Happy 1st Birthday Then Comes Family!
Jan 11, 2016 12:50:49 GMT -5
Post by NariaDreaming on Jan 11, 2016 12:50:49 GMT -5
We made it. 365 days since the lovely folks at The Dump burned their community to the ground.
I've spent quite a bit of time re-reading THE STORY OF THE EXODUS as told by GKU. What awesome memories! Honestly if you would have told me a year ago that I'd be running a website that makes (a small amount of) money, I would have laughed in your face.
Some fun TCF facts:
- We're consistently ranked in the top 300 most active forums WORLDWIDE- We average 9 MILLION pageviews a month (thanks Cherhorowitz for doing the Lord's work with the blinds revealed)
- We are closing in on 9500 registered members, with over 4 million posts
- Six users have managed to each get over 20,000 posts (and two of them have over 30,000 posts)
And unlike The Dump, we actually do amazing things for the community
- We hosted the virtual run in memory of clecyclist , helping to exceed her goal of $5,000. At the end, over $13,000 was raised along with her team
- We donated over 10,000 diapers to the Detroit Diaper Bank for Diaper Needs Awareness week
- We ensured over 300 children in Indiana had hats, mittens, and socks during our Angel Tree fundraiser
- With your votes, one of our members was named the RESOLVE Blogger of the Year!
And as for the other place? Not quite the year of growth they were expecting financially at their Q1 investors call:
And we all but killed their message boards. To the point where you can't even easily access them via the app anymore, since they want easier control over what advice is given.
There is absolutely no way I could have done this by myself. The admin team has been amazing. Sure, it was a little weird to go to the bank and say "so I'm starting a business with 3 people I met on the Internet and I've never met face to face. And we live on opposite ends of the country, how do I open an account with these strangers?"
theophania is working on our website, which is getting close to launching, and it's going to be gorgeous. And let's not forget all of the work she's done customizing this forum. I mean, take a look at what we looked like March 2015: The WAYBACK Machine TCF Style .
bibliothecary has done a stellar job wrangling our social media efforts and organizing some of the giveaways.
wordsy laid the groundwork for the awesome articles we've received so far.
We've had our rough moments, but I'm so excited to see where year 2 takes us!
I joined the dump 3 years ago hoping for a baby. I still don't have one of those, but I've gained the coolest extended family in the world, and I'm so glad you are all a part of my life.
Thanks for making this place the best damn site on the internet, as far as I'm concerned.