FMHY was made on April 29th, 2018, which means we're now 8 years old. I remember the exact day. I was going for a run, and during the run I was thinking about things like awesome-piracy, a list similar to FMHY, made a few years prior to us. I had also seen a comment on /r/Firefox, where someone had organized their favorite extensions into a nice list, and thought to myself, I could do that...
So I did.
I made a subreddit, named it something I thought people would find funny, and posted a list of sites I found useful at the time. I couldn't have ever fathomed how much I was about to change my life, how many people it would touch, and just how many individuals would come forward to help make it better.
Over the years, we've gotten an absolutely wonderful amount of support from people. It would be impossible to name every single person who has helped improve FMHY in some way, but it was their contributions and willingness to work together that made FMHY what it is.
Thank you to all the site owners for running the websites we post to FMHY. Thank you to all the developers who have turned it into a website, created bots for us, and helped FMHY survive. Thank you to all our link testers and contributors who give us their thoughts and advice. Thank you to our moderators for helping us keep chats calm and our active support crew for always helping those in need. Thank you to the thousands of people who have sent us cool sites to check out.
Together over the course of these last 8 years, we've transformed that 1 small list into 26 huge lists, with hundreds of subsections and over 27 thousand sites listed in total. We've had contributors from nearly every country on earth and met so many incredibly unique and kind people. This project has allowed me to spend so much of my time on earth contributing directly to something I believe in, and I cannot put into words how grateful I am for that.
A long time ago, we made a post promising you all that we'd never give up on this, and I know I speak for a lot of people when I say we plan to stick to that promise. Here's to harmony, to coalescence, and most importantly, to loving and working beside our fellow man into a brighter future.
TLDR - I wish you all infinite peace and happiness. We're truly grateful for the amount of love and support we've been given over these last 8 years. It's been unimaginably awesome.
