Yup! In ten days, we’ll have hit the year-and-six months stage of existence. Thanks indeed then to my co-mod Nacktmull for being there the whole way, bringing his friendship, valued perspective, and lots of cool Moeby content. Thanks also to our users who contribute some posts and many useful comments, helping to make the community much more than just ‘Nacky and me.’

Now, I can’t say this post is going to be entirely uplifting and happy, but let’s start with the good news:

• In my recent “movie night” post, I forgot to add the cool Masters of Time film, so I’ve tracked down and added French, Castellano and Hungarian editions . All eight movies and shorts are currently free to watch online, the first two of which I haven’t actually watched in full, so feel free to give me your reaction if you like!
• Moving on swiftly, I’d like to clarify something-- my health is pretty much winding down, and a big part of the reason I started this community (which I like to call “a sublemmy”) is to get it up and running in a healthy way as an alt to r/bandedessinee, i.e. not a place pushed around by corporate greed and all that. Note: TBC*, I love both BD and the r/bandedessinee sub, hugely respect their mods, and as you can see, we crosslink each others’ subs. <3
• Point is-- I’ve tried to really bust it for our sub, coming as close as I could to creating one post per day across our first year, and goodness gracious, with the help of Nacky and a couple others, we actually did! I’m really quite proud of that, frankly! Can you tell by my massive ego boost? :P
• And yet, my ultimate intention was always to persuade people who love BD (and Euro works) to post just enough to get a healthy community off the ground here. Even just as a start, you know? Welp, sadly or non-sadly, it seems like we’ve only made slight progress on that point. What to do, what to do…

Maties, Is there anything more I can do to help? I frankly don’t know what else I can do to help grow us, but would welcome whatever thoughts & advice you might have.

• I’m afraid on top of that, there’s also a huge downer to add, in that I discovered just yesterday that a load of earlier posts relying on Imgur content were seemingly randomly-wiped. (example: my beloved Satania review) Unfortunately, those posts quite obviously need the image content to make sense, and we’re faced with… a rather large project in getting those posts restored, &*(@^!$
• TL;DR-- Imgur seems to mysteriously let some private stuff last over a decade, while eviscerating recent, community, upvoted posts. I just can’t understand their logic, at present. At least, from a community-facing POV. (meanwhile, I can definitely understand it if it’s just an internal, fluff-'em thing from their end)
• So yeah, I’m not exactly sure what I’m going to do in terms of image-hosting at this point, but if you have any advice, feel free to check in here.
• TBC, I DO like posting here a couple times per week or more, and I don’t think that will change, as long as I last. But that’s putting us more in a “blog” situation, and frankly, I think we can do better than just that, maties.

* = TBC = “to be clear”

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