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[Spokes]

Alright - just spend 10 mins on that SSP Canada...what happened lol...apparently there was a meltdown and division from which WRC was born?

Skyscraper Page starts cities off with a thread/forum, and if they take off get their own section. KW grew enough to have a section, but the moderation was largely done by non-KW people and wasn't very responsive. Eventually Andrew Hilliard started a breakaway forum called Wonderful Waterloo, and PM'd all the active KW people to go over there. The admins flipped out, censored any mention of Wonderful Waterloo, etc.

Wonderful Waterloo took off, and everyone went over there. But eventually Andrew lost interest and stopped actively managing the site. It was slowly deteriorating, but a number of people still used it. Until one day the whole site disappeared, presumably he stopped paying the hosting bill. Sadly that took a ton of content with it. However, Justin (Spokes) stepped up and created Waterloo Region Connected, and now here we are.

Taylor pretty much nailed the history right here.

Andrew and I created Wonderful Waterloo and some of our visions aligned, and some did not.  When I pushed a little, myself and the other site leaders were forced to step down.  I was eventually blocked from the site because of his dislike for me.  Unfortunately I saw the downfall of WW well before it actually happened but there was little I could do about it.  I'm just glad things worked out here.

Wow, all it took was five years of WRC for that (and there's certainly more) to come out.