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Celebrating 10 Years of MI6 Community (2011 - 2021)!
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I believe it was on 1 March 2011 that MI6 Community was formed out of the old Keeping the British End Up (KTBEU) forum that preceded it. The earliest memberships recorded here date from 1 March 2011 so presumably that was the date of the switchover to the new forum. MI6 as a website actually dates back to 1998, making it the oldest of the Bond news websites.
I myself only joined MI6 Community in December 2012 so I wasn't a member of the old KTBEU forum or there for the changeover to the new current forum in March 2011. Still, I feel it's right that we acknowledge this milestone of 10 years of MI6 Community with this thread. Here's to the next 10 years of MI6 Community!
In this thread members can reminisce about joining MI6 Community, about the changeover if you remember it and about what this Community means to you the members.
I myself only joined MI6 Community in December 2012 so I wasn't a member of the old KTBEU forum or there for the changeover to the new current forum in March 2011. Still, I feel it's right that we acknowledge this milestone of 10 years of MI6 Community with this thread. Here's to the next 10 years of MI6 Community!
In this thread members can reminisce about joining MI6 Community, about the changeover if you remember it and about what this Community means to you the members.
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Well I suppose the line does come from a 1970s Bond film so that fits nicely.
As I said above I wasn't a member of MI6 back then (though I do remember the MI6 HQ site and the John Gardner interviews they had there in 2004). I was instead posting on CBn back in those days before I finally saw the light and joined here. :)
Nothing could be as painful as reading my posts. ;)
I may have looked at the early version of this site years ago though never joined up.
Happy 10th Anniversary MI6 Community.
in different times..... Didn't have to wear a mask, could get a drink in a pub,
and you could even give a loved one a hug.
I remember the transition to these forums very well. It wasn't met with enthusiasm by everyone, but our passion for Bond prevailed and here we still are ten years on, discussing our favourite film series on one of the friendliest forums around.
I've had many great discussions on here and I'm sure many more will follow. Looking back with fondness and looking forward with much gusto. Many congrats, MI6 Community!
New friendships have been built, new members come and go, but we continue as a community.
It’s been a fun ten years. Here’s to the next ten.
But I think that this "new" (I don't think that's the right term anymore) has grown on me steadily over the years and is nowadays the perfect community for Bondfans. So I hope and think that this iteration will live on for many years to come!
May this Board continue being better than the best for another 10 years, if not longer. Heck, the internet is here to stay, so why not another 100 at least?
A great place up until October '11, then it went off the rails.
It was unfortunate that there was a lot of unpleasantness, but the changeover showed the character of those posting, especially those that stuck around to help rebuild the forum.
Yes, and ultimately success speaks for itself, doesn't it? MI6 is still going strong after 10 years and even some of those who left in 2011 came back in to the fold which has been nice to see. Of course all the time there have been new members who have joined since the changeover. They also are the lifeblood of the forum along with the Old Guard who were there from the start.
MI6 Community continues to go from strength to strength. Ultimately it is the members and what they bring to the table as individual Bond fans that keep this place alive and alight with discussion and the sharing of ideas in often eloquent form.
I was a member of the old forums for maybe an hour, if that, before getting an unwelcome vibe (and clearly not knowing how forums worked at the time) and bailing. Glad I stuck it out with this new one.
I had a bad experience in the old forum too. One of my first posts dealt with DAD. I tried to convince people (around 2005) that DAD wasn't quite the abysmal thing it was made out to be, and was flogged out of the thread--the wounds and bruises are still aching (twice as bad when it is cold...). But I pushed through, and now I am looking at 16 years of membership!
That's what makes you a good man, Dimi, as I'm always trying to do the same! Good on you, shame others weren't willing to have a semi-serious discussion and debate about it, at least, as the film certainly warrants one.
1) the new Bond film incites ego-bruising debates;
2) diverts the crowd;
3) is carefully being re-evaluated one or two films later. 😉
Let's continue to fight the good fight, @Creasy47!
You could be Right.
Haha! No, It was Mr Somerset. I logged out and couldn't get back in so I just rejoined later. By then the forum had changed.
I remember that username. But then the gene therapy kicked in I suppose. It was an interesting time, with that clan of Mr. Brown and Erica Ambler beeing disgruntled and leaving to their own obscure forum where they could slaughter any newcomer.