Editing Site history

A timeline of [[2swagg]], from the site's own changelog, [[Blotter|blotter]], the accumulated backup files, and question-and-answer sessions given for this wiki by [[MANVS]] and [[SomeBois]] (SomeBois's are heavily joking and partly made up, so treat specifics as approximate).

== Pre-launch ==
The first attempt ran on the leaked original 4chan engine (Yotsuba), which the team found bad and hard to set up. They switched to an engine by [[Yushe]] that [[SomeBois]] calls the "3chan engine", a large improvement, handed over with little discussion. It is what the site still runs. [[MANVS]] was the developer and did the security work.

The timeline, per [[SomeBois]]: the team spent close to 100 days trying and failing to get Yotsuba working, then SomeBois asked [[Yushe]] for his engine; Yushe polished it for a few weeks before sending it, and the site was live about a month after that. That accounts for both figures the wiki had: ~150 days for the whole project (SomeBois), and ~1 month of real building on the working engine ([[MANVS]]).

== Founding date ==
[[SomeBois]] has settled it: '''13 August 2026'''. The 10th was the planned launch day, but SomeBois slept through it; the 12th retry ran past midnight into the 13th, which is when the first posts landed. SomeBois has said the FAQ and any other page still showing 8/10 will be changed to the 13th.

For reference, the values that appear across the site:
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Where !! Date !! Status
|-
| FAQ, and the earliest homepage copy || 8/10/2026 || the original plan; stale leftover
|-
| "WELCOME TO 2SWAGG!!!" changelog post || 8/12/2026 || the second attempt
|-
| Homepage / rules footer, current || 8/13/2026 || '''the actual date'''
|}

== Original positioning ==
At launch the site described itself as "the premier imageboard for humor, original content, and raiding discussions," with the tagline "Humor so advanced that no one man can truly understand it." By mid-August this had been softened to the current "off-color, absurd-humor, spamming and raiding website."

== Announcement timeline ==
From the public changelog, oldest first. All authored by [[SomeBois]].
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Date !! Post / event
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| 08-12-26 || "WELCOME TO 2SWAGG!!!" Launch and testing post. Thanks [[Yushe]], [[MANVS]], and [[Princess]] for the engine.
|-
| 08-13-26, 4:16 AM || "A GIFT FROM 2SWAGG TO JAPAN". Posted with art by [[Slashstabslice]] of [[Swaggtan]] (in a kimono, holding a Japanese flag) and [[SomeBois]] (as a red cat in a Japan headband). See [[:File:Gift From 2swagg To Japan.png]].
|-
| 08-14-26, 12:22 AM || "WHAT A FRUITFUL FIRST DAY! THANK YOU ALL WHO CAME AND POSTED ON 2SWAGG!!!"
|-
| 08-14-26, 9:51 PM || "do i even need to say it?"
|-
| 08-15-26 || SomeBois on ads that looked official: "that wasnt me or my mod team, just an overzealous group of users. (dont make me... ;_;)"
|-
| 08-16-26 || "A post for every day of the year!"
|-
| 08-19-26 || Forced-anonymous posting turned on for [[/raid/]]. Also a short post, "whatnow day?"
|-
| 08-21-26 || Changelog post announcing the [[textboards]] [[/td/]], [[/tech/]], [[/ani/]]: "I added new textboards! ... this is my world2swagg"
|-
| 08-22-26 || Changelog post: "New boards! [[/mlp/]], [[/wp/]]"
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| ~08-25-26 || The backup files show the board list actually being restructured into "Imageboards" and "Textboards" around this date, launching /td/ /tech/ /ani/ plus /mlp/, [[/r/]] and /wp/, and adding the "Latest World2swagg Posts" homepage widget. This is a few days after the changelog posts above; the exact relationship between the announcements and the deploy is unclear.
|}

== Rules and policy evolution ==
Reconstructed from the site's own edit backups. The overall direction in the first two weeks was '''loosening''', plus tone cleanup.
* '''14 Aug (evening):''' deleted Rule 13, a blanket ban on pornographic content. A real, substantive change to what is allowed.
* '''14 Aug:''' a nested "camgirl orbiter" sub-rule was left mis-numbered after Rule 13 went, then fixed the next morning.
* '''15 Aug (morning), in one batch:''' removed the camgirl/orbiter rule entirely; removed a rule against organising raids on something called only "SNG"; loosened the anti-advertising rule so it no longer explicitly bans promoting other imageboards. Discord, Telegram and crypto ads stayed banned, with a harsher penalty than other categories.
* '''15 Aug (afternoon):''' cut a promo line that had given [[2swagg Pass]] holders a "Free Pass out of any minor offenses". The Pass kept its CAPTCHA-skip; it lost the rule-leniency perk. The homepage self-description was softened the same day.
* '''17 Aug:''' trimmed doxxing-adjacent language from the pedophilia and terrorism rules, which had each ended "...your anonymity is not a priority".

== Ban log iterations ==
Right after launch the public [[Bans|ban log]] went through four formatting revisions in about two hours (name sanitization, capcode colours, tripcode colours, then an HTML double-encoding fix). A small concrete example of how fast the site iterated early.

== Boards no longer active ==
* [[/qdl/]], titled "Shitposting+", existed and was later fully retired. Its launch and retirement dates are not recorded.
* /420/ and /vip/: unused banner art exists in the asset library. Per [[SomeBois]], these '''never launched'''.

== Other changes ==
Per [[SomeBois]], the site CAPTCHA was '''turned off entirely''' sometime in the first weeks after users complained, with posts-per-hour rising afterward. That leaves the [[2swagg Pass]]'s CAPTCHA-bypass perk moot for now.

== Snapshot ==
Illustrative only. Site counters at one moment when checked, changing constantly:
* roughly 1,647 total posts
* roughly 328 "current users"
* roughly 226.62 MB of active content

Per-board thread and post counts from a later survey are on the individual board pages and in the [[Board directory]].

== See also ==
* [[People]]
* [[SomeBois]]
* [[Board directory]]
* [[Site culture]]

[[Category:2swagg]]