Happy 3rd Anniversary!

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art by benzene.
srsly, i think she's the official ofuro artist now XD.


Has it honestly been another year?! Time really flew fast, and here we are, celebrating our third anniversary. Last year, we entered our second year with more than 450 members. This year, we have more than 700 members and many more visitors not registered in the comm (as proven by the 300k view count). Thank you so much for being a part of Ofurotaimu and making it grow.

Even though this site has remained mainly an info site, I'm very happy that sometimes we do act as a big community and share in a single project or cause. You might remember Ofurosmiling from early this year, as well as random stuff like our anniversary greeting to Weekly Utaran, posts in our fanwork community, and even the old ones like the Ofuro Poetry Taimu. XD

Of course, our growth wouldn't be possible without our moderator stephieku and our mods seraphictune and southerncross. This year, I have been a terrible admin because of work, and without them, this site would've been gone! So, I'm really grateful for them for helping me keep the site alive. There might have been delays (tons) and skips (tons), but I thank everyone for their patience and assistance.

This year, we still have a lot of things to iron out, and we probably need some more people to help us with the work (to be honest, with just 4 staff members and a load of sites, the updating becomes very hectic). But for now, here are some things you should look forward to:

- Our revamped portal site (www.ofurotaimu.net) is now a functioning website instead of an aggregate site! While we write rankings, spotlights, guides, and news/nama pools in the comm, we will write event reports, editorials, reviews, and in-depth news stuff in the main site. Please do visit the main site as soon as we have content up!

- We intend to update our guides since they've been written uh...more than a year ago and Nico Nico has changed drastically after that time. Hopefully we'll include wallkthroughs of Nico Zero, Mikubook, and other sites of interest.

- We'll include the "Vocaloid Midyear Special Rankings" to our list of rankings, so please wait for all of them next week (I'll do my best)!.

- Aside from the odottemita spotlights (which was a bit discontinued, I think), we'll also be continuing the ensoushitemita spotlights. Our contributor asatenshi and I will be taking turns in writing it!

There are other plans underway, but we're still considering the time constraints and effort they'll take before we launch projects. For now, we'll work hard on maintaining the comm and making sure the writeups are on time ^^;;. Then, we'll think of what to do to improve our sites.


What about you? Do you have any suggestions on making Ofurotaimu a better site? Do you have ideas you want to share with us or requests you want to ask? Please do help us out by telling us things you want to see and we'll try to gather them and mull over them and then try to implement them! You may put your suggestions/comments/requests in the comments below.

Once again, thanks for being with Ofurotaimu and hopefully, we'll continue to grow for as long as we can! ♥