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    It was Created on June 16</h1>
    <html><body><p><p><br/> Redstone Wire Ltd. (2010) Curse, 2010-2019 Magic Find (2019-present).<br/></p><br/><p><br/> Citricsquid<br/></p><br/><p><br/> https://www.minecraftforum.net/<br/></p><br/><p><br/> Optional<br/></p><br/><p><br/> June 16, 2009 13 years ago (June 16, 2009)<br/></p><br/><p><br/> FluxBB (2009-2010) phpBB (2010-2011) Cobalt (2011-present)<br/></p><br/><p><br/> Active<br/></p><br/><p><br/> The <b>Minecraft Forum</b> is a community-driven forum for <i>Minecraft</i>. It was established on June 16, 2009 by community member citricsquid and has continued to be managed by the community and with Mojang Studios having no involvement in the day-to-day operations (although certain Mojang Studios employees have accounts on the site).<br/></p><br/><p><br/> In September 2010, Redstone Wire Ltd. was formed[1] to manage the site, and on November 15, 2010 the site was purchased by Curse. Curse was the owner and operator of the site until it was purchased by MagicFind in June 2019. The forum software used is called Cobalt and was developed in-house by Curse.<br/></p><br/><p><br/> The forum functions as a hub for the <i>Minecraft</i> community, offering games, maps that are custom servers, resource packs and servers all being shared.  <a href="https://1so.in/">More</a> Registration to the site is free and anyone who has or without an <i>Minecraft</i> account is able to access the site. Forum administration is handled by PuyoDead and citricsquid. The moderating team is made up over 100 volunteers.<br/></p><br/><p><br/> The homepage of the site includes news, videos, interviews, contests and articlesthat are related to <i>Minecraft</i>, Mojang Studios and the <i>Minecraft</i> community in general. The front page news is run by Sacheverell with videos from the MCSpotlights YouTube Channel and the Curse YouTube channel.<br/></p><br/><p><br/> On May 20, 2019, citricsquid announced that the forums would be read-only on June 16 2019. [5] However, on June 12 2019, the archival was cancelled and the site ownership was transferred to a different company. [6]<br/></p><br/><p><br/> <h2><br/>  Contents<br/> </h2><br/> 1 Statistics 1.1 Posts per day 1.2 Registrations per day 1.3 Milestones<br/></p><br/><p><br/> <h2><br/>  Statistics[]<br/> </h2><br/> The following is a compilation of statistics relating to the development of the forum. All dates are in the YYYY-MM-DD format.<br/></p><br/><p><br/> <h3><br/>  Posts per day[]<br/> </h3> <h3><br/>  Registrations per day[]<br/> </h3><br/> <i><br/> </i><br/> <h3><br/>  Milestones[]<br/> </h3><br/> <h2><br/>  Gallery[]<br/> </h2><br/></p><br/><p><br/> Logo for the Minecraft Forums<br/></p><br/><p><br/> <h2><br/>  References[]<br/> </h2><br/> | https://web.archive.org/web/20160407065746/http://rmbls.net/post/16577257153/history-of-minecraftforumnet-and | http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/archive/forum-announcements/796489-curse | http://data.companieshouse.gov.uk/doc/company/07393581 | https://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/674656-staff-list/ | https://www.minecraftforum.net/news/60727-important-minecraft-forum-archive-announcement | https://www.minecraftforum.net/news/60728-a-new-and-exciting-beginning | http://twitter.com/minecraftforum/status/75115460919689216 | http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/766548-the-legend-of-zeldaskyward-sword/page__p__10000000#entry10000000 | http://www.minecraftforum.net/user/100000-/ | http://www.minecraftforum.net/user/1000000-/ | http://www.minecraftforum.net/user/3000000-/<br/> <h2><br/>  External links<br/> </h2><br/></p></p></body></html>
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