@Elmy I think it will be helpful to take a look at area51 Pets proposal...It can give ideas about the aspirations of the people (who had purposed the site) about the site and why they thought it will be successful.

I've got an answer from the CMs. They want a few words about the community in general. Some examples include "we have had an inspiring journey" or "Site X went on showing throughout the beta that a community for X is not only viable, but can be approached in a friendly and welcoming way while keeping a high quality site."

"thanks to to every single one of the users who posted, edited, voted, commented, reviewed, and performed other actions." and "Our community has been dedicated to providing a high-quality library of questions and answers around X".

@Sarov We're a bit Koi about going out of Betta....

@JourneymanGeek That joke shell not be forgotten!

@JourneymanGeek Your sense of humour is a bit fishy. Really, you should be ashamed of yourself; what are you going to do when your soul is weighed on the scales?

@Sarov Hope my sole dosen't flounder ?

@JourneymanGeek No, you're pretty much screwed. You'll be coral'ed together with all the other bad eggs.

Who would even want to be groupa with me?

("groupa"?)

I dunno, the tide pool's gotta be pretty small.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grouper coulda sworn it was spelled groupa

> The word "grouper" is from the Portuguese name, garoupa, which has been speculated to come from an indigenous South American language.

:D

Maybe I misremembered the spelling

I mostly know of them cause fishermen occationally catch huge ones

How huge is 'huge'?

straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/…

the quality of our answers is on paw with much bigger sites

oh, they want the quote tomorrow... hurry up and unpack all the animal puns!

@Wolgwang Kappa Over Islands.

@Elmy What, you think we can just go Hunting for puns? I'm Pointing out that that's not easy. If you know someone whom can do that, Retrieve 'er.

(I apologize if I'm being catty.)

@Wolgwang ornamental carp

Oh, this sounds nice: we are oh-fish-ially leaving beta (or betta)

@Elmy That one hurt.

@Sarov Welcome to the neigh-borhood ^^

@Elmy Fur crying out loud.

OK, here's a first draft. I'm not happy with the last sentence, but I didn't come up with anything better.

"The Pets community is a bit Koi to oh-fish-ially leave the Betta label behind. Puns aside, our focus has always been on improving the life of all kinds of pets and their human companions. Over the past years, we not only shared insights into the most common behavioral problems, but we also tackled unique challenges in the care for individual pets and even prepared scientific and veterinary knowledge to be easily understandable.

To be recognized for these efforts fills us with pride and encourages us to continue helping people and their pets alike."

I'd change 'a bit Koi' to 'not at all Koi'.

Otherwise your first sentence is disagreeing with the rest.

Also maybe "pets and pet owners alike" is a bit less awkward than "people and their pets alike", imo.

@Elmy $deity, what have I done :D

@JourneymanGeek I sense a lack of remorse.

@Sarov Remorse? I hardly even morse