July 5 Lord Swag of Trade.tf banned a user from his trading site for allegedly doing well against him in a public TF2 server. This is just yet another incident in a string of events that have led the community to view Lord Swag as a joke. This is a picture of the thread that the banned user made. It was deleted shortly after its creation by Lord Swag.
July 6 An alt by the name of Normies had a two hour reign of terror while all moderators remained offline.▐ The forums reached 20,000 recorded members today. There have actually been around 20,360 members, but it appears that the member counter does not factor in banned users, while the user count does not fill in the gaps in member IDs when a user is banned.▐ Scrap.tf implemented skin banking, they now purchase your skins for a base price, to resell of course. Scrap.tf never fails to capitalize on a new trend.
July 7 Geel posted a link to a poll in a status update, that linked to the developer side of scrap.tf, possibly hinting at a new feature in coming days.▐ The forums were raided again, by presumably the same user who maintains that he is not Valley Forge.▐ Buds experienced a sharp rise in value over the course of a few days, reaching a plateau at five keys.
July 8 A promotional video for an unimplemented community inspired update surfaced, leading some users to believe it was a leaked video from valve.
July 9 Scrap.tf's skin banking has been improved upon, and they now accept more than 100 skins. Read the announcement here.▐ Buds continued on their sharp incline today, reaching a high of 7 keys, and apparently going for as many as 8 keys, so soon that a new suggestion could not be made.▐ TF2Center lost community support after a series of events outlined in depth in this reddit post.▐ Today, the all time most online users record for the backpack.tf forums, which was 825 on January 4th 2014, was supplanted by a landslide new total of 1957 users. It is unknown what caused this massive spike.
July 10 The newsletter celebrates its 4 month anniversary today.▐ Buds finally crashed, going from 8 keys down to 6.5 and dropping fast. They couldn't even hold onto their hot air long enough for the week to end, so there will be no insightful editorial about the incredible possibilities.
July 11 Courtney returned to the forums today, and has already renewed the drama that ended when Venom was permanently banned.▐ The 40,000th thread was posted today. A shame, because it was a trading thread and not celebratory in any way.
July 6 An alt by the name of Normies had a two hour reign of terror while all moderators remained offline.▐ The forums reached 20,000 recorded members today. There have actually been around 20,360 members, but it appears that the member counter does not factor in banned users, while the user count does not fill in the gaps in member IDs when a user is banned.▐ Scrap.tf implemented skin banking, they now purchase your skins for a base price, to resell of course. Scrap.tf never fails to capitalize on a new trend.
July 7 Geel posted a link to a poll in a status update, that linked to the developer side of scrap.tf, possibly hinting at a new feature in coming days.▐ The forums were raided again, by presumably the same user who maintains that he is not Valley Forge.▐ Buds experienced a sharp rise in value over the course of a few days, reaching a plateau at five keys.
July 8 A promotional video for an unimplemented community inspired update surfaced, leading some users to believe it was a leaked video from valve.
July 9 Scrap.tf's skin banking has been improved upon, and they now accept more than 100 skins. Read the announcement here.▐ Buds continued on their sharp incline today, reaching a high of 7 keys, and apparently going for as many as 8 keys, so soon that a new suggestion could not be made.▐ TF2Center lost community support after a series of events outlined in depth in this reddit post.▐ Today, the all time most online users record for the backpack.tf forums, which was 825 on January 4th 2014, was supplanted by a landslide new total of 1957 users. It is unknown what caused this massive spike.
July 10 The newsletter celebrates its 4 month anniversary today.▐ Buds finally crashed, going from 8 keys down to 6.5 and dropping fast. They couldn't even hold onto their hot air long enough for the week to end, so there will be no insightful editorial about the incredible possibilities.
July 11 Courtney returned to the forums today, and has already renewed the drama that ended when Venom was permanently banned.▐ The 40,000th thread was posted today. A shame, because it was a trading thread and not celebratory in any way.