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But some (summarized) snippets include:

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

* '''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 ~~would have~~ 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.]

** '''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.

* '''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?

* '''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.

* '''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.

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=== FP ===

Andrei once [https://ourworldoftext.com/Interview_with_FP interviewed] [[Fp|FP]] for OWOT's 6th anniversary~~. Generally speaking~~ he ~~has shown~~ a ~~great interest in learning about the history~~ of ~~the site~~.

Andrei once [https://ourworldoftext.com/Interview_with_FP interviewed] [[Fp|FP]] for OWOT's 6th anniversary, during which he expressed his gratitude for OWOT, which had been a large part of his internet presence since 2020. He also said that he looked up to him for developing an entire website when he was only 13.

Andrei is known to criticize FP for not appointing more moderators, thus allowing trolls to run unchecked on both the canvas and the OWOT Discord(''which has become significantly more orderly since Fern's appointment in 2024'').

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 But some (summarized) snippets include:
-* '''<u>Q:</u>''' [What is the story behind OWOT's creation?]
+* '''<u>Q:</u>''' '''<u>[What is the story behind OWOT's creation?]</u>'''
-** '''<u>A:</u>''' [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 would have 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.]
+** '''<u>A:</u>''' [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.]
-* '''<u>Q:</u>'''  Have you ever felt that OWOT would go nowhere in terms of popularity while you were developing it.
+* '''<u>Q:</u>'''  '''<u>Have you ever felt that OWOT would go nowhere in terms of popularity while you were developing it.</u>'''
 ** '''<u>A:</u>''' 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.
-* '''<u>Q:</u>'''  Have you had any difficulties or burnout or wanted to make a feature but it was just out of your devskill's reach?
+* '''<u>Q:</u>'''  '''<u>Have you had any difficulties or burnout or wanted to make a feature but it was just out of your devskill's reach?</u>'''
 ** '''<u>A:</u>''' 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.
-* '''<u>Q:</u>'''  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.
+* '''<u>Q:</u>'''  '''<u>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.</u>'''
 ** '''<u>A:</u>''' 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.
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 === FP ===
-Andrei once [https://ourworldoftext.com/Interview_with_FP interviewed] [[Fp|FP]] for OWOT's 6th anniversary. Generally speaking he has shown a great interest in learning about the history of the site.
+Andrei once [https://ourworldoftext.com/Interview_with_FP interviewed] [[Fp|FP]] for OWOT's 6th anniversary, during which he expressed his gratitude for OWOT, which had been a large part of his internet presence since 2020. He also said that he looked up to him for developing an entire website when he was only 13.
 Andrei is known to criticize FP for not appointing more moderators, thus allowing trolls to run unchecked on both the canvas and the OWOT Discord(''which has become significantly more orderly since Fern's appointment in 2024'').