User blog:CloudzzSG/Deleted History content

Just placing them here because they were removed from the Club Penguin Rewritten page, and I feel like they need to be placed somewhere because after all it DID happen in CPRewritten's history.

Original Version
According to former administrator Codey, the administrators wanted to add a "sled racing update" for the Game Upgrades catalog. Codey disagreed to releasing the update due to many other bugs that needed addressing. He later saw that the update had been released without his approval, so he decided to ban Joee, which he regretted. Codey was subsequently fired from his position on February 8, 2018, for an "array of reasons" according to the Club Penguin Rewritten Team. After his demotion, he still had control of the CPRewritten Twitter account. On February 15, 2018, he made a tweet via the CPRewritten Twitter that Club Penguin Rewritten's custom made source, Auroris, was now open-sourced. The repository released by Codey was later disabled due to a DMCA takedown notice because he had no permission to open source Hagrid's work. Sometime after the shutdown in March 2018, Hagrid open-sourced an outdated version of Auroris.

Rewritten/Replacement Version
On February 21, 2018, it was announced that Club Penguin Rewritten was going to be shut down because of threats, but the following day it was announced that the game was going to continue. Additionally, control of the @CPRewritten Twitter account was regained.

On February 26, 2018, it was confirmed that Club Penguin Rewritten would shut down on March 4, 2018 and would not come back. This would mean that the website, the game, account data, and more would be removed permanently, with all important information such as emails and passwords being wiped for security reasons.

Original Version
According to Stu, Codey and friends began harassing and threatening certain staff members with swatting and revealing personal information to get the game shut down. This led to the staff announcing on February 22, 2018 that the game was shutting down, but they quickly deleted the announcement and said that the game was staying. They also regained control over the main twitter account the same day.

According to the staff, the threats continued and four days later on February 26, 2018, the game was announced to shut down again for real this time. The game was shut down on March 4, 2018, but was brought back a month later. Codey, however, claimed to not be associated with the criminals that made the threats. The incident caused the Club Penguin Rewritten staff to rethink how to handle safety and security on the internet better to make sure something similar doesn't happen again. According to the admins, they cooperated with cyber-security experts during the time Club Penguin Rewritten was offline.

On February 26, 2018, it was confirmed that Club Penguin Rewritten would shut down on March 4, 2018, and would not come back. This would mean that the website, the game, account data, and more would be removed permanently, with all important information such as emails and passwords being wiped for security reasons. On March 4, 2018, Club Penguin Rewritten was discontinued at around 14:00 Penguin Standard Time.

Rewritten/Replacement Version
On February 26, 2018, it was confirmed that Club Penguin Rewritten would shut down on March 4, 2018, and would not come back. This would mean that the website, the game, account data, and more would be removed permanently, with all important information such as emails and passwords being wiped for security reasons. On March 4, 2018, Club Penguin Rewritten was discontinued at around 14:00 Penguin Standard Time.

New Year's Day 2019 Controversy (removed)
On December 31, 2018, the Admins and the rest of the Community were celebrating New Year's Day 2019.

To celebrate, some of the Admins reportedly became drunk, and as a result, their drunk behavior was reflected in the Discord Server after they began to play inappropriate songs and used seriously explicit language in the general community chat. To cover up this incident, the general community chat was deleted and a new one was formed. Joee apologized on the Admins behalf.

Legal Issues with Disney and Staff Controversies (removed)
On May 1, 2020, Lataus announced his resignation from the Club Penguin Rewritten Staff team, at the time citing a "lack of genuine interest" in the game.

On May 13, 2020, Disney Interactive began to send out Digital Millennium Copyright Act (in short, DMCA) takedown notices to various Club Penguin Private Servers that were infringing on Disney's copyrighted content (Club Penguin), shutting some of them down indefinitely. This was done in response to serious allegations concerning another Club Penguin Private Server. Many people were concerned with Club Penguin Rewritten possibly being taken down, but the Admins reassured that "CPRewritten has no plans to close". Unbeknownst to the community, Club Penguin Rewritten had received a DMCA takedown form filed on May 13, 2020, but Club Penguin Rewritten did not address it, and they also banned anybody from their Discord Server that tried to talk about it.

In the midst of the situation, no formal announcement was made by Club Penguin Rewritten to any of their Social Media channels. The only information given at the time was through a pinned message in one of the channels in their Discord Server. As a result, Halopona tried to reassure that Club Penguin Rewritten was not closing down through Twitter, but he was allegedly forced by the Admins to take the Tweet down. This may have caused arguments within the Staff team in the Staff Discord Server. The situation worsened after Thorn released a statement stated that the "opinions and actions of Moderators do not represent the views, opinions or actions of CPRewritten or the Administrative team and should not be related to the overall CPRewritten team in any way." Taking this as belittlement, the Moderators demanded an apology for Thorn, having enough of the treatment they received.

