The ChemBase Anniversary

[Explud]

Hello everyone!

10 years ago on this day, I registered a domain thechembase.com and together with our mutual friend Caleb, known to you as WhiteNoise, we started creating this space.

I was responsible for the technical part, he was responsible for the design, and together we were responsible for the overall ideas of the resource.

This was a response to the fact that the label considered the official forum to be something irrelevant and unnecessary, while in my opinion and the opinion of many it was still a wonderful and convenient place for discussions.

We have always tried to bring a special comfort and tried to preserve the atmosphere of communication that originated in the original place.

I am grateful to everyone who has helped us all these years, fought against bots, brought good and interesting news and facts, digged samples info and shared recordings of performances and DJ sets.

Of course, my main thanks go to Caleb and Julius.

Unfortunately, I don't know the exact reasons why they left this place, and this brings me particular bitterness.

Unfortunately, I also don't have the opportunity to make a vinyl giveaway or some physical stuff with merch, I don't know how the guys from discord make it. I hope for your understanding.

The only gift that I can bring is the lifting of my last moratorium. But I also hope for your prudence in discussing serious topics.

Love is all.

x
Alexander

[sandelic]

It's been ten years already?
My, time flies, doesn't it?
Feels like not so long ago...
Anyway, Happy Chemanniversary!
Oh, and of course, thank you all, especially Explud, for keeping this forum up.

[whirlygirl]

Happy Anniversary to this special corner of the internet. Thank you SO much Alexander for keeping this space available and for keeping it going for all of these years. It can be a thankless job for a million different  reasons, but your commitment to keeping Chembase going is big part of the community built here out of our nerdy love and appreciation of the Chems. <3 

And of course, many thanks to Caleb as well for *insisting* the forum continue onward all those'd years ago, when the powers that be were going to pull the plug. And to Julius for treating the forum as he would if it were his own welcoming home. It shows. Wherever they may be, I hope they are well and that one day they'll wander back here. And that said, big love to everyone who has engaged here in some way be it lurking or joining in, sleuthing, predicting, speculating, and of course bullshitting over the past 10 years. The world has been through a lot, and this place and all of us have been through a lot also! I hope this place will still be around for another 10 years. Love Is All !