Exactly 365 days ago, at this hour, Watchtail.com went live with its first server.

I was going to do something more exciting, perhaps...throw confetti or whatever, but I'm still plugging away at coding stuff. Who knows, I just might have it ready for the one-year anniversary of the first live transmission, which is still a couple days off.

So yeah, it's been a crazy year. And to think, this all started rather by accident! I was just sitting around watching a channel on another video streaming website, having a conversation about how furry artists were getting banned whether they'd shown inappropriate content or not. I sat back for a moment and thought, "What would a furry [streaming website] look like?"

By 11:00 AM the next day, I had my answer. That was in mid-February. By March 1, I'd figured out pretty much everything involved, and from that point on it was all just putting it into practice. On March 15, the Ides of March, watchtail.com became a reality.

A year later and I'm still trying to get it to work the way I envisioned it that first day... and at the same time, it's nothing like that first glimmer. For one thing, it's way more popular than I ever thought it would be - all without a single ad, and funded entirely by user support! So thank you. I cannot stress that enough.

Of course, there was also the trolling. I knew there would be trolling, and I must admit I thank them too. Otherwise, I would've considered the site "good enough" and you'd be stuck with that dull interface I came up with the first morning, with a busted login system and no options page at all.

Break out the cake!