Vgcollect was started in the spring of 2011 by two friends, Matt and Scott. I was among the first to sign up, and I put in a lot of work cleaning up the initial database. By the fall of 2011, I became the first staff member. We really started to grow in 2012, but we had a series of server issues that ended up deleting a lot of work, and causing some people to leave. Matt got it sorted out, and made sure backups were being kept in case of future issues. In 2013, we moved to new forum software, that’s why you see the most users on that date, people wanted to check out the new stuff. I forget exactly when, but during part of this, Matt started his own business so he didn’t really have the time to devote to the site anymore. Scott also left to do other things. By default, I sort of ran things for a while and Matt and I actually talked about the possibility of me becoming the official leader. I was reluctant to do so, because I’m not a programmer, and I’d have to find someone to do most of the work for me. Matt’s friend, Jason was brought in to be the new programmer, and I became more of an idea guy. My role here has changed over the years because real life gets in the way now and then, but I love this place as much now as I did when I started. The community is awesome, and I’ve made some great friends, several of whom I’ve actually travelled to meet, and DashV even surprised me by flying in from California and showing up to my birthday party a couple months ago.