| History
In august 2003 Transfans: Project Regeneration
was born. Originally spawned off of an earlier aborted attempt to
modernize the Transfans.com message board, and an update of Best
First's Operation Volcano website, this new project’s goal
was far larger. Namely, a complete overhaul of the entire Transfans
website from the ground up. New main page, new content, new message
board and a new URL.
All this based off the one resource we had, volunteers.
Everything you see here has been done by Transfans members. All
the reviews, site design and board modifications have been accomplished
by people giving up their free time to make the best product possible
for not only their enjoyment, but for the entire fandom. We put
our efforts into making one of the most comprehensive and detailed
Transformers databases available on the internet. Of course it isn’t
fully complete yet; however, we have no inclination of slowing down
now that the site is open to the public. Check back often as we
will constantly be adding new content to the site.
Everyone has done an amazing job on Transfans.net, but some special
thanks have to go out for the grand opening of Transfans.net.
Firstly, TFArchive deserves a round of applause
for so graciously offering his assistance in provided webspace for
us. Transfans and The TF Archive have often helped each other in
the past, but this was a whole new level of assistance for which
we are truly grateful.
Next, Strafefox, the designer and programmer of
the site design you see before you is just as deserving of our special
thanks. The man single-handedly brought to life a site beyond our
wildest dreams. We can not thank him enough.
Every project of this magnitude needs a leader, and we were fortunate
to have someone like Paul (Best First) aid us in
that regard. He was the driving force behind organizing Project
Regeneration, setting goals, assignments and keeping us on track.
His unceasing drive for excellence brought many a long night for
the volunteers, but it was worth every moment.
Of course what good would a site be without someone to make sure
our content was top-notch? Dave, (Spiderfrommars),
was a one-man editing machine, going over each piece of submitted
content and making sure it was perfect. Often his changes, additions
and corrections could equal the length of the original review that
was submitted! Again, we were profoundly lucky to have him on the
team.
Next up for applause is Mark, (Impactor Returns).
The sigs you see the staff using, along with the wallpapers in the
downloads section are all the work of this genius. Make no mistake,
his ability to take our most general of requests and transform it
into breathtaking 3-D artwork is phenomenal.
We'd also like to thank Omega Supreme for creating
Transfans.com and the original message board that brought us all
together in the first place.
There are of course many others who contributed to this effort.
Rebis, bobaprime85, Ikijigoku, Hound, Pretender Bumblebee,
Master_Fwiffo, and many more. Without everyone, this project
could never have gotten off the ground.
Finally, we'd like to thank all our significant others who've had
to put up with our hobby and shenanigans while this project has
been under development.
So again, I say thank you to everyone who helped us, and for those
who have been waiting for Transfans.net to go live, I say now that
your wait is over. In addition all this is just in time for the
20th anniversary of the Transformers phenomenon.
Enjoy the site!
Nathan
(Computron)
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