Daniel S. ReichenbachSometimes I worry. Like I am not doing enough. The things I built were used by millions of people and I still feel small. Yet I travel all over the world and people use my stuff.
But I still feel small
I started and maintained #MaNGOS for 15 years. Hundreds of thousands of people played #workdofwarcraft at home in private.
Henry Henderson@danielsreichenbach Try millions… I saw a documentary on Cuba some 13 years ago about how people would sneak USBs into the country full of the latest TV shows and movies and how they had strung together enough computers to form a private network. In that video there was a clip of someone playing WotLK… They’d managed to have their own literally “private” server for some section of the country. Blew my mind. So many people got access to that game where it wasn’t supported, or too expensive.
@danielsreichenbach And FWIW, I know I'm not the only kid you inspired to go into software as a hobby/career. I joined the MaNGOS forums nearly 20 years ago and it opened a whole world to me, and forever changed my life in countless ways. The path it took me on, the friends I made, etc... It all started with MaNGOS. To this day I still love dabbling in WoW emu stuff. It's a passion that will never die, I don't think.
@henryhenderson glad to hear 😊 I hope a little slice of happy gonna stay forever
@henryhenderson I remember, almost everyone on our forums and also you. It's crazy. Thousands of people and every time I see those nicknames from back then I am just so happy you guys got to have fun ☺️
@danielsreichenbach Wow, that's amazing! I don't remember posting much, if at all. But I was one of the early members, for sure. Back when it was still projectmangos.org, I think... MaNGOS still used SVN at that time. I didn't know how to code at all but read those forums daily just trying to absorb every new thing going on.
I remember vmaps being the hot new thing. I didn't use them for a while to save on RAM, which sounds hilarious to say now.
@henryhenderson yeah, we used opensvn.org because Subversion was the cool kid and one outage cost us almost a year of work
@henryhenderson if you have a link I would love to see. It's things like this
@danielsreichenbach Found it! Memory served me wrong, it was Cata and just a YT video from 10 years ago. But still! It's at the start. https://youtu.be/FFPjJM6yYS8
But I know the amount of South/central Americans, Eastern Europeans (especially Russia) that played private WoW servers was far greater than any who probably paid for retail there. Even Iran for a good while before their Internet censoring hit hard around 2013 or so.
Castro hates the internet, so Cubans created their own
Jimmy B. 
@danielsreichenbach Those were the days! 
The truth is people are _still_ playing at home and with friends likely using a derivative of MaNGOS. So that's pretty damn awesome.
If you don't mind my asking, how come you stopped? My assumption was that you wanted to move on to other things, new projects, etc...
@jimmyb I was exhausted, and I got married and had three kids. And then classes came so now I build tools for that. I just love this game too much
@danielsreichenbach That is completely understandable! I love the game too. I wish I had time to play it.
The other day I actually tried turning on my server that has my realms on it but it didn't seem to want to boot 😩
@jimmyb I play once a year, the rest of the time I build new stuff. Have a VM for me and kids