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InfraRaven, the admin responsible for hosting OWOT and [[Our World of Pixels|OWOP]], was one of the most influential users in the history of YWOT. He was active since 2011 and had the closest ties with [[Andrew Badr]] out of any known user. In 2021 it was he who convinced Andrew to reopen the Mainpage, after it had been [https://yourworldoftext.wiki/Brazilpocalypse locked down to prevent racism spam]. | InfraRaven, the admin responsible for hosting OWOT and [[Our World of Pixels|OWOP]], was one of the most influential users in the history of YWOT. He was active since 2011 and had the closest ties with [[Andrew Badr]] out of any known user. In 2021 it was he who convinced Andrew to reopen the Mainpage, after it had been [https://yourworldoftext.wiki/Brazilpocalypse locked down to prevent racism spam]. | ||
InfraRaven has worked on a number of projects throughout his long history on the site. In 2013 he contributed to an in-site [https://yourworldoftext.wiki/YWOT_Wiki_by_Randomguy YWOT Wiki] | InfraRaven has worked on a number of projects throughout his long history on the site. In 2013, for instance, he contributed to an in-site [https://yourworldoftext.wiki/YWOT_Wiki_by_Randomguy YWOT Wiki] and that same year he created the soundtrack for a YWOT snake game named [https://yourworldoftext.wiki/YWOT_Games#Grubber Grubber]. InfraRaven was also known to have fought numerous spammers, including the DeathCloud faction and the infamous Lol("''Hitler''")007, who spammed userpages using scripts stolen from InfraRaven hiimself.<ref>https://github.com/ywothistory/ywothistory.github.io/blob/master/_posts/2012-12-30-modernages.markdown</ref> | ||
InfraRaven, along with other veterans like [[JerryStarField]], [[Dzeni]], [[Sammich]], [[Mr.Guy]], [[Kkb]] and [[Poopman]], made up the "inner circle" of YWOT during the early 2010s. At one point they even created a hidden society named YWOTI(''YWOT Illuminati'') that operated on a private subworld. | InfraRaven, along with other veterans like [[JerryStarField]], [[Dzeni]], [[Anon_guy]], [[Sammich]], [[Mr.Guy]], [[Kkb]] and [[Poopman]], made up the "inner circle" of YWOT during the early 2010s. At one point they even created a hidden society named YWOTI(''YWOT Illuminati'') that operated on a private subworld. | ||
When Andrew Badr shut down the original OWOT in 2015, InfraRaven was given ownership over the "ourworldoftext.com" domain in case he ever wanted to revive the site. A loose effort to [[OWOT Betas|remake OWOT]] ran from 2016 to 2017, though it ultimately ended up failing. But in 2017 he discovered FP's OWOT clone "[[NodeWorldOfText]]" and decided to host it under the OWOT domain. | |||
=== FP === | === FP === | ||
FP came to the site slightly later than most of the other admins, around 2015, but since then he | FP came to the site slightly later than most of the other admins, around 2015, but since then he quickly gained a reputation for archiving the site's Mainpage. At one point Andrew noticed his work enough to link his world on YWOT's Center Console | ||
The base world [https://www.yourworldoftext.com/~fp/ /~fp/] has recorded changes made to YWOT's Center Console ever since 2015; it served a similar role to [[Archive Worlds|OWOT archive pages]] like AndreiXYZ's [https://ourworldoftext.com/center_console_history /center_console_history] and [https://ourworldoftext.com/mch_complete /mch_complete]. The world [https://www.yourworldoftext.com/~fp/photographWorlds /~fp/photographWorlds] was later created to host several large Mainpage snapshots, while a collection of smaller snapshots can be found at [https://www.yourworldoftext.com/~fp/waybackYWOT /~fp/waybackYWOT]. | |||
Though he does not have admin permits, FP is the closest thing YWOT has to an active moderator now that Andrew Badr is dormant. In 2022 he restored YWOT's Mainpage after two [https://yourworldoftext.wiki/Kubex300 large scaled griefs] that destroyed [https://yourworldoftext.wiki/The_Void hundreds of coordinates of text]. When asked, FP reassured that he had a backup of the entire Mainpage from 2020. He also filed a report to Cloudflare after YWOT was [https://yourworldoftext.wiki/Cloudflare_Incident falsely flagged for phishing] at the beginning of 2025. | |||
FP began working on an YWOT clone named NodeWorldOfText in mid-2016. In 2017 the project was noticed by InfraRaven, who offered to host it under the "ourworldoftext.com" domain. The name "NodeWorldOfText" was later given to the open-source version of OWOT. | |||
=== Most of the Admins === | === Most of the Admins === | ||
Along with InfraRaven, users like [[JerryStarField]], [[Dzeni]], [[Anon_guy]], [[Sammich]], [[Mr.Guy]], [[Kkb]] and [[Poopman]] were all active in the early 2010s era of YWOT. Most of them found the site from VSauce. | |||
From 2016 to 2017 a good number of the above users were involved in an attempted remake of OWOT, whose betas can be found [[OWOT Betas|here]]. | |||
Dzeni and Anon_guy were some of the first users to learn of FP's NodeWorldOfText and offered to host it on their server. When NWOT was released as the modern OWOT, they and much of the YWOT "inner circle" joined the new website as admins. Over the years most of them have been inactive, however, prompting much talk of nepotism among the userbase. This culminated in 2024 when [[AndreiXYZ]] led an effort to install Fern as the first new admin on the [[OWOT Discord]]. | |||
=== AndreiXYZ === | === AndreiXYZ === | ||
In addition to being active on the YWOT Discord from 2021 to 2023, Andrei has also taken a good amount of effort to study the history of YWOT, especially as it relates to OWOT. | |||
=== MCL/Catha'vi === | === MCL/Catha'vi === | ||