Thank you for all of your time and effort here as a diamond moderator. My main initial experience, although only indirectly, was with your work during late 2018 and into 2019 dealing with various major issues back then, e.g., the COC (Code of Conduct) changes, Monica's "firing", the posted content license changes, etc. However, we survived that, with things starting to look up again shortly afterwards.

There are several interesting parts of your answer to Contest: what was the most impactful change on Stack Exchange in 2020? regarding that time period. In particular, there's

I spent most of 2019 firefighting.

and

I would say practically the root of the most impactful changes for 2020 are realising that past choices were wrong. We're not quite at an entente cordiale or what I would term 'a symbiotic relationship' - but we're also not quite in a situation where employees are scared of, or encouraged to avoid, meta. It's something that could inform the direction of the network if the company is willing to keep at it, and invest back into the community.

We have a foundation for something better - but I am still uncertain to whether that's a foundation of sand or stone we are building on. In between then and now, SE's occasionally made a few community-hostile decisions - but on the whole, I'm not constantly resolving some monumental, fresh mess up.

Unfortunately, it now appears that foundation was made more of sand than stone. Nonetheless, I still hope that the situation will improve again, similar to how it did after 2019, but perhaps more permanently this time.

Even though you wrote

I've pushed for a good many things and I feel like I failed there.

I don't believe you failed, as such. There's only so much a user and moderator of this site can do. You did the best you reasonably could, and I doubt that anybody else could have done much more, if any, than you did to nudge the company and keep the ties strong.

Thank you for remaining active as a user here. I've read many thousands of posts here, with many of yours being among the most pertinent, interesting and informational. I hope that we can continue to benefit from the quality of any new posts you write. Also, you never know, but perhaps the company executives may even start paying more attention to them, so they then start to make appropriate positive changes, such as those which improve the ties between the company and the community.

Thank you for all of your time and effort you spent here as a diamond moderator. My main initial experience, although only indirectly, was with your work during late 2018 and into 2019 dealing with various major issues back then, e.g., the COC (Code of Conduct) changes, Monica's "firing", the posted content license changes, etc. However, we survived that, with things starting to look up again shortly afterwards.

There are several interesting parts of your answer to Contest: what was the most impactful change on Stack Exchange in 2020? regarding that time period. In particular, there's

I spent most of 2019 firefighting.

Thank you for your work containing and putting out all those many "fires", so they didn't spread and do even more damage.

You also wrote there that

I would say practically the root of the most impactful changes for 2020 are realising that past choices were wrong. We're not quite at an entente cordiale or what I would term 'a symbiotic relationship' - but we're also not quite in a situation where employees are scared of, or encouraged to avoid, meta. It's something that could inform the direction of the network if the company is willing to keep at it, and invest back into the community.

We have a foundation for something better - but I am still uncertain to whether that's a foundation of sand or stone we are building on. In between then and now, SE's occasionally made a few community-hostile decisions - but on the whole, I'm not constantly resolving some monumental, fresh mess up.

Unfortunately, it now appears that foundation was made more of sand than stone. Nonetheless, I still hope the situation will improve again, similar to how it did after 2019, but perhaps more permanently this time.

Even though you wrote here that

I've pushed for a good many things and I feel like I failed there.

I don't believe you failed, as such. There's only so much a user and moderator of this site can do. I believe you did the best you reasonably could, and I doubt that anybody else would have done much more, if any, than you did to nudge the company and keep the ties strong.

I'm glad you decided to remain active as a user here. I've read many thousands of posts on this site, with many of yours being among the most pertinent, interesting and informational. I hope that we can continue to benefit from the high quality of any new posts you write. Also, you never know, but perhaps the company executives may even start paying more attention to them, so they then start to make appropriate positive changes, such as those which will improve the ties between the company and the community.