Today we have finally passed the one year mark for Screeze and will hopefully have a few more birthdays pass as well.

One year ago we publicly opened up Screeze to the world, amid a few days of staggered beta previewing and an odd puzzle event going on starting 6 days before launch(see here [read from bottom up][Hint: Look for italics. Click on the word afro in each post]). It was a slow start but we still deemed it successful and we are absolutely thrilled with the position we are in today. Who could have guessed at launch we would be such a great forum with tons of features, some of which never before used on a MyBB powered forum to our knowledge.

Everything wasn’t always perfect though. The personal blogs feature was a flop, Screeze Spaces never started up correctly due to a last minute fatal bug, and our attempts at weekly web shows eventually died with the loss of the Video Section. However, we believe these losses made us as a whole more experienced and better prepared to bring some of the more awesome features such as Screeze being an OpenID provider(a direct result of Screeze Spaces work), the arcade, login and register using external services such as Facebook or Twitter, the ScreezeBar with ScreezeIM, lets not forget all of the community events and ScreezeExperience products(Urban Terror server, Screeze Desktop, etc.), and the list goes on and on.

Many people were responsible for our success but our users were and are the number one cause. We would like to especially thank the early testers and users of Screeze:

  • Suenos
  • EleminoP
  • mellis71094
  • JohnnyAndKlaudio
  • FROPLUME

We would also like to thank our current leaders in the community of Screeze(there will be repeats):

I personally also have some special thanks to throw out here:

  • Austin – For coming up with the idea for Screeze, hosting us, and dealing with me all the time
  • FROPLUME – For starting out with us and coming back :P He’s also on the Screeze Board
  • indie – For being awesome and helping out on the Screeze Board
  • naturemon – For being a cactus and helping out on the Screeze Board
  • Locolewis – For posting nonstop all the time and taking the almost painful humor against him like a champ
  • GoodgodfEllow – For providing the site with never ending fun and humor
  • MrBen – For being a great moderator while he was with us and for posting so much that months after he left he still has the number two spot in post counts and is the richest user in terms of ScreezeCash
  • JohnnyAndKlaudio – For helping us out with our first taste of exclusive content
  • Suenos – For being so interested in the beginnings of Screeze and actually winning the launch mystery event
  • One With a Deleted Account – For giving us experience with our first spam alerts and dealing with disorderly users *cough*

Hopefully no one should feel left out :D

Here’s to a great year two!

Be sure to leave a post in the memories thread on Screeze! http://screeze.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=871