Malkist

== Overview ==
Malkist is a programmer and moderator on PixelLand. He first saw the website in early-mid 2021, then officially joined the discord on October 10th, 2021. He then left the Discord and took a break from PixelLand from November 2021 - April 2022, and has stayed relatively active ever since. He was the most active moderator in the PixelLand community at one point, and even added some features to the chat that were actually implemented into the game.
==History==
Malkist, first saw the website on justforfun.io, a website to showcase cool websites. This was in around early-mid 2021. He officially became a community member on October 10th, 2021, by joining the Discord server. He made his first notable piece of art: a cookie at the end of Highway 36 to reward people for reaching the end of the map. During this period, Malkist was never really as active as he usually is now, just making a bit of art, maybe sending just 10-30 messages per day. He eventually went into a period of inactivity during a holiday he had, and found his way back into the community on April 3rd, 2022.
He then made one of the most influential and recognizable art, the Amongi, meant to be a joke to voids, ended up being one of the most notable art he made in his time on the website, and could possibly be the most replicated art on PixelLand. He was given moderator on the Discord somewhere in mid April. After the Amongi, he made code to scan the PixelLand map, then created some more smaller art projects.
===Post-Will's Return ===
After will_the_robot's return, he suggested many features for the website, such as the "i" hotkey for the color picker. He also discovered many bugs in the newly added voxel dimension, that allow users to no-clip and suddenly step on blocks inside corners. After will's return, he got more active on PixelLand.
=== PixelLand-Related Programming Projects ===
Starting in February of 2023, Malkist would make multiple PixelLand related websites as a way to practice his coding skills as well as giving back to the community that had helped him through his tough times. The first of which was PixelColors, where users would be able to claim their favorite colors to use under their own name. The website was very successful upon release and had to be shut down temporarily due to spamming and other minor issues and bugs. However, the website would survive.
Afterwards, he made PixelBot, a PixelLand map downloader written in Python that used discord.py to post a full map download to the discord every 12 hours. However due to hosting issues and an update to how images were stored on PixelLand, Malkist had to deprecate the bot.
===== PixelLand Art =====
Main page: PixelLand Art (website)
PixelLand Art is a site where users could post their own personal canvases to be showcased to other users. Malkist included an account system and a profile system, as well as a voting system where art could be upvoted and downvoted, which would contribute to that artist's overall "PixelScore", similar to Reddit's karma.
==== PixelLand Forums ====
PixelLand Forums (also referred to as forums.land due to its URL) is a forum-like website made by Malkist for easier communication and organizing within the PixelLand community. People can make their own accounts, create posts, and interact with them by liking/disliking and commenting. However as of September 9, 2023, the website is mostly dead and posts get created at most every few days. 
== Contributions to PixelLand Chat ==
On August 30, 2023, PixelLand's chat was made open-source by Will, the creator of PixelLand. Shortly afterwards, Malkist made his first contribution to the PixelLand chat GitHub — a seperator line between the world description and the channels list, as well as Markdown formatting support for world descriptions. Will published this update on August 31, and he also added the feature to user bios.
=== Major Changes ===
Malkist started working on Discord-style replies for PixelLand, which he started to create on November 21, 2023, and finished creating it on November 23, 2023. Although the new code originally made it so that only recent replies would be loaded, Will added support for replies further back in time, as well as doing other minor UI tweaks and fixes.
Malkist also created the ability for moderators to provide reasons for banning users on December 2, 2023, and it was added to PixelLand on December 4, 2023.
As of December 9, 2023, all features added by contributors on GitHub were added by Malkist.
==Community==
Malkist has sent over 10,000 messages in the PixelLand Discord server. He is one of the most active members of the community, and regularly moderates and talks with community members. Although not a big artist, he regularly checks up on the game and codes some features on holidays. However, ever since he moved to a school in the United States, he could not program and use PixelLand due to technology restrictions enforced by the school. 
=== Depression===
Malkist has said that the PixelLand community has helped him not go insane and get past his depression.
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