Yes, one year!

It has been a roller coaster ride, many ups and downs and a few loopings and a corkscrew even. During that year the environment has changed a lot as a few more Steemit like platforms have popped up, that have pulled quite a few people away from here. Also, the fact that crypto was low all around the board did not help either.

During all these developments @AngelVeselinov and myself have been wrecking our brains for what to do, how to grow the community and make it thrive. How to ignite that fire for poetry and the community in people's hearts and minds? We can say fairly certain now that we failed to motivate enough people. But short of paying people to do the work, which we couldn't, we have tried all we could think of. It turned out that it was nearly impossible for us to get enough people to do anything, most of them were busy chasing the cents... And as I have said before, community starts with giving, not taking.

The first 6 months we worked 10 or more hours a day to give a body to our vision. A handfull of people stepped in and really helped out (you know who you are), a few of them burned themselves up doing it. It is hard, as there is no functional boundaries and there is always more to do. We owe these people a massive thanks and I know I speak for both of us! We love you guys and gals! In the end we needed to focus on our real lives as well, Angel has his family to take care of after all and I have stuff to do as well... A 600 'member' community cannot run on just two people for long, that's just a fact.

With this one year anniversary I hope we can get things moving again, both on Steemit as in our community. It sucks that many people have left, but there are still a lot more people out there that never even heard of Steemit yet. So, we have a big pond to fish in and oportunity for growth. Of course this will also depend on external factors. And, seriously, we need help from the community, to write posts, contests, daily doses, do shows, write bots (if you are in to coding, give me a shout!) and all sorts of other stuff. We also need your ideas, feedback and anything else you thinks is useful.

@Madevi