Happy anniversary
Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 8:10 am
It is something close to being the first anniversary of L19.
It existed in rudimentary form back in 2009; I remember signing up in December of '09 just to see what was there. Diagrams were not functional, so I didn't give it much further thought.
A few more people signed up in the first quarter of 2010, but a full month went by with no new members, so I thought that it was an interesting experiment that would slowly disappear.
Then GD had its second (third?) serious meltdown. In mid April, the refugees began streaming in. Those were heady days. We were scrambling to make the place presentable, unsure if it would all be a waste of time. GD might resurrect and everyone might go back, or the new Go Dojo might be the replacement.
But GD stayed down, at most twitching now and then. Chuck Thomas graciously decided to avoid possibly destructive competition and shut down Go Dojo.
I remember watching the signups day by day in late April, thinking that we might actually make this work. New faces showed up every minute, it seemed, and Jordus, Fwiffo, and Kirby were coding new features every hour. By May we were pushing 300 members and were clearly a viable site.
I recently looked back through the early posts, much of it was test posts and how-are-we-going-to-organize-this posts. The first meaningful threads seemed to start about April 20th. The peak signup was 58 people on April 21st. Mods were nominated on Apr 21st and 22nd. On the 25th, Don offered to send the GD database to Jordus.
That tranfer is about as formal a christening event as L19 ever got. So I propose calling April 25th the anniversary date.
It existed in rudimentary form back in 2009; I remember signing up in December of '09 just to see what was there. Diagrams were not functional, so I didn't give it much further thought.
A few more people signed up in the first quarter of 2010, but a full month went by with no new members, so I thought that it was an interesting experiment that would slowly disappear.
Then GD had its second (third?) serious meltdown. In mid April, the refugees began streaming in. Those were heady days. We were scrambling to make the place presentable, unsure if it would all be a waste of time. GD might resurrect and everyone might go back, or the new Go Dojo might be the replacement.
But GD stayed down, at most twitching now and then. Chuck Thomas graciously decided to avoid possibly destructive competition and shut down Go Dojo.
I remember watching the signups day by day in late April, thinking that we might actually make this work. New faces showed up every minute, it seemed, and Jordus, Fwiffo, and Kirby were coding new features every hour. By May we were pushing 300 members and were clearly a viable site.
I recently looked back through the early posts, much of it was test posts and how-are-we-going-to-organize-this posts. The first meaningful threads seemed to start about April 20th. The peak signup was 58 people on April 21st. Mods were nominated on Apr 21st and 22nd. On the 25th, Don offered to send the GD database to Jordus.
That tranfer is about as formal a christening event as L19 ever got. So I propose calling April 25th the anniversary date.
I even had a reminder in my cellphone to get on and post! 