I don't remember when I joined nor if I was active. I do remember it took me a bit to get into the site

Your profile says july 2015 !

Aww, MonBon's onwee fwee yeaws owld!

Sounds about right

Woot. XD

This is what Tris looked like shortly after CBT ended, by the way. I don't remember exactly what the shattered glass effect was for -- I would have guessed Taskal War, but that didn't happen until after Nox, which was in September.

It was for the site redesign. I made the old site gradually break down and mess up until I launched the new one.

OH RIGHT. That was pretty cool. Though the whole tilted forum titles thing gave several people headaches, IIRC.

I forwarded it to 2011, did all the new entertainment subforums not have enough activity?

Nice to see how the site used to look. :3

It was a combination of things.

We decided that too much granularity was likely to make it harder for people to know where to put their threads (which would then require a moderator to fix), and also we saw that forums had maybe one or two active threads in general which meant that anywhere you looked the site looked pretty idle. Tightening up the forum index also just made it look better.

So all in all, the decision was a win.

ooh, thanks for that link, Espy! i joined only in 2014, and it looked like this. =)

Wow, that header art of 2011 was so beautiful

I’m not sure who did that, but the 2013-2016 art was drawn by Meizicht, IIRC.

We commissioned Bleedman to make the original banner.

...wait. you commissioned WHO?!