I initially wrote an extremely long reply but I lost it because of Cloudflare's anti-DDoS system...well, that happens.
But... I know how it hard it was for you taking this decision and I understand completely the reasonings behind it, Kieran. Although SMW hacking would have eventually developed technical-wise, we would never reached the large scale we know today without you. The idea of creating sections and unifying the resources together was simply genial on your part. Even if some of the ideas were made by other people, just the fact that you actually took the time and coded everything for so many years is extremely impressive.
I'm grateful for everything you did, I remember the many fun events had though this almost decade since I have joined SMWC, I remember particularly the 10,000 users events where a time portal was put on the main page and you could simply teleport to the classic SMWC from 2005. Many other people probably would have loved the Nightfall, the Pop-tart cat attack, the MLP is magic and probably more that I don't remember. I remember also how you were careful when designing part of the site, like the new sections where you asked every single department for feedback and designed around it for the GFX, ASM, music, etc., sections. I'm grateful for you offering to host VilelaBot for seven years, since 2012 and even preparing a proper VM for it, with a Windows setup and even installed everything needed for running a web server for the bot not just running IRC (now Discord commands) but also online for most people using it.
Also I should thank you during the administration days that you supported me so much in many aspects and calmed me even on poor situations like when someone death threatened me and you dealt with it extremely well... In the end things didn't go out right and left the board during one of the worst SMWC crisis...and it was everything my fault. Sorry for that.
The legacy you have left there will be eternal. And I promise within my limits that I will do the possible for taking care of SMW hacking and by consequence the site itself... It's the minimum I could do for you since everything you did is simply priceless, nothing could ever pay all the awesome things you did and I understand eventually things didn't work it out well on your side and I wish if I could have helped you more.
Congratulations man, you are super awesome. Hope we can stay in contact.... and we should play Minecraft someday now that I have finally a semi-internet connection
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) but if this site had never come into my life I probably wouldn't know half the things I know today, like many others in this thread. Even if you weren't that active the past few years, this site is your baby (figuratively of course lol) and without your dedication to it, there wouldn't be the thriving SMW hacking community there is today.
