Oh you know, not much. University life was big for a while, hurt my neck/back so I'm in and out a lot on hold for now. Crait knows this too well when we tried working with Slack a few months ago but I had one life event after another and just dissipated into nothing. SORRY!
Seeing the older users online on occasion is really nice. Seeing the online users who are located closer to me then what I was before is scary. However Toronto is fantastic.
It's also intimidating seeing some people and where they did go. Look at Surenix/Thientam he as far as I recall did work on WorkFlow which was bought by Apple. Yet it seems like yesterday we all wanted to love or murder each other. I'm not in a field or a profession that I want yet and everything is side jobs/small game but I enjoy it. For the time being.
I mostly just really miss Forums in general. The way they preserve, the way things were at that time is incredible and isn't something you get anymore, all our communications is just temporary. Forums were a place to come where you know you didn't need to worry about mostly saying or doing the wrong thing and a lot of people accepted you regardless. Coding/hacking are things that have stuck by me though I still suck. Image and tag / photo manipulations / tutorials all that kind of stuff as almost completely vanished. f**k you very much Instagram.
I remember people like Surenix or CLMT who were starting Image/Design forums on Invisionfree then Zeta. It was a power craze and the things that came out of some of us were to this day still inspiring, some of the designs and themes those two and others created were beyond what I thought was possible. I still have Forum Skin Mockups for some old "regular" places most of us visited and the skill to do today wouldn't be far matched. I know with the loss of a lot of image hosts that we can't see some of these anymore, but the few I have save make me glad I got to be apart of that time.
We've all literally have gone through so many iterations of so many things (consoles, phones, software, hardware, whatever) that it is so hard to keep up, but just as hard to keep up with the people you met. I'm glad I did, and even if I can't remember you all, even if we hardly ever talked, whether I know your real name or anything like that. I'm glad it happened
/Yeah I'm still a male, sorry to disappoint!