User blog:ChazmanianDevil/New Years Eve

I'm addressing y'all from Glens Falls, New York, New Years Eve, because in an hour and a half EST, 2017 will begin. So I'd like to take a moment to remind you what was happening around this time exactly a year ago.

On this very day, around this time last year, I was banned. Minas nearly left. Two sides fought across the wiki in a war that nearly tore us into pieces. Most of us thought this place was done for. And it nearly was. We barely survived. It took us almost a year to rebuild, and we lost people in the process. Good people. But we made it. We've climbed out of Tartarus, even if it took us an eternity.

When you guys talk about the good old days before the wiki wars, for me those were about two months. Two short months before this wiki devolved into fighting and petty arguments. And although we may never go back to what the wiki was like during those two months, there's a good chance we can do something better. And that's what I hope for in 2017.

Touchy-feely speech over. Happy New Years.