who knows? maybe there'll be people lining up to take my torch should the need arise.Maybe a competitor will spring up, leading to owot becoming too irrelevant for anybody to want to "inherit." This is surprisingly common in the software world - I've seen developers for libraries who still continue to maintain that library decades later.

== Beyond OWOT ==