A Message to Vimm

Hello everyone. I don't have any issues to solve, nor am I savvy enough to help others, but...

I just wanted to say how much I appreciate this site and all the work Vimm does. I first started using Vimm.net in probably 2002-2003 as a kid. My NES got water damage when a tree came through my bedroom window, and money was tight so I used emulators to play my games. Vimm.net was by far the simplest site to use. Files that always worked, no predatory ads, no risk of malware, easy to find and download what I was looking for. Through the years, I've returned occasionally, as I got new computers, or homebrewed a new handheld and needed ROM backups of my physical games to play on em while I was on the go. I've loved watching the Vault grow to include to many systems, different versions of games, and so on.

I've never had an account (before now), so I never participated in the community, and I never made a purchase on the Vault Store (was broke as a joke for many years as a young man haha), so I've only been able to support the Lair through whatever you get from ads, unfortunately. But I just homebrewed a 3DS and have been using the Vault to help me get it all set up, and playing some old games from my childhood has been really awesome. I can't be bothered to dig out the old consoles and hook em up and take em down very often, so emulation is my main way of playing my very large retro collection.

So, all of this is just a longwinded way to say: Thanks, Vimm. I hope the nearly 30 years you've been doing this for us has brought you some joy or satisfaction, cause it's sure brought it to me.

PS. You should take donations or sell shirts or stickers or something; I wish there was a way to give you more support.