Minecraft Forum

The Minecraft Forum is a community-driven forum for Minecraft. It was created on June 16, 2009 by community member citricsquid 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 2011-2013, https://web.archive.org/web/20110530084810/http://www.minecraftforum.net/ before finally switching to a forum software called Cobalt, which was developed in-house by Curse.
In September 2010, Redstone Wire Ltd. was formedhttps://web.archive.org/web/20160407065746/http://rmbls.net/post/16577257153/history-of-minecraftforumnet-and to manage the site, and on November 15, 2010, the site was acquired by Curse,http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/archive/forum-announcements/796489-cursehttp://data.companieshouse.gov.uk/doc/company/07393581 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 citricsquid and PuyoDead, as well as the forum moderation team is made up of over 100https://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/674656-staff-list/ 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, citricsquid announced that the forums will become read-only on June 16, 2019.https://www.minecraftforum.net/news/60727-important-minecraft-forum-archive-announcement However, on June 12, 2019, the archival was cancelled and the site ownership was transferred to a different company.https://www.minecraftforum.net/news/60728-a-new-and-exciting-beginning
== 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)
First month	2009-06-17 - 2009-07-17	231
Peak day 	2011-09-11 	44858
=== Registrations per day ===
Description	Period 	Registrations per day (average)
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	5,000,000http://twitter.com/minecraftforum/status/75115460919689216	Post no longer available
Total posts 	2011-11-06	10,000,000 	Posted by 1337snakehttp://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/766548-the-legend-of-zeldaskyward-sword/page__p__10000000#entry10000000
Total members 	2010-12-03	100,000 	Magni10001http://www.minecraftforum.net/user/100000-/
Total members 	2011-12-28	1,000,000 	Tuddiggidgehttp://www.minecraftforum.net/user/1000000-/ (no longer active)
Total members 	2014-02-10	3,000,000 	Samuel_Fordhttp://www.minecraftforum.net/user/3000000-/
Total members 	2018-06-16	5,000,000 	
== Gallery ==
Minecraft forums logo.png|Logo for the Minecraft Forums
== References ==
== External links ==
* Minecraft Forum
* Minecraft Forum on Twitter (@minecraftforum)
* Minecraft Forum on Facebook
* Minecraft Forums discord
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