Hello everyone! It is the 13th anniversary of our forum! But wait! Why is the forum not as old as the site and why is it not the one I remember? Let me explain. I, Metallix, started Sonic Blast in 2006 with the ethos that there needed to be a high quality Sonic forum that did the franchise justice. Most Sonic forums either used eye searing colors or just had a few Sonic images plastered on a default skin with no customization. I wanted to make a forum that not only had a high quality design but had Sonic very much integrated into everything as well as having a friendly environment for users. For several years the forum was the most active Sonic forum on the web with 30k posts during some months. Then social media came and ate our lunch but we continued on. We had used InvisionFree which turned into Zetaboards but they recently closed down and got absorbed by Tapatalk and Tapatalk does not allow for much customization which severely hampers our ethos so we had to switch to self-hosted. The old forum's final tally was 1.25 million posts.
Mid 2017 Sonic HQ and Sonic Blast teamed up. I was looking for affiliates and I remembered Sonic HQ. To my amazement it was still up and running. Even being updated! We became affiliates but I thought, “why not join forces so we can finally have a site and Sonic HQ can have a great forum.” And thus our partnership began. It has been great so far, I look forward to the future of Sonic HQ and will do my best to make it the best it can be!
Check out the history thread in our forum for a more detailed write up of our history and some pictures of the evolving theme we've had from the start. Hope to see you around!