In 2005 I started posting on the BROTRR GameFAQs forum not expecting it would be anything significant. After having several accounts banned for being too good of a poster, I decided that I needed to make my own forum and made the original BR&R InvisionFree forum that has been lost to time. In 2007 I looked into hosting the forum on my own and after a lot of issues and huge contributions from people much better at design and code than myself, we created the SMF board that has somehow survived to this day. There were a lot of experiments both good (wiki) and bad (imageboard) but the main forum has largely remained the same. Unfortunately, like most small forums there's really no activity here anymore. Between the easy personal blogs and convenient services like Discord there's little reason to post on sites like this.
I never expected to make so many lifelong friends from a video game forum but I have and that makes me sentimental for the many years of my life I've spent posting here. I've met so many people, first through Rigcon but even earlier this year I was able to meet up with Joe for the first time. I'd like to think that some other people were able to get some of the enjoyment from this place that I did. Aside from a handful of generous donations I've paid for the hosting and domain out of my own pocket for 13 years. I'm afraid to figure out exactly how much money that was. Despite all of the memories, I've known there would come a day where I have to accept that this site won't be around forever.
Today, I'm sad to announce that I'm still too dumb to stop paying for hosting and I have no plans to do so any time soon. All 10 users can continue to make their monthly post and rest assured that several thousand bots will read each and every one.
