Touhou Edge of Perspective:Notable History

Introduction
Hi, my name is Sean, or better known by my screen name, Makarov Kageki. I am the founder and an administrator for Edge of Perspective. Now, this community has gone through a lot of stages before it has come to this mark, and this page is a place to record them (or at least what we can remember).

So please, read up and enjoy~

#TouhouYTRP: Registered: Jun 15 09:20:47 2012 MDT
The first channel that I had created, #TouhouYTRP@irc.Rizon.net was originally meant to be a place where we could talk out of character outside of youtube. This was essentially the first OOC channel that would later become the first hub for the community. With it's creation came a few others: HakureiShrine, MoriyaShrine, Makarovs_House, and a R18 channel.

Aya to the rescue!
Despite my proposing the idea in the RP OOC, no one seemed to care much for the IRC. However, people still seeked an alternative to YT seeing as how the spam filter was being all kinds of annoying. Who did I go to for help? Why none other than Aya, who created this advertisement video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6d-xXivbm_A&feature=plcp

This was what I consider the official start for what would later become Touhou Edge of Perspective. I had spent nearly a week trying to get everything together when people started joining.

At this point we were still connected with YT instead of our own community. However, we were rather disorganized because I hardly knew anything about managing IRC. This would change once a certain member of the community came on the scene...

Sima Tiandao for admin!
About a month after the start of the community, I was already being swamped with responsibilities and drama. It was unbearable, and I'm pretty sure a few members were going to split off away from me and make their own community. However, a rather respected member of our community (one who has even been allowed to break a few rules, somehow), Sima Tiandao, came to help with coding as well as dealing with some... problems. It was good with IRC and being an admin, so I decided to make it admin, and later make it a co-owner.

Sima has done a lot for this community since then, despite the occasional bits of rage it has. To be quite honest, I could think of no better admin than it, not even myself. It pretty much did the grunt work for bringing this community where it is today, and for that I thank you, Sima.

It was only a matter of time before another member of our community would come in offering us advertising. Though we did not know if we liked the sound of this at first, he then gave us an offer that would forever change how this community was managed.

Start of TouhouYTRP.net
Hiya, I am Nazeo Aelko Nezen, but commonly go as Nazeo. I am that advertising guy Makarov is referring to! I was going through Youtube one day for my Fanon page of Touhou Wiki.net when I discovered the video which described a roleplaying community. I was very excited at such an idea and went to their channel, then called #Touhou_YTRP. I told them I put their video on my site and left, as I was nervous. I came back a couple of hours later and was not well received since I did not ask for permission to advertise for them.

As I turned to leave, thinking this was a bad idea, they invited me to stay awhile and so I did. I was fascinated by the close-knit group as my past experience with other Touhou communities was... less than satisfactory. I watched them for several days, and I loved how things were run. I asked what their goals were and they said it was to have fun. Then asked if they wanted a hub to better orchestrate their activities and eventually, the idea for the wiki was conceived! The only thing I asked was that the wiki to be used and they have more than enough kept their bargain!

And so, on 15 July 2012‎ 04:51 -6:00 the Wiki was born.

Beyond the Border
Why, hello, hello, I am the aforementioned Sima Tiandao, also known as 54x69x61x6ex64x61x6f. My entry into this community was something of a strange one, as I originally only intended to inform these fine folks on proper troll-handling technique. I joined the IRC to be mysterious and circumspect, hoping for a few days' worth of amusement before moving on. However, I guess I came to enjoy the company. I was first made admin for... alledgedly being "awesome" - that was the word that was used, but personally not the one I would use to describe myself. Regardless, I tried to fix troubles where they came up, for the most part, but in reality I rarely actually did anything. Mostly, I pointed out what I saw as a fault or problem, and although I would suggest solutions, I mostly just enabled people to implement their own.

One such problem, that I noticed after a few months, was the growing disconnect between the IRC and Youtube roleplays. The chief issue was that not everyone from youtube was willing to join the IRC, leading to some characters being held by different people, which obviously presented an issue in terms of plot and character development. It was clear that, if this community was going to continue moving forward, then this problem would have to be addressed before anything else could be done.

Hence, I suggested the split from the youtube community, as it would be simple enough to implement, and fully solve the problem at hand. While we would become independant, people could continue to play the same (or even different) characters on youtube, as they had always done.

People seemed to like the idea, so it was discussed for a while, before being finally implemented on the second of september, 2012, with the move of the OOC channel from #TouhouYTRP to #Beyond_The_Border. This was accompanied by a general change of name, which was soon reflected on the wiki as well.

Edge of Perspective
((Sean))After a bit of looking around, someone had made us aware that the name Beyond the Border was taken by a forum. It was annoying that such a good name was already taken, but we just decided to change the name. After a lot of brainstorming, we decided to use Edge of Perspective.