To pav!

[MITZE]

Many many thanks to pav, for creating oook and the many many years of hosting and admin-ing.

Someone get pav back here, he needs to know he was appreciated!

[Bostock]

Mnoho ¹tìstí a úspìchù do dal¹ího ¾ivota a spoustu vydaøených fotek pøeji!

[Gwarl]

So long and thanks for all the posts.

[Ingwe Ingweron]

Yes, many thanks to Pav. The forum allowed Angband to survive and thrive, together with its many variants, in no small measure because of Pav's efforts behind the scenes.

[Sideways]

Many thanks to Pav for the many years of oook!

I first came to oook as an immature, savescumming and not particularly competent youth some twenty years ago (ow - I feel old now ); and through all those years, as I changed and *bands changed and the world changed around us, Pav was always a competent and steady hand on the tiller, keeping the site and the community going; and we could rely on any problems with uploading dumps to the ladder to be resolved promptly, even when completely new variants were involved.

Few if any people have contributed as much to the *band community as Pav has; and while I understand his desire to move on, I will miss him.

[Nick]

I have way too many things to post here, so I think I'll just start a list of ways Pav was awesome and come back and edit it when I think of something new.

• Giving me free hosting for FAangband when it was a new variant in 2005
• The news section
• Setting up a new competition page with a ladder when the old competition page died
• The ladder
• Screenshots
• Hosting the Angband comic when it was homeless
• The forums! (I can't believe it needed pav's post to point that out...)
• Answering all my emails promptly and patiently

[Arjen]

Havent been active the last couple of years, but i still check this site a lot. Thanks for giving me a place to read and post about my favorite game(+variants) for many many years!

[pav]

Thanks a lot for all the kind words.

I feel guilty for really neglecting this website for last couple of years. It makes me happy that the community around this game is still very much alive and vibrant, and that I was able to contribute a bit to it.

rec.games.roguelike.angband web gateway, where I got lucky to be employed by an ISP that carried that group on his usenet server. Or had an useful usenet server at all.

The Ladder came up in January 2002

Forums came in 2007

Hosting Ey, FA, ToME, and other variants over the years

[Pete Mack]

Thanks Pav!
I held out at the newsgroup for a long time, but it was hopelessly spammy towards the end. Thanks for hosting an excellent site, with an unusually good color scheme.