The Off Topic Topic

[Threviel]

It didn't grow quickly then. I'm 249, 20 new members a month or so.

[The Brain]

Still a better growth story than Languish.

[Threviel]

Whatever happened to Slargos btw? IIRC he was the first non-Paradox member.

[celedhring]

The Taxi War in Spain rages on. After Barcelona capitulated last week, the front has now moved to Madrid. The taxis blocked the largest street in the city, but they have been forced to retreat by a massed combined arms force of riot police and towing vehicles. The main taxi force has regrouped in the outskirts and are heading towards the airport, although they have detached a brigade that's attempting to put siege to the HQ of the conservative party (they control the regional government).

[garbon]

Mar 30 2001 here.

Which makes sense. I had the board game and followed the creation of the first game pretty closely and that is only about one month after it was released in the US. I don't think I actually created an account and start posting until after I had played the game a bit.

IIRC, back in the day you could log in as a guest and read the forums without actually creating an account.  I think I had been reading the forums that way for a few months before I actually registered, but my memory may be faulty on that point.

You can still read without logging in. You just lost access to some of the subfora for each game.

[Duque de Bragança]

It didn't grow quickly then. I'm 249, 20 new members a month or so.

Can't find my number, only my number of posts, so I can't comment.

[celedhring]

May 1 2000. Member 162. Just checked my ICQ number is still on my profile 

I am little more than a year from having lived more with a Paradox forum account than without. Shit.

My ICQ number is still on my profile too, also yahoo messenger 

How does one check member #? I registered when EU2 was announced, which I presume saw a large increase of forum users.

[Tamas]

May 1 2000. Member 162. Just checked my ICQ number is still on my profile 

I am little more than a year from having lived more with a Paradox forum account than without. Shit.

My ICQ number is still on my profile too, also yahoo messenger 

How does one check member #? I registered when EU2 was announced, which I presume saw a large increase of forum users.

It's the number in your profile page URL.

[celedhring]

4373 then. That's for June 2001.

[Syt]

771 for me.

[Tamas]

n00bs

[Duque de Bragança]

#5942
I guess I registered late, after some long lurking.

[derspiess]

Apparently my access lapsed in 2016.  I'm sure I joined sometime in 2001 because I vividly remember discussing 9/11 on EUOT as it happened.

[Syt]

Heh, I had forgotten that I had written an EU2 review for HOTU back in the day:

http://www.homeoftheunderdogs.net/game.php?id=3179

[celedhring]

HOTU is how I discovered EU1.