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17th April 2004, 03:37 AM
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| Registered User  Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Canada
Posts: 217
| 1000 Wow the site will have almost 1000 members soon. That's quite an achievement, only 58 more to go! LOL and im happy im one of the 942. Well it can't be long until the big event, a 1000 is a big number especially memberwise. I mean there's always lurkers but that's a lot of members especially if they all post  How long has this site been up to anyways? Oh and Congratz to Brian cause I guess it was you who created the site in the first place! Meet you guys back here when the mark is hit. K back to my bordem once again  |
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17th April 2004, 04:02 AM
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| Registered User Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: UK: ENGLAND:
Posts: 566
| Re: 1000 Come on guests... Why not sign up, make up the numbers. To my knowledge the site has been up and running in its (more or less) current form since November 2002. Brian, was there a Chronicles of Empire forum before that? I vaguely remember when I very first joined it said something on your homepage about this being a new forum because you had problems with the previous one, or am I going mad!?! TBH, Brian's the one to tell you the history here. He's done a great job of it over the years. *raises glass* Cheers.  |
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17th April 2004, 08:47 AM
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| Brian G. Turner  | Re: 1000 It was originally the "chronicles of empire forum", a support board for my writing, and started around June 2002 on MSN. It had around 14 members and maybe 50 posts over 3 months. I then deleted that and moved it to YaBB SP 1.1 in September 2002 because I didn't want the restrictions of MSN. It reached around 150 members by Novemeber 2002, especially after I offered some of the soundtrack CD for chronicles of empire on CD - and then the entire forum crashed very badly on the server. I watched it happen, and was quick enough to be able to save all the member details (but few posts), and rebuild from scratch on a YaBB SE. Things went slowly in the "chronicles of empire forum", with basically 4 active members: myself, Bigmacscanlan, Survivor, and Nemesis - until end of March 2003, when the server was badly hacked and I wasn't able to make a backup less than 2 weeks old - right in the middle of a promotion, too (I started the first of two free DVD giveaways - which is how we snared dwndrgn here. ).I figured on widening the forums remit to a general science fiction and fantasy site and rebirthed the place as the "chronicles-network". Also hosted all my sites on separate servers after that. We reached around 3000 posts around August, and it was around that time that I made those members who were the frequent posters over a significant period into Moderators. Board activity took off from there, and this place was converted to a vBulletin 3 beta in September 2003. Everything has completely picked up since then. 1000 members will be a landmark indeed. Probably reach that total in about 4-5 weeks, so see you back then. |
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17th April 2004, 03:19 PM
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| Registered User Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Canada
Posts: 217
| Re: 1000 Oh that';s really cool and it looks like all of that hardwork you put into the site paid off. Well since I posted about 8 hours ago there has been one new member but that was during the night so hopefully people will keep on coming! |
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