The Tyranid Hive 10 years fun facts

[The Hive Mind]

Hi all

To celebrate our 10th year I thought I would share some fun forum facts:

Top 5 oldest forum members:

1st oldest: The Hive Mind joined day 1, Sep 3 2004 at 8:20pm
2nd oldest: 0mally joined day 1, Sep 3 2004 at 8:20pm
3rd oldest: Zaphod Beeblebrox joined day 1, Sep 3 2004 at 10:51pm
4th oldest: HiveLord joined day 3, Sep 5 2004 at 9:13pm
5th oldest: Chaos Master Chief joined day 11 Sep 13 2004 at 10:53pm

Top 5 highest post count:

1st highest: coredump with 13,812 posts, average 4.6 posts per day
2nd highest: WestRider with 11,357 posts, average of 4.5 posts per day
3rd highest: Psychichobo with 9,196 posts, average of 3.7 posts per day
4th highest: Devil's Advocate, (The member formerly known as Striogi) with 7,581 posts, average of 2.3 posts per day
5th highest: Aux with 7,493 posts, average of 3.1 posts per day

Top 5 countries that use this forum:

1st: 35.87% of all website traffic comes from the good old US of A
2nd: 19.47% of all website traffic comes from merry old England, (and Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland)
3rd: 8.65% of all website traffic comes from Canada Eh
4th: 5.56% of all website traffic comes from the land down under Australia
5th: 4.29% of all website traffic comes from Das Germany

[gk]

Very cool history! Congrats core!

[nameless]

How did you grow it to what it is now?

What I mean is that it was over a week before you had the 5th member, so it's not like there was a huge influx right off of the bat.

[WestRider]

I hadn't noticed that coredump had passed my post count. And by quite a lot, too. Impressive that three of the top five are people who haven't really been active in quite some time.

[gigasnail]

When our new codex hit, I dropped about 2k posts in two months as we sorted that mess out.

[kr00gz]

Congratulations to all! Happy 10th Birthday Tyranid Hive! Thanks to the community. You have become a daily stop for me since I got back into the hobby 18 months ago.

[The Hive Mind]

Sept 2, 2014 23:38:25 GMT nameless said:

How did you grow it to what it is now?

What I mean is that it was over a week before you had the 5th member, so it's not like there was a huge influx right off of the bat.

Hi Nameless

Yes this is true, in our first 4 months we only had 10 members! However we were a tight group and would be on daily talking to each other, at the time there was not much of a Nid presence on the web. Our friends over Warpshadow were pretty small too, but several of their members joined and a few from Tau Online joined us too.

Once coff, Yarrick and ravener were onboard we really had some good discussions going. In our first year we had grown to 133 members, and in the following months up to 4th ed Nids, the website's growth was down to the content of the site. Coff was my first mod, yoritomo soon after and together we ensured that the forum was tidy and organised, which was a VERY rare thing back then for a 40k forum. We were quick to stamp out the noob bashing culture which was all too prevalent back then and ensured it really was a place where beginners and veteran players could chat. We also didn't stifle discussion about other armies and game systems, I remember getting messages from none Nid players who thanked us for letting them talk about their race and for the great help they got.

Then 4th ed hit mid to late 2005 and we had also just joined the first iteration of the Warvault Webring and our numbers soared! Our friendly and knowledgeable attitude helped a whole wave of players understand their new Nid army. We also were in the business of writing simple to follow articles for Nids in 4th edition and those veterans among us were invaluable for this sheer wave of new Nid players. It soon became apparent that coff, yori and I couldn't manage all the new members so barbedsparky joined us and in 2006 our numbers continued to soar as we had a regular group of 50+ veteran Nid players on daily helping beginners and discussing the finer points of Nids.

Then once Aux started making videos in 2008 we saw a stream of new people join and we also re-joined the new Warvault Webring which again grew our numbers. In 2010 and 2014 when the next editions of Nids came out our fantastic members simply had oodles of advice and knowledge to share and would not give up making 5th and 6th edition Nids work where others said they were not competitive.

So it really is a story of quality content from a few dedicated individuals at the start and then a large group of individuals as we grew that turned us into the site we are today. Couldn't have done it without you guys.

[nameless]

Thanks for the info, quite an interesting history.

This is one of the best forums that I've been a part of, so kudos to you guys!

[seethe]

This is absolutely the best 40k forum I have ever stumbled across. Even though lately my 40k interests have started to wander to other races, the Nids and the Hive is going to be my go to place for 40k for a very long time. I am by no means an expert at 40k, but the knowledge the Hive shared with me has helped me to grow in all aspects of miniature modelling/gaming.

Thanks goes to everyone from the top down, the board wouldn't be here without yall setting it up, and the wealth of information wouldn't be here without everyone's contributions.

[tsinner]

Happy birthday!

[Kwodd]

Happy B-Day Hive!

[N.I.B.]

Who's the oldest though? I'm clocking in at 42.

[infornography]

Happy Birthday Hive.

NIB, you got me beat at a meager 36.

[bobnid]

Happy Birthday Hive!

I turned 50 earlier this year.
On the other hand I started with 40K only 3 years ago.

[Hive Bahamut]

Here let's add a second part: 28, been Nid since mid 4th edition. I'm the kid so far.