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Ian wrote:I have no idea. I'm sure it was the rager back in the day. I've been here four years and it was about the same. Kyle (RebeckaFan) was here before me, I think, I'm not certain how long for. Not sure about Magnus. I think all the other current members (fishy, katka and our dear devoted snapsie et al) all came after me, so I doubt they'd know either!
I'm happy with the numbers, personally. I don't think it's bad at all for a site devoted to just one little 14-year old foreign film. As long as we keep our little regular band of merry men (and women), the site will keep on, afaic.
Agnes&Elin Forever! wrote:I joined shortly before Ian.
If you click on members in the upper right corner, you can see all the members, how many posts they have and when they joined.
Of course this forum wasn't around at the time of the success in Sweden in 1998-99, but rather when the film was exported to foreign markets.
I don't think there have been many Swedish members here before.
snaps wrote:On this thread I tracked down over old fansites and webpages using the Wayback machine. There are probably around 40 left inactive around in cyberspace, with an estimate of around 120 sites active during the heyday of the film's release in the early 2000's. My main surprise is that there is still any forum left at all. not at all bad for a film of 14 years of age. Most of the other film-specific fansites I have seen tend to have an active lifespan of no more than three years. For example, Sallys Friends which is dedicated to the highly popular Millenium Trilogy signed off on 19th July this year.
http://fucking-amal.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1692
C4e wrote:I just been replying in threads and the page seems to be full of my name as last to post, i just hoped i was the only one here at times
kant1781 wrote:I think the only one who could authoritatively answer the question is Syd, who set up the whole thing in 2003. When I joined in 2005 (after having been watching discussions from outside for half a year) there were about 15 or 20 regular contributors (estimated) with about the same number of people lurking in the background, occasionally leaving a post. So there was a lot more going on than in the last three or four years, even though the community has never been huge by any standard. At that time, there were two more forums, dedicated to Rebekka and Alexandra, respectively, which were a bit smaller, but also still alive. The Dahlstrom forum has completely gone up in smoke around 2006. The Liljeberg forum is deserted since 2006 too, but there is the backup page made available by droopy (if it still exists). Very active members of this community at the time when I joined were some of the people whose names one finds in the member list, above all Narcissus and Anny, and also Sphinx, blond, darkleon, hook, Justme90, styvisor, Spain_1, robinn, arkz1531, Nemo_Me, and, a little later, Kolya. Kyle (RebeckaFan) was also there. Looking back, it seems to me that what broke this community's neck was when, in late 2006, the forum very unexpectedly changed owners (and its URL) overnight, as Sydney abruptly stepped down (for reasons he would never unveil) and OEB took over. Very few of the old gang came back. In 2007, it was practically dead. I checked in every few weeks or so only to find that nothing had happened. That only changed when Ian and fish and Magnus turned up in 2008.
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