Geez HG, that's a great story! Wow, I love hearing stuff like that.

 

[quote author=Cattle Hauler link=board=10;threadid=6943;start=15#66426 date=1037236318]<br>How long has the TDR been around?<br><br>Who started it?<br>[/quote]<br><br><br> If you go into the members section of the TDR and look under date joined it has Admin and KPayne listed in 1969. ???

 

hehe. He was the admin of the TDR for a while, after Rob Spading. He's got a couple of other sites, but I don't know what they all are.

 

I remember him and Rob both. Now Rob has his own site but its not growing as fast as yours.

 

Jack:<br><br>I spent a lot of time at ford-diesel.com back when I had my 94 7.3 TD dually crewcab. What a comfortable truck, but no power!! And I had to rebuild the transmission twice. It had the E-4 OH NO! tranny. Your post brings back memories! ;D

 

hehehe, yep. That used to be the main site for me. I had a 1995 PSD and I had nothing but problems with the truck. I used to post a ton of questions on there, finally got rid of the truck in '99 and bought the RAM. I've had some problems with this truck too, but nothing near the old one. All in all, this has been the best truck I've owned and I plan on sticking with it. I still like to go over to the fd.com site and give them a hard time once in a while.

 

[quote author=CHUCK3 link=board=10;threadid=6943;start=15#66410 date=1037235253]<br> I too belong to the TDR, but haven't posted over there for a long while, last time I looked my post count was down from 1700 to about 1000 and some. ( guess they lost some.)<br> [/quote]<br><br>About two months ago, the Admin folks changed the options so that posts in the &quot;Other&quot; forum no longer are included in the post count.<br>They were getting volumes of silly posts just so people could get their counts up.

 

I copied this from the TDR, just some interesting stats....

Average numbers of hits per day 625,294
Total number of hits for the month 21,397,006
Bandwidth usage 121,305,997 Kbytes (121 Gigabytes)


Daily stats:
Date New Posts New Threads New Subscribers
12-Nov 642 68 15
11-Nov 686 91 27
10-Nov 555 80 14
9-Nov 447 57 10
8-Nov 605 54 10
7-Nov 726 72 11
6-Nov 660 61 24
5-Nov 670 115 1
4-Nov 716 135 20
3-Nov 495 115 10
2-Nov 444 80 12
1-Nov 634 119 7
31-Oct 647 73 17
30-Oct 690 69 11
29-Oct 668 81 23
28-Oct 628 76 10
27-Oct 504 64 9
26-Oct 435 53 10
25-Oct 603 52 24
24-Oct 641 69 2
23-Oct 565 66 13
22-Oct 632 64 11
21-Oct 624 73 9
20-Oct 492 76 9
19-Oct 392 46 13
18-Oct 545 60 19
17-Oct 541 74 10
16-Oct 523 60 15
15-Oct 461 64 15
Totals 16871 2167 381


Tonight (11/13) between 8:55 and 10:25 634 users were on the forums!

 

Here is our stats also. Just click on the link:<br><br>Forum stats only When looking at this link, hits is measured as a complete page view, not just a single hit, so the numbers should show anywhere between 20 and 30k hits per day in the forums. That measures differently from total hits.<br><br>Right now as a site, we're at about 3 million hits per month and about 45GB transfer per month. Our average real time bandwidth usage is about 400kbps with bursts up to 2mbps depending on traffic. <br><br>The interesting thing is the posts per day. Posts per day are much closer in numbers. Same with new users per day. <br><br>Kind of a fun thing to look at.

 

[quote author=Jack Thorpe link=board=10;threadid=6943;start=15#66435 date=1037236861]<br>I don't remember for sure, but I joined what was called the Cummins Diesel Website back in 1998. <br>...<br>Jeez, I was member number 124 on ford-diesel.com and I was one of the first 200 members on CDW. Not that anyone cares, but its hard to believe that some of these sites have been up that long.<br>[/quote]<br><br>I was a dual membership holder as well untill about Sept.. My TDR membership expired.. At $65 Cdn to renew, it wasn't a hard decision.<br><br>I too remember the CDW and was member #368 on the TDR in Sept 99. It was fun, but got too big too fast and now I find only the 1st Gen area to be anything similar to the atmosphere here.<br><br>Now I feel better here at the DTR and want to be able to promote it and try to keep the &quot;small town feeling&quot; that brought me and other TDR members here. Actually, truth be know that Scotty brought me here LOL...<br><br>I also frequent Robs site as I feel some connection from the CDW.<br><br>Thanks Jack for a great site and new home..<br><br>J-eh

 

Tell ya what. I haven't talked to Rob in a long time, but I really like the guy. I've only talked to Robin from the TDR personally, but I find her to be a genuinely nice person. Like I said before, and I think that Rob and Robin will agree, there is a place for all three sites on the web, and none of them are going away any time soon. I think competition is good because it pushes us all to be better. We'll all have our problems as growth continues. We just have do deal with it in the right way, and I think we'll all be just fine.

 

I too I'm a member of all 3 and think they all have pro's and con's. I spend more time on the TDR as I feel there's is more info/action and I know more people over there. Yes the threads sometimes get heated up but a lot times good info comes out in the open that way. I'm an adult and don't need somebody else to make sure my feelings don't get hurt, I can hold my own.<br><br>I like it here too, more laid back, sometimes too much to my liking. We can't agree all the time and that's OK, as long as we stay civil, personnaly I like a good discussion from 