Thank you for that, I really appreciate it. And I agree completely, as you can imagine.
I was going to post this as a comment in the 1 year article, but it seems to be closed for comments now, so here you go: Reef Addicts with its blog + article only format (no forums) is definitely unique. To me it is a site for sharing my (our) reefing journey through our blogs, which is great and unique, not a site for technical discussions in forums with hundreds of posts (also important but a different need, a different mood, covered by many other existing sites). Sure, people share their stories in forum based sites with "build threads" but that is so cumbersome, so not the right format. As I follow other addicts' blogs I can read the specific post, then read back to see more of that reef or that reefer's story, get the context of his/her experience, something only a blog format can give. Congrats for what you have created, keep up the good work!