(I really hope I chose the most appropriate forum for this...) I wanted to make a post expressing my thanks to and the rest of the staff here, for keeping Subeta going despite all the difficulties. I know this website is a labor of love and passion, not something that's exactly profitable in this day and age. It's a relic of the past and one that I am so, so thankful to still see surviving.

It's been really hard to try to make this post; I feel like there's so much I could say but I keep getting choked up and it's hard to figure out how to put much of these feelings into words, so I think I'll keep it pretty short and sweet for now. I know that keeping Subeta running has taken a lot of hard work and energy and investment, that it's been stressful beyond what I can even imagine, and I just want to say thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you, Subeta team, for devoting so much of your time and energy to keeping this website not just going but moving forward. Thank you, Keith, for working so hard on rebuilding this website that you created as a literal teenager, so that it can continue to exist for years to come, without any sort of pay for so long now, and while being the one to deal so directly with all the user frustration and the bugs and everything else! Thank you all for sticking with Subeta through all the difficulties over the years.

In this new era of the Internet, everything feels like it's filled with AI and data-stealing and bots. It's impossible to know what can be trusted and what's even real, and that's just the way things are now. I'm so grateful to continue to have Subeta as a safe place, my Internet home in this depressing, exhausting new era of the worldwide web that feels so much bleaker than it ever used to. Even with all the ups and downs over the years, this website has been a place of creativity and comfort for me for over half my life. I would be a different person without Subeta. With the wonderful friendships I've formed through this website, the ways that Subeta has fueled my creativity and inspired me and brought me excitement and joy, I think I would be worse-off.

Maybe, with the limited site resources these days, we'll never be able to have plots or events quite how we used to, and that's a shame and difficult to think about. I know we all wish things were different. But I also know that I'm going to be here on Subeta for the long haul, for whatever events we're able to have, and I'm so glad to know, too, that staff has the passion and determination to keep things going. Even if it feels like we're moving at a snail's pace sometimes when resources are stretched thin, even if the website keeps breaking and new updates refuse to work the way they're supposed to and everyone is frustrated-- you haven't given up on Subeta after all these years. I don't ever want to give up on this site, either.

I love Subeta so much, and I'm so grateful to the people that have kept it going. I'm-- it's kind of hard to maintain my tone as I try to think of how to end this, I'm crying a lot as I write this? Just, thank you, so very much, for all the work over... two decades now, which is still a bit hard to believe, hah. Here's to Subeta, and seeing this site continue to survive and grow in 2026 and beyond. <3

I just want to express that I'm grateful that Subeta exists. It's like coming home into the warmth during a blizzard, bundling up on the couch with some coffee, and cuddling with the cats. The rest of the internet is in such a terrible state, and I want nothing to do with sites that are algorithmically-driven, or encourage arguments/strife to drive engagement, or fill users' feeds with AI slop. Subeta actually sparks my creativity, rather than siphons it away. I feel motivated to create on here, or develop goals that are both fulfilling and casual enough to complete that I don't feel rushed to do them as quickly as possible--just on my own time.

I admire Keith and the staff who continue to make such a space possible despite everything about the modern internet driving sites to treat humans like cattle or worse. It feels like a minor miracle that Subeta's still around and has a few hundred active users daily. I wish more people knew about it, too, to contribute to the community here!

I'm excited to see how the site develops and changes as Kumos keeps getting updated and created. I also want to get more involved with the community in some way; admittedly that's difficult as I'm in a PhD program, and that eats up a lot of my time and energy.

I'm so happy to see this thread because lately I was thinking how negative users have been when I'm just really so grateful of this little slice of the internet and the time and work the staff dedicate to you. The community is amazing and the hiccups of transitioning to the next generation of subeta (meaning Kumos) are part of the quirks and fun. I really think this is an exceptional place and I'm so happy it still exists. You guys (Subeta staff and community) are amazing and doing great things. Thanks for keeping on!