The History Of Jumpchain

HISTORY OF JUMPCHAIN
Originated as a concept in the /CYOA/ thread on the /tg/ subforum of 4chan, by a user known as Quicksilver.

Early Members (Anons)
Before jumpchain as an idea was around, a CYOA called Magical Realm was popular.

MR was a CYOA that allowed people to make their own worlds and grant themselves powers.

MR permitted multiplayer and linking worlds

This was a bad idea, as it started to turn into a massive contest of whose epeen was bigger.

Players going around just killing each other and taking over worlds.

due to having to put all their efforts to "defending" their realms rather than any significant roleplaying or peaceful interactions.

The fallout of which was the MR community imploded.

Many of those MR players joined the jumpchain community.

From the MR experience, whether they had participated or merely stood by and watched, they agreed that "No Multiplayer" was to be a rule. No multiplayer also simplifies having to balance jumps.

Birth of Jumpchain CYOA Threads (aka /jc/)
Jumpchain began to be discussed frequently enough in /CYOA/ that discussion had to split off and the Jumpchain CYOA Threads, also known as "/jc/", was born.

establishment of irc channel?

wasrou.org site went down, some archives were lost?

Thread Continuation
Despite numbering issues, it passed the 1000th thread on XXXX, which was 'celebrated' by numerous jump-makers posting new jumps.

During the summer of 2016 there were sometimes up to three threads per day due to /tg/ board traffic, but it is more usually one thread per day or two, and new threads are consistently posted as old ones die, usually with a very short delay.

Current State (Mid-2016)
Jumpchain has now spread to some other sites like Spacebattles.org, r/Makeyourchoice on Reddit and private blogs.

/jc/ has often had to defend itself from a variety of attacks from people who want to see it crash and burn, so it has a rather strong 'community immune response' to people entering the thread and challenging the status quo.

As a consequence of being spread over more than a thousand threads and more than two years, and whose creator has for the most part abandoned the thread, jumpchain became increasingly impenetrable to new players and it is hope this wiki will be able to help in that regard.