This is some amazing historical negationism going on here. I was a part of those Discords shortly after everything went down.
So here's what I saw happen. There was some uproar back on this site for reasons that I'm sure most of us are all well aware of by now. I saw a bunch of threads and posts that were nothing more but account suicide posts. People were getting banned left and right in a total scorched earth policy. I didn't do that because, well, why the hell would I?
From those posts, I kept seeing people linking to or mentioning a Discord. I joined it and yeah, there was nothing set up for quite some time. There wasn't even a name for the site yet. As of October 22, 2017 (I'm literally reading old posts in the Discord right now), Cerium said:
The @reseteraforum Twitter was set up on October 23.
This was posted by SweetNicole on October 23, 2017:
Presumably, this is about when the bulk of Gaf account suicides happened:
Then on October 24th, they stated that they have "gathered and rallied" the various Communities. These communities and select members of each of them were allowed to join the site before anybody else did.
This aged well and though it has nothing to do with this specific topic, I felt like sharing it:
More from the 24th: They tried to start their staggered launch:
But unfortunately, some "complications arose" and they had to delay the first registrations on the 25th. Later on in the same day, those issues seemed to be fixed and they began their "staggered launch" with "invitations in waves."
Normal registrations did not open until October 27, 2017.
So whatever is being said about how Era was all ready to go and links were being posted to it during the exodus from Gaf is just pure bullshit. The exodus began before the site even existed. Edit: I should clarify that links to the
Discord were very much going around before links to the site ever existed. But to say the site itself was all already planned and set up is just wrong.