Is today the 5 year anniversary of the TR forum? 🍰

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I noticed a bunch of us have :cake: next to our names today. Is it the 5 year anniversary of the first day of the forum? If so, happy anniversary!

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:birthday:

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Wooo

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It was actually on September 18th.

Today is specifically your “cake day”, the anniversary of when you joined.

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Today Google turns 25 too!

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Thanks Chad! I guess I was a “late joiner”! Five years. Pretty cool. I’ve learned a lot from you all. Thanks to everyone for sharing!!

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There must have been a thing as if you look at the list of us with their 5 year anniversary today, its enormous!

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Timing may have to do with when they officially opened it (Sep 18 per the Welcome topic) vs announced on the podcast maybe a bit later?

Would maybe explain a large influx on a given day after the doors opened.

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Yeah I have been here since the day it was announced, so… THIS is the official birthday AFAIC, lol.

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For another data point, the post in the old FB groups gave the announcement on September 26.

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I had my cake yesterday (26th) and noticed a few others so was wondering the same. Checking my email it looks like on 9/27 they sent out an email announcing the forum, bet that got a wave of people.

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Happy B-Day TR Forum! I think TR was on FB before this forum came around. I appreciate all the ways TR puts up with the lot of us.

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  • Yup, that existed for quite a while prior to the forum (year or more IIRC?).

  • Nate correctly recognized the pitfalls within FB Groups and floated a trial balloon of creating and migrating to a forum. His poll in the FB group was rather negative about it at first (I lobbied hard for a forum BC FB is a mess for stuff like this), but thankfully Nate pushed forward with the idea despite some skepticism and we got this great place at the end. :smiley:

  • That FB group still exists but TR seemingly dropped any real monitoring there since it is infested with spammers and BS posts. I finally left the group as a result, despite still having some people using it over the forum for some reason.

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Let there be cake!

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I just checked mine and tomorrow should be my cake day :cake::cake: although it appears today is.

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5 years? Wow, that was quick…

Joe

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So there’s no free cake…disappointing :laughing:

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The cake is a lie.

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:rage: :rage: :rage: :laughing:

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I’ve ate my cake and burnt it off three times over