Just a quick thanks from all of us in the core team for all of your contributions this year!
As a community, we:
- Added over 16,000 new artworks
- Gained 115,000+ users with accounts
- Gave just over 20,000 likes
and left 18,000 notes 
- Had almost 250 additional artists claim their profiles
- Saw a whopping 731,000 visitors in our app and website!
As a company, we:
- Welcomed Bremen as a new official partner (with more coming in the new year!)
- Had @Stef join our core crew!
- Started our merch shop (with new products coming in the new year)
- Had our best awards season yet, with 206,413 votes for our ‘Best of 2023’
- Started building out our Country Managers team - we’re super thankful for @Erwin_Tommissen, @IsabelleVirot, @Rian, and everyone else that joined the team this year!
As a platform, we:
- Released 8 app updates, with a new activity feed, search features, richer profile pages, hunter mode and redesigned artist and artworks pages
- Launched our new homepage which shows off our community’s work immediately to new visitors
- Launched a new system for managing events, and tools for country management
- Made many small changes and improvements to our hunter tools, based on the feedback from everyone on this forum!
We can’t thank all of you enough - you all make this platform exist and thrive, and we’re so happy to be on this beautiful journey together! Happy new year, looking forward to seeing what we can accomplish in 2025!
(oh, and don’t forget to vote for the awards after midnight CET!)