Hard to believe it, but as of May 29, the forum will have been running (essentially) nonstop for 15 years. While by any measure of "online community", we're still a tiny little group, but we've continued to grow members and usage every year.
It all started with this post over on AVS Forum in July, 2006, to gauge the interest in having a dedicated Kaleidescape forum. With a handful of people saying they'd try it out, i taught myself enough Unix to get an early version of the system running and opened it up. Oof, was it ugly... (see here), but it worked and people actually started joining and contributing.
Some fun facts:
Hope to still be here in another 15 years!
Thanks to all of you for being a part of this little community.
--josh
It all started with this post over on AVS Forum in July, 2006, to gauge the interest in having a dedicated Kaleidescape forum. With a handful of people saying they'd try it out, i taught myself enough Unix to get an early version of the system running and opened it up. Oof, was it ugly... (see here), but it worked and people actually started joining and contributing.
Some fun facts:
- Total of 39,124 posts
- 4,072 separate topics/threads
- 1,899 registered members. We get about 16,000 unique visitors/month, but most visitors stay anonymous and don't register for an account.
- 73 members currently have active premium (paid) memberships, including >50% of our most-active users.
- THANK YOU to these generous members who contribute to the not-insignificant costs of running this board! I honestly couldn't do this without the support of our Premium and Patron users! If you'd like to learn more about the benefits of joining, visit this page.
- Earliest user still active on the forum today: @carajo, who joined on June 7, 2006. Jim @cinelife is the 2nd-oldest, still active (now that's an understatement!) member who joined a few weeks later in July '06.
- Most posts: (no suspense here!): @cinelife with 4,239 posts! @JohnJ is getting up there with an amazing 2,564. @JerryL, @Kostas, and @Mr.Poindexter round out the >1K posts club.
- Of particular note, @MikeKobb is our most active Kaleidescape exec with 915 posts(!), followed by @J.Green with an impressive 326.
(want to see where you rank? Click here for full leaderboard.)
- Of particular note, @MikeKobb is our most active Kaleidescape exec with 915 posts(!), followed by @J.Green with an impressive 326.
Hope to still be here in another 15 years!
Thanks to all of you for being a part of this little community.
--josh