Wow haha, I'm so happy for you man. Being a senior web developer must have taken you quite a while I assume haha. \
For me, I was a graphics designer at first while I was in law school. I was never satisfied after completing my degree so I decided to change directions. Since then, i've been working at a startup and taught myself Python and Java. I have been a Java dev ever since but I've been spending alot of my weekends taking AWS and Azure courses. Recently got my first amazon associate certificate and on my way towards getting my professional certificate. Goal is to become an AWS developer hopefully do something in that. Haha, it's been quite a ride for sure but at least I realized I spent too much time on things I ended up losing interest in.
And yeah man, I definitely do miss those forums days. I imagine it was like ~10-11 years ago. I missed those times too, but I never really gave up Photoshop as I still play with it from time to time to retouch my watch pictures lol. I am a watch collector too haha. I actually sign in from time to time to look at just random digital illustrations of Naruto and One piece related stuff too. I don't really logon as much anymore though as I guess I'm past that phase where I would spend hours just looking at things. Such a pity, never knew I would change this much but I guess my life is completely different than what it was back then.
Regardless, I haven't really touched anything forums related since I left iPBFree. Aside from the family, the occasional gaming, I pretty much just work all the time. Also, I was engaged back then and I have been married for the past 5 years and my daughter's almost 9 now haha.