cK 10th Anniversary

[Stardust]

Wow 10 years!! That's incredible. Happy anniversary cK!!

I had joined initially for the bots/programs and hadn't had much interest outside of that, but eventually after a few years I finally found myself engaging in the community here. And I'm kicking myself for not doing it sooner. Everyone here that I've gotten to know is so nice and helpful, and I know I've said it before on other occasions, but I def mean it when I say that this is one of the best communities I've ever joined. I'm so happy to have found this site.

Thanks so much to Joe and staff for everything you guys do for cK. And thanks to the community as well for being such an awesome group of people!!
I'm looking forward to celebrating more milestones with you all ^_^

[Lyrichord]

Happy 10th anniversary everyone!

Where do I begin? THANK YOU, especially to @(you need an account to see links) and @(you need an account to see links) and all the other staff, for making CK what it is! I joined over 6 years ago but I'm so glad I'm finally active as of the past 18 months or so. I love baking and that was the first event I joined as Lyrichord, instead of lurking and using the trade forums. I joined CK after many years of loving Neopets but being tired of how excruciatingly hard it was to get what I wanted ... turns out I'm not a pro gamer. Thank you to everyone who makes this a safe space for that. I'm now in appreciation of the QOL scripts and even more so for the community here!

Addendum: Ryu's are marvelous. Thank you Bat for all the wonderful interactive userbars like this one and the music bar, too. I can hardly write a line of html code, nevermind dreaming up the creations you and the team come up with for the site.

I'd like to add: thank you to everyone who has let me practice making userbars and matching backgrounds / aesthetics and all that for them ... and then sporting them around the site! I've done various artistic things before but nothing like this, and like many here have said, I tend towards being more perfectionistic than not. A year into the pandemic, I found myself really needing a creative outlet, and preferably a new one. Turns out mine was working with pixels and textures and userbars on CK. I've been so surprised by everyone's gratitude and everyone's comments have truly brought a smile to my face. I love how creative this community is, and the opportunity to make these things and try new concepts and techniques for fun!

I could write a bunch more but for now I'll just say thank you everyone. Happy holidays!

[Sephora]

Happy 10th Anniversary!

I originally joined clraik for the marketplace - it was the best for buying NC Items. I thought the $1 per cap was great value and I've been able to find even the rarest wearables being sold here. This place really does make Neopets dreams come true.

It's crazy to think that I hardly posted for the first 2 years I had an account here! I used to be a newbie account with no userbars, no avatar, under 10 posts, and forgettable username. I only lurked and shopped until October 2020 when I listened to the (you need an account to see links) on a whim. I listened to Bat talk about obtaining his Fire Krawk and Joe talk about exploiting Invasion of Meridell to the point it got removed and I thought "Wow these people are really cool!" I enjoyed the podcast from the staff so much that I started actively posting.

I've never said it before, but this is one of my favorite places on the internet. I have been coming to clraik.com more than I go to neopets.com. The people I've met on here are kind, intelligent, and funny. Everyone here understands how deep I am into Neopets when most of my closest friends in real life don't.

My favorite memories in no particular order:

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Cheers to this forum and here's to many more years!

[xChoppie]

Happy Anniversary!

I chanced upon this site when I was searching for an autobuyer. :p
Then I started a new hobby of collecting the UBs (looking forward to more Ryu backgrounds and paint cans too).
I'm also glad that I got the opportunity to participate in a couple of events such as Defenders of Neopia where I was able to make new friends.

Thank you guys for being such an awesome community and I'm looking forward to collecting more UBs (any chances of a baking event again for the baked UB?)

[Wormjaw]

Congrats on the 10 years ck and Joe~!
Hopefully there will be many more. <3

[♥ honeycomb ♥]

Happy 10th Anniversary, everyone!!

I've been around for a few years, but havn't started coming out of my shell in the social side of community until last year. It's been so incredible meeting so many of you and practicing my social skills in such a friendly and warm community - I hope there's many many more years to come. It's so crazy to think that I have been able to learn so much and enjoy my little online life in so many ways through a Neopets forum lmao. Thank you staff for creating such a wonderful & safe tight knit part of the internet! I'm so excited to continue to blossom and be apart of the cK community.

A big shoutout to @(you need an account to see links) for being such a wonderful friend for so long, and for being the reason I gained enough confidence to even start participating in the community here. Because of you I've met so many more wonderful people, I'll never know how to properly thank you! I simply adore you to the moon and back.

And thank you to some of the wonderful new friends I've met via the cK community, you guys bring me so many smiles idk even know how to put it into words!! @(you need an account to see links) @(you need an account to see links) @(you need an account to see links)

[valora]

happy 10th anniversary!!
I've only really been posting in the community for about a year and a half, but it's an amazing place! I'm not too active but I love participating in the events (the halloween one was a ton of fun) and collecting pretty userbars. My best memory here was probably when the Ryu userbars were released (I still don't understand how we basically have a tamagotchi in a userbar on here?? Bat is amazing) and the race to unlock them + figure out how to get all of the scenes. Because of ck I've tried my hand at pixel art, digital art, animation, and writing a horror story which are things I never thought I'd enjoy so much :')

thanks so much to all the staff who make this community so great

[TsUNaMy WaVe]

Happy 10th anniversary, ck!!!!


My story, as for a lot of people, is tied to being on-and-off on Neo.
When I got back to Neo on 2014 after another hiatus, I was already 20 years old. So I was way less naive and knew stuff could be easier, or in other words - cheating will make my Neo life better. At the time I knew a bit about the CheatEngine software (I used it previously to get crazy scores on FB games lmao), so I tried to use what I knew on Neo games. It worked to some degree, but not enough to make anything easier or more fun. So I decided to google "neopets" and "cheatengine", and that's when I found ck!
I signed up and was active for a little bit, but soon enough I left Neo again and so also left ck... next time I was back was in 2019, and this time I hopped right back into ck, bought the lifetime VIP, and started being way more active in both Neo and the forums. And I don't intend to leave for another hiatus anytime soon!

I really love ck, it's one of only 2 forums I'm still active in (and the better one lmao). I love forums more than other places on the internet, and I'm so happy ck is such a great place even after all these years. Thank you, everyone in the staff, for making and maintaining such an amazing place for so long. Here for another 10 years!

Edit: after reading every other comment here, I decided to add a little more, lol.
Here are some of my favorite ck memories:

• Defenders of ck event - no words can describe this special experience for me. Some other old forums I was in had all kinds of activities, but nothing was as ambitious and as fun as DoCK. It was hard, but working together with everyone and see all of the submissions after every phase was worth everything.
• Last year NaNoWriMo - I still can't believe I wrote a whole 30k fic in a month... there isn't many stuff I'm proud of myself for, but this one is definitely is. And even though I still don't get to write a lot, I did write another small piece since then and I actually felt how my experience there helped me.
• Userbars - seeing a new one and starting the hunt for it, it's a recurring fun activity here in the forums, and I just love how we all come together - everyone always have such wonderful and creative ideas about how to get them! I love being part of all this, and of this amazing community in general.

[LibraryFaerie]

Happy anniversary cK!!!!! I've really loved reading everyone's posts on this thread. What an incredible community. I always have a tab open for cK and have a shortcut on the home screen of my phone (gotta keep an eye on my Ryu) which I can't say about any other site on the internet.

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Cheers to 10 years, and to hopefully another 10 to come!

[Politoed]

I've been here for a lil while I dont social alot but I have say this forum has some the best people... totally beats the neoboards! Heres to 10 more years!!