Editing Tangency Timeline (section)

==Undated==
; The great Open crash : brought about the exodus to Tangency and led to the growing sense of community that still makes Tangency really unique. (David Johansen)
; The new software. : In which the old threaded, fast loading, and stable software was replaced with the current slow loading, unstable software. (David Johansen)
:In the olden times, before 2001, RPGnet used a non-standard threaded messageboard software.  This software was antiquated and made moderation and maintenance extremely difficult.  Because of this, it was decided to move to a more standard UBB form of messageboard software to improve these factors as well as to have future software support available.
:The first characteristic of the new software which caused much uproar was the lack of threaded view. The old software this type of view, and it was predicted that the loss of threaded view would end all discussion on the forums.
:The next characteristic which caused some argument was the ability to have an avatar image.  Many people liked having an image next to posters' names.  Many other people didn't, and insisted the ability be removed from the forums.
:In the early days of the new forums, a user could select custom colors for their particular browsing of the site.  This feature seems to have been removed somewhere along the way.
:Since the change to the "new software" the forum has been updated at least once.  This update allowed people to browse the forums with threaded views.  Despite the return of this feature, it is not believed many people use it.
; The Gay greeks thread and following coming out of various posters. : Tangency's gay dawn. Before this gender issues were generally unexplored. (David Johansen)
; The great religion flamewars. : This being roughly equivilant to the Last Alliance of Men and Elves in terms of its long term effects on Tangency's character. (David Johansen)
; The Mod Wars and attendant exodus I - III. : In which various popular posters and moderators went head to head over the policies by which Tangency is ruled. The mod wars are often cited as beginning with the banning of a popular poster, but I believe that the war was generally on for a few weeks before the banning. The instigation of the first draft of the rules comes in around this time. Many posters flee to needcofee, monkeyambrosia, and other sites.
; The banning of the Bistromath. : This guy had the highest post count of all time for a long while but he eventually was banned for unpardonable sins. His banning was unusual in that it didn't instigate a modwar. (David Johansen) Initial departure: 14.2.2004 Return and permanent banning: 5.5.2004 ((un)reason)
; The GMS bannings : also fall into the modwars period. (David Johansen) Date occured: 4.16.2004 ((un)reason)
; The separation of Other Media and Other Games Open. : In my opinion while this helps to prevent the blatantly hostile environment from overflowing into more peaceful threads, it also guts Tangeny leaving little more than goofiness and flamewars. I was in favour of it but wouldn't be if asked again. (David Johansen) Date occurred: 4.14.2004 ((un)reason)
; Judas' Revelation : the revelation that the poster Judas is really an other-worldly horror in a cup.  (David Johansen)
; SteveD's American Journey : (David Johansen)