Thank You All For Making SF a Great Place

Just wanted to say thank you to all the members here that have been so supportive of their fellow members in chat and on the forum in 2016. This place exists so that when feeling at our lowest we have some place to go without concern for being judged or criticized for the thoughts in our heads or the feelings in our hearts. Hopefully, when things seem like there is nothing to live for and nobody left in the world that cares coming here was a chance to see that there are good people that still care.

We made a lot of changes to SF in the last year, and they would not have been possible without the many volunteers that not only offer the support and friendly advice, but also more of their time by volunteering to:

• Staff to help moderate chat and the forum to keep the trolls and spammers to a minimum while offering support as they can.
• Writers of articles and posts that help give a new perspective to peopel that are searching the internet for answers to their pain.
• Artists that have done memes and artwork for social media and articles.
• Facilitators that have helped set up extra in depth looks at some topics
• Developers that customized code to make chat and the forum more suited to our needs
• Hundreds of members that have given suggestions and ideas for helping to make SF a better place.

The supporters that were able to donate made it so that we were able to migrate to secure servers to keep SF safe from the hacks that had been an issue in the past. They also enabled a new chat platform that made it so all members were able to use chat instead of only a small percentage on the Java platform. Those are just a couple examples in addition to paying the monthly hosting fees and annual licensing fees so we can exist at all. I cannot thank all of our supporters enough but thank you!

This coming year we are looking at another major chat upgrade to eliminate the annoying issues of lost messages on pms so that you have to refresh, and making it so that having multiple tabs open causes lost messages. More information on that process will be coming in January.

We also intend to continue adding new resources to the front end / articles section of the website to include a downloadable resources section, and information and planning resources for topics like financial crisis management, and how to get emergency health/mental health care. Of course we would love to hear any other suggestions for resources that our members might feel were helpful so please share your ideas here, in the letters to admin section, or just by messaging any Admin or staff member.

Hi Ben, a big thanks to you and Lu for keeping this site together. I know there's a lot of work you both do that are behind the scenes and we appreciate it. Hope you have a good Christmas and New year.
Brian

I agree with Brian this amazing place would not even be possible without the work that both Ben and Lu do. Also, thank you for making it an inclusive space so everyone can find their niche and being so open to new ideas from even new people. Those risks can be hard to take, but your value on making it work for others makes it a thriving community. Thank you so much!

I don't know if you were a member here then @NYJmpMaster but it was me that got the having a break forum created, my iota :P

Thanks to everyone who has made SF what it is. I LOVE SF. I think everyone here knows that lol

Keep making SF and safe haven for those in distress and don't be too shy to say hi anyone

Thanks SF <3

Really grateful to this forum. I'm not sure what would have happened to me if I had not found this place. Thanks to all of you for keeping it up and running for us! Really love SF