MFGG Celebrates its 25th Anniversary!

[DJ Yoshiman]

Happy birthday MFGG! 25 years is quite a long run. We've outlasted so many other online platforms, both nonprofit communities and commercial entities. Technology has changed a bit in this quarter-century - most of our early users accessed MFGG over dial-up!

It's now been a couple of decades since I first heard about MFGG. I wasn't there for the very earliest years, but I've now been on MFGG for more than half my life, and making games has definitely had a significant influence on my education and career path.

It makes me happy to see MFGG chugging along after all this years. A lot of smaller, more creative communities have died out, after all. Sometimes it's been because of technical gremlins or internal drama, but often it's because big corporate-owned social media platforms have had a deleterious effect on smaller sites. On the other hand, I feel like there's some pushback against the more corporate and polarized platforms out there, and I hope people keep making wacky fangames and enjoying the smaller, more artisanal parts of the Internet (like MFGG!).

May MFGG have many more of these milestone anniversaries!

Got to say, amidst all the negativity and anxiety and other assortments of deliberations that current social media provides, it actually is refreshing to come back to this place and enjoy the net positivity and relaxed environment. As you said, there was definitely drama, and we were a bunch of younger individuals with no one experienced enough to "guide" us through manners and decor, but it still seemed so much more peaceful and good-vibes compared to anything else I seem to get scrolling through my phone these days.