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Minecraft Forum
Founded	June 16, 2009; 15 years ago
Owner	Redstone Wire Ltd. (2010); Curse (2010-2019); Magic Find (2019-present)
Created by	Citricsquid
URL	https://www.minecraftforum.net/
Registration	Optional
Current status	Active

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The Minecraft Forum is a community-driven forum for Minecraft. It was created on June 16, 2009, by community member Samuel Ryan and has continued to be operated by the community, with Mojang Studios having no involvement in day-to-day operations (although some Mojang Studios employees have accounts on the site). The forums were launched on FluxBB, and upgraded to phpBB in 2010. They also ran on IP.Board from 2011 to 2013,^[1] before finally switching to a forum software called Cobalt, which was developed in-house by Curse.

In September 2010, Redstone Wire Ltd. was formed^[2] to manage the site, and on November 15, 2010, the site was acquired by Curse,^[3]^[4] who owned and operated the site until it was acquired by MagicFind in June 2019.

The forum serves as a hub for the Minecraft community with game modifications, custom maps, servers and resource packs all being shared. Registration to the site is free and anyone with or without a Minecraft account is allowed to use the site. Forum administration is managed by Samuel Ryan and PuyoDead, as well as the forum moderation team is made up of over 100^[5] volunteers.

The site front page includes news, videos, interviews, contests and articles, relating to Minecraft, Mojang Studios and the Minecraft community in general. The front-page news is managed by Sacheverell with videos from the MCSpotlights YouTube Channel and the Curse YouTube channel.

On May 20, 2019, Samuel Ryan announced that the forums would become read-only on June 16, 2019.^[6] However, on June 12, 2019, the archival was cancelled and the site ownership was transferred to a different company.^[7]

Statistics

The following is a collection of statistics relating to the growth of the forum. All dates are in the YYYY-MM-DD format.

Posts per day

Description	Period	Posts per day (average)^{[citation needed]}
First month	2009-06-17 - 2009-07-17	231
Peak day	2011-09-11	44858

Registrations per day

Description	Period	Registrations per day (average)^{[citation needed]}
First month	2009-06-17 - 2009-07-17	20
Peak day	2011-04-01	5020

Milestones

Milestone type	Date	Value	Notes
Total posts	2010-10-25	1,000,000	Post no longer available
Total posts	2011-05-30	5,000,000^[8]	Post no longer available
Total posts	2011-11-06	10,000,000	Posted by 1337snake^[9]
Total members	2010-12-03	100,000	Magni10001^[10]
Total members	2011-12-28	1,000,000	Tuddiggidge^[11] (no longer active)
Total members	2014-02-10	3,000,000	Samuel_Ford^[12]
Total members	2018-06-16	5,000,000

References

External links

[1] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20110530084810/http://www.minecraftforum.net/

[2] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20160407065746/http://rmbls.net/post/16577257153/history-of-minecraftforumnet-and

[3] "Curse - Forum Announcements - Archive - Minecraft Forum - Minecraft Forum".

[4] "URI".

[5] "Minecraft Forum".

[6] "Minecraft Forum".

[7] "Minecraft Forum".

[8] ttp://twitter.com/minecraftforum/status/75115460919689216

[9] "Minecraft Forum".

[10] "Minecraft Forum".

[11] "Minecraft Forum".

[12] "Minecraft Forum".

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Founded	June 16, 2009; 15 years ago (June 16, 2009)
Owner	Redstone Wire Ltd. (2010) Curse (2010-2019) Magic Find (2019-present)
Created by	Citricsquid
URL	https://www.minecraftforum.net/
Registration	Optional
Current status	Active