Doom Italia

Doom Italia is a popular website for Italian doomers.

History of Doom Italia
Started in the late 1990s, Doom Italia soon became very popular among Italian doomers. In 2001 a new version of the news board was installed which remains online today, allowing users to interact by rating news articles and posting comments. Since then, the appearance of the site has changed several times, but it was in 2003 that Doom Italia made the big step. On September 10, 2003 the site joined the SpazioGames network, one of the biggest Italian videogames networks.

In 2004 Doom III was launched and Doom Italia reached the apex of its popularity, with hundreds of visitors per day and dozens of messages active on the forum. In September the same year it became necessary for technical reasons to rewrite the web code, but due to the jobs of the webmasters, the work was never fully completed. Despite this, news, articles and the forum continued to be active, although some of the links on the site do not function. Doom Italia continues to be the most important site for Italian doomers.

Doom Italia today
Since the launch of Doom III and Quake IV, the main topics of news and forum discussions are: maps, mods, patches and tools for the Doom and Quake games (particularly Doom 3 and Quake 4, but also the previous chapters of both series); graphical hardware; new first person shooters (e.g. Prey, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars); first person shooter tournaments (specifically QuakeCon); interviews and polls. However, these are not the only topics of discussion.

Doom Italia IRC channel
Since 2007 Doom Italia has had an official IRC channel on ZDaemon, created by Afullo. The channel name is #doomitalia.

Current status
As of July 19, 2007, Doom Italia site is temporarily offline due to a minor issue with the host service. The issue is in the process of being solved and the site will be back online as soon as possible. The Doom Italia forums and IRC channel are still online as usual.

Doom Italia official staff
Catof Site Founder

Eug Site Founder

Afullo ''Site and Forum Administrator

DaNg3R Forum Chief Moderator

Hexen Terzo Site Newser and Forum Moderator

ICON of SIN Site Newser and Forum Moderator

Thunderbolt Forum Moderator

Doom Italia unofficial staff, adjutants and IRC staff
Duke Nume News researcher

NoSf3rAtU News researcher

IRC channel operators status could change often, type "/msg chanserv access #doomitalia list" in ZDaemon IRC for the latest status.

Doom Italia former staff
Acardipane Site Newser in 2001.

Runza Site Newser in 2001.

Hackboyz Site Newser and Forum Moderator in 2001.

Megalodon Site Newser and Forum Moderator in 2001 and 2002.

Viruz Site Newser and Forum Moderator in 2003.

MjKak Site Newser and Forum Moderator from 2002 to 2005.

Neurological Forum Moderator in 2006, from July to December.

Gyppi Forum Moderator in 2006, from February to December.

Doom Italia community
Today the site receives around 100 hits per day. Since its launch, Doom Italia has received over 480,000 hits.

Number of hits in time
Number of hits received by the site Doom Italia at certain moments of its history. Note the great rate of ascent recorded in 2004, year of Doom III release.

17/09/01	  18,514

16/12/01	  27,416

05/06/02	  43,359

10/08/02	  50,678

17/10/02	  57,587

06/02/03	  80,083

01/06/03	  103,193

10/08/03	  114,584

08/10/03	  123,583

14/12/03	  138,825

06/03/04	  197,349

07/04/04	  220,280

06/06/04	  257,815

03/07/04	  272,392

16/09/04	  338,325

16/10/04	  347,096

06/02/05	  369,536

10/04/05	  384,851

20/09/05	  409,689

12/12/05	  422,481

29/01/06	  427,900

20/05/06	  439,029

20/09/06	  452,883

28/01/07	  465,012

06/03/07	  468,745

≈01/07/07	  ≈480,000