Oh boy, we've come a long way, I still remember when Batoto's death sentence was announced, I was shocked and literally couldn't believe it, r/manga was hell on earth, everybody was super stressed and looking for an alternative until Mangadex popped up, but even when it was born the influx of users made it difficult to use, but you could already see that it would have a brilliant future, the growing pains were disappearing and scanlation groups and users got more comfortable with the site, but you didn't just give us a reader and forgot about it but also worked to make it better, which I greatly appreciate.
Watching this community grow from the ashes of what was once the only reader that respected scanlators (not the greatest mind you because it sucked as a reader too, it gave you high-quality images but did not pre-load images or any other QoL improvements they could have made) was something great to see, it reminded me of the rise on the Novelupdates community that managed to unite a once scattered fanbase, but I digress.
I have high hopes for the future and I wish you a lot more years to come Mangadex, If I was to give my selfish wish is that this site could become more open for other languages, because I've seen the fall of the anime and manga communities and the dark ages that have followed in the Spanish community, that now must rely on awful aggregators and scattered scanlator sites to read and watch manga and anime, I wish that this site could become another meeting point as it has done for the English community, if you need help translating the site or communicating with Spanish translators, don't doubt to contact me, I believe this is the least I could try to give to what this amazing community has given us.
Anyways.
¡Feliz Cumpleaños Mangadex!