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[Ishiyoshi]

Done, buddy. I really can't believe we accomplished this in such little time. I honestly have no doubts that growth has been fueled by the downloads section, as the Sonicstage 3.1 installer alone has nearly 1000 downloads.

Brilliant! You can imagine further growth rate once the "mother" conclude its advertising with MDCF.

[atrain]

nice work you two. other mods are good, but you two are right on the game atm. seems to menot just is the no. of users up but some of them are sticking 'round a bit.

[Ishiyoshi]

Another MDCF milestone! This time, it took approximately 12-13 days to reached the 9000 mark. I reckon it is time we edit the title of this thread once more to reflect 9000 members!!

Three cheers to all!

Welcome to MDCF, wtimmins - our 9000th member.

[skmetal07]

wow, it took minidisc-t 5 years to get to 10,000, looks like we will beat that pretty soon

good job kurisu and all the other regulars for making this place such a great forum!

[Christopher]

Very nice - thanks for the note Ishii. I'm glad that we're growing so quickly, but I have no doubts that the downloads section is fueling this heavily..

[MZ-NH1]

Can we have a figue of the total number of downloads to date?
And do you know how many users that have signed up, have JUST used the download section?

This place is going to be HUGE!
Will be great!

[Christopher]

Unfortunately I cannot determine how many people have signed up for just the downloads section, but it's obvious that the downloads section has increased the number of registrations by quite a bit (if you were here when I first started administrating, then you will realize how big the difference has become).

As for the total number of downloads, the number is 4757, but will probably be over 5000 by the time you read this.

[Christopher]

Welcome to the forums, #10,000th registered and confirmed user nbokor!!!!

Wow, this truly is one of those days in my life that I will never forget- 10,000 users today. When I started in Feburary '04, there was about 2,000 members, and it had taken about a year for the forums to reach that mark - so effectively, since Feb '04, we've gained about 8000 members. I remember this place back when I started before I started to adminstrate it, and here, I'll show it to you:

http://web.archive.org/web/20040205162623/...s.minidisc.org/

Hilarious! Now what about the logos and themes? Oh my, those have changed too.

The one the webmaster had was a bit bland, but the very first logo for MDCF was:



Being the hipster I am, I came onto the scene and made it a little more stylish.



Unfortunately, that didn't last long as I had one of my friends make something that wasn't stolen from Sony art, and complimented the SubTrail theme that we carried for a long time.



The Sosumi theme followed next, with a slight variation on the above logo:



Unfortunately in December phpBB was no longer a suitable choice for the forums as employing such softwares was becoming counter-intuitive and caused massive downtime for most of the month. In January, the entire forums was converted to Invision, which you know of today. We went with the default theme for a while, but carried a familiar face:



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So, in retrospect, I want to thank each and every one of you who have been there since my beginning through all that lag, and those of you who have been there before my time. To those of you who have joined here in my time as Administrator, I hope that things have been satisfactory and I truly appreciate your patronage. It was a difficult journey to reach this point, but I feel that we have truly accomplished great things with this forum, espesically in communication with "big brother". I look forward to future development (and madness) with MDCF.

With the fall of the Minidisc T-Board and it's renaming to the Audio T-Station, the people have spoken their choice for where they wish to primarily discuss Minidisc, and to have this honor means alot to me - to have a niche in this world, to have that sort of impact. Thank you all.

[Ishiyoshi]

Another MDCF milestone! Finally, the big 10,000!!

Three cheers to all!

[D-EJ915]

lol, I miss the t-station (minidisct.com) and the tboard, it's all weird now

[atrain]

i don't like the disproportionate amount of space the avatars & sigs take up at new tboard. not that it's too much of a stress as i like it here better.

[Christopher]

Nice - 11,000.

[Ishiyoshi]

11,000 already? Most brilliant. Congratulations!

[1kyle]

Well done

I've been using MD since it started and am glad people are discovering it more and more --in spite of "Crappods" and Sony's best efforts to hobble the best use of the medium with D(readfully) R(ubbish) M(usic) crud.

Glad to see a place like this where intelligent discussion, and thoughtful answers are the norm and that it hasn't degenerated into a slanging match that you see so often over the Net.

Thanks

-K

[Christopher]

Thanks kyle, and thanks for posting such great topics lately! You're on your way to VIP status for sure.

[Christopher]

12,000 happened last night!

[greenmachine]

How many active users do we have though? 50? 100?

[ROMBUSTERS]

wooo 11,000!

[Bananatree]

Active users are important, but the number of registered users is very important as well, it really shows how MD is gaining some steam.

[MZ-NH1]

Active users are important, but the number of registered users is very important as well, it really shows how MD is gaining some steam.

To True!

Maybe we should have a new thread... with a Poll, asking members what MD unit they have.. like 1st gen and/or 2nd Gen... all that kinda stuff so we all get a kind of idea?

And we also have to make it onto this web site as well!

http://www.big-boards.com/ This site has the biggest forums on the net

I am a member of another forum which is no. 67 Whirlpool forums.

Minidisc.org is yet to make an appearance