Efest user number

[Neil]

10 minutes ago, Breeze said:

I remember all this <gestures vaguely> *before* it was efests.

Think my first time on a site of Neil's was 1999 or maybe 1998? First meetup was when Neil? 1998 or 1999? Whenever that was.

I think you're one of the earliest forum users I remember, from the old style forums 

[kagey]

6 hours ago, Neil said:

you've not been banned, the ip address you're using might have been blocked, if you reboot your router you'll probably get a different ip address that isn't blocked.

Yeah, it was on mobile, rebooted it and all worked fine again, 1st time that's happened

 

 

[clarkete]

8 hours ago, Neil said:

I think you're one of the earliest forum users I remember, from the old style forums 

I was definitely on the old place too, but have expunged most of it from my memory

[Dark Star]

14062 - joined in April 2004. 
Before that remember posting on another forum which I think may have been linked to the official site back then? 

[Breeze]

On 12/15/2022 at 4:46 PM, Neil said:

I think you're one of the earliest forum users I remember, from the old style forums 

Cheers! I barely remember the forums before this style though. 
 

Neil what was the old url? I can’t remember  but I wondered if the internet archive might have some of the old stuff for nostalgia purposes. For instance, I remember an old gif which was a 3D render of someone sitting at a Glasto campfire - it must have taken ages to do but seems to be lost forever. 

[Breeze]

Here is some nostalgia from early efests:

https://web.archive.org/web/20010427033454/http://www.efestivals.co.uk/cgi-bin/bbs_forum.pl?forum=Chat

I’m liking the dancing efests man gif! Haven’t seen him in a while. 
 

Don’t get too excited though as the posts are not archived. 

Is the old banner still used?
 

[Neil]

4 hours ago, Breeze said:

Cheers! I barely remember the forums before this style though. 
 

Neil what was the old url? I can’t remember  but I wondered if the internet archive might have some of the old stuff for nostalgia purposes. For instance, I remember an old gif which was a 3D render of someone sitting at a Glasto campfire - it must have taken ages to do but seems to be lost forever. 

Old url was Glastonbury-festivals. Co. Uk. 

[gooner1990]

3,233 🙂 

 

I joined in 2003 but only posted sporadically in my first 6-7 years of being a member 

[THEBOILERMAN]

I joined in 2009, the first year of taking a minibus from Glasgow and looking for others to join us. I remember Neil took the post down thinking it was a commercial post, I posted again making it clear it was at cost 🙂

since that year we`re taken minibuses  every time, on one occasion 3 minibuses, and 2 vans with everybody's gear- 52 of us in total.

I`ve made some good friends over the years doing this and at least 1 new person comes every year 🙂 so for that alone I thank the day I found Efest, keep up the good work Neil 🙂

Will again be offering places at the end of Jan.

Edited January 1, 2023 by THEBOILERMAN

[Masterluke]

14845 joined 2004.

My profile says I'm a "Newbie" lol

[Crazyfool01]

4 hours ago, Masterluke said:

14845 joined 2004.

My profile says I'm a "Newbie" lol

that's dependant on the number of posts you have made .... 

[clarkete]

On 12/21/2022 at 5:28 AM, Breeze said:

Here is some nostalgia from early efests:

https://web.archive.org/web/20010427033454/http://www.efestivals.co.uk/cgi-bin/bbs_forum.pl?forum=Chat

I’m liking the dancing efests man gif! Haven’t seen him in a while. 
 

Don’t get too excited though as the posts are not archived. 

Is the old banner still used?
 

See how different this looks, from the url he mentioned below... 

http://web.archive.org/web/20010925222303/http://www.glastonbury-festivals.co.uk/

[Neil]

2 hours ago, clarkete said:

See how different this looks, from the url he mentioned below... 

http://web.archive.org/web/20010925222303/http://www.glastonbury-festivals.co.uk/

There was another url used before that one. 

[clarkete]

2 minutes ago, Neil said:

There was another url used before that one. 

Go and restore it from your dat tapes in your vault and we'll have a look 😉

[Neil]

On 1/6/2023 at 3:07 PM, Masterluke said:

14845 joined 2004.

My profile says I'm a "Newbie" lol

That label changes if you make more posts. 

[Neil]

Just now, clarkete said:

Go and restore it from your dat tapes in your vault and we'll have a look 😉

Think it washttp://cix.org.uk/tilde(can't find that on my phone keyboard) nrgreenway

[Breeze]

On 1/7/2023 at 6:05 PM, clarkete said:

See how different this looks, from the url he mentioned below... 

http://web.archive.org/web/20010925222303/http://www.glastonbury-festivals.co.uk/

Here is the 2000 site map from that archive!

 http://web.archive.org/web/20000914185401/http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/info/site_map.pdf

Back when the Tipi field was just a tiny field. All looks quite quaint compared to now. Also makes you realise how insane the overcrowding was in 2000. 
 

Edited January 9, 2023 by Breeze

[clarkete]

1 hour ago, Breeze said:

Here is the 2000 site map from that archive!

 http://web.archive.org/web/20000914185401/http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/info/site_map.pdf

Back when the Tipi field was just a tiny field. All looks quite quaint compared to now. Also makes you realise how insane the overcrowding was in 2000. 
 

He he, I should have a few older ones somewhere. 

I bet some here have got very ancient ones. 

[balti-pie]

im 67209, and i signed up in march 2008 as i wanted to know if the Flaming Lips would be playing that year 😄 They didnt, but have since played twice, with me in the front row both times! 

[Fingerbobs]

1327 from Jan '03 with an appallingly small no of posts that I'm too embarrassed to state!  Have thoroughly enjoyed all 20 years of this mad ride and will try to find something to say a bit more regularly over the next 20.

[Mrs Dubs]

244915 - joined 2019 and gold member since last year after finding efests by trying to find out if Bath & West was ok to camp at back in 2019.

Now my go to place for all things Glastonbury.

No ticket - yet - for this year but proud and ever hopeful member of the Resale Club🤞🤣

 

[blutarsky]

282,655 for me. Lurked for a few years before that.

[donthaveacoolname]

244915 May 2003

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

On 12/21/2022 at 5:28 AM, Breeze said:

 

I’m liking the dancing efests man gif! Haven’t seen him in a while. 
 

I was just thinking the same thing.

It would appear that I have made an incredible 23.2K posts, Wow, that's an insane number. It does seem to back up the school of thought that I am full of shit. 

Please form an orderly queue to confirm that.

[kerplunk]

On 12/8/2022 at 7:37 PM, Neil said:

Think he might be number 2. I told him that I was setting up new forums, and he got in and registered. 

lol, readers should note I 'got in' at Neil's invitation to have a look at the new shiney thing (i think we were in the chat room at the time).

Naturally I took the opportunity to register my username - and Neil hasn't stopped grumbling about it ever since 😆