long story short I had a long running bug where the catcher didn't work and staff had to work really hard to fix it so I could participate in the system, and as a reward for being patient with it/ working with them to fix the bug, I had my first (and then, near only) catch turn shiny- thus a Shiny Charizard, months before we started doing shiny boosts/locked shinies to just boosts.
had a xurkitree appear in the catcher after like, 3 catches total on this site. caught it in the first premier ball, feeling pretty jazzed about it. :-)
thank you! since that post i’ve gotten a couple legendary eggs, was surprised at how common they seem to be
i have a lot of shinies, but my rarest one is probably the shiny anniversary azelf that's not available anymore oh and i have a missigno <3