Departing Frontier Station, for deep space, Commanders

Barking_Mad

Barking_Mad
Brett C said:
Greetings Commanders,

Let me start by saying that all of you are awesome, dedicated, devoted, maybe a little fanatic, and ultimately, true to the community. From the explorers and alien hunters to our PVP players, and everyone in-between, all of you make Elite what it is. Without you, the Elite Dangerous community wouldn't be where it has evolved to today.

Watching and helping the Elite community grow on the forums, from about a mere 15 of you in the old Elite section (you know who you are on these forums from way back when!) to the many thousands of you today, with a heavy heart, the 6th of September will be my last day at Frontier Developments.

It's been an incredible four years serving as one of your Community Managers. It has been a great pleasure seeing the yearly Frontier stream, watching the donations for charity come in for a great cause. I love seeing the events that you all in the community have performed over the years, from Buckyball to Distant Worlds, Fuel Rats rescue live streams, even the PVP community events. Watching the sheer excitement within the community when the ‘Unknown Artefacts’ came to be, and when Thargoids made their grand entrance, was something I won't forget. Every week, and continuing to this day, the /r/EliteDangerous subreddit always had something interesting posted - be it a discussion, media or screenshots, or a meme ( or an attempt thereof ;) ). I think Space Booty, the 'this is fine' comic, and the 'how to land' brick gif are still my favorites on there! It goes to show the real dynamism of the community, and how different everyone's playstyle is!

To give a little bit of history, I came to the Frontier forums in 2006 as a volunteer moderator primarily for the RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 section. If it weren't for Michael Brookes putting out his hand back in 2006, I wouldn't have been here today, and I am gratefully indebted to him for opening the door back then. Fast forward to 2015, and I was brought on as your Forum Community Manager and begun the long journey to growing out the Elite community on the forums.

Looking at today and in retrospect, I am humbled to see the Elite community so active and thriving on various social media sites and numerous other communities. Not to forget, there are so many Discord servers for Elite, that you all managed to make me reach the 100-server limit cap for quite some time! Every community and group within Elite are unique – I’ve seen it time and time again when browsing (lurking) through various servers that you all have invited me to idle on.

Over the years, I've met many faces, talked to many people - be it real life or virtually, maybe both in some cases! I've met many great people with my tenure at Frontier; there's no doubt about that.

With my parting words, looking forward before I turn the page into a new chapter, the future for Elite is bright... good things come in due time.


Thank you for the wonderful times, Commanders.

Respectfully,
Brett C
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Best wishes on your new journey, whatever it is! I actually just realised that I thought of you as more of a volunteer mod than a Frontier one, which shows what a good job you have done!

One question. This doesn't mean @Sir.Tj is in charge does it?

DOOMED!
 

Barking_Mad

Barking_Mad
Zac Antonaci said:
Hey everyone,

I just wanted to take a moment to jump in this thread and thank Brett for his many years of support. Brett joined Frontier officially at pretty much the same time as I did (although many of you will remember him from the community during the Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 days) and working closely with him has been an absolute privilege.

Brett has dedicated so much to supporting the community and moderator team and I'm sure everyone in the community will join me in wishing Brett the absolute best for the future.

Thanks,

Zac
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Holds on to Zac's trouser legs

PLEASE DON'T LEAVE, DOES NOTHING STAY THE SAME!!!!!?
 

Ozric

Volunteer Moderator
Ozric
😭

Man, it's the end of an era... I'm struggling to try and find the right words...

Thanks so much for your help and dedication over the last few years for me being a mod, and far more before that. You have been an absolute rock for these forums, they certainly wouldn't be as active or as vibrant without your input over the last 5 years or so. From a mod point of view you've been there whenever we needed you, I sometimes wonder if you sleep at all as you would always be there regardless of timezones. Even if we had just Flamingo'd up. Not that we ever made mistakes... Though I'm sure it was someone else's fault if we did 🤔

From a user point of view, you have always been clear and concise when communicating with us. You've kept things in order and somehow managed to keep your head throughout everything that's been thrown at you over the years. And there's been some big things that have had to be dealt with on the forums, before and after I became a mod.

I'm incredibly sad to see you go, though maybe not all the music choices ;) I wish you nothing but the best for the future and wherever you end up next they will be incredibly lucky to have you.

o7
 
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