Guest GreysGalgos Posted August 10, 2003 Share Posted August 10, 2003 As a relative newcomer to GreyTalk, and as a real fan of the forum, I was hoping someone might have the time to tell the newbies a little history of the board. When/how/why did it start? How many members are there? Is the software written just for GT? It's sooooo nice, and makes it easy to use this board! How many countries are represented? And anything else of interest! Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Posted August 10, 2003 Share Posted August 10, 2003 Last months logs show visitors from the following: Canada Australia United Kingdom United States Poland Spain Switzerland Netherlands New Zealand Greece Belize Japan Italy Singapore Germany Belgium Brazil Sweden France Norway Mexico Argentina Greytalk was started in August 20th of 2000. I was a member on the old FASTDOGS.com forum and was frustrated that the text based forum did not allow me to post a picture. Bob (fastdogs.com) was having a bit of trouble with the forum at that time as well. I set up a trial forum on ezboard just to play around. I needed to use a different username, and that is how “Grey Dad” came to be. Usually I use Coastie, or Jeff as a username in forums. Anyway, we did a quick 2 week test over on ezboard, and it went over well with the small user base that we had. Greytalk was born, and grew consistently, but at a moderate pace over the year. I remember hitting 100 users and how happy I was. Ezboard while easy had it’s problems. They started charging outrageous fees to use their product, had ever increasing and more annoying pop-up ads and such. In October or 2001 I decided it was time to move away from EZBoard and onto a dedicated server using software that I had control over. Greytalk entered the iKonboard stage. iKonboard was a great software solution, and I still think it was the best looking version we have had to date, although next week that may change. At that time we had just a little Cobalt RAQ4 server. That server was not very high tech, and the structure of iKonboard brought the server to it’s knees pretty quickly with 40+ users online at the same time. Another year later we moved to the current software which is Invision Power Board (IPB) IPB is a free forum script, you can follow the link at the very bottom of the page to their website. I have made quite a few changes from the stock script to make it easier on the members, and make to keep the same basic look as the previous versions of Greytalk. IPB allowed Greytalk to grow and extend the life of our little RAQ server for about another year. We recently upgraded our server last May, so we have much more growing room. In the future I’ll try to keep Greytalk ever expanding, offering new features and keeping the community growing. I do what I can to have the search engines (Google, Yahoo, etc.) come by and index the site. If you do a search for Greyhound Poop, we are bound to show up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest GreysGalgos Posted August 10, 2003 Share Posted August 10, 2003 Wow! I'm impressed! The grey world is lucky to have you doing this! They call the Greyhound-L the "Big List" but I wonder if GreyTalk is going to take over that name Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marion Posted September 7, 2003 Share Posted September 7, 2003 Very interesting info... Thanks for posting this. -------------------------------------------- Marion, Ivy & Soldi Perseverance is not a long race... it is many short races one after another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShanakilMagic Posted September 7, 2003 Share Posted September 7, 2003 Last months logs show visitors from the following: Canada Australia United Kingdom United States Poland Spain Switzerland Netherlands New Zealand Greece Belize Japan Italy Singapore Germany Belgium Brazil Sweden France Norway Mexico Argentina All those places. Wow! Clare and Dylan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahMarie Posted September 7, 2003 Share Posted September 7, 2003 If you do a search for Greyhound Poop, we are bound to show up That sounded like a challenge to me and sure enough, using Google it's the 5th result listed: Greytalk - Adopted Greyhound Forum. A discussion forum for ... ... GreyTzu, Posted on Apr 17 2003, 05:27 AM Oh poop!! The link won't open! ... Wow.... I used to have to go scoop my yard to see poop, now it's on my computer! ... www.greytalk.com/~forums/show.php/act/ Post/CODE/06/f/10/t/21425/p/274678 - 34k - Cached - Similar pages Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Kim Posted September 7, 2003 Share Posted September 7, 2003 Good history lesson Jeff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjnno1 Posted September 8, 2003 Share Posted September 8, 2003 Interesting story I liked the fact that Wendy's Poop post pops up when you do a search on google :lol Major & Black Jack are the BEST Doggies in the WORLD A Major Presence - MAJOR - March 10, 1999 - January 13, 2011 Little Joe - BLACK JACK - July 31, 1998 - February 8, 2011 "If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself. " - Randy Pausch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Champsmom Posted September 8, 2003 Share Posted September 8, 2003 thats funny greytalk also pops up now if I do a search for champs name because I have put it on here . