10 years on Wincustomize
A quick review of my personal experience
Thursday, March 24, 2011 by Snowman | Discussion: Community
I have been a member of the skinning community for almost 1½ decade. I can proudly say that I probably have had contact with more skinnable applications than most people have ever heard of, and more skins
As it can be seen by my user number (109), I was part of the first bundle of users standing in line when Wincustomize opened the doors back in 2001.
I joined the site exactly 10 years ago to this day, March 24th.
Pre-Wincustomize I had been hanging around on the best website ever dedicated to skinning, Skinz.org aka The Brown Site.
Alot of other Wincustomize users started their skinning carreer on that site too.
Anyway, back to Wincustomize. 
It's been an overall fun decade on this, the last site purely dedicated to skinning.
Off course, there are other skin-sites but they play no major part in the world of skinning.
DeviantArt? No. DevArt is not a skin-site. It's an ART site with skins.
They only started out as a "replacement" for Skinz.org, but grew into being so much more.
I "celebrated" my 10th year on DevArt back in October 2010.
After the demise of Skinz.org the whole community was in a state of turmoil - now what?
Alot of people (re-)settled on/for Customize.org, the first skin-site. Some moved on to the new big thing, DeviantArt.
Other sites to emerged, hoping to be the new Skinz.org (I guess). None have yet to succeed, imo.
Anyway, instead of settleing on just one site, I hit'em all including Wincustomize, but my "main" site ended up being Skinbase,
where I in fact ended up being head-admin for two years.
I must have done something right over there because Stardock big-man Brad Wardell had noticed me, and personally suggested me as
Wincustomize moderator to the then current Mod-crew.
I started as moderator/wizop back in September/October 2003, and have held that title now for 7½ years.
I am currently in no way as visible as the rest of the Mod-crew, for personal reasons. I stick to pure moderation and leave the user relations
to the rest. I am hard but very fair in my modding, though some artists think otherwise. I rate'em as I see'em, not looking at who made what.
We've over the years seen our fair share of ego-artists claiming foul-play when we've either rejected, low-rated or sent their precious babies to the artists Personal Page. Well.... Live with it or find something else to do.
10 years of Wincustomize...
Did we ever believe it'd ever get this far and this big? 10 years ago, yeah easily.
Doing the same today is a whole different deal. Skinning as a whole is dieing, so starting a Wincustomize sized skin-site today would, be suicidal.
Is Wincustomize doomed then? Well, nothing is forever certain, but we're not going anywhere in the foreseeable furture.
We're only usefull if we've got users who bother to visit/use the site, and we've got the best users on the interweb.
We try to do anything possible to make their daily experience on the site an enjoyable time, and I believe that we overall are doing a great job at just that. 
Personally I hope to be a part of Wincustomize when we turn 20.
Happy 10th anniversary to Wincustomize and it's users!
Reply #2 Thursday, March 24, 2011 6:14 PM
It is somewhat surprising how time does fly by.
Reply #3 Thursday, March 24, 2011 8:00 PM
Happy Anniversary Morten! 
You have helped make this site what it is today, and I'm glad you're here! 
Reply #4 Friday, March 25, 2011 12:39 AM
Congratulations to you for sticking to it this long.
Reply #5 Friday, March 25, 2011 4:50 AM
Takk for alt du har gjort (og enda gjør) her på WC! Du har vært en utrolig viktig del av siten og har alltid støttet meg personlig 
Hurra for Snæmanden!
WC ruler!
Reply #6 Friday, March 25, 2011 7:53 AM
Happy anniversary, you old bastard/mate/pal .....they're all interchangable if yer an Aussie....
So....
Exactly how many of MY skins do you have, eh?....
Reply #7 Friday, March 25, 2011 9:05 AM
Call me anything you like, but normal. 
That rather much depends.
All of'em, I guess.
With over 56.000 skins/themes for over 200 different applications collected over a 13 year span, I'd say the odds of having'em all are in my favor.
Reply #8 Friday, March 25, 2011 7:54 PM
Happy Anniversary Morten! It wouldn't be the same without you.
Forget Paul's skins....... how many of WOM's do you have 
Damn we're all getting old together. Hehe
Reply #11 Friday, March 25, 2011 8:11 PM
Thanks for being part of what makes this place great Snowball.
Reply #13 Saturday, March 26, 2011 3:17 PM
Rather than starting a whole new thread, I figured I'd hop on yours Today, the 26th of March, marks my 10 years on Wincustomize. Granted, I haven't been participating much lately, but I still lurk in the shadows
Congrats Snowy, it's been a while mate, huh?
Happy 10th to the both of us and to everyone else who will be celebrating a decade on Wincustomize this year
Reply #14 Saturday, March 26, 2011 8:15 PM
Mack?!? 
Dang... Long time indeed, buddy! 2, 3 years? Nah... must be more like 5....
Hope you're still doing ok!
Reply #15 Saturday, March 26, 2011 9:24 PM
Reply #16 Saturday, March 26, 2011 9:35 PM
Congrats Snowman. I'm here five years going back to '06. Sometime this year I'll celebrate my fifth. Probably crack open a fresh cuppajoe, grab my lappy and do stuff. Hope for ten more and then some.
WC RULES!
Reply #17 Saturday, March 26, 2011 9:57 PM
Wow, we found no.109! Where's the one? The one must be the god of skinning...Please appear before us no.1 if you really exist.
Reply #18 Sunday, March 27, 2011 5:24 AM
User # 1 is of course frogboy, zigboom: http://frogboy.wincustomize.com/
Reply #19 Sunday, March 27, 2011 6:33 AM
Hope you're still doing ok!
2 or 3 sounds about right, truth be told I've lost track of how long it's been, but I'm pretty sure I'd dropped the face off the Earth right around the time I switched my passion from skinning to watercooling and that was in 2009
I'm all good, thanks, we need to catch up sometime
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Reply #1 Thursday, March 24, 2011 6:11 PM
Glad to been here with ya bro
