Crysandria

Crysandrea started out as Crysandria in the autumn of 2008.

Crysandria version 1
The site was run by Pixeltweak and Obed (username changed many times) with Tea as their Head pixelist. The site was run on various forum engines. PhpBB, Vbulletin etc.

The site went offline on April 1-st 2009 after a hack attack.

Crysandria version 2
Pixeltweak and Tea begun working on re-building Crysandria in the autumn of 2009 and created a totally new community with custom built systems. Tea created new and bigger avatars, in addition to re-pixeling most of the Ver. 1 items.

Changes were made to the random events planned in the community as well. Milestone items were implemented and handed out when the community reached certain post count milestones. Read more about Posting Milestones here.

IA to EA
Once again, after a hacker attack, Crysandria was taken offline. Fortunately, this time the owners had perfect backups of the site, and the community was re-released as Crysandrea. (The domain name Crysandria was locked by the hacker.)

Change in ownership
In the winter of 2010, Pixeltweak took his leave from running Crysandrea alongside Tea, the co-owner. The full ownership was transferred to Tea, who ran the site from January 2011 to May 2012.

Pixeltweak returned in May of 2012 (see announcement).

Crysandrea today
Crysandrea has expanded greatly since the day it was started. Many new staff members have been hired, and some old ones have left. The community continues to grow and gain new users daily.

The site currently has over 3.1 million posts, 14,200 users and over 20,000 items. There is one permanent game, the Forest (bug hunting).

The Haunted Mansion (multiplayer card game) was removed shortly after Pixeltweak returned to Crysandrea in May of 2012 (see announcement).