Warning: Before anyone reads this and gets all "hah, I am right!," or "no, I am right!", I'm still tired of that bullshit from both sides of the aisle. Optional Realities brought the 'us vs. them' mentality here whether they realized it or not. (And I think it's pretty easy to see that they continue, which makes complaints against it ironic.)
This doesn't mean the people of Soapbox's are okay to pull it out of context, but they are people, while OR's representatives can all be considered, as one, "Optional Realities". This may seem unfair to both sides, but I don't really care about fair; I care about what is, and how the world works. Disagree or not, this is now the world works.
As far as I care, OR can post here about their projects all day. That's what we, Soapbox, are here for. This is easy to say because Soapbox is for pretty much everything having to do with this hobby, including the people in the hobby and their unusual drinking habits or non-text-game-playing or Muds or Mushes or Moos or whatever. We may not be for thread-spamming, but so far no harm has been done with it so what the hell.
MOD VOICE: I am not the final authority on any thread spamming going on in this thread, I just don't think it's important enough for me to bring it to the other two.
However, I am again getting tired of authoritarian revisionism, so I decided to do a little of my own research. These are the sites listed on OR's "Partners" page, and their codebase as listed in MudConnect. Where they were not clearly listed, I tried to briefly scan their website or log in to determine. I could not find one, but I'm going to list it as a Mud-type.
- Sindome: MOO
- The Evolution of Esos Mud: Diku
- Shadows of Isildur: Diku
- LabMUD: FutureMUD
- The Sea of Storms: Smaug
- Armageddon: Diku
- Haven: Mist and Shadow: Custom (I tried logging in to find out more but nngh, no)
- No Return: Penn
- OtherSpace: Penn
- Project Redshift: Not listed, presumed Mud.
Final Count. Mush-types: 2. Mud-types: 7. Moo/Muck-types: 1.
I will continue to do other fact-checking as time permits, and encourage others to report similar findings here. Facts probably should be backed up with evidence, but what the game of he-said-she-said back-and-forth going on here is also fun to read. I guess it depends on whether your goal is speaking truth to power, or enjoying yourself watching people trip over themselves.