I Hate Dialysis Message Board
Introduction => Introduction - PLEASE READ THIS SECTION FIRST => Topic started by: Epoman on January 31, 2007, 11:44:55 PM
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Dear Members, Premium Members, and Guests,
"January 2007" was a BIG month for IHD, it was the month that we broke ALL of our previous records. We had the most number of new posts, the most number of new topics, the most number of new members, the most number of hits in a single month, the most number of hits in a single day, the most number of users online at once, and not one day in January had passed and we not have at least 115 new posts for the day. In fact we averaged 175 NEW posts EVERYDAY in January. When most other dialysis message boards were lucky if they had more than 10 new posts in a day. :o
IHD is growing at an amazing pace and I would like to thank all of you for making it what it is today. This site truly is the biggest and most active dialysis support group (community) on the Internet. I would like to share some statistics with you so you have an idea of what I mean when I say we are the biggest and most active.
Here are the statistics for the top dialysis message boards on the Internet as 02/01/2007
http://www.globaldialysis.com - 14,603 Posts in 1,955 Topics (However most of these posts were transferred from the now offline site "Dialysis Online")
http://www.davita.com - 4,728 Posts in 1,158 Topics
http://www.homedialysis.org - 12,404 Posts in 1,354 Topics
http://kidneypatientguide.org.uk/ - 20,622 Posts in 2,226 Topics
http://groups.msn.com/DialysisTransplantCity - 4,964 Posts in n/a Topics
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/dialysis_support/ - 56,172 Posts in n/a Topics (However that number of posts is going back since Aug 1999, 8+ years.)
All of the sites mentioned above have been online for years.
There are MANY other dialysis message boards on the Internet such as kidney.org and countless others, however I did not include them in the above list if they had less than 5,000 posts, however I did include "Davita" and "D&T City" because they were close to the 5,000 minimum.
Now the Stats for http://www.ihatedialysis.com
35,803 Posts In 2,503 Topics in just 18 months (a year and a half) of our Grand Opening back in August 06, 2005
Here are some more stats for you to see:
In January 2007 ALONE IHD had:
5,413 New Posts - Over 5,400 NEW posts in ONE MONTH! :o :beer1;
That is unprecedented, no dialysis message board has EVER gotten that many posts in a single month, EVER! In fact no dialysis message has ever gotten 35,000+ Posts in the first 18 months. Here all the rest of the January 2007 stats:
336 New Topics
128 New Members
39 Members Online at Once
229,043 Number of Hits - Nearly a Quarter of a MILLION hits in ONE MONTH!
Just for fun, let me show you the Stats for January 2006 (last year, same time)
January 2006
189 New Posts
37 New Topics
10 New Members
16 Members Online at Once
15,689 Number of Hits
:o As you can see we have grown quite a bit in a years time.
On behalf of the IHD team, we would like to thank you all for making IHD the best site on the net for dialysis patients. And remember IHD is a site FOR patients by patients. This site is RUN by patients and not governed by corporate sponsors. :thumbup;
- The IHD Admin Team:
Epoman - Owner/Admin
goofynina - Co-Admin
Rerun - Moderator
bajanne2000 - Moderator
sluff - Moderator
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P.S. I know some of you may be thinking "Oh boy here goes Epoman bragging again about his site blah, blah, blah." well if my bragging upsets you, I'm sorry. I am just very proud of what we have created here, and all of the hard work and many, many hours I spend working on this site and all the sites in the IHD Family. We are the biggest, most active, a true community, not bad for a site created by a patient.
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That's AWESOME!! :2thumbsup; I've been telling everyone on other dialysis forums, but I know that doesn't make that big of a difference...But every little bit counts!! That's great news though!!!
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Congrats.
Well you can't really compare D&T City (http://groups.msn.com/DialysisTransplantCity) against IHD because of so many things. It is run by a very busy Dialysis nurse in Ohio who doesn't have as much time to invest like you do. Also it is an MSN group, not an actual web site, so he doesn't have full control over everything like you do. For example: He had a chatroom but just because MSN decided people should just use MSN Messenger, MSN Groups got rid of the chatroom.
- I think your site is such a success because you have full control over everything,
- you spend so much money on your site from everyone's memberships that help you out,
- you invest 8 - 10 hrs per day into it,
- you come up with new surprises every month,
- your site name is one that if people search for hating dialysis they get your site,
- you have extra sites (http://www.ihatedialysis.com/ihdfamily.htm) that interest people and link back to IHD which helps a lot.
Congrats on the start of the new year being better than the last! Looks like January is the start of a good year in more ways than just people getting transplants!! :wine;
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OORAH!!!
Not OPRAH yet.
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CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love this site! :2thumbsup; :clap;
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And you should be proud of this site. It is one of the few sites where telling it like it really is will not get you banned or the post will not be pulled from the line up. Kidney disease is not a joke and it is something that is a tough road for the patients.
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I'll drink to that!
:beer1;
Make that two drinks! :beer1;
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I'll drink to that!
:beer1;
Make that two drinks! :beer1;
Please remember your fluid limit ;)
I am extremely proud of this site. Epoman, you have something to brag about!!! I am so grateful for being there to see it grow from one month old until now. I am only sorry that LifeOnHold is not here to see this and to say something absolutely hilarious about it all!
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I'll drink to that!
:beer1;
Make that two drinks! :beer1;
Please remember you fluid limit ;)
I am extremely proud of this site. Epoman, you have something to brag about!!! I am so grateful for being there to see it grow from one month old until now. I am only sorry that LifeOnHold is not here to see this and to say something absolutely hilarious about it all!
LifeOnHold see's it. Now where's those drinks damn it!
