It is currently Fri 21st Nov,2008 01:41 pm About Us
NOTICE! This is not a historical document. If you would like to read our history go here. This page is an about page; which, to the author, are two different things.
PLDH.net is a dedicated Pokémon Community established in the Spring of 2006. Our knowledge base is small and being worked on by a small group of people. We invite others to join us or contribute and help us expand!
The goal of those working on our knowledge base is to eventually offer up the most complete, concise, and efficient group of guides out there. However, for all PLDH.neters, its about socializing and the community itself...
Somewhere along the line, back in 2006, the ideology that this would become, and forever remain, a dedicated Pokémon site seemed to fade away in the eyes of the majority. From the looks of things now we still are a dedicated Pokémon site, but that's only because of the small few who continue to chip away at making our niche something Pokérelated.
Behind everything, though, the existence of PLDH.net, as it stands today, cannot be confined to Pokémon.
Since conception the community has been relatively small and close. In the past the owner of a more prominent site in the Pokécommunity took a look at our stats and said they were pathetic (at a time when we had 200,000+ posts and more than twice as many members as now; when we were using phpBB2 before our epic SQL crash). When that was said I took it personally but now, looking back, I don't think it could be any better any other way. I suppose if our goal was to be massive, like Marriland then this site would be an epic failure...
PLDH.net is not a failure because it does not aspire to being the biggest, most known, blah, blah, blah. Those of us dedicated to providing the best Poké related content will continue to do so. And as we build the knowledge base here we'd probably only ever dream of having some small degree of respect from our peers; though other large sites may never be aware of us or even give a shit that we're here, carving out our little niche. Oh well.
For now we're really just your everyday forum bound together by a group of people that have developed friendships with other PLDH.neters spanning years. Some refer to this place as their second home, hosting their second family. That said, you really can't hope for more because so many communities out there fail to establish anything remotely resembling this community.
No one probably envisioned that would be the case, I certainly hadn't fathomed that I would know the people I collaborated with on GameFAQs this long. And, all things considered, there doesn't appear to be a change in the near future that will break all of the ties made here.
Whether PLDH has an affect on the Pokécommunity is still unknown but what the veterans could tell you is that one thing is for sure, they'll remember this small community for the rest of their lives.
