20 years' lurking anniversary

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20 years' lurking anniversary

Legion
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Post by Legion » Wed Jul 27, 2022 10:08 am

Hello all. I noticed it's my 20 year anniversary of signing up to follow the XWAU project. Whilst I've contributed basically nothing in terms of content (apart from that one time I helped DS with some data recovery) and very few forum posts, it's a project and community that I've always felt part of, even if only as a lurker.

It's been amazing to see how far it's progressed, and especially the new innovations and leaps forward in recent years. I look forward to watching another twenty years' progress, albeit from the shadows!

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Post by Ace Antilles » Wed Jul 27, 2022 11:53 am

Happy Anniversary! I feel the same. Even though I disappeared for years, lured away by fancy new SW games and life, this place always remains a steady constant.

It may not seem like there is much going on but behind the scenes there is loads in progress still to come!
The last few weeks have been another burst of brilliant ideas and new tools to play about with.
I would hope that in the next 20 years we get more X-wing games lol If not then maybe XWAU will finish more stuff :D
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Post by Forceflow » Wed Jul 27, 2022 11:57 am

Happy XWAU anniversary ;) it's really incredible that we are still here to be honest. There had been times when I seriously considered closing down the site but there was always at least a little bit going on. I am really glad we kept going, the advances that have been made recently are simply mind blowing and there's a lot in the pipeline that you guys haven't even seen yet :)
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Post by ual002 » Wed Jul 27, 2022 5:36 pm

Forceflow wrote:
Wed Jul 27, 2022 11:57 am
Happy XWAU anniversary ;) it's really incredible that we are still here to be honest. There had been times when I seriously considered closing down the site but there was always at least a little bit going on. I am really glad we kept going, the advances that have been made recently are simply mind blowing and there's a lot in the pipeline that you guys haven't even seen yet :)
I'm glad you kept it open too. There were definitely quiet times, but the more I reflect the more I think most of us who were kids at the time just needed the time to gather the skills needed to come back home and make things better.
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Post by Mako » Fri Jul 29, 2022 11:56 pm

holy shiiiiii it'sbeen 20 yrs already? We sure bout that? Cause naw it can't be can it? Aw well happy anniversary! Mabe I'll get back to posting sometime soon. Like now.
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