What happened during April 2013?

[Spacetraindriver]

I just saw it in the upgrading to new forums thread, I've seen many sigs mentioning it, what happened? Also what other major forum stuff happened?

[Frozen_Heart]

Never forget...

[gmpd2000]

Ahhh, the great forum purge, also called "Great Derp" or "Great derp of 2013" or simply "The forum purge".

Basically the forum deleted all content created between October 2012 and April 2013, including accounts, that's why you see many people with a April 2013 forum join date.

It was horrible, we were without forums for a few days, many lost tens, hundreds and some even thousands of posts, same for the rep (I lost it all).

One of the worst forum catastrophes to date. Edited November 26, 2015 by gmpd2000

[Spacetraindriver]

Oh... Ok...

[MaverickSawyer]

Indeed. There was a great disturbance in the Forums, as if thousands of posts cried out in horror, and then were suddenly silenced.