fohguild.org is down

(This is a blog post, not a recycled forum post)

Well, that was unexpected.

One of the forums I've been frequenting for a decade has come to an end. fohguild.org, home to the "Fires of Heaven" guild, became the leading forum for MMO discussion last decade as FoH was possibly the first "uber guild" - a guild that people followed regularly to see how well they were doing (to give an idea of their influence, some of FoH's members were hired by Blizzard to work on World of Warcraft partially due to their involvement with FoH).

Gaining tons of users and expanding to much more than just MMO discussion, the website's forums became one of those places that just evolve into a community regardless of whatever created them, with forums for movie reviews, politics, other games, and "Screenshots" which itself evolved into an entire sub-community within this larger forum. And then there were other communities that spun off of fohguild, like patchtimer.org which I frequented for a couple of years and is still going strong.

Sadly all of that is gone now. I lurked much more than I posted but foh remained probably the only forum I've consistently gone to for the duration of its existence. It was a fun ride, and it will continue to go on as already some of the community figureheads have created www.rerolled.org, essentially a clone of the foh forums under new management.

Thanks for the good times, fohguild.org!