History of Last To Post Wins Season 3

Note: currently an extremely simplified version, might add more info later.

## Creation of this thread (March 24-June 13, 2020)

unloyql has created Last To Posts Wins [Season 3] after epicercaner won Last To Posts Wins [Season 2]. In this period of time, it was mainly replied by epicercaner and MrEevee7, amassing about 600 replies by June 13, 2020

## Forum shadow update (June 13, 2020 - Mid July of 2020)

The forum shadow update on June 13, 2020 disabled gaining posts from the forum game section, this was the slowest speed it has ever gone, as MrEevee7 had left forum game to gain posts on other section of the forums.

## The Council, and speed of gaining replies (Mid July of 2020 - October 2020)

In Mid July, Ewianking has decided to group some people to form The Council. Each member in the council posted upwards of 100 posts/day, greatly increasing the speed of posts gain from about 2-10 a day to over 1000 posts a day. The highest post/day record of this thread at that time is over 1600 posts a day. You can see the statistics by clicking on the word.

## The Cursed Text (September 2020 - December 2020)

Read more about the cursed text by clicking on the link, it helped the thread to gain a lot more replies than usual. However, moderators of the hypixel forums has started cracking down on these and it has been happening less.

## Most replied Thread (Oct 23, 2020)

On the 23rd October, 2020, Last To Posts Wins becomes the most replied thread on all of the hypixel forums, passing Counting - Staff Edition, with over 66,000 replies.

## The Unstoppable Replies Speed (November 2020 - 24 December 2020)

After the thread has become the most replied thread. It hasn't slowed down the speed of it gaining replies at all. It continuously gains over 1,000 replies every day with many people on the thread at all time.

#### 100,000 replies (Nov 16, 2020)

On 16th November, 2020. The thread becomes the first ever thread on hypixel to surpass 100,000 replies with a single day increase of around 2000 replies.

#### The new record (Dec 8, 2020)

On 8th December, 2020. The thread gains 2476 replies in a 24 hour period. Thus making it the new record for most replies in a day. Topping when the thread reaches 100,000 replies by about 500.

#### 150,000 replies (Dec 22, 2020)

On 22nd December, 2020. The thread becomes the first thread to ever pass 150,000 replies. Thus completing the objective for 150,000 replies before Christmas by 3 days. Also worth noting is that it only took 35 days from the previous 50,000 replies, thus the average for these 35 days are 1428 replies/day

## Forum Update + Still growing strong (24 December 2020 - 26 April, 2021)

It is worth mentioning that the thread's players are generous in giving reactions to other players in the thread. However, after the forum update on December 24, 2020, it implemented the cap of 150 positive ratings in 24 hours and only 50 positive ratings given to 1 person in 24 hours. The speed of replies went from an average of 1000-2000 per day to about 700-1500 per day. The decreased amount of ratings given might be the cause of the slowing down, but it can also be due to the little to no influx of new players becoming active players.

#### 200,000 replies (10,000 pages) (Feb 3/4, 2021)

On February 3rd (or 4th depending on which timezone you're on) The thread passes 200,000 replies regardless of the slowing down, it took 43 days for the last 50k replies (an average of 1160 replies/day)

#### 250,000 replies (Mar 25, 2021)

On March 25, the thread passes 250k replies. It took 51 days for these 50k posts, averaging 980 replies/day.

## End of the Thread (26 April, 2021)

On 26th April, 2021. Teddy replied to the thread and locked the thread, his full post reads as follows.

"Heya!

Unfortunately, I am going to be closing this thread down. In the last 4 months, a majority of the times our website has gone down is due to the extreme length of this thread. It is something we have been looking to work around, however at this point our best and only option is to lock it and have the thread get recreated. I know this may be disappointing to some, but on the bright side yall are able to say that you are so talkative that you overwhelmed and crashed the forums!

Hopefully you are able to understand this decision, as it is for the best of the website going forward."

At the end, as WiredHamster is the last to post before Teddy posted. So he is deemed as the winner of season 3. However, this is a controversial opinion. Teddy has also confirmed that the thread will not be unlocked. The total amount of replies the thread received is 284,126. Since then, season 4 has started and it seems to be the continuation of Season 3.

## Deletion of the thread (3rd July, 2021 - 5th July, 2021)

After 3 months of locking the thread, teddy posted another update on the ltps3 thread

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It caused quite a bit of outrage from both the forum games community and some of the off topic community. On 5pm Eastern Time of 5th July, the thread is officially removed, and it did crash the forums for a couple minutes. LTPS3 Archive can be found by clicking the link