On May 15, 2020, at around 3:30 pm Penguin Standard Time, after talks between the Admins and the Moderators fell through, several moderators decided to resign as a last resort. In all, eight in-game moderators out of ten total and four discord moderators out of five total resigned. Most cited their poor work environment or worry for their mental health as reasons for their resignation. The multiple resignations impacted the community, fueling fears for Club Penguin Rewritten's future.

Tensions flared up on May 16, 2020, after an anonymous Twitter thread was posted, making public various issues within the Staff team, particularly between the Moderators and the Admins. These possible issues usually consist of improper communication between both parties, especially in regards to the recent DMCA takedown form Club Penguin Rewritten had received. Several screenshots from the Staff Discord Server was also attached, showing arguments between the Admins and the Moderators over the situation, as well as the final moments before the mass resignation.

In response to the leaked screenshots, several members in the community began to demand for better treatment towards the Moderators, as well as better transparency between the Admins and the Community. This later escalated into mass spamming of the Discord Server, which resulted in multiple restrictions being imposed such as a five-minute slow-mode that only allowed a user to send one message every five minutes. This started the hashtag "CyaIn5Minutes" on Twitter. On May 17, 2020, former artist Cami revealed that she had been banned from the Discord server and in-game for supposedly no reason on Twitter and she demanded that her art be removed from the game, or that the Admins issue an apology and unban her. This only escalated tensions between the Admins and the Community as people began spamming "Justice for Cami" in the chat.

As the situation grew worse and worse, and with no signs of the community stepping down, the Club Penguin Rewritten Discord Server was closed on May 17, 2020, at around 12:45 pm Penguin Standard Time. An informal announcement was given prior to the closure. During the period where the Discord Server was closed, nobody could chat in there. As time passed, several people in the Community began voicing out on Twitter that they wished for the Discord Server to be reopened as they had missed socialising with their friends.

On May 30, 2020, at around 5:30 am Penguin Standard Time, the Discord Server was reopened, with several restrictions put in place. Many were happy with the reopening at first, however, controversies began to ensue after several members were banned for various reasons, such as attempting to talk about Thorn, requesting that users in the Discord Server that had banned to be un-banned, mentioning Cami's name or even charlie, one of the moderators who resigned on May 15, 2020, who was also banned from the Discord server for supposedly no reason. This was due to stricter punishments having been put in place, which was that any rulebreaker, regardless of the severity of the offence, would be permanently banned from the Discord Server.

On May 30 and 31, 2020, hagrid and Joee resigned respectively. With only five Staff members left, many have begun to worry about the future of Club Penguin Rewritten. Cami, a former artist of Club Penguin Rewritten, also revealed that her account had been deleted from the game completely. As a result, she continued to demand for her art to be removed from the game, such as the Dot Stamp and Dot Blackout Giveaway. This was also partly due to an ongoing feud between her and the Admins. Her artwork was removed later that day. As of July 24, 2020, the status of Club Penguin Rewritten and/or the DMCA takedown form filed is currently unknown. Starting July 12, 2020, Club Penguin Rewritten began hiring new moderators.

Super Safe Chat (removed)


Super Safe Chat is a special chat filter designed specifically for new players, players that have recently been banned, as well as users that are at a high risk of breaking rules. It was implemented on June 12, 2020, alongside the Music Jam 2020. This was in response to the lack of Moderators being available to moderate Club Penguin Rewritten, leading to multiple users breaking many chat rules, attempting to bypass the filter and mentioning controversial topics ongoing at the time in June 2020. It was first pitched by Thorn in 2018 and was in development in February 2020. It was in testing from June 9 to June 12, 2020. It was enabled only for its appropriate user groups when the Music Jam 2020 released.

After Controversy and Discontinuation of Flash Support
Despite losing Club Penguin Rewritten losing many of its Staff members, the game still continued to see greater growth weekly. By July 12, 2020, Club Penguin Rewritten had reached 6,800,000 registered accounts.

In July 2017, it was announced that Adobe will end support for Adobe Flash Player on December 31, 2020. Due to this, many questions were raised about Club Penguin Rewritten's future as the game runs on Flash Player. In July 2020, it was confirmed by Staff that there were going to be public testing for Club Penguin Rewritten's transition to Hypertext Markup Language 5 (HTML5) before Club Penguin Rewritten transitions entirely before the end of 2020. Thorn also confirmed on July 12, 2020 that there was already a name for the project, which will be similar to the Club Penguin Rewritten Improvement Project, and will be announced in a blog post in the near future as it was "nearly ready".

Mobile Support (removed)
In addition to more features coming to Club Penguin Rewritten upon transitioning to HTML5, Thorn also confirmed that one other feature was Club Penguin Rewritten would become playable on mobile devices after the switch to HTML5. He also confirmed that the game would be available on the majority of phones and tablets upon release.