14 Years of Zoochat: A Retrospective

When future generations look on Wikipedia for the term "hijacked thread" they will be directed to this one.
This has gotten hilarious!

 

I’ve created an accidental masterpiece, I feel accomplished!

 

No, my point was, and still is having read Wikipedia, that you can generally forego citizenship of one country if you have multiple ones. It's not a story I've followed deeply, but I don't see why the Australian politicians in question don't just cancel their NZ citizenship.

 

That's what the Deputy Prime Minister did. I don't think it did him much good though.



Hix

 

There are exceptions to this, like Morocco.....

 

Iran is another case. You can set up the process, but if it suits the state the process is ignored. Also Argentina has an interesting view on this by considering it a human right that people born as Argentinians cannot lose their citizenship.

 

Chlidonias,

We're on the sixth page of this thread, and I think two posts have been on topic.

It's about time we separated the non ZooChat History posts into a thread of their own and let Pachyderm Pro return to the project he initially created this thread for.



Hix

 

How did I miss this thread? 'Twas nice to have been in contention for thread of the year for at least a little while.

 

That won't be needed. This has gotten so funny that I just want to enjoy it here . Though perhaps moving the on topic posts to the front of the thread would be a compromise if possible.

 

Is this an actual competition?

 

Yes I would appreciate that

 

It is now!

 

Moving aside from all of the citizenship discussions...

I have been shamelessly procrastinating writing this post, as I have either been too tired, or was binge watching season 2 of This is Us (Seriously great show). But alas, here I am.
Part 3: Another Step Forward

The years that followed saw the final present moderator join the site, @FunkyGibbon from China (Did I get right this time?). This rounds out our current crazy cast of staff members, along with admins @Simon Hampel and @jobalba . I just noticed that I never gave an official mention to @lintworm either, so here you go.

2016 was a very good year for zoochat in many different ways. Many members were joining every month, and it was all leading up to a change that would change the site forever. However, there was one downside to last year, as its when your truly stumbled upon the site on a bored Friday night . Ah those were the days. Pointless and/or repeated threads, pushing my opinions over others and my misspelled words/incorrect use of grammar, good times. I think back to when I was so naïve and so inexperienced, like a politician on his first day in office, struggling to find his feet (I could name names but political warfare has been done to death and deleted on just about a dozen other threads, so ill keep my mouth shout for now). Its amazing how people change in a year.

Anyway, the more notable thing was the major site revamp of October 2016, when the current format was first put into effect. It was three days of no zoochat, and the world went mad with withdraw. Riots occurred, protests were held and people were slowly losing their minds...
Somewhere in an alternate universe...

However, we all rejoiced when the site was launched with whole a new style, a new gallery and perhaps the more noticeable feature, the like button (Feel free to try it on this post). The overall interface became much more user friendly, and ironically enough, this update went into action on October 21, exactly 8 years and 1 day after the original name change, which also fell exactly 5 years and 1 day after the original creation of zoobeat on Oct. 19.

Speaking of...

Happy Birthday Zoochat!

Its finally been 14 years since the beginning of this forum! Its been 14 years of zoos, animals, plants, comedy, nonsense and geekiness! How exciting! Lets toast our tea and wish another great 14 years.

Thank you all for reading along but...