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Cindi Posted September 8, 2003 Share Posted September 8, 2003 I am so glad that someone asked this question. Jeff, thank you for doing such a greyt job. As a relative newcomer myself, I enjoyed the history lesson! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShanakilMagic Posted September 8, 2003 Share Posted September 8, 2003 thats funny greytalk also pops up now if I do a search for champs name because I have put it on here . Same here. Clare and Dylan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nightfall Posted October 9, 2003 Share Posted October 9, 2003 Jeff are you colo'd or are you running it from your home? The reason I'm asking is there is zero lag most of the time. It's also nice to know a fellow geek also likes greys as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Posted October 9, 2003 Share Posted October 9, 2003 The server is housed in Texas at EV1.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest azlorenz Posted October 9, 2003 Share Posted October 9, 2003 for Grey Dad on a fantastic job!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest KatieGrey Posted February 4, 2004 Share Posted February 4, 2004 (edited) My profile here is the first link when you type KatieGrey into google. Neat!!! It's so neat to see that people from all those countries have visited GT! Edited February 4, 2004 by KatieGrey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Joe_N_Mists_Mom Posted February 4, 2004 Share Posted February 4, 2004 Wonderful!! Thanks for all the time and I am sure money you put into this Grey Dad!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjw Posted February 5, 2004 Share Posted February 5, 2004 Well. I can't pretend to understand everything you said, since I am cyber-challenged, but your broad member base explains all the wide ranging opinions received when one asks a question. Differing socio-political perspectives appear to have a huge impact even on poop threads! CAMP GREYHOUND Tempo (Keep the Tempo), Nora (Road Noise) & Gabe the babe (Gable Habenero), Cooper (Uncle Bud's Coop), Topper (Red Top), & Galgos Lisette & Manolito. Missing our beloved angels Cody (Kiowa My Dodie), Lou (Cantankerous Lou), Romi (FingerRoll), Connie (Devie's Concord), Millie (Djays Overhaul), Bailey (Hallo Forty nine), Andy (Iza Handy Boy, and Rocco (Ripley Rocco), Gracie (VS Megan), Eragon the Longdog, Joey (WJS Flashfire), Roy (Folly and Glory) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redlady Posted March 24, 2004 Share Posted March 24, 2004 Greydad (and the others that keep us running) rock!!!! "Speak your mind - even if your voice shakes" - Maggie Kuhn "It's better to be hated for who you are, than loved for who you are not" - Unknown "Be the kind of woman that when your feet hit the floor each morning, the devil says "Oh Crap. She's up." - Unknown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burpdog Posted April 23, 2004 Share Posted April 23, 2004 I was here when it was born. I feel so old I remember thinking how I was not going to like this "new" board. I was wrong (the only time in my life ). Jeff & the moderators do a great job! Diane & The Senior Gang Burpdog Biscuits Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Posted April 23, 2004 Share Posted April 23, 2004 Thanks Yeah, there were a few growing pains in the beginning, but we got past them! Remember the fonts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bona60 Posted April 24, 2004 Share Posted April 24, 2004 Excellent work Jeff!! I've recommended GT to friends in Australia and they report interest is "boomeranging" Sam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Reesesmom Posted September 8, 2004 Share Posted September 8, 2004 I'm relatively new here. What are those level's about? i.e. Newbie be gentle, greyaholic, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Posted September 8, 2004 Share Posted September 8, 2004 they change based on post count, they don't mean much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest PreciousMom Posted September 9, 2004 Share Posted September 9, 2004 I've only been here a few months...You have a great board. I've gotten a lot of good info. Thanks again, Sue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest GreyGuy80 Posted November 16, 2004 Share Posted November 16, 2004 Just a question - Ever thought about moving over to another PHP based forum package like phpBB or full community site PHP-Nuke, or is the current front/backend solution pretty much what the future will be with some patching and mods? -80 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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