At first it was the technical people who held the server together. A handful of coders who had reverse-engineered file formats and a couple of spriters who could take a cramped tileset and wring personality out of it became the unofficial backbone. Their channels were full of meticulous diagrams, version tags, and long treaded lists of “known issues.” Newcomers came for help with a stuck export, and left staying for the camaraderie that formed in the voice channels late into the night.