In the past I would often jump into online dragon communities to try to talk and partake in the interesting discussions, unfortunately shyness would always overcome me and for this I felt great guilt. I spent several years silently lurking on the great dragon communities of the day, always wanting to join in, but too nervous. I was once moderator of the forums on a site known as Dragons Empire, but had to relinquish my title due to personal priorities. The admin there, Nargus was very understanding of this and for that I thank him.

During the spring of 2007 I obtained the means to create a dragon themed community site, this was called Dragons Valley or DV for short, due to budgeting difficulties I could not give it it''s own distinct domain, as a result it was integrated into my current site, Jafira's Lair.

DV was originally constructed of phpnuke software, however since the base software I constructed it from was out of date there were a variety of flaws, I worked many sleepless nights correcting the errors when not in classes''s or working, and in time it seemed that the community would be successful, sadly something went horribly wrong with my server, a problem I blame on a bot hacking into DV''s mail and using it for spam.

As a result of the spam bots actions using my servers mail, DV was blacklisted and email was no longer able to be sent or received from it. This made registration or communication impossible and thus swiftly made the dragon community useless.

As a result of weeks of insomnia and work on the community I had an extreme emotional breakdown which I am not proud of, and as a result secluded from activities on the internet for some months, In the spring of 2008 around the anniversary of it''s demise, Dragons Valley was rebuilt and returned online with it''s own domain and much more superior then it's predecessor.