User blog comment:UltranovaXL/Something Special/@comment-1669199-20170616010726

I remember all of these time periods, except for 2008, since I joined back in late 2009, although from what I recall the Wiki didn't look much different from how it did in 2008. Really, looking at the 2008 screenshot, I'm feeling very nostalgic right now... The Wiki itself, the community back then, and my early days during and before 2011... Didn't realize how much I miss those days.

If I remember correctly, I made the front page icons you see in the 2011 screenshot a few months before the holidays started, since around that time everyone felt that a redesign of the front page was in order. I volunteered to help out with the redesign, and while other Users handled the general layout of the front page I made the icons in question based on the input on what everyone wanted to see/what they felt looked nice at the time. I had fun helping out with the project.

I think Slug-Drones was the one who made the background you see in the 2013 screenshot. It was around this point I think a number of the older Users I knew from when I first joined began leaving, but also when a fair number of new faces started showing up, although I think only a handful of them are still around, too. Other than this, not a whole lot was different in terms of the general atmosphere the place had.

As for 2015 and beyond, I don't have much else to say. Policy changes continued to occur as the Wiki and it's content evolved, and of course it was around late 2015 when I think I started to see a decline in the general number of Users who were on here at a time. As for appearances, as you can see, the layout of the front page for 2015 closely resembles the one for 2011, although smaller and more concise (although why it's showing only the "Heroes" tab/icon I can only guess), and the background is similar to 2013's background. 2013 has a similar background to 2013, although the front page layout is different, more closely resembling the layout shown in 2008. 2016 has a solid blue background although the front page layout hasn't changed much, and now for the current year of 2017 we've cycled back to the background from 2015, and the front page layout has tabs again with screenshots/icons that lead to various sections of content around the Wiki.

Kinda interesting how certain design choices seemed to have keep coming back in some form. Anyway, here's my bit of reminiscing.