Open Tibia is a relatively large community with somewhere around 100+ new posts everyday.

The problem is political in nature: OTLand.net, the largest Open Tibia website, has become (or always been?) corrupt.

The way they (mainly a guy named Mark who created his own Open Tibia server version also known as The Forgotten Server) rose to popularity back in 2007-2008 was by DDoSing the original founders of Open Tibia back in ca. 2001, a website called otfans.net, and using bots to spam their website and IRC down with his own domain otland.net.

This tactic worked and otfans.net shutdown completely around 2013 likely due to user inactivity.

Ever since then black market activity, including DDoSing, spreading of cheating software, client cracking, scams, etc has been on the rise, and otland.net has never made a single remark about any of it.

Instead they constantly blame the community and individual posters that dares to talk about the issues on otland.net, calling these posters essentially “drama queens that's trying to divide our community".

In response to the rampant corruption I decided to create my own Open Tibia community in October of 2020, OpenTibia.dev.

After installing the required software to run the website I tried to advertise my website on otland, but the thread was deleted within the last day and I was warned for “advertising a competitor's open tibia website” even though this is nowhere mentioned in their rules and we're supposed to be an Open Source community, but the truth is ever since otland took over we've never really been.

There's a longer history to OTLand including them initially trying to require people to pay for TFS with some success, however they gave up this model after people persistently decided to leak TFS to other users and they changed TFS back to being free and Open Source.

For a bit more information see https://wiki.opentibia.dev/view/OTLand​ and https://sammynsc.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/how-open-tibia-started/