Forums > Contributor Zone > Thank you for your contributions in 2023!

Hello, all!

We're right on the verge of 2024, so I wanted to take a moment to thank you all for the contributions you've made to the site in 2023.

It's no secret that our community is smaller than it once was. Not everyone enjoys writing about games anymore, or even playing them. We get older. We find new responsibilities. We divide our time among multiple passions.

But if you're here, video games clearly remain important to you. You recognize, as I do, that there is value in sharing that passion with others.

I hope HonestGamers will remain a natural place for you to share that passion for many years to follow. I'm not always as active as I would like to be myself, with my day job and my fiction projects and my recent health issues occupying much of my time. But I lurk a lot, even if you don't see me posting. I handle a lot of tasks on the back end, along with my partner in crime, the other Jason.

It has been a joy seeing you all continue to use the site exactly as I always intended. I love seeing you all write about games I never heard of, for a variety of platforms. I like learning about games that might interest me, and I like getting to know some of you through your excellent writing. I even like seeing new writing about games I know well, because remembering milestones is also great fun.

In years to come, I hope that our community can grow, that more people will discover what we have here (something truly special, I think) and become an involved part of that process. In the meantime, I just wanted to say: thank you for your continued support, whether you've been posting here for literal decades, or you just started in the last year or two. Please continue to share your impressions on the games you're playing and loving (or not loving). Every single review we post makes the site a better resource than it was before, a resource we can all be proud of because we have built this together and it educates or entertains people we'll never meet or hear from.

I hope you all had a good 2023. I look forward to sharing 2024 with each of you!

Jason

"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." - John F. Kennedy on reality

"What if everything you see is more than what you see--the person next to you is a warrior and the space that appears empty is a secret door to another world? What if something appears that shouldn't? You either dismiss it, or you accept that there is much more to the world than you think. Perhaps it really is a doorway, and if you choose to go inside, you'll find many unexpected things." - Shigeru Miyamoto on secret doors to another world2