Truly a momentous day

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Truly a momentous day

Postby Oliver » Wednesday Jan 05, 2005 11:12 pm

Team,

Today (actually yesterday, but we took a while to write this post :roll: ) we mark a milestone on our forum.

The homebrewandbeer.com forum has now been going for five-and-a-half months. When we started it on July 22, 2004, we never imagined that one day we would pass the number of posts on the Cooper's Brewery message board. But today it happened.

The Cooper's message board may be members only (you have to pay to join the Club), but their 26,036 (yes, 26,036) registered users have posted 2130 articles, for an average of just 0.082 posts per user. And that's since the board began on June 23, 2003, 13 months before we made our debut.

By comparison, our 122 users have posted 2142 articles for an average of 17.5 posts each.

The most users online at a time on our forum is 11. On theirs it's 10.

Only 213 of their members (or 0.82 per cent) have ever posted. Our rate is 71.3 per cent (or 87 users).

I could go on, but I won't.

However, I think you'll agree that on all counts we're winners.

Thanks to all who have contributed to our success.

Happy brewing.

Cheers,

Oliver and Geoff

PS Congratulation to Dogger Dan from Canada, who has made 367 posts, followed way back by Oliver with 219, Evo with 126, grabman with 99, thehipone with 94 and the many other prolific posters who I haven't got room to mention by name here :D
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Postby BPJ » Thursday Jan 06, 2005 8:44 am

Congratulaions Oliver,
That deserves a beer or two :wink:

Even though I 've been a member for less than two months I have learnt heaps.


I've looked at some other forums and they are way to big to follow. THis is perfect!
Thanks
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Postby GTI86 » Thursday Jan 06, 2005 3:26 pm

Yeah keep up the good work new format looks great and great fourm
response am always checking it out at work
cheers dan
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Postby dab123 » Wednesday Jan 12, 2005 9:59 pm

Well done, one & all, congrats Oliver.

ps. Yes Doggers score sounds like a Don Bradman score.
though perhaps I should'nt associate cricket with Canada
do they play cricket there ?.
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Postby Dogger Dan » Wednesday Jan 12, 2005 10:02 pm

Yes we do but it is a big secret, don't tell anyone

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HELLO ALL

Postby GRAYCREEKER » Thursday Jan 13, 2005 1:14 pm

This great forum, had a lack of Canadian content, so I jumped on board. From frigid Alberta, -40 C with the wind chill tonight. Send warmth north please. This is not beer drinking weather, but we manage!!
Hoppy brewing.
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Postby rain » Thursday Jan 13, 2005 3:27 pm

Welcome GRAYCREEKER - your celcius temp is exactly 80 degrees different to mine. Actually I think you might be the third to claim Canadian rights (or somesuch) on the board. Again welcome.
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Postby grabman » Thursday Jan 13, 2005 7:50 pm

Graycreeker, what do you mean not beer weather? anytime is beer time!!!

anyhoo welcome aboard, you give Dogger some moral support! Hey Dogger is this guy from anywhere near you, excuse my lack of geography, too bloody lazy to look for an atlas!
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Postby Dogger Dan » Thursday Jan 13, 2005 10:06 pm

Yeh,

He is just down the street

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Postby GTI86 » Thursday Jan 13, 2005 10:10 pm

no problems brewing lagers then lol
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Postby Damo » Thursday Jan 13, 2005 11:50 pm

Well done Oliver & Geoff keep up the good work boys!
My girlfreind who lives with me here in OZ is Canadian she is from Edmonton. I recall an occassion over there it was -36c and i was trying to have a beer out in the backyard but could only manage half a stubbie the other half was a solid block of ice in the bottle :x
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Postby Dogger Dan » Friday Jan 14, 2005 12:00 am

We call it ice beer.

Good for you it is, puts hair on your chest

One thing you will find is us Canadians griping about the weather. It s never right.

Although I am with Grab about beer weather

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