What started because Hydrobond complained has now come to a ceremonious end with 5000 replies. Ah... memories. This thread started while we were still using yaBB, back when anything over 2000 posts would make the forum cry. Let's try to think of all the things that have happened on the site during the life time of this hallowed thread.

• I learned PHP
• The Forum switched from YaBB to SMF
• The arcade was launched
• Eddie and I learned mySQL
• Eddie and I coded the switch to mySQL
• The hardware database was coded
• The submissions system was recoded / coded
• Eddie and I learned why mySQL indexes are really important.
• The watermark on the fly script was coded
• We started tracking submissions
• Improvements to the submission system was coded, including regional variants
• Toddler Generation was coded
• A site redesign was coded.
• The submissions system was further tweaked
• The news script was completely recoded
• The collection tools have been tweaked countless times
• That banner image that shows your collection stats was coded
• Checklists on the fly were coded
• The news script was expanded, creating the community blogs
• Work on the submissions system has begun... AGAIN
• True Image search work started, but hit a roadblock when it was taking to damn long to index the images for db insertion
• We've added these new staff members: Tondog, Tan, Magewout, bum-man, marriott_guy, shadowforte, apolloboy, Belgarath, Funk_Buddy, s1lence, OatBob, Mezmoron, Fuyukaze, JWKobayashi, Shimra, Pop Culture Portal
• Sharp rejoined staff
• Izret101 is about to be a father
• 951 New Members
• Tan was promoted, twice
• OatBob was promoted
• Other things I can't think of
• The databases have expanded dramatically.
• Our community has proved that we, and they, kick ass

So yeah... memories. I can't wait to see what transpires during Part 6. By the time it is decommisisoned I'll have a real job. Fun times, fun times. Stay tuned!

Permalink | Comments [5] | Digg This Article | Tweet