Thank you, PEx!

Tomorrow, April 15, 2023, will be the last day ONLINE of the best forum website in the early 2000s--- PinoyExchange.com. It will go offline after more than two decades. Here's their announcement via their official Facebook page:

PEx has been THE online community board authority in the early 2000's. Due to its heavy traffic 24/7, I am guessing that it required higher bandwidth to accommodate its growing membership who have been discussing online 24/7... yes, 24/7 since PEx also has thousands of members based overseas (eg. USA, and the rest of the world). Pinoys are also known to be online addicts. So PEx never rested and remained super active during its peak years. My PEx milestones would include the following: 1) consistent Wireless Journal (WJ--- the first before twitter came) post leader (with CiGaWeTte); 2) owned personal threads: one made by mauve_2002 and the other shared with completenonsens; 3) owned a PExPlus Private Journal (the earlier version of a blog); 4) I became a forum moderator for Buhay Pinoy. Personally, I got to be introduced to PExers who eventually turned real-life friends. Up to date, we remain friends beyond cyberspace. And this is one thing I really thank PEx for. Plus I got to be friends with those prominent moderators & admin (Ada, Leigh, uptowngirl, to name a few). Who could have imagined the online life before the social media and tiktok era? Thanks to PinoyExchange.com, we had those intellectual and not-so-intellectual online exchange of ideas on topics as heavy as politics & religion, to as light as Buhay Pinoy and Small Talks. And I can claim, IMO, that PEx was the ONLY authority when we speak about online community forum... even miles ahead of the then Peyups.com.

PExers turned real-life friends: mauve_2002, mckoolit,
HeartBreaker200, BabyFATS, and BadAssGoddess

Thank you, PEx.