For all those people who are TYWC'ers here (or former ones at least), does anybody know what happened to TYWC? I keep on getting a "403 Forbidden." I guess David finally pulled the plug...
To explain it to everyone else; TYWC used to be huge. It was a writing club, and it's the influence for this site. There was a large tight-knit community, and the quality of writing was excellent. TYWC also had its own webzine (two of them if you include TYWC Tips), several features such as "Word of the Week" and unique games, and its chatwall used to be a great place for discussion.
Recently, though, it's been going downhill. I'm partly responsible for this since I was the editor of TYWC Tips, and a poster for stories and poems (everything had to be screened before being posted), but I stopped working on that stuff about a year ago.
Lately, the quality of the members has been terrible when compared to years past. There were still some excellent ones (Matt Bellamy and CarsAndGuitars were two of them), but the majority of members treated the chatwall as their personal playground. About a week ago, a bunch of members decided to had enough and left; thereby leaving TYWC to the ravages of annoying newbs (annoying is too soft of a word here). To compound the troubles, the stories/poems page had not been updated for over a month (meaning that no stories and poems had been posted by a poster).
Anyhow, I guess David finally got rid of TYWC. I'm not exactly surprised, but it is kind of depressing. There were a lot of great people there I used to know.
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