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In 2006, the Samurai History Delphi forum was permanently replaced by the new [http://forums.samurai-archives.com Samurai Archives Citadel]<ref>The name "Citadel" was inspired by the castle citadels from the computer game ''Shogun Total War''.</ref>. Over the years there had been numerous complaints about the difficulty and lack of features of the Delphi forum (however, it was also felt that this "difficulty of use" helped keep out the more disruptive elements who didn't want to take the time and trouble to sign up and interface with the Delphi forum), and so after an offer from forum member [[User:Kryo|Kryo]] to implement and host a new, modernized forum, the Citadel went online approximately May 4th, 2006. The new forum added features such as "ranks", post counts, and "avatars" that were not available on the delphi forum.
In 2006, the Samurai History Delphi forum was permanently replaced by the new [http://forums.samurai-archives.com Samurai Archives Citadel]<ref>The name "Citadel" was inspired by the castle citadels from the computer game ''Shogun Total War''.</ref>. Over the years there had been numerous complaints about the difficulty and lack of features of the Delphi forum (however, it was also felt that this "difficulty of use" helped keep out the more disruptive elements who didn't want to take the time and trouble to sign up and interface with the Delphi forum), and so after an offer from forum member [[User:Kryo|Kryo]] to implement and host a new, modernized forum, the Citadel went online approximately May 4th, 2006. The new forum added features such as "ranks", post counts, and "avatars" that were not available on the delphi forum.
===Samurai Archives Japanese History Forum===
By 2015, the software for the Samurai Archives Citadel had become so outdated it would have required a major update to continue maintaining it as a viable forum. Additionally, all major email clients (in particular Gmail, Yahoo mail, and Hotmail) consistently rejected all forum activation emails as spam. Because of this no new members were easily able to create an account on the forum from about 2011 onwards. Because the forum was housed on the Samurai Archives server, all responsibility for its maintenance fell to the webmaster. It became untenable, so on march 4th, 2015 the forum was retired in favor of a forum hosted by Zetaboards. The subdomain forums.samurai-archives.com now redirects there, and the Samurai Archives Citadel forum can be found at forumarchive.samurai-archives.com.
==History of the Sections of the Samurai Archives==
==History of the Sections of the Samurai Archives==
