No one cares about colors at Nyaa. They mean absolutely nothing (there is even userstyles out there to get rid of the colors because of that). Just like for the longest time, most of the best releases were typically found in 'red'. Nyaa at least finally changed the rules a month ago so that simply using a fansub subtitle doesn't warrant red status anymore.

I said that our site has been around for more than 12 years now, not that we'd been releasing stuff that long. Kametsu was created in 2004 and ran on a subdomain, the kametsu.com domain was purchased in 2005 though. =) As for our encode group, the very first release I ever did that was tagged [Kametsu] was in 2007. So as far as being a release group, we're only 9 years old in that regard (but that still qualifies us as one of the older groups still actively releasing stuff). However our earliest releases were never dumped on aniDB and have mostly been lost to the sands of time (xvid, mp3, ssa anyone? lel). That said, this is speaking solely in terms of [Kametsu]; I have in the past helped out with several fansub groups way back when official streaming wasn't a thing and actual translators were required. So I've dabbled in the scene for more than a decade myself now... damn that makes me feel old. haha

As for our activity this year, a lot of that is because we hired some new faces from the community forum who had been doing a good job on their own. Most of the original team is long gone. Also we used to solely do our own encoding and a lot of our stuff from 2012 for example utilized our own subtitle work as well. Now a lot of releases are remux of other encodes if we deemed one acceptable. We're mostly a dual-audio release group. Most of the new team members don't encode so they were hired on to do remuxes or to work on releases of shows the users of our group who do encode wanted to encode but didn't want to do the rest. We still of course do our own encoding when we feel the available encodes weren't up to a level we deemed acceptable for us to work with. Though more and more good raw groups have shown up. Like right now though, I've got around 5 shows sitting on my drive that I plan to encode the BDMV soon for a release; Death Parade being one of them to look forward to possibly being released next month.

Anyways, this is pretty off-topic here and hijacking Catar's release comments. If you'd like to discuss things more, we can always chat it up on IRC sometime or whatever.