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|site=Dibbuns Against Bedtime
|admin=Celebes Islehound
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'''Dibbuns Against Bedtime''', also known as the '''DAB''', was originally founded as an online ''Redwall'' club for [[Dibbuns]], and first entered the [[Redwall Online Community]] (ROC) in February [[ROC Timeline|1999]]. Currently operating as a web forum, the website provides activities, contests, RP, and message boards for members. Membership is always open.

===History===

Dibbuns Against Bedtime was started by ROC members [[Arven (ROC)|Arven]] and Dumble, with Arven serving as the primary webmaster. The DAB resided at '''<nowiki>http://www.concentric.net/~Varsh/DAB/DABhome.htm</nowiki>''' from 1999 until [[2000]], and membership rapidly increased. At one point, the club listed over 2,000 members.

During Arven's time at the helm, the site was under frequent assault from members of [[Dark Mouse's Cove]]. DAB returned fire on DMC, and this brief era was known as the DMC Wars.

In May 2000, despite being webmaster for barely a year, Arven was unable to keep up with site maintenance, and handed the reins over to Gonfflet, a female club member, who relocated the DAB to '''<nowiki>http://members.tripod.com/gonfflet/default.html</nowiki>''', and then '''<nowiki>http://www.geocities.com/gonfflet/</nowiki>'''.

During her leadership, Gonfflet wrote a letter to [[Brian Jacques]] about the DAB, to which she received a reply. However, like Arven, she became overwhelmed as well, at one point begging site visitors to stop emailing as she was unable to keep up with the hundreds of messages.

Gonfflet disappeared from the ROC in late [[2001]], effectively abandoning the website and allowing it to deteriorate. Ferdy, the assistant administrator, attempted to pick up the slack, and even tried to make a new site. However, he too succumbed to the pressures of site maintenance and administration. Administrative duties were handed over to Tangle Tumblehog in June [[2002]]. Tangle later revamped the club and website.

That same year, the [[Dibbuns Against Bedtime]] was mentioned in ''[[Triss (book)|Triss]]'', the result of Gonfflet's letter. The site also moved to its location for the next seven years, '''<nowiki>http://www.geocities.com/dabdibbun/index.html</nowiki>'''.

The DAB celebrated its eighth anniversary in [[2007]] and commemorated the event with a DAB Idol contest. The best and baddest Dibbun of the whole DAB was chosen by some of the leaders, and the winner was Kuunvarjo Kultaturkki. In [[2009]], the club held a second DAB Idol contest.

In [[2008]], the DAB made a return appearance in ''Redwall'' novel ''[[Doomwyte]]''. On August 13, 2008, Tangle stepped down from her administrator position of ringleader, and two others, Audrey Goldbrush and Tysharm Inoar, took her place.

On October 26, 2009, Geocities, longtime host for the DAB, permanently went offline, taking with it the DAB website. Despite efforts throughout the year by many members of the ROC alerting the DAB that Geocities would in fact be closing shop for good, no action was taken as the DAB was under the impression that Geocities offered a free host transferal program. Administrator Tysharm Inoar announced in an October 19, 2009, forum post that the search for a new host was underway, and all DAB forums would remain online.

DAB relocated their site to '''<nowiki>http://dabdibbun.comxa.com/index.html</nowiki>''' and announced the re-opening on January 8, [[2010]].

The DAB would next make appearances in [[2010]] ''Redwall'' novel, ''[[The Sable Quean]]'', and [[2011]] novel, ''[[The Rogue Crew]]'', which was [[User_blog:LordTBT/News:DAB_to_make_future_appearance|previewed the year prior]] in a letter from Brian Jacques to a club member.

In July 2011, Tysharm resigned as ringleader and administrator, passing the title on to Riverstream Wildlough, a dorm leader.

In January [[2014]], Riverstream Wildlough stepped down, and Otus Shortwing became the new ringleader until January [[2017]].

On December 7, [[2018]], former administrator Tangle Tumblehog sadly passed away, and will be missed.

From January 2017 until mid-[[2020]], the DAB was led by an admin panel consisting of Riverstream, Burfle, Isaiah, and Aquamarine. Celebes Islehound became the lead administrator at the end of [[2022]].

{{#ev:youtube|JJeaz2jhSyY|400|center|Dibbuns Against Bedtime website circa 1999|frame}}

===DAB's Dorms===
Originally, there were 18 dorms on the DAB website: Active Array, Bad Babes, Clever Clan, Dastardly Dibbuns, Fearsome Fiends, Giggling Gang, Happy Horrors, Irresistable Imps, Jumping Jokers, Laughing Lot, Mad Menaces, Naughty Knot, Pesky Pack, Rambling Rascals, Slippery Sneaks, Tricky Tribe, Unbathable Bunch and Wicked Wastrels.

Tangle decided to reduce this number to six in 2007: Active Array, Clever Clan, Dastardly Dibbuns, Giggling Gang, Pesky Pack, and Tricky Tribe.

In 2011, Riverstream merged the few remaining members into two dorms, Active Array and Clever Clan.

As of 2016, there is only one dorm, known as the Dormitory.

===Faces of the DAB===
<gallery>
File:Dab99.jpg|DAB circa 1999
File:Dab01.jpg|DAB circa 2001
File:Dab02.jpg|DAB circa 2002 - 2009
</gallery>

===Related Sites===
*[http://dibbuns.proboards.com/ Current DAB PlayTents Forum]
*[https://www.facebook.com/dibbunsagainstbedtime/ Official DAB Facebook Page]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJeaz2jhSyY See and hear the DAB website as it was in 1999]
*[https://gonfflet.tripod.com/default.html DAB website, circa 2001] (Tripod)
*[http://www.geocities.ws/gonfflet/ DAB website, circa 2001] (Geocities)

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