If you refer back to a discussion I posted before: http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display.php/4332
This will tell you something about the history of members as and when they joined.
Jeremy can elaborate more on the Pre-Yellow Board history of the site. It was a similar site posted by Jeremy but without it's present interactivity. Even in those days it was a wonderful tune resource.
Hey wouldn't it be nice to have the Craic CD in time before the 15,000th member joins!! - Just dreaming ☺
But Jeremy hosted the site long before that, posting tunes and hos own comments on them. Sometime in 2000 I stumbled across that version and signed up for the "tune of the week" email notice that Jeremy had posted another tune.
I suspect several of us emailed him (I know I did) offering our tune transcriptions for him to post, and he took it a hop and a skip further--several small (no doubt time consuming) steps for Jeremy, one giant leap for the online Irish trad kind.
You can find out how long a member's been around by hovering your cursor over their screen name and looking at the link on the bottom of your screen. The number at the end is that member's id--the lower the number, the longer they've been a member here.
I'll leave it to the tabloid paparrazi to divulge the most controversial threads. Of course, the truly controversial ones get deleted by our Benevolent Dictator.
But bear in mind that some of us have been slagging each other here for three and a half years now, and have met in meatspace after getting to know each other here, so there's a significant social undercurrent on these threads that may not be obvious to the newcomer. Also proof what a small community the Irish trad world really is--a small town, where everybody waves and says hello in passing, even if they don't happen to have time for a tune right then.
And welcome, John. Nice to have a Connemara banjo and fiddle player on board.
Sometimes it feels like this place has been around for forever -- could there possibly have ever been a time when I didn't know Will? -- and other times it feels like just yesterday that Jeremy made his announcement of a new tune collection site. Wow. All hail our Benevolent Dictator!
Like a bad marriage, it's always a bit of a shock to realize that it's only been 3.5 years, when it feels like 20....
Seriously, there is a sense of continuity here, despite what sometimes feels like 14,000 "new" members, that for me goes to the heart of this tradition. I learned to play in part from people who passed on to me what was passed on to them from an earlier generation, an earlier time. And this site does the same thing, across time, and across time zones. Every time I log on, I'm reminded how remarkable it is that we have connections here across continents and oceans.
And the diversity and depth and even sheer numbers of active participants in the last year especially is wonderful.
I have joined a lot of sites in my time as I'm sure most do. One finds themselves in forums/discussion quite a lot on the net for all different subjects. I agree, this site does have a "flow" to it. I would think its success would of couse be due to its ease of use or in other words good solid design.
To often sites loose track of themselves and miss out on what they are trying to promote, no such problem here.
If you find time to browse through some of the old threads here, you'll be amazed at some of the blazing rows between members who are great online friends now. What's more the worst of them have been deleted. Members and threads alike.
Great site.
The groin! - He's lost all feeling in the head and the cigarette burns don't seem to work anymore either...or the whip...
(Being late - he'll never know that I, one of his nurses, has posted this... Don't go telling him either. He'll just figure out some other ancient Oriental way of deadening that area against the inflicted pain. But then, we've uped the dose on the meds too...)
Site History
Site History
As recent new member to this site, what is this sites history?
Longest members?
Most controversal threads?
Longest threads?
Date of birth?
# Posted on December 7th 2004 by compaqjohn
Re: Site History
If you refer back to a discussion I posted before:
http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display.php/4332
This will tell you something about the history of members as and when they joined.
Jeremy can elaborate more on the Pre-Yellow Board history of the site. It was a similar site posted by Jeremy but without it's present interactivity. Even in those days it was a wonderful tune resource.
Hey wouldn't it be nice to have the Craic CD in time before the 15,000th member joins!! - Just dreaming ☺
# Posted on December 7th 2004 by Donough
Re: Site History
The session.org has been open to all (civil) comers since June of 2001. Here's the first discussion thread: http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display.php/1
But Jeremy hosted the site long before that, posting tunes and hos own comments on them. Sometime in 2000 I stumbled across that version and signed up for the "tune of the week" email notice that Jeremy had posted another tune.
I suspect several of us emailed him (I know I did) offering our tune transcriptions for him to post, and he took it a hop and a skip further--several small (no doubt time consuming) steps for Jeremy, one giant leap for the online Irish trad kind.
You can find out how long a member's been around by hovering your cursor over their screen name and looking at the link on the bottom of your screen. The number at the end is that member's id--the lower the number, the longer they've been a member here.
I'll leave it to the tabloid paparrazi to divulge the most controversial threads. Of course, the truly controversial ones get deleted by our Benevolent Dictator.
But bear in mind that some of us have been slagging each other here for three and a half years now, and have met in meatspace after getting to know each other here, so there's a significant social undercurrent on these threads that may not be obvious to the newcomer. Also proof what a small community the Irish trad world really is--a small town, where everybody waves and says hello in passing, even if they don't happen to have time for a tune right then.
And welcome, John. Nice to have a Connemara banjo and fiddle player on board.
# Posted on December 7th 2004 by Miss Lonelyhearts
Re: Site History
Sometimes it feels like this place has been around for forever -- could there possibly have ever been a time when I didn't know Will? -- and other times it feels like just yesterday that Jeremy made his announcement of a new tune collection site. Wow. All hail our Benevolent Dictator!
# Posted on December 7th 2004 by Zina Lee
Re: Site History
Like a bad marriage, it's always a bit of a shock to realize that it's only been 3.5 years, when it feels like 20....
Seriously, there is a sense of continuity here, despite what sometimes feels like 14,000 "new" members, that for me goes to the heart of this tradition. I learned to play in part from people who passed on to me what was passed on to them from an earlier generation, an earlier time. And this site does the same thing, across time, and across time zones. Every time I log on, I'm reminded how remarkable it is that we have connections here across continents and oceans.
And the diversity and depth and even sheer numbers of active participants in the last year especially is wonderful.
# Posted on December 7th 2004 by Miss Lonelyhearts
Re: Site History
I have joined a lot of sites in my time as I'm sure most do. One finds themselves in forums/discussion quite a lot on the net for all different subjects. I agree, this site does have a "flow" to it. I would think its success would of couse be due to its ease of use or in other words good solid design.
To often sites loose track of themselves and miss out on what they are trying to promote, no such problem here.
# Posted on December 7th 2004 by compaqjohn
Re: Site History
If you find time to browse through some of the old threads here, you'll be amazed at some of the blazing rows between members who are great online friends now.
What's more the worst of them have been deleted. Members and threads alike. 
Great site.
# Posted on December 7th 2004 by Back for a while
Re: Site History
I'm still waiting for my "end of Cinema Parradiso" e-mail. I fear it may take some time, but all the more emotional when it arrives
# Posted on December 7th 2004 by llig leahcim
Re: Site History
The groin! - He's lost all feeling in the head and the cigarette burns don't seem to work anymore either...or the whip...
(Being late - he'll never know that I, one of his nurses, has posted this... Don't go telling him either. He'll just figure out some other ancient Oriental way of deadening that area against the inflicted pain. But then, we've uped the dose on the meds too...)
# Posted on December 10th 2004 by ceolachan