On this day 5 years ago I made my first commit, or code addition, to the Innectis codebase. Wow a lot of time has gone by. I can't believe it's been 5 years already! This has been the longest continual project I have ever been a part of in terms of frequency of contributing.
Lynxy was the one who suggested to Hretsam that I could be a candidate for developer. To be honest, she wasn't even sure if I would be able to perform the task. Alas, I got my development environment setup and downloaded the source code for Innectis. I was not prepared for what happened next.
My goodness was I overwhelmed... this was easily the largest project that I had ever taken on in my life and it hit me hard. One of my own personal projects has 5,586 actual lines of code in it. This, however, is over 10 times that by now. I'm used to it.
Shortly after I had started contributing I didn't do anything for over a month. Lynxy talked about it and said that if I was going to take anymore time off she'd find a replacement for me. That was so long ago and I remember it like it was yesterday. Yes I have taken lengthy breaks from it in the past, that is no secret.
Some of my contributions include the mail system, chest shop system, revamped ban system, elevators, block economy, the trash, the list goes on. I also discovered the true source of a very large memory leak that had been an issue ever since Innectis started. I applaud the efforts of Hretsam and Lynxy for working on figuring it out as well. I remember developer conversations that revolved around this issue a few times.
So much has happened and I'm glad this community is still around. I still love contributing to the code, making improvements as I go along. The
Chest Window System post details one of the improvements I would like to continue making to improve interactions with Innectis in general. It is my goal to innovate as much as I can to make your experiences much better.
I don't know what the future holds, but I'm sure it is bright. Thank you guys for helping me make this one of the best servers I have ever been on and I hope we become even better!
