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HoL Welcomes our 10,000th Member

Eight years ago when I started HoL, I hoped we would eventually hit the dizzy heights of 200 members. It is with some degree of shock I realised recently that we were fast heading towards 10,000. Today with the joining of Eleanor Kiff, we reached that number.

So welcome Elanor and all other 9 999 members.

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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on October 18, 2015 at 18:15

Congratulations Hugh!

Permalink Reply by Hugh on October 18, 2015 at 18:47
Or congratulations Harringay!
Permalink Reply by Nick G-T on October 18, 2015 at 18:50
Curious to know how many of the first 200 members are active?
Permalink Reply by Hugh on October 18, 2015 at 19:54

Interesting question.

Amongst the 200 are some of the most active members like John McMullan, Michael Anderson et al, some 'more occasional contributors'\, some read-onlyers and some who aren't active at all. It's certainly changed a lot since then - as has the online world around it.

When we started, for example, Facebook had only 100 million users, compared to 1.5 billion today. Twitter had less than 2 million users (including HoL) compared to 320 million today. So today it's a very different social environment online than it was then.

Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on October 18, 2015 at 22:25
Stephen Berlin was an early member too. Shows the site had an international reach from the word go.
Permalink Reply by StephenBln on October 19, 2015 at 9:58

was/am member 13.

I miss some of the old regulars too, who have now moved on to other areas. If I mention Scandinavia and cats, you'll know exactly who I'm referring to.

I guess it depends on how important Harringay was/is to a person's life as to whether they keep in contact or not. I also miss the lady in Australia, but have forgotten her name.

Permalink Reply by StephenBln on October 19, 2015 at 12:17

Shows the site had an international reach from the word go.

It's Harringay's international reach these days.

Once when in München I was looking HoL and a client came up to me and said "Oh Harringay", I lived there when I was living in London. (Harringay Road) and a friend of mine from São Paulo also said the same when in Berlin. (Burgoyne Road).

Permalink Reply by Angela on October 18, 2015 at 23:07

Apparently I signed up to HoL in March 2008. I am only an occasional poster though.

Permalink Reply by John D on October 18, 2015 at 23:21

I think I joined in 2008/ No idea how many members there were then but I imagine it was fewer than 1000

Permalink Reply by John McMullan on October 18, 2015 at 23:40

Where's Bob Ruggles? That's what I want to know.

Permalink Reply by Hugh on October 23, 2015 at 9:43

John D, you joined on 9th July 2008 and were our 707th member. In the intervening seven years you have made 4,807 contributions to the forum!

Permalink Reply by John D on October 23, 2015 at 9:54

Thank you Hugh.

That's fewer than 1000 pa. I'll have to go out less and contribute more

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