Happy New Year, and cheers to one more down!

We're still here, slopping it up, and I thank all the producers, members, visitors, and lurkers who have stuck with us in this turbulent year. We still had so much fun regardless. Even if 2023 is a mess, I know that we'll get through anything thrown at us.

I really wanted to make a toast to the mods and other active community members who consistently hold us down every day. I don't know if everybody wants to be called out individually, but without yall, this site would not be here. I think we're settling into a nice rhythm of how to keep things organized and sane without escalating it. That's an art and you are all artists.

This whole operation is still very small. It's only because of people volunteering their time on the front-end that we can remain completely independent, free of influence from investors or advertisers, and not having to sell user information or track your viewing habits to gather data. It's because of them that we don't have to let cold heuristics make unappealable decisions, and we don't have to let jerks stick around, forcing people to use the block button.

Because our mods and community members are so in touch, we get to stay as private, safe, intimate, and cozy as we want to be. I live here, and I want everybody else to feel like this is home, too.

So a toast! To the mods of UMD, to Messmistress and the dozens of other folks who also keep us all at peace so we can wam on! Maybe stop by their profiles and say hi https://umd.net/people#hosts

Everybody have fun, stay safe, and get fucked up tonight, and I'll see you on the other side!

Messmaster

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p.s. Vegas vacation is still on. Super lo-key. I'll make a post about that soon.

Have a great new year MM, thanks for giving us the messiest and best site on the 'net! Also, happy new year to all when it comes, here's to us!

Happy new year!

I have reignited my account and started getting more involved this year and it has been awesome, so thank you to everyone who keeps it running.

Happy new year! One and all!

Why are you not here buying me a drink for New Years?

Happy New Year!

Cheers! Here is to a great 2022 and to the hope that 2023 is even better! See y'all in Vegas!

Happy New Year and may all of us have a fantastic and prosperous 2023.

It's a huge honour to help out here, really appreciate the trust, from MM and the community.

May the new year bring health, happiness and prosperity to all!

Live well my friends

M, B and Pepper

I can Venmo you one


To you as well. Thank you for creating this place and bringing us together. Thank you for that invite out all those years ago to meet you. Through that I've met so many wonderful people here over the years and my life would be far less fun and interesting without you all in it.

So, a Happy New Year to you all I hope.

P.S. Derek, we need more emojis!

Happy New Year everyone! And many thanks to Messmaster and all the volunteers and contributors who keep the pies throwing and slime running.

Happy New Year to you, Mr. Messmaster!
Without you UMD wouldn't exist!

Happy New Year!!!

It just hit Midnight here in High Langstonedale, welcome to 2023 everyone in the UK! May 2023 be a good one for us all.

To Currahee!

We wish everyone a fun , safe, but still messy new year! And thanks to Messmaster and all the admins/moderators on here for keeping this a safe space for all of us to enjoy. Here is to another year!

Happy New Year to all.

Happy new year ervy one. Thank you for the hard work.

Happy wet and/or messy new year!

I'll raise to you my bottle of New Belgium Fat Tire and toast to that!

Let's hope '23 will be a better year for everyone, but even if it's not, lets all stick together and make it through.

As long as this site and this community can stick together, the future will be bright.

(of course, we kinda have an unfair advantage when it comes to sticking together with all the goop we sling around here )

Happy new year, everyone.

You don't have to, yet you chose to. Funny how someone had to be the most blocked person on the site for real action to be taken. Also funny during a certain topic all the mods except you and Filthy were noticeably absent.

Hopefully we have learned a lot this year and the next one will be better for the community and for the site as a whole. That it is not a good look to try and defend someone who committed SA. We have seen a lot of situations where civil conversations can happen. Where we can come together and celebrate the fetish that we enjoy. Where we can stand behind members of the community that have been wronged by others. Where a lot of heated discussions can happen without the site burning down. Unfortunately we have a long way to go when it comes to how we view and talk about members of the community. Let's also toast those that were so offended by the discussions here that they closed shop and left. Hopefully we can grow as a community to a place where they will feel welcome coming back.

Happy new year.

It's a beautiful world around us hope everyone experiences the best of what's within us and around us.

It's good to be here wherever here is I shall celebrate with a cheeseburger and maybe starting a food fight
https://youtu.be/dMlCIORYVp4

Welcome to 2023 and as they say in Scotland. Lang may yer lum reek

("expression of good wishes for one's prosperity", literally "long may your chimney smoke")

Happy new year

Never been so glad to see a year out of the door, but there were a lot of positives too so I'm gonna take those and build on them

I wish all the very best of everything for you all... the best of health, wealth, happiness and all your desires

It's been a year of firsts, here's hoping for even more for this one!

Wish Vegas was more of an option, but there's the whole "getting the kids to school" thing that needs to happen :/

I think we all witnessed what happened in that 2 days in real time. I did drop notes to let the community know I was there, before the major announcement, and then I think I explained for a week straight what it took to offload the largest producer we ever had. It was a complicated mess and we're still dealing with it now

But about that guy, nobody gets to accumulate that many blocks and stay here. Just 8 or so of them will probably be enough for me to just kick you off, and that was the point of this thread. During these fiascos, the community spoke up about him and he became the most-blocked person, plus his record showed that he had to go, so he's gone. It's not like other social networking sites where he'd be allowed to stay and just get blocked by 200 people, know what I mean?

The mods and the community flagging and sending feedback is what allows us to stay relatively creep-free!

Happy New Year to all and we are looking forward to seeing many of you in Vegas!

I know dealing with the producer was hard. I know it was a huge mess and rough to deal with. That is what you were doing on the back end. That is a separate situation to what I am talking about. You were dealing with a lot. Hopefully in the new year we can all do better.

Regarding the user dalamar is referring to, I also don't believe said person should have had to be the "most-blocked" person in order to be removed, because frankly his comments had been reprehensible from the get-go of that other situation. I've noticed how quickly harsh comments certain politicians get taken care of, when frankly the rhetoric this person was spouting has proven to be more dangerous to various communities. Hopefully things like this are dealt with differently in the future, without feeling like it has to be "tolerated" to a certain point.

All that said, I appreciate the hard work put into running the site, and I've enjoyed being a more active member of the WAM community and look forward to a fun 2023 (I'll be busier and probably less active).