I joined these forums exactly 10 years ago today

see that? it’s me! a much younger, perhaps stupider me - but somehow me all the same.

I won’t bore the few people who remain with too much fluff. It’s just that it’s crazy to think that a forum I joined to complain about a Skyblock server reset would have so much impact on my early to mid teenage years. I still joke about this site as “that forum I spent too much time on,” I laugh with friends about how seriously I took things, and I self-deprecate about Minecraft ex-girlfriends. But I really do value the time I spent here, all these years later.

I downloaded the old survival world last month and it kind of hit me hard just how much of a bond we all built. To some extent it was superficial, but it was meaningful nonetheless. All the signs, the heads, and the books are still there, and it definitely made me yearn for those years we all spent.

When I was a regular, both on the old site and the new, I often thought about the fact that one day would be the last time I talked to each one of you, but that I could never know when that day would come until it had already passed. It was depressing to acknowledge, so I often found myself pushing that idea down into the darker, repressed recesses of my thoughts. That day has come for some of you, and so be it. Just know, if we’ve ever interacted here, that you have in some way had an impact on the person who I’ve become. Perhaps it’s been imperceptibly tiny, perhaps it’s been categorically gargantuan. But it’s true for all of you, and I wanted to thank you all for helping to make me into me.

And if fate mandates that our paths cross again, then I hope to see you soon!

<3

 

Hey! I remember you from back then, hope you're doing great and all ^^

 

pronounced yom-k?

 

amen

 

You’re a legend, my guy. Even if it is just on a Minecraft server. Hope you’ve been doing well and seen success. I still remember when you tbh’d me and said there was something about me you really liked, but wasn’t sure what it was.

That really gave me the warm fuzzies and I still think about it sometimes.

 

Always "yo mc (Minecraft?)" to me

 

Good to hear from you again! hope youve been doing alright.

 

Yea, I still log in once every couple years to check in on this place. Kinda crazy to think how active I was on the old forums. Missed my 10-year anniversary for signing up for the old forums by a few months, but that's alright. Thanks to everyone that was there with me back then, it was a lot of fun (and being Mr. Rainbow was super cool for me back then)
Anyways, sorry about the bump, I figured I'd reminisce a bit

Edit: Looking back, somehow I had over 1,000 posts 4 months before this was taken. Not sure how I dropped down to 789, although I do vaguely recall some kind of reset that messed with the stats, and it messing the member list up, so maybe that's why the number is significantly lower 4 months later? idk, my memory is super fuzzy about that. Figured I'd bring it up anyways, maybe someone else remembers

 

This month also marks 10 years since I've joined the forums, It's funny how this little place became a big part of my adolescent years, that and it helped me get through the roughest times of my life.

Nowadays while I don't play Minecraft as much as I used to (I ain't quitting, still love MC) I still wish everyone the best.