I must say!

You guys have a big large community based on the one and only RS game. Wow that is pretty nice. Its hard to find a big community based on one topic.

Congratz on your hard work.

One question: when did Sythe start?

 

The earliest join date I've seen is 2005 but I am sure the sythe.org was around before then.

 

There was a site before it too, RuneCMS.

 

Sythes joindate is 4/21/2005. I'm guessing that's when it "started". Before that he used the site to sell/release his auto programs.

 

Im guessing Sythe was created 04-21-2005

Seeing how that is when sythe joined and created the site =p

 

The sites not only based on Runescape, explore some of the other sections and you'll see how great the community actually is!

 

Sythe.org has been around since 2003.

 

April 13th 2003, actually.

Time for a history lesson:
-Site was founded & domain registered in April of 2003
-During that time, the site was host to a very poorly-made personal site of Richard's, which contained some animated graphics, music, software, etc.
-By August 24th 2003, the site had changed completely; it was now host to a PHPBB forum site, with very few sections and an extremely low userbase. The forums kept growing for a few months, until it shut down because of a handful of members causing problems, mainly "MG" and "CO". The forums were still around, but things weren't looking too good for the site at that point.
-From May to June 2004, the "portal" site underwent several notable changes, mainly in design and features. Sythe began developing a few color-clicking bots for Runescape - This is when people started to notice the site a lot more than before. The forums had been removed, but things were steady for the next year or so.
-In April 2005, the forums came back up due to popular demand, and they were popular as hell and growing fast. PHPBB was still being used at the time. Some of you might remember the following banner exactly, or for it's altered version that was used back in 2007:

-In August of 2005, a new skin was made, using the altered version of the banner above (sorry don't have a copy, but it was like that but with blue tones) and so the site began using the new dark-blueish theme, still using PHPBB.
-By July of 2006, the site underwent it's biggest change so far, which was a complete conversion and import of databases to vB, which is what we see today.
-In January 2007, the dreaded "Stan" incident occured, where the forums were hacked and everything was erased. Old threads were archived, a 6-month old backup was uploaded and many users were erased (including myself D. That wasn't a problem at all for the site, though, it got all of it's content (if not more) back in no time at all.
-By late 2007, a new system was put in place to not allow ban evaders to visit the site anymore. There was a kind of anti-proxy portal that would redirect you to the site. On another note, a new banner was created; the site really hasn't changed at all since then, besides a few new sections and a fuck-tonne of more users and content.

 

You sure know your history, Thanks for the lesson Blupig