Tibiaug.com [What happened]

[HonkaPonka]

@DarkstaR

That was a wise decision and Xenobot was a great success I also used Tugbot back in the day which was an awesome bot by the way.

You changed tibia for life

[XtrmJosh]

XenoBot was originally called TUGBot++. After talking with Zyphrus, I was convinced that staying at TUG for my business was a bad idea (who encapsulates a paid product into another persons forum and on that persons host?). Hux did good by me for hosting TUGBot's forums and website, but I needed full control. I bought my own VBulletin and re-named the bot to XenoBot (Spectrus, Messed, Luls, and Zyphrus were big parts of this decision, hence their forum roles). A few months after my forums started getting users, Hux confronted me and wanted to integrate (this was after I had some lifetimes and the forum-based verification was added). I told him I needed full database, ftp, and forum access or it would not even be considered. He said that it was definitely okay by him that I be granted that power. I also told him I have multiple VBulletin plugins (at that time around 5, now around 25) which integrate the bot with the forums - he said all of that would be allowed too. After some consideration, I told him thanks but no thanks and we parted paths. Shortly before this he also offered to buy TUGBot's source for $500, I wanted $3000. I ended up open-sourcing it around the time Xeno was released.

After digging through chatlogs (I save everything, bro), I found this from April 9, 2011:

It goes on like this for a while, we part ways, and then a few days later I let him know that I'd rather stay separate.

Chat logs not necessary, but interesting to know. I remember the talk of TUG++, and I agree this was most certainly some strong impact in his decision to close TUG...

I can only assume it's comments like this:

(5:36 PM) Hux: You're not the kid you were 3 years ago

That put you off working with Hux? Used to do my head in with all that shit.

[Luls]

Before everyone started quitting, TUG was a lot more than just the bot community.
Pretty much after @Luls started tibiacasting free bot 100%afk, it filled with brs and the community died lol.

Yeah, blame it all on me

[xodetdead]

Yeah, blame it all on me

God bless Emma Watson fk she's beautiful.

[Fuzzy212]

yeah tug was a great place i miss is altho ive seen most of yall around the only people that might remotely remember me is dpk and messed

[Wobbz]

The database got corrupted... That was the reason he shut it down. The reason he didn't reopen it was because the lack of activity.

[SamDaMan]

Suddenly, I miss Archibald.