Guruji, apparently

I help out on the Flarum forums when I can. This week's thread was a marathon — someone on shared hosting upgrading Flarum 1.8 to 2.0, and nearly everything that could go sideways did. We chipped away at it across thirty-some posts: a blocked exec() function, a full vendor wipe and reinstall, and a database driver that needed correcting — the config said MariaDB; it wanted mariadb. One last extension that hadn't caught up with 2.0 removed, cache cleared, migrations run, and their site came back to life.

Then this landed in the thread:

Thank you so much, Master! You are my Guruji. My website is working now. Thank you for your valuable time, patience, and guidance. I am truly grateful for all your help...

I am nobody's Master and definitely nobody's Guruji. But I'd be lying if I said messages like that — and seeing a post marked as the best answer — don't make the whole thing worth it. That's the loop I keep coming back to: help when you can, and every so often someone takes the time to tell you it mattered.