I had one person join as a significant contributor for a while early on. Unfortunately life circumstances brought us apart, I only reconnected with them now aft

I had one person join as a significant contributor for a while early on. Unfortunately life circumstances brought us apart, I only reconnected with them now after many years. There were a couple other direct contributors to the code, which always made me really happy, but the idiosyncracy of the codebase made it hard for others to contribute more than housekeeping/refactoring. The rest of the community contributed through lots of in-depth discussions, ideas, what-ifs etc. I'm really grateful for all the interest and thoughtfulness my community always displayed.