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Thank You!
Those thanks go out to all of you: members of the SoylentNews community.
Maybe you are a member of staff who tries to keep things running — or keep the stories coming. A registered user who has been here before this site even went live. Someone who just signed up recently. Even an Anonymous Coward? Yes you, too!
I thank you for staying with us all these years. For submitting the stories. For writing the comments... and moderating them!
The history of this site has been well documented in our prior birthday announcements. I've collected links to them for those who would like to take a walk down memory lane or to learn of how we got our start:
Since this since went live, we have had over 950,000 comments (WOW!),