The Mentors & Apprentices Project

I didn't know the forums had schools at one point, maybe I should look into it at some point!

oh that's a lot of memories, actually ;-;
I remember back in 2013ish I joined Sweet's writing school. Skyfall taught me for a while, like a dozen or so short story workshops, and then Sweet mentored me for a few "finals" before I graduated. Good times.

A user I only remember as Holly (Hollysong with fancy letters??) mentored my coding. Back in that day, there were layout shops (and they were COMPETITIVE) where members could request banners, coding or layouts for any of their threads. It was fairly standard for a well-known shop to "hire" underlings to make the simpler requests, while the main thread owner would handle the harder/bigger projects. I applied to work in Holly's shop as a coder--doing rp headers and signatures mostly, custom coded signatures were HUGE back then--and I eventually moved up to doing dividers in GIMP and headers using the custom font website.
And then I moved on to co-own a shop with another user, who I unfortunately don't remember the name of. We were both underlings on Holly's thread and only had our shop for like, less than two months before the forums were deleted. I made the layout for it, though, and I remember being super proud of it. Esp the red/black/gold color scheme. I think the shop was called "loyalty layouts" lmao

it was truly a 2014 forum era moment and I wish more people got to experience that

and coding really isn't that hard!! I found it easiest to learn by copying someone else's code and then messing about with each part to see what it changed