Snoskred - Life in the Country

Over 29,000 posts.

Over 590 members ( currently 4 members shy of 600)

Two meets. Plus a couple of “unofficial hey, I’m in town, anyone want to catch up” situations.

It shouldn’t surprise me given the amount of bloggers out there. However the success of the Aussie Bloggers Forums has been quite surprising to those of us who were involved in the starting of the forums. I do not think we ever anticipated such a large amount of regular members, such a huge amount of posts, to find great new blogs so regularly.

A heck of a lot of smilies, good times, great people who help each other out, discussions about all manner of topics from Dexter to blogging to Aldi to music, movies and what is for dinner tonight.. in fact the What’s For Dinner Tonight thread has currently been viewed 14,571 times, and is the top replied to topic with 472 replies. It has also served as an inspiration for my own dinner from time to time, and there’s a few recipes dotted through the thread which I am glad were posted!

So you see, we don’t just talk about blogging on the forums. Everyone is welcome - Aussie or not - there is a great spirit of friendliness and if you have any kind of blogging problem you can generally post it there and someone will come up with an idea or an answer. But if you don’t have a blog at all, you can hang out in Kaos and Mayhem and just talk about regular non-blogging related stuff.

I personally love the forums. In fact The Admin and I built them ourselves - they are hosted on our servers. Meg from Dipping Into The Blogpond provided the idea - emailing myself and AndrewBoyd with the concept and offering use of the domain name. The Admin and I built the forums ourselves - they are hosted on our servers and we did a lot of the technical stuff - from the picture of clouds in the top left corner to adjusting the themes and changing a lot of the message icons to suit our purposes..

Forum members can choose a light or dark theme for the forums - you can switch from one to the other in a couple of clicks and you can change it as often as you like, whenever you like - and I have to say there are days when I switch to the dark theme towards the end of a long looking at the computer screen day and feel a great relief within my eyeballs. That is a thing of beauty.

Over the past six months I have discovered that our Admins and Moderators - some of whom I didn’t know very well when we began the forums - are all people I deeply respect and admire, and people I would happily be stuck on a desert island with. Or a dessert island, for that matter. With or without cheesecake.

So if you have not joined yet and you’re looking for a place to hang out, head on over to the forums and sign up as a member. Introduce yourself, and then get busy making new friends and finding new blogs to read.

There is also the Aussie Bloggers Blog - you can usually find me live blogging Australia’s Next Top Model there once a week - and a lot of great posts from mods and forum members too.