Apolyton Civilization Site: "10 Years of Conquering the World"

[DanQ]

Ten years ago today, Apolyton Civilization Site (ACS) began as a joint venture between myself, Daniel "DanQ" Quick, and Markos Giannopoulos as a result of the merger of our respective Civilization II (as well as my original Civ) fansites. As ACS' Chief Owner/Administrator now, I am pleased with the work that our staff -- past and present -- and community have accomplished but there is room for improvement and more to do still.

Thanks also to our partners past and present in the gaming industry for their contributions to our endeavour. To those advertisers with whom we have maintained or left on good relations, and those who have been able to directly support the financial operation of this site through means such as our optional subscription service, we say thank you as well. [Birthday logo at right designed by longtime ACS staff member DarkCloud.]

On behalf of the ACS administration of myself, Wouter "Locutus" Snijders, Ming, rah and Solver, and the rest of our staff, I welcome you to leave your supportive and reflective messages about the first decade of this Civ fansite and community. May there be many more to come!



Keep on Civ'in.

[LordShiva]

HB!

[Grandpa Troll]

Thanks DanQ and Markos

Thanks Dan,Ming,rah and Locutus for ownership and good stewardship

Solver, as allways, an intricate part!


All the supporting cast as well, most excellent contributions!

Great Shiney Celebration!!!

Gramps

[Lancer]

10 Years, YIKES! Time flys when your havin fun.

[BlackCat]

HB

Where are the beers ?

[Felch]

Best site around. Thanks y'all.

[Winston]

Happy Birthday

Apolyton has made this line true for many of us,

I'm ten years burning down the road
Nowhere to run, ain't got nowhere to go

So, well done everyone! And best wishes for the future.

[Solver]

Some stats:

96890 users in the database. Out of those, 25977 or 26.8% have posted on the forums. The number of valid accounts is 21973, meaning accounts that are currently able to post.

We have 39 minimods, who are modding a demogame or some other smaller area, 22 people with staff member status (may or may not include mod powers) and 5 admins.

This year, we have had 2854 total registrations, out of which roughly 2160 or 75% are valid. Out of the people registered this year, 367 or 12% have posted.

This month so far, we have had 271 registrations, out of which 49 people have posted, making it 18%.

In total, 2647 users, or 2.7% of all users, have 100 posts or more, 1144 or 1.1% have 500 posts or more and 745 people or or 0.7% of all users have 1000 posts or more.

[rmsharpe]

Posting in a sticky.

But seriously, congratulations.

[DrSpike]

[Thoth]

[Dale]

HB!

[Lorizael]

I feel lucky to have been here for seven of Apolyton's ten years. This is a pretty amazing site we have going on here. And remember, we'll always be older than Google.

[Dale]

But not older than Yahoo.

/me remembers Yahoo as a single page of some Uni student's top 100 favourite web links in 1994.

[GePap]

Wow, ten long years....

We need an ld: smiley.

Still, HB