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So many fond memories of being in this community around 2004–2006! I got a 1st place prize in a Textpattern theme design contest and won my first ever prize, and quite a big one for a Ukrainian student — an iPod (the original one, 60GB). Having my own digital music player was life changing at the time!

Great to hear Textpattern is still around. Loved it for its simplicity, easy customization and a friendly community.

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>I got a 1st place prize in a Textpattern theme design contest and won my first ever prize, and quite a big one for a Ukrainian student — an iPod (the original one, 60GB).

That sounds a lot like:

https://www.textplates.com

Am I close?

Edit: it was you!–

https://www.textplates.com/2007/08/01/the-results

>Loved it for its simplicity, easy customization and a friendly community.

It's still simple-ish, lots of previously external plugins have been merged into the core, and the community is friendly, helpful and mostly harmless.

Yes! Although this particular one was a year later, I got runner-up and a bunch of tech books as a prize :)

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