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All is Brawl was also famous for its very organized Brawl Stadium community. Smashers from all over the world came to post their records for single-player modes such as Target Smash, Home Run Contest, and Multi-Man Brawl. Smashers like Sin2324 were once active on the boards, along with OWLET, LinksDarkArrows, Nismoe Joe, marth1 and super-mod Nessy. | All is Brawl was also famous for its very organized Brawl Stadium community. Smashers from all over the world came to post their records for single-player modes such as Target Smash, Home Run Contest, and Multi-Man Brawl. Smashers like Sin2324 were once active on the boards, along with OWLET, LinksDarkArrows, Nismoe Joe, marth1 and super-mod Nessy. | ||
==Decline, rename, and | ==Decline, rename, and death== | ||
As the "All is" network aged, Nealdt slowly became increasingly more inactive and difficult to contact. All is Brawl started suffering downtimes starting around 2011-2012, that became long and frequent, spanning weeks with no warning nor explanation. Ladders became impossible to run correctly due to requiring Nealdt's presence to reset them. Server issues resulted in the mass deletion of old user blogs and messages, instead of simply buying more server space. The DDoS attack of late August 2013 brought down the site and damaged several parts of it. Finally, in November 2013, the entire "All is" network went down to a "service unavailable" page. The site reappeared on December 11th, 2013, explaining the downtime as massive database corruption resulting in a full-on server upgrade. Nealdt also vacated his position as the site's owner shortly after, with one of the site's original co-founders, JV, taking over. | As the "All is" network aged, Nealdt slowly became increasingly more inactive and difficult to contact. All is Brawl started suffering downtimes starting around 2011-2012, that became long and frequent, spanning weeks with no warning nor explanation. Ladders became impossible to run correctly due to requiring Nealdt's presence to reset them. Server issues resulted in the mass deletion of old user blogs and messages, instead of simply buying more server space. The DDoS attack of late August 2013 brought down the site and damaged several parts of it. Finally, in November 2013, the entire "All is" network went down to a "service unavailable" page. The site reappeared on December 11th, 2013, explaining the downtime as massive database corruption resulting in a full-on server upgrade. Nealdt also vacated his position as the site's owner shortly after, with one of the site's original co-founders, JV, taking over. | ||
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However, even with the release of ''Smash 4'', the site continued to decline and become increasingly less relevant, instead of experiencing a resurgence like other Smash-related sites did. The site remained riddled with bugs and features that did not work, including a particularly infamous glitch where users were randomly logged in to another user's account (including potentially into an admin's account with the full control it would entail), and the complete inability to upload tournament results, while hired programmers were unable to fix these bugs. The site additionally failed to incorporate new features based around non-Smash Nintendo games, leaving the site still primarily ''Smash''-focused despite its name and intended purpose, creating brand confusion among new users who joined the site expecting a Nintendo-based site rather than a ''Smash''-centric site. The site's active userbase also continually shrunk, with many of it users that once used it as a hub to interact with other smashers moving onto using [[Smashboards]], various ''Smash''-centric groups on [[Facebook]], and [[reddit]]'s various ''Smash''-centric subreddits instead, as these users grew dissatisfied with the site. And the site's once-prestigious and very active online Smash ladder became a shell of its former self, having little activity and no longer being populated by well-renowned players, with most smashers moving onto {{sm|Anther}}s' superior [[Smash Ladder]] or just playing [[For Glory]]. | However, even with the release of ''Smash 4'', the site continued to decline and become increasingly less relevant, instead of experiencing a resurgence like other Smash-related sites did. The site remained riddled with bugs and features that did not work, including a particularly infamous glitch where users were randomly logged in to another user's account (including potentially into an admin's account with the full control it would entail), and the complete inability to upload tournament results, while hired programmers were unable to fix these bugs. The site additionally failed to incorporate new features based around non-Smash Nintendo games, leaving the site still primarily ''Smash''-focused despite its name and intended purpose, creating brand confusion among new users who joined the site expecting a Nintendo-based site rather than a ''Smash''-centric site. The site's active userbase also continually shrunk, with many of it users that once used it as a hub to interact with other smashers moving onto using [[Smashboards]], various ''Smash''-centric groups on [[Facebook]], and [[reddit]]'s various ''Smash''-centric subreddits instead, as these users grew dissatisfied with the site. And the site's once-prestigious and very active online Smash ladder became a shell of its former self, having little activity and no longer being populated by well-renowned players, with most smashers moving onto {{sm|Anther}}s' superior [[Smash Ladder]] or just playing [[For Glory]]. | ||
In its last year the site was mostly only populated by a few dedicated users who have stuck around since the ''Brawl'' days, with little activity of any sort, and was looked on by the greater ''Smash'' community as an obsolete relic of the | In its last year the site was mostly only populated by a few dedicated users who have stuck around since the ''Brawl'' days, with little activity of any sort, and was looked on by the greater ''Smash'' community as an obsolete relic of the Brawl era, if not forgotten altogether. According to the site's administration, it continued to hemorrhage money, while JV was becoming increasingly unwilling to fund the site, which lead to things such as the aforementioned hired programmers no longer being contracted, despite the site's many infamous bugs still remaining. Progress on improving the site stalled, with administrators having no timetable on when promised features and other improvements would be implemented. | ||
On October 19th, 2016, JV officially announced on Nintendo Dojo that he would not be paying the site's server bill that month, and would no longer be financially supporting the site from that point forward, thus closing Nintendo Dojo down on the bill's due date unless someone else was willing to buy NDJ from him. As of October 21, 2016, with no buyer emerging, Nintendo Dojo went offline indefinitely. Records of old posts are limited to WayBack Machine archives, with only JV having the hard drive. Therefore, much of the old posts, tutorials, and other resources, are considered lost media. | On October 19th, 2016, JV officially announced on Nintendo Dojo that he would not be paying the site's server bill that month, and would no longer be financially supporting the site from that point forward, thus closing Nintendo Dojo down on the bill's due date unless someone else was willing to buy NDJ from him. As of October 21, 2016, with no buyer emerging, Nintendo Dojo went offline indefinitely. Records of old posts are limited to WayBack Machine archives, with only JV having the hard drive. Therefore, much of the old posts, tutorials, and other resources, are considered lost media. | ||
