14 Years of Zoochat: A Retrospective

Certainly not me!

 

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Someone is seriously slacking on changing profile location .

 

He lives in China but is originally from the UK... At least this time you've avoided an international incident...

 

I know my presence is virtually non-existent these days, but I insist on being recognized with the ZooChatters who joined in 2008. Thank you very much

 

Who are you again?

 

I'm that one obnoxious know-it-all who takes mediocre photos but complains about everyone else's.

 

I also joined in 2008, so if you didn't forget the German Dutch Swiss person, you would have known he was the first European of the now moderators to join

 

Cinzooman is that you!?

 

No, that would be @Moebelle...

 

If that's the case then I guess I have to find a new career path.

 

I consider cinzooman and moebelle to be 2 different people. Moebelle is a fantastic photographer who’s very well worded

 

I think he was only listing only Moderators past and present. And anyway, your profile says you joined in 2007.
I, however, joined on the day ZooChat was born.



Hix

 

Okay, but it was December of 2007.

 

Part 4: The Climax, Modern Day Zoochat

This will be the last "On-Topic" post by myself, but feel free to ramble on about whatever.

2017 had major changes in the administrative side of zoochat. @jbnsbn99 and @Nisha resigned as moderators, and @Arizona Docent , @lintworm , @FunkyGibbon and @DavidBrown became moderators in their place.

This means there are now 9 staff members that help operate the site:

7 Moderators:
Arizona Docent
FunkyGibbon
Lintworm
David Brown
TeaLovingDave
Zooboy28
Chlidonias

2 Administrators:
Simon Hampel
Jobalba

These 9 staff members do some great work, and help make the community what it is, and speaking of, zoochat has evolved into the worlds largest zoo and animal discussion forum.
There are currently exactly 9,700 members on the site, with an average of 10 new members every month. There is a total of 826,231 posts, and 61,657 threads. Its remarkable what a community this site has become.

Some of us are 60, others are 15. Some are from Europe, some from America, some from Asia, some are from Australia (Or New Zealand ). Some are zookeepers, some are directors, some are volunteers, some are just nerds. Were all different, but we all joined this site for the same reason, we all love animals and zoos. Now that's something!

Some great discussion has come up over all these years, with some great threds to go with them, some of my favorites include:
Thylo's Nonsense Thread, Snowleopards Roadtrip Threads, JavanRhino's Design a Zoo thread, Batto's How To Found a zoo thread, and pachyderm pro's 14 years of zoochat thread...

Another fun fact that most people don't realize, most photos of zoos actually come from zoochat. Members on here have posted 314,581 photos from zoos all over the world. From the historic arches in Berlin, to the lush tropics of San Diego, almost every major zoo out there has been covered with photos in great detail.

So with all of this said and done, I think we all owe someone a great big thank you for all of this, because without that Australian zoo fanatic, who had experience running forums just like these, we would not be where we are now...

So thank you for reading along, but more importantly... Thank you @Simon Hampel

 

PP, you didn't make a post about adding @Crowthorne to the moderator crew. So you did forget someone!

 

Post was made last October, Crowthorne didn't become a mod until earlier this March, a whole six months after this thread wrapped up. So no, I did not forget anyone.