Happy birthday to this Forum

Following the tragic death of the Judo Forum - murdered at the hands of Ezoic, I am pleased to announce that this Forum is 1 year old today.

In terms of statistics:

Posts : 12767
Posts per day : 34.98
Number of topics : 1458
Topics per day : 3.99
Number of users : 626

Happy birthday e-judo, happy birthday e-judo
happy birthday dear e-judo, happy birthday e-judo

for the first year, those stats are very respectable, I mean it took me YEARS to get up over 12,000 post at the old JF, and we managed to do that in just one year!

do wonder how many users have been banned.....

Stacey wrote:Happy birthday e-judo, happy birthday e-judo
happy birthday dear e-judo, happy birthday e-judo

for the first year, those stats are very respectable, I mean it took me YEARS to get up over 12,000 post at the old JF, and we managed to do that in just one year!

do wonder how many users have been banned.....

Yeah, and I am still writing almost 10% of the posts myself   

The old Stacey version 1.0 would never have accepted Woohoohshidan as her terminal rank. Which reminds me ... I never received my Judo Forum rank certificate either !   

I still have a Christmas card from T.R. here lying for you. It has a Gitmo stamp on it.

Cichorei Kano wrote:

Yeah, and I am still writing almost 10% of the posts myself   

The old Stacey version 1.0 would never have accepted Woohoohshidan as her terminal rank. Which reminds me ... I never received my Judo Forum rank certificate either !    

I still have a Christmas card from T.R. here lying for you. It has a Gitmo stamp on it.

.. are you implying that everything T.R, wrote was not truthful?

Happy Birthday to the forum! (And us, I suppose?)

Cichorei Kano wrote:


I still have a Christmas card from T.R. here lying for you. It has a Gitmo stamp on it.

Reminds me of all the other achievements we've had - we've had a blue gi thread, we've talked about judo underpants, we've had threads on martial arts that define a martial art much more magically than judo and jitz types do. We've skirted the bjj v judo stuff for the moment. We've criticized a bunch of NGBs, not just US orgs. The kata forum is still the most contentious. We've hit on women and judo more than once.

about the only thing we're missing is an orange judogi thread..... oh, and somebody suggesting that if I study real hard, I might one day be a pretty decent lawyer.....

It will be interesting to see what happens in the coming year.

and thanks everybody for the sake recommendations - he really enjoyed it.