17 Years of Exilian!

[Jubal]

On March 18, 2008, I made the first post on this website (or, more accurately, the instance of the free forum software InvisionFree which sometime later we'd move off to our own web hosting). It's been seventeen years since then: we've been through a lot, found new friends, parted with others along the way, but I hope we're still being - ultimately - useful to people out there. Whether it's creative chatter and community or just finding a space online to rest one's brain, the spirit of curiosity and creativity in which I was tinkering with little game mods as a teenager is something that, over half my life later, I believe in just as much.

And I believe in you guys. Thanks to all of you who continue to be part of this little thing we've built together. In a world that feels too dark too often, it's too big a thing to ask a little place like this to really hold all that night at bay: but if we can be a little piece of starlight to remind people how to imagine dawn, then I'm more than proud of doing that.

Happy birthday, Exilian: here's to another year.

[The Seamstress]

Happy Birthday, Exilian That's indeed something to be proud of!

And I'm very glad I found my way here

[Rob_Haines]

Penblwydd hapus, Exilian!

Especially given the rate of internet churn, it's remarkable for a place to have existed for such a time.

[Jubal]

Especially given the rate of internet churn, it's remarkable for a place to have existed for such a time.

I feel like if it shut down I'd sort of have to reinvent it: I don't think there's really a good alternative out there that I've found for the space Exilian has in my life.