Awesome! Happy being a part of this amazing community.

That is great news, glad to be a part of it.  OGR is the BEST!

Thank you Rich for providing this forum. It has been an enormous help to all of us.

Great, come on more people!!! More ideas~!

That is a remarkable gain over last year. Nice to see the forum generating such a gain in interest. 

Bob

We have a good leader.

Good show !!  Congratulations.

Rich, 

thank you for your vision and dedication.

And umm, putting up with some of us.

Thanks Rich 

OGR forum is the best !!!!!

Alex 

Great to hear!

John H posted:

We have a good leader.

John, that's a very kind thing to say, but this forum is not growing because of me. It is growing because of people like YOU and the thousands of others just like you who post here every day.

You should all give yourselves a big, "Atta boy!" 

That is great news Rich.  It really is a great forum with great folks and great trains.

I was spending much time reading the OGR forum, so I subscribed to the digital edition of OGR to help support the forum. I still spend more time reading the forum than the magazine. I have learned much information from the forum that has saved me much time working on my layout. There is much useful information out there, and a lot of people willing to share this information. Thanks to all who contribute.

Kudos, high fives, and congrats to all of us, Rich, for making OGR forum the success it is!

Great going gals and guys.

Fantastic!

Peter

Frenchie member says: bravo! 

jpv69

Rich:

Your humility is admirable, but this forum would not be nearly as successful without your policies and active management. 

Other O Gauge forums have come and gone, I think folks tire of wading through the petty name calling and bickering that's allowed there.  I know that after I look at one of those others, I feel like I've wasted my time and resolve never to go there again.  I visit this forum multiple times every day and always find something of value.

YOU and the folks that help you police this forum certainly do deserve substantial credit for it's sucesss.

Thanks!

Excellent News!!!

That's good news!  Thanks and congrats to all who participate here, and to Rich and the OGR Team.  A special shout out to the "Ad Man" Alan Arnold and to all of the Forum sponsors, too.  Let's keep it going!

OK, I will be the one who asks.  Please define billable page views.   Is there a floating advertising charge to the advertisers?  Is this the view count of forum pages or advertiser's banner clicks? Thank you.

"Billable Page Views" is the number that Hoopla uses to determine how much they will charge us for the month. We were on a service plan that allowed up to 10 million pages per month before surcharges kicked in. We just moved up to a larger, more expensive plan with a 15 million page view monthly limit. Good thing we did!

The number is how many pages were viewed by forum members in the month.

Apparently this just proves that the many make this forum great. The forum seems to have gained momentum despite the few departed that preached its demise without them. Oh my. 

This is an fantastic place.  I come here several days a week after work and on weekends.  Unable to contribute layout or modeling things just yet, but get inspired by all the ideas, info, and great stuff in so many scales.  I am into O and S scale - but find myself drawn to the HONGZ forum and now the tinplate one also.  Thanks and thanks to a great community of train enthusiasts.

OGR Webmaster posted:

"Billable Page Views" is the number that Hoopla uses to determine how much they will charge us for the month. We were on a service plan that allowed up to 10 million pages per month before surcharges kicked in. We just moved up to a larger, more expensive plan with a 15 million page view monthly limit. Good thing we did!

The number is how many pages were viewed by forum members in the month.

Sounds like that level won't last long...is there a 20 million plan?

Great news Rich.  I have said many times that the Forum is is one great source of (GOOD) information.

Amazing stats!!!  This place is really hoping

OGR Webmaster posted:

I just copied and pasted this from the stats page on the forum web server. These are the stats for the month of March 2016:

Total Billable Page Views For Month - 11,876,426

That is a new record for March!
Last year the total for March 2015 was 8,116,288.

Thanks everyone!

Awesome!!!  I wonder if it has something to do with the new forum upgrade format. Now people have easier access by using their cell phones and tablets.

Congratulations to OGR, to all the forum members for their participation and sponsors for their support. And a big thanks to OGR for providing the forum and all the work needed to make it possible and also to all the participants that make it beneficial to everyone here.

After getting back into the hobby a few years ago, I have learned more here than all other places combined. Probably the best place anywhere to learn about our hobby. I also thank all the members that share their vast knowledge and help others here, which makes it possible for us all to learn. I wish continued success to all involved in the operation, participation and support of the OGR forum. I hope it continues for many years to come.

This is Awesome!!!!  Looks to me like there is a huge growing interest in our hobby.... and not a diminishing interest as some may want to believe.  

I'm delighted to be part of such a wonderful community as we have here on the OGR Forum!

trumptrain posted:

This is Awesome!!!!  Looks to me like there is a huge growing interest in our hobby.... and not a diminishing interest as some may want to believe.  

I'm delighted to be part of such a wonderful community as we have here on the OGR Forum!

It is awesome, but I don't think you can make that correlation. Page views of a hobby forum aren't a good indicator of hobby growth. It would be nice if it were true, but it isn't. 

Rich,

That is an incredible number.  But you are not giving yourself(s) nearly enough credit.  The  work OGR puts into managing this is what makes it such a great place.  In any group of people there will always be 1 or 2 that just want to cause trouble.  You shut them down pretty quick.  

Lastly, were  it not for the information sharing the forum provides and the amazing members always willing to help me my layout would still be 4x8 piece of plywood with some track and that's all.

Thank you,

Ed

P.S. Can you post some photos for those of us who cannot attend the mega gala celebration you surely will be having at OGR World Headquarters?

Congratulations to the entire OGR Forum team.

Keep up the great work.

That's great news.

Good luck, John 

Congrats to all involved!!!

Congrats, Rich, and thanks for maintaining/operating the Forum.

When I saw the stats a week or so ago...I was amazed!!  Rich and I had discussed that we needed to let you all know since it is YOU that have made this forum so active.  I am glad he waited until the end of the month for the final stats since in just about a hand full of days, we added over a million page views!!!

MartyE....thanks for the "observation" in your first post above....yep, we are still here and growing tremendously.  I have had folks write, call, and email me letting me know that they come to the OGR Forum because it has become "the one stop shop" where those in our hobby can come and not only have train related discussions with the vast and helpful knowledge our members are willing to share but can also find just about anything they want or service they are needing through our extensive list of sponsors/advertisers. 

Kudos goes to all of our members and subscribers along with our advertisers.....!!  Without you all, we would not be!!

Thank ALL of you so very much!!

All the Best,

Alan

Big  "Atta Boy!"  To Us All!!!

 Chief Bob (Retired)