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== Community ==

MUD history has been preserved primarily through community sites and blogs and not through mainstream sources with journalistic repute.<ref name="Engadget: MUD history"/> As of the late 1990s, a website called The Mud Connector has served as a central and curated repository for active MUDs.<ref name="ywwr"/><ref name="pantuso"/><ref name="condon"/> In 1995, ''The Independent'' reported that over 60,000 people regularly played about 600 MUDs, up from 170 MUDs three years prior. ''The Independent'' also noted distinct patterns of socialization within MUD communities.<ref name="godlovitch"/>

In 2004, MUDs were relatively popular in the [[United States]] and mostly text-based.<ref name=":022" />

Seraphina Brennan of ''[[Massively (blog)|Massively]]'' wrote that the MUD community was "in decline" as of 2009.<ref name="Engadget: MUD history" />