# Why change the name? Why Nfolio? *It’s a tribute to an old project of mine and I wanted to rekindle it in a fresh new way* By [Nick Lewis](https://paragraph.com/@nicklewis) · 2023-05-13 --- Twenty years ago I started a website called Nfolio, it no longer exists. It was great whilst it lasted and it, as intended, brought a lot of photographers together in a social way but this was 2002, long before a young Mark Zuckerberg started coding Facebook. One of my friends who I got to know through Nfolio, always says it was the first social site. Bless him, he is too kind but he had a point though, people could share images, critique others and there was a lively forum for discussion. This was very much a Web 1.5 site, not quite Web 2, that was just around the corner and things change dramatically. In the end the site failed, but I never consider it to be a failure, we had achieved something, even if for a brief few years. The expectations for the site were too high, everyone wanted it be like this new site on the block, Flickr. I didn’t have the resources or the business acumen, to say, yeah, ok, let’s do it and besides, I had recently learnt I was suffering from kidney disease. I put my freelance career on hold, had a transplant, recovered and then found a normal job. All turned out fine but I often wonder how the site might have evolved if I had investment in it….. The few years that we all went through as a family around 2008 were tough times and the forums were rife with arguments and trolls, there were one or two people who wanted to cause nothing but trouble. So I pulled the plug on the whole project and that was that. I refunded some people their subscriptions and thankfully didn’t lose out financially. So I wanted to rekindle the name at least, by calling this newsletter/blog “Nfolio Magazine” or maybe just “Nfolio” we shall see how I feel about that in a few weeks, I am known to change my mind like the British climate! I’m going to post pretty often, I enjoy writing and right now, I’ve got a number of drafts going here on Paragraph. I like the idea of gradually developing each piece and many will come with a NFT of some sort, either from my photography or music. Collaborating might be a possibility here and I think that would be lovely to do. How about sharing some photography here? Can earnings be divided between authors? Feel free to share this newsletter with other people… [Share](https://paragraph.xyz/@nfolio/9Mh4QbdYZ0m0BeB789yx) Feel free to collect any of my posts, including this one if you wish. I vary the value of posts and number of mints available based on some complex calculations, involving a whiteboard of trigonometry, no I’m lying, some posts I feel are more valuable than others, or something like that. [Collect](https://paragraph.xyz/@nfolio/9Mh4QbdYZ0m0BeB789yx) Want to read more of this stuff as I churn it out? Go for it! [Subscribe](https://paragraph.xyz/@nfolio/subscribe) --- *Originally published on [Nick Lewis](https://paragraph.com/@nicklewis/why-change-the-name-why-nfolio)*