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:2thumbsup; :2thumbsup;
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Brag away you deserve to We all love this place..
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Just yesterday I was seeing my nephrologist and I was telling him about your great site . Congratulations & keep it up. :2thumbsup;
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OORAH!!!
LOL - when I first saw that I was seeing OPRAH!!
Now I am thinking... YEAH... why not Oprah, Epoman?
You're a self-made one-man inspiration story!
I am pleased to see the site do so well! And I appreciate
that dialysis, pre-dialysis, transplant patients, and families
are welcome here! Congratulations!!!
I hope Oprah calls!
Karol :thumbup;
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That is great!
Congratulations!
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Congratulations Epoman. I truly am happy for you, and I'm proud to be a part of it and thank you for not banning me yet!!
:cuddle;
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:clap; :clap; :clap;
:yahoo;
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:clap; You have every reason to be proud of what you have brought into being, and you are humble enough to include all of us. Thanks for your tenacity, vision, and the vehicle for all of us that are connected in some way with kidney disease. You have 'fathered' another great family! :grouphug; :grouphug; :grouphug; :grouphug; :grouphug; :grouphug;
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OORAH!!!
LOL - when I first saw that I was seeing OPRAH!!
Now I am thinking... YEAH... why not Oprah, Epoman?
You're a self-made one-man inspiration story!
YEA, SERIOUSLY, YOU SHOULD GO ON OPRAH - THINK OF ALL THE PEOPLE YOU COULD REACH!
Congrats on your accomplishments, and continued THANKS for this site! :clap;
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Congratulations Epoman. I truly am happy for you, and I'm proud to be a part of it and thank you for not banning me yet!!
:cuddle;
Me too! lol :yahoo; There are just waaaaay tooo many good posts here to not want to be apart of it! :yahoo;
This site can only get better! :2thumbsup;
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:bandance; I just wanted to mention how great IHD is doing and give Epoman a "virtual" pat on the back for creating such an incredible site. We averaged 251 NEW posts EVERYDAY in October -- That's 7771 posts in a single month! AND... there was a record breaking 404 New Topics. Sluff or Goofynina, I don't have the number for new members in October but I know there were a lot! The amazing number of hits was 341,172 IN ONE MONTH!! :clap;
:2thumbsup; Yeah Epoman, we're NUMBER ONE BABY! :2thumbsup;
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The dream is alive and well! We miss you Epoman, but your amazing admins and mods are doing a great job. I think one impressive fact is the long term members-those who have been here since almost the beginning. And Rerun, she was a member when there was only 3 members!! We have some very loyal members which show how well the site is working. :thumbup;
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Another round of drinks!
:beer1;
RIP Epoman
8)
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Epoman started a great thing here, that's true! I never knew him, though, and the thing that keeps me coming back is the wonderful support and all the great members who are here to help fellow patients. Thanks to EVERYONE for this great site!!! :clap;
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KUDOS to the mods and admins for the great job they have done with this site!!! :wine;
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This is so tremendous! I am so pleased at how Epoman's dream is being kept alive, and wonderfully so! HE would have been so proud of the stats, and the Vegas meeting!
We are doing well. :2thumbsup;
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Epoman lives on through this forum. Big big thank you to the administraters who have kept it going. :clap; :clap;
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Epoman would be so proud of the members here as well for posting as often as you guys do, that is what keeps a forum alive. We have to keep on keeping on not so much for Epoman, but to be here for the Members and the future new members. When the members post and ask questions or feel comfortable leaving personal details of their life in open forum, that is what motivates us to do what we do as Admins and Mods.
Thank you to all Members and Admins and our Mods, you all are irreplaceable.
Sluff
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We love you, Sluff :clap; :grouphug;
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:bump;
I am reading all this old posts and having a real sobfest! The more records we break, the more it hurts that Epoman and LifeOnHold and Goofynina are not here to share it with us.
WHAT A FANTASTIC LEGACY YOU HAVE LEFT US, EPOMAN!!!!! YOU ROCK, BOSS!!!
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:cheer: Here are some updated numbers as we surpass 300,000 posts on the forum! :cheer:
Before: 35,803 Posts In 2,503 Topics in just 18 months (a year and a half) of our Grand Opening back in August 06, 2005
Now! - 300,098 Posts in 16,552 Topics since IHD began!
Here are some more stats for you to see:
Dec. 2009 alone - 5,969 New Posts - 732,800 hits in ONE MONTH!! :yahoo;
Here are the totals for 2009:
New Topics: 5,391
New Posts: 98,055
Hits: 6,282,410
Yes! That's over 6 MILLION HITS in one year!!! :beer1;
:2thumbsup; As you can see we have grown a lot!
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and a big thank you to our moderators for all the time they give to monitor all these threads/post!!! :thx; :thx; :thx; :thx; :thx; :thx; :thx; :thx; :thx; :thx; :thx; :thx; :thx; :thx; :thx; :thx; :thx; :thx; :thx; :thx; :thx; :thx; :thx; :thx; :thx; :thx; :thx; :thx; :thx; :thx; :thx; :thx; :thx;
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Awesome!!!!
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Thanks to everyone who makes IHD what it is!
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YL, We do it for the money :rofl; :rofl; :rofl; :rofl;
IHD is my life support! I will do anything to keep it up and running. Love the site, love the people :grouphug; The members are what makes this site so incredible. :2thumbsup;
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Big pats on the back, all around!
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So proud to be a member and be allowed to get to know all you fabulous people.
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:thx; I agree with YLGuy where would we be without this this and all you great moderators.
This is my daily morning first on the computer. From the :ukflag;
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Well done IHD. I don't know what I would do with out you all. Who would I rant and rave to, would would answer questions for me. As the song says "You are gold"