hmm, this thread is being rather stubborn. maybe having some text in the body of the comment will help? TOP! (and sorry for spamming!)

*doffs TOP hat* 

alright last try and then i give up. TOP! and sorry for the spamming :/

oh my gosh this is crazy that two of us stumbled on this thread within two days of each other! we can now both be considered "noble pioneering CBers" XD

This post should hopefully top the thread? If not, I'll come back and top it again later. The thing is that when you're trying to top something, you have to wait until the first topping post shows up before making a second topping post. 

but yeah, I don't think the CB has changed much, although it definitely looks like it was a little wilder back in 2015 🙂 there are kind people and wonderful admins and so much creativity and laughter. hooray!

also, this is the perfect time to top this thread, because hopefully it will still be on the first page by Valentine's Day so that the returning CBers can have a look at it!

Alrighty, this should finally top the thread!

Woah a piece of CB history…

This is kind of crazy. But awesome. *makes mental note to come back and write a letter to future CBers*

this is crazy awesome! Thank you Poinsettia and pangolin for topping this 🙂 now to proceed with my own Letter to the Future~

[how to begin?] hi, I'm Hex. I'm in my middle teens right now… I've been on the CB for just over two years, I think. Seeing the previous posts on this thread is such a weird feeling because I recognize some of the names—CB reunion and exploring the back threads, mostly. Maybe in a few years someone'll be reading this and feel the same about me :0 or maybe y'all currently on the CB with me will be reading this and be like "wow Hex's letter is weird" XD [hi, dear reader and fellow CBer. How are you?]

I don't have any AEs—although I've had quite a few in the past that never lasted more than a few days/weeks. I'm hereby rechristening my CAPTCHA, now in a dragon form, (previously named Nox) as 'Chrysophylax' after a character from Farmer Giles of Ham, an extremely obscure Tolkien story. [the sheer number of commas in that sentence is ridiculous, I'm sorry]. CAPTCHAs are now five letters, but in 2015 they were four and I wonder how long they'll be whenever you read this.

I'm a Harry Potter nerd and an aspiring Tolkien fan—I feel like I can't quite call myself a Tolkien nerd until I've read the Silm, but I'm working on that. My Favorite Books Of All Time off the Top of my Head are To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis and The Rook by Daniel O'Malley. I love sci-fi and fantasy of all kinds, but usually adult/maybe YA.

I love the CB because everyone is so open to new ideas and identities and respectfully shares their arguments and opinions and amazing writing. I hope that's still the same—or even better—whenever you read this. My advice to any future CBers reading this [or current ones, I suppose]: be awesome supportive people and join many ski lodges!

Huh, wow! It's really cool reading this. Everthing seems pretty much the same- only no ski lodges? I don't think? And CAPTCHA's only had 4 letters instead of 5! *GASP* they've eVoLvEd I may come back later, we'll see. If I end up not, then HI future CBers, I'm Hawkstar. Okay, I actually want to come back now lol 

It’s so cool to read this thread! It’s a piece of the past. I can’t believe that some of these CBers are certified adults now. Some of the oldest might be 20 to 23 years old now. 

To Past CBers: We still have AEs and CAPTCHAS, but now the CAPTCHAS are five letters long.