October 26, 201510 yr We've reached the milestone of 100,000 members. 15 years after the first account was made by Coldplay's founder and admin of 14 years, Ian / Busybeeburns :D :D Oh yeah! :dance::dance::dance::dance::dance::dance: Huge welcome to our 100,000th member, Iiris Coldplaying.com post below in spoiler tag: <img src="http://mojo.dailybruin.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/chris-martin-dance-gif.gif" alt="Coldplay party" /> The Coldplaying forums have just hit the huge milestone of 100,000 members! Yes, over the period of 15 years, we've had 100k accounts created. The first one was an admin account created in the year 2000 by <strong>Busybeeburns</strong> A.K.A <strong>Ian</strong>, who managed the whole of Coldplaying.com for a magnificent 14 years! <a href="http://www.coldplaying.com/new-coldplaying-com-ownership/" target="_blank">The site was then sold in April 2014</a> and I've been running it from that point (Sparky).<!--more--> Back in 2005 (when I originally signed up), the Coldplaying forums were not the largest as Coldplay.com had it's own official forum. Usually, most fans would have come from those forums first, including myself. CPing was seen as a more tight-knit community and a place for fans to browse through multimedia/un-purchasable downloads, along with <a href="http://www.coldplaybootlegs.com/login.php" target="_blank">Coldplaybootlegs</a>. When the official forums closed in 2006, Coldplaying became the center of the community for Coldplay fans and the activity increased. There have been so many great times over the years, with all of the multimedia contributions, polls, discussions/debates and live concert threads. I'm sure no one forgets the chaos which took place every time an album was streamed or leaked. Thousands and thousands of fans flooding onto the forums, the servers working on overdrive and crashing every 10 minutes! I'm sure there's some of you who remember the Coldplay fan invasion on the Justin Timberlake forums, when 'VLVODAAHF' leaked and that huge mega thread just before the 'Ghost Stories' release, which eventually imploded from the sheer weight of all the posts! Many great times and we hope for many more during the 'A Head Full Of Dreams' era :) Like any forum, it's also had huge challenges to face such as spam, disruptive behavior and inactivity at certain points but Ian maintained it and we wouldn't of had so many great moments if it wasn't for him. All of the moderators who have helped run the forums over years deserve great recognition too! <strong>A huge thank you from all of the Coldplaying team to every single member who has taken part in our community over the years. It's your enthusiasm that makes the forums special for us all!</strong> The 100,000th member, who has gained instant fame in our community is <strong>'Iiris'. Congratulations to you!!! </strong>10 posts already! We're also glad your not a spambot ;) <h2> <a href="http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/threads/104952-100-000-Members!!!!" target="_blank">Click Here To Join The Party!</a> </h2>
October 26, 201510 yr WOOHOO!!! Welcome to our latest member Iiris!!!!!!!!! :cheesy: [video=youtube_share;Ww4v2cP-MDo]
October 26, 201510 yr Welcome Iiris! :jester: :dance: Congrats @Coldplaying for reaching this milestone! What an achievement for you Marc, thank you again for keeping this place up and running :D
October 26, 201510 yr Congrats! !!! Yeyyyyyyyyyy!!! Welcome liris![emoji122] [emoji122] [emoji122] [emoji322] [emoji322] [emoji322] [emoji322]
October 26, 201510 yr FINALLLYYYYYYY!!! :dance: :dance: :dance: Congrats on 100000 members!! Thanks to Ian for creating this place & running it for so many years. Thanks to Sparky for saving it from closure & working hard to keep it interesting & friendly. Thanks to all the technical administrators that kept it working. Thanks to all the present & past members that filled this place with so many pages of lovely posts & great memories. Thanks to all the present & past moderators for running the forum & keeping everything organized. (special thanks to our former mod Tash for her enormous effort back in the days :nice:) Thanks to all the artists that provided the logos/ created the layouts through the years. Welcome Iiris..I hope you will have a great time in this lovely forum :daisy: & here is to another 100000 :vuvuzela: I love this place & I love you all :wacky:..I am getting all emotional :bigcry: :bigcry:
October 26, 201510 yr good atmosphere in here as we hear, apparently! yeah, very festive :drinking: I'm so glad the 100,000th member isn't a spambot :lol:
October 26, 201510 yr Welcome Iiris! We have been waiting for you!!:laugh3::dance::dance::guitarist::guitarist::omgomg::omgomg:
October 26, 201510 yr Welcome liris!!!!! Congratulations to all who are involved in this wonderful community!!! Viva Coldplaying.com!!!!
October 26, 201510 yr Administrators Welcome Iiris! Congrats to everyone who makes this community what it is! To sparky who not only keeps everything/everyone in line but also forgave me when I almost deleted the site ;) To all the active posters who have made this site the best and biggest coldplay fan site. And to all the team members for welcoming me! [video=youtube;AteCdXvZOZc]
October 26, 201510 yr Welcome Iiris! Congrats to everyone who makes this community what it is! To sparky who not only keeps everything/everyone in line but also forgave me when I almost deleted the site ;) whaaaaaat?!
October 26, 201510 yr Author New post on Coldplaying.com - I've added it to the OP :) Here's 100,000 members in figures: ------ 15 years (2000-2015) Member #1 Busybeeburns / Ian In between: 87,998 awesome people + 12,000 spambots / naughty people Member #100,000 Iiris Threads : 75,045 Posts: 5,613,156 Members : 100,000 Record Members Online : 3612 (24-SEP-12)
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