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2. Club Web Site

The Club Web Site[1] launched in February 2004, at the suggestion of Niki Moto to Pegasus just after the initiation of Ryou into the club. The idea was to make information exchange between club members easier by putting the Internet to greater use.

The original site was hosted by DomainDLX and administered by Pegasus. It was located at http://ee.domaindlx.com/yugiohduelistclub. It had a black background and predominantly red text. From the beginning, the site was password protected and used ASP. The menu contained Members Info, Club Promos, Tournament Rulings, Newsletters, the Constitution, Ni-Ki-Oh! News, Character Bios, and an Episode List, and a Forum. The password-protection and forum programs used for the site were both made by Web Wiz.

On February 16, 2004, Niki Moto announced the launching of the web site in the Club News section of the Club Newsletter: "We, the government, are always searching for new ways to transmit information between club members, and we have found yet another: a club website."

The site did not function perfectly. It was common for it to exceed its bandwidth and to go down on Thursdays. On March 4, 2004, the site was not responding. "Expected to be one of the routine Thursday failures, it was not taken seriously," wrote Pegasus.

"One week later, the site administrator Pegasus finally decided to ask the web host what the problem was when he discovered that the entire web directory structure had been erased," according to the News item when the site was relaunched on March 17, when Pegasus, having been ignored by the web host, decided to simply upload all the pages back onto the site and advised all the users to be more responsible.

The Presidents and Such Page was added to the site when President Loser asked Niki Moto and Pegasus what number he was on the list of presidents. Other pages added during the site's youth include Niki Moto's Promo of the Week on March 22, the reader-friendly version of the Constitution on April 23, and the Meetings page in early July.

For a few months, the site's forum had a high amount of activity. The main site's most common update was the addition of each new newsletter. However, with Pegasus's six-week absence and the social breakdown, the site stagnated. Even Pegasus neglected updating new issues of the newsletter for long periods of time, though he considered the web site a part of his college application.

When the name of the club was changed to Free United Club of Kids in December 2004, it initially did not replace the titles on any of the site's pages due to censorship by Pegasus supposedly for the potential audience of college admissions people. Niki Moto, however, did change the "YDC" abbreviation to "Club" on pages regularly updated by him.

In late May 2005, at about the same time Cracked Egg Studios launched its own web site (with the same host), Niki Moto, seeing the stagnation of the site due to neglect by Pegasus, requested to be given administrative power over the club web site. Pegasus granted his request. Niki Moto used his new power to correct the club name on pages, update more thoroughly, and add more pages, including Meeting Attendance, The Initiation Process, Masters of Duels, and Study Guide. Niki Moto also used early summer 2005 to start making the cells in the pages with charts actually links to detailed pages.

Around this time, however, the site had an error when checking a user's password during login attempts. Niki Moto, unable to find a solution, rewrote it so that anyone who tried to log in would automatically be admitted just for pressing "OK," and the software would not check the password.

However, even with all the updates to the site, forum activity had fallen to almost zero. The club was in the coma stage, and web site updates could not correct it. Niki Moto realized that his updates were meaningless if no one came to the web site, so he adopted the policy of only updating the web site when there has been forum activity.

On January 19, 2006, the Cracked Egg Studios web site moved to its new server and gained its own domain name. In addition, it offered the service of hosting web sites; thus the club web site became hosted pro bono by Cracked Egg Studios on January 26, 2006, as it is currently. The address of the official web site became http://hosting.crackedeggstudios.com/m/fuck. Although it moved to a new server, it did not receive any updates besides a news item; therefore, it looked almost exactly the same as the old site.

The site received updates whenever there was forum activity (which was rare), as was Niki Moto's policy.

Although forum activity did not increase again, Niki Moto still had plans to enhance the web site with a wiki encyclopedia called FUCKipedia, which was launched on November 22 and built using MediaWiki. FUCKipedia, however, did not resemble the rest of the web site (it looked more like Wikipedia, since it used MediaWiki), and it required user names and passwords separate from those of the main web site.

Cracked Egg Studios also developed its own wiki, called Crackipedia or The Vault, which became integrated into the Cracked Egg Studios website. In early January 2007, Pegasus offered to give the Free United Club of Kids web site its own domain name, http://www.freeunitedclubofkids.com, and to switch FUCKipedia to the same software, vbWiki Pro, that CES was using for its own wiki.

The site's welcome page and main menu were rewritten using PHP, though most of the other information pages were unavailable because, previously ASP, they needed to be rewritten for the new format. As FUCKipedia articles were slowly added, menu items often became links to those articles. The web site still used a black and red color scheme, but the menu was more aesthetically pleasing.

FUCKipedia also switched to VaultWiki as it was developed during 2007.

In summer 2009, the CES Staff reorganized the CES web site and designated a new section, The Crate, to hold old websites that were affiliated with CES throughout its history. The Free United Club of Kids forum, still functional, is in currently The Crate and also contains FUCKipedia as a subforum. It now uses the same color scheme as the rest of the CES web site. The domain name http://www.freeunitedclubofkids.com now redirects to the Free United Club of Kids forum in The Crate.

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