Old Forum

The Old Forum was a web forum owned by Miniclip SA. It was the company's first, longest-lasting and to date, most successful community platform with over 80,000 registrations and 3.5 million messages submitted over a period of 9 years.

The Old Forum opened in 2003 and slowly built up a loyal userbase in the ensuing years. It became markedly busier with the introduction of Club Penguin in 2006, and later the Players Channel in 2008.

The Old Forum was famed for its drama, which frequently erupted between different sub-communities, cliques and individual members. Since its inception, Minicip had entrusted the management of the Old Forum to a team of volunteer administrator's but eventually took these duties in house after drama, particularly surrounding criticism of the forum staff, escalated.

In September 2012 the forum suffered an alleged malware attack. Miniclip took the forum offline to repair the damage but later reported that they were unable fully repair the damage and could not guarantee the security of members' personal data. The forum was ultimately taken offline in October 2012, with much of the community relocating to the Miniclip Fan Forum and Miniclip promising to create a new forum at some point in the future.

Several theories circulated over who was behind the attack, including disgruntled former members and known hacking communities. Percieved irregularities over Miniclip's handling of the repairing of the forum, which members with programming experience claim should not have been a complicated matter, also led to a compriracy theory that Miniclip itself was responsible; orchestrating a fake attack as an excuse to wash their hands of a community that has proven more trouble than it was worth. To date, no party has been proven guilty.

In April 2015, a replacement forum was opened in the form of the Official 8 Ball Pool Forum.

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