Very first thread?

[diamondtiling]

Who had the very first thread on the forum when it went live? (I could have an educated guess,DH/Dan) :lol:, what was it about and how many members are still on that replied to it. Is it stored in some mystical place similar to the holy grail?
Come to think of it, who are the time served members from the seeds of life on the forum?
Was the first week/month a nail biter wondering how it would go?

 

[DHTiling]

Dan.. April 2006....

I didn't join till may 2007..

And yes a couple originals still here i think..

 

[Dan]

Nice questions matey. 🙂

Each member is assigned a usernumber, if you search the members like this you can see the first registered users.....

Mine is

www.tilersforums.com/member.php?u=1

You can also do this with topics.... so the first topic (if it still exists) would be

www.tilersforums.com/showthread.php?p=1

I'm always member number one when I install a forum as it needs an admin account to complete the installation. Though Dave Neave was the 2nd I think on here, and on the pink tile forum when I owned that. I was also member number one on the uktilers forum as I installed that too.

As this forum was the third UK one, but first independent one, it took off better than all the others and has carried on growing quickly ever since.

As I optimise them well, we rank #1 for everything we need to and did do right from the start. So natually we got (and still get) nearly all of our traffic from those searching Google and Yahoo. (Google being 85% of our search engine traffic, and yahoo, bing and all others being the 15% of SE traffic).

Creating topics to start off with was easy on this forum but hard on the other trades. Only due to the fact that I knew what to ask tile-wise but I wouldn't have and still don't have a clue electrical-wise, I managed okay plumbing wise but I had to wait untill lots of regulars could help with suggesting forum categories and whatnot.

In 2007 we had a compeition (our first) where members had to find the first day tilersforums was online so that we could have a birthday party The winner (I forget who it was) did it by searching through threads I started (you can do that by going to my profile and clicking the 'stats' tab and then click "find threads STARTED by this user) then click the last page out of the list, then find the bottom post, and that's the one! 🙂


Some of the first members to sign up and still have active accounts are:

1 - Dan .... Test ... Okay
3 - David - Tradetiler .... Test ... Okay
15 - gaz4266 .... Test ... Okay
25 - CARL JOLLEY .... Test ... Okay
29 - biffa69 .... Test ... Okay
61 - Matty A .... Test ... Okay
69 - Checkmygrouting .... Test ... Okay
95 - enduro .... Test ... Okay
103 - Proper Job .... Test ... Okay
104 - rafterman .... Test ... Okay
115 - tiling1 .... Test ... Okay
125 - andy365 .... Test ... Okay
162 - shabba .... Test ... Okay
174 - surflaur .... Test ... Okay
177 - aussie dave .... Test ... Okay
188 - trevortine .... Test ... Okay
204 - adam white .... Test ... Okay
230 - jonesy7 .... Test ... Okay
233 - elsdevine .... Test ... Okay
241 - simonk .... Test ... Okay
255 - mark1966 .... Test ... Okay
276 - Yorkshire Tiling Academy .... Test ... Okay
280 - mark d .... Test ... Okay
289 - kilcoole .... Test ... Okay
292 - stelfc .... Test ... Okay
298 - cornish dave .... Test ... Okay
307 - ANDYMIN .... Test ... Okay
324 - ChaseTiling .... Test ... Okay
352 - h0ndatyp3r .... Test ... Okay
354 - discoduster .... Test ... Okay
388 - Andy Dunbar .... Test ... Okay
404 - renatuk .... Test ... Okay
452 - georgetknight .... Test ... Okay
531 - vivaro .... Test ... Okay
555 - calculator .... Test ... Okay
576 - cutntile .... Test ... Okay
739 - NETT Darren .... Test ... Okay
748 - DevonR .... Test ... Okay
803 - Corinium .... Test ... Okay
823 - tanner2906 .... Test ... Okay
828 - L & R CERAMICS .... Test ... Okay

 

[Dan]

mattya has a folder uploaded to the webspace at www.tilersforums.com/mattya/ with pictures in it. As back then there was no easy way to add pictures to the forum so I made folders for them and manually uploaded them and sent them the links to the images so they could post them in the forums.

Edit: found the pics..... www.tilersforums.com/mattya/latestwork1.jpg www.tilersforums.com/mattya/latestwork2.jpg

 

[brian c]

I joined in April 2007 and still here Dom.

 

[Dan]

The numbers next to the usernames are their userID's, so /member.php?u=x - replacing X with their usernumber/id thingy.

 

[diamondtiling]

I think I understand what you mean Dan, the thingywhatisname next to the whatsyamacallit.

 

[brian c]

pm sl Dom....over your head then matey!:lol:

 

[Dan]

Here, the first post: http://www.tilersforums.com/guest-area/1-welcome-guests.html#post1

 

[Dan]

The 2nd http://www.tilersforums.com/tiling-...ng-courses-tiling-course-companies.html#post2