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All Things Considered => General Discussion--Non food Related => Topic started by: Trooper on July 20, 2018, 12:43:42 PM
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Bentley and Kristin,
YOWZAH, I checked the numbers today and I see that this very nice forum is now ready to turn the corner on 1,000 members.
That is a VERY significant happening. As I recall, it was less than a year ago the Bentely and his trustworthy assistant Kristin took off on this journey to keep in contact with a few loyal PH forum friends. Probably in their wildest visions were the fact that the PF forum would be where it is today.
This feat needs to be met with a serious thankyou to them for all of the work that is done in managing this forum. And thankyou for absorbing the cost as well.
Because of you - this forum is wonderful. And I love being a member here.
Trooper Bill
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I'll second that. Thank you both!
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Unbelievable....at times, it seems like it was just last week that this place opened. At other times, it feels like it has been around forever. It has turned into a nice home and community.
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:clap: :cool: :clap: :cool:
Thanks again for starting this site!
Z
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Bentley and Kristin,
YOWZAH, I checked the numbers today and I see that this very nice forum is now ready to turn the corner on 1,000 members.
That is a VERY significant happening. As I recall, it was less than a year ago the Bentely and his trustworthy assistant Kristin took off on this journey to keep in contact with a few loyal PH forum friends. Probably in their wildest visions were the fact that the PF forum would be where it is today.
This feat needs to be met with a serious thankyou to them for all of the work that is done in managing this forum. And thankyou for absorbing the cost as well.
Because of you - this forum is wonderful. And I love being a member here.
Trooper Bill
It sure feels good here.
On one hand, it would have been ‘nice’ to be able to bring some content from the ‘other’ site over here, on the other hand sometimes it is better ‘restart’ with a clean slate.
This site feels ‘better’ with the clean start.
The content has gotten better and more refined.
The members here are wonderful and our hosts are great.
Thank you Bentley and Kristin.. :clap: :bbq:
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Nice words, it is simply fun to hang out with folks...But financially, year one was brought to you by Chris Becker and Cookinpellets.com and IT was brought to you by LowSlowFoShow. They need to be recognized for those contributions, not the 2 of us!
I guess what I look forward to the most in the near future is cooking the 2019 American Royal Open...I am going to that one, come xxxx or high water and will do it by myself if i have to! I want to start that new tradition here at PelletFan, and it probably will be the only competition I do every year! And 2019 will be 10 years since Pelletheads.com took their 3rd place finish in 2010! Who knows, maybe a top 50 finish?
So, after a post like this and the comments that followed, I guess I better pay HostGator & GoDaddy for year 2!
And thankyou for absorbing the cost as well.
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….and will do it by myself if i have to!
Not to worry about doing it alone, Comrade. I'll be there to wash the dishes and wipe the sweat again...
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From my perspective I'd say a big part of the success is the culture of embracing newbies to both the forum and to pellet cooking. Thank you to the community for being a priceless resource.
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A big thank you to Bentley, Kristen, Chris Becker and LowSlowFoShow for making this happen.
And also to all of the great members that post on here.
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Hey, I paid those big bucks to HostGator for the first year. I tell you, I get no respect!
But it was a small sum compared to what Chris Becker and Cookinpellets.com gave and LowSlowForShow's technical skills are what really got this site up and running, so a big thanks to him!
Also, thanks to those who bought something from Thermoworks and used the Pelletfan code. Those amounts will go towards the operating costs for year two.
Biggest thanks of all goes to the membership and those who post -- sharing ideas, recipes, experiences, technical tips, insights. Your contributions and photos are what make this forum. Also, thanks to all of you for your kindness, caring and civility to each other and for abiding by the rules, even if you don't agree with all of them. It makes moderating the site so much easier with quality members.
I am shocked by the number of members we have so far, so I will be curious to see what the next year brings.
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When PH disappeared I was more than disappointed. I tried Googling to see if there was a good place to switch to. At one point I even Googled Bentley and found him posting in an Aussie forum (felt like a stalker).
One day I tried Google again and PelletFan popped up. I tried going to the site and was floored to see it was Bentley and Kristin' baby.
Thank you to all four of you for your tremendous efforts.
I still know next to nothing about pellet cooking, but every time I look at the wide variety of posts here, I know a little more.
Thanks....
Ed
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This a great forum with great information. My hat is off to both of you. :cool:
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As of 5:23 EDT 7/20/2018 :clap: :cool: :clap: :cool:
General Statistics
Total Members: 1000
Total Posts: 33405
Total Topics: 2254
Total Categories: 11
Users Online: 14
Most Online: 65 - January 15, 2018, 11:38:18 AM
Online Today: 26
Total page views: 2783230
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Bentley, have you identified the thousandth member?
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Not to discount what has been built here, but let's give a shout out to the schmuck who let the other site die a slow and painful death. I suspect they thought by buying it that they could corner the market somewhere else. Didn't work out so well for them. Small part their ignorance, and a larger part to those who found this site and turned it into the best pellet grill fraternity on the internet.
Keep up the great work folks. Keep posting recipes, instructions, photos, challenges, issues, solutions, etc.
Here's to another great year and beyond!!!! :clap: :cool:
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Best as I can guess, it would be the last Member to confirm their Membership and that would be heavyhaul.
Bentley, have you identified the thousandth member?
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This truly is a terrific place hosted by 2 of the best and generously supported by Chris and LSFS.
It's one of my favorite things to do.
I am most certainly not even close to your cooking skills Bentley but would be tickled to help at the Royal.
Thanks again to everyone.
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Best as I can guess, it would be the last Member to confirm their Membership and that would be heavyhaul.
Bentley, have you identified the thousandth member?
I forgot that I can look at the Statistics and see the latest confirming member. As I write this, heavy haul is number 1001. I'll try to look back to previous days.
EDIT: That didn't work. The most recent wayback machine snapshot was the 17th when you had 994 members.
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I guess Moonbeam?
(https://i.imgur.com/xZ1dGi9h.jpg)
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If you go to the bottom of the stats page it says 1600+ members. How does that werk?
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I guess Moonbeam?
(https://i.imgur.com/xZ1dGi9h.jpg)
I thought that function disappeared.
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I am not sure where you are seeing that? The bottom of my stats page is the page views by month and day...
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I dont know, if you used to be able to see it and you cant anymore, I simply have no idea how it was removed. It probably has to do with information, which I need to edit from that photo right now.!
Edit: I see their emails are not listed, so I am even more confused!
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(https://i.imgur.com/pi70K3nh.jpg?1)
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I used to have that Members tab and then it somehow disappeared.
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I used to have that Members tab and then it somehow disappeared.
Same here. POOF!
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I lost the members list a month or two ago..Double take on the POOF .
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All I can think is when I took away guest ability to view Members info, that it went away for you all, that is all I can think it might be!
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I lost the members list a month or two ago..Double take on the POOF .
That's odd, as it went away for me last year I think. I posted this anomaly a long time ago and can't even find it now.
Weird...
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I lost the members list a month or two ago..Double take on the POOF .
That's odd, as it went away for me last year I think. I posted this anomaly a long time ago and can't even find it now.
Weird...
It went away soon after this topic started.
https://pelletfan.com/index.php?topic=1724.0
Mudflap
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oh i hope it is me!!!!
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Surf&Turf, close. If the members are listed in order, MoonBeam was number 1,000.
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Well Congrats to Moonbeam then!
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Many thanks to Kristen, Bentley, Chris & LSFS for making this great site work. I support Chris by buying his pellets and its my way of saying thank you for his support. So much information is available here with great insight from fellow PELLETFANS. Thank you so much for making this possible...