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DW 10 y.o. video msg from me (DNS)

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Dhamma Wheel is 10 years old!!!



Dhamma Wheel (DWT) 479,909 posts, est. December 30, 2008
Dharma Wheel (DWM) 451,491 posts, est. April 5, 2009
Dharma Paths (DP) 5,642 posts
Dharma Wheel Engaged (DWE) 4,182 posts

Total posts from all DW forums: 941,224
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Go Raiders
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*clapclapclap*

I thought DWM must be much older. It feels like being 17 years old. :sage:
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Many thanks to Paul, David and all those who've worked hard to make vibrant Dharma places on the internet. :bow: :bow: :bow:


Might be also a fitting time to reflect on what is and is not working but that is probably better in another thread.
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Woah! David, that is some contraption! I need that!

Thanks to you and everyone else who has made this my favorite water cooler!
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ford_truckin wrote: Thu Dec 27, 2018 12:16 am Go Raiders
Only a little more than a year till Raiders come to Vegas. The new stadium is about half done, here's a live feed:
https://www.raiders.com/lasvegas/live-stadium-camera
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Ayu wrote: Thu Dec 27, 2018 8:55 pm *clapclapclap*
I thought DWM must be much older. It feels like being 17 years old. :sage:
That's because you were a moderator for several years. When you're a moderator, it appears to be longer. :tongue:
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Unbelievable! This is exactly what I need for my own legs. I can't fathom how I've never seen it before.

Thank You, from the bottom of my heart.

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DNS wrote: Fri Dec 28, 2018 6:22 pm
Ayu wrote: Thu Dec 27, 2018 8:55 pm *clapclapclap*
I thought DWM must be much older. It feels like being 17 years old. :sage:
That's because you were a moderator for several years. When you're a moderator, it appears to be longer. :tongue:
I thought the saying was, "Time flies when you're having fun"! :rolling:

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kausalya wrote: Mon Dec 31, 2018 1:33 pm
DNS wrote: Fri Dec 28, 2018 6:22 pm
Ayu wrote: Thu Dec 27, 2018 8:55 pm *clapclapclap*
I thought DWM must be much older. It feels like being 17 years old. :sage:
That's because you were a moderator for several years. When you're a moderator, it appears to be longer. :tongue:
I thought the saying was, "Time flies when you're having fun"! :rolling:

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They say its all in the subjective experience... I suppose at some level we are masochists and moderating is indeed... fun.
There is no suffering to be severed. Ignorance and klesas are indivisible from bodhi. There is no cause of suffering to be abandoned. Since extremes and the false are the Middle and genuine, there is no path to be practiced. Samsara is nirvana. No severance achieved. No suffering nor its cause. No path, no end. There is no transcendent realm; there is only the one true aspect. There is nothing separate from the true aspect.
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DHARMAWHEEL.NET IS 10 YEARS OLD TODAY!!!

Dhamma Wheel (DWT) was established on December 30, 2008 and just 3 months later this forum was established on April 5, 2009.

Updated stats:

Dhamma Wheel (DWT) 491,818 posts, est. December 30, 2008
Dharma Wheel (DWM) 461,818 posts, est. April 5, 2009
Dharma Paths (DP) 5,730 posts
Dharma Wheel Engaged (DWE) 5,158 posts

Total posts from all DW forums: 964,524
(as of this date)

Now we're only about 35,000 posts away from the big ONE MILLION posts mark.

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:applause: :applause: :applause:
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:applause: :applause: :applause:
There is no suffering to be severed. Ignorance and klesas are indivisible from bodhi. There is no cause of suffering to be abandoned. Since extremes and the false are the Middle and genuine, there is no path to be practiced. Samsara is nirvana. No severance achieved. No suffering nor its cause. No path, no end. There is no transcendent realm; there is only the one true aspect. There is nothing separate from the true aspect.
-Guanding, Perfect and Sudden Contemplation,
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great!
10 years!
great!
congrats!
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Cheers and congrats on the 10 year anniversary!
Very cool leg gadget from DNS' video.
Definitely lots of useful knowledge-gems within this forum :twothumbsup:
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Aversion for the Raiders arises

Grasping towards the Packers arises

Joy for this great forum also arises

and a great gratitude to the ocean of posters

from a very long time lurker

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A good stat for seeing the success of a forum is Active topics. However, that is typically measured over the last 7 days, so doesn't give a long-term picture. I've seen active topics over the last 7 days fluctuate from a low of around 40 to a high of 120+ here at this forum and others.

Total members can get inflated, especially if admins, moderators don't remove spammers from the list. So the best stat in my opinion is the total number of posts over the history of the site.

As far as I know, no Buddhist forum has had over one million posts, except for e-sangha which was the only forum with a good forum software similar to this one at that time. The other forums at that time were all on google or yahoo, or other bad formats. E-sangha died about 10 years ago.

In the video in the OP I mentioned how we were nearing one million posts. We were about 59,000 posts short of that about 7 months ago . . . . until now! And this happened only about 3 days after Asalha Puja Day, which commemorates the Buddha's first teaching, the first turning of . . . . .
THE DHARMA WHEEL!

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Dhamma Wheel (DWT) 504,281 posts, est. December 30, 2008
Dharma Wheel (DWM) 484,298 posts, est. April 5, 2009
Dharma Paths (DP) 5,959 posts
Dharma Wheel Engaged (DWE) 5,462 posts

Total posts from all DW forums: 1,000,000
(as of this date)

Thanks again everyone!
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:woohoo:

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Thanks, David!

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Happy on million. Congrats. :group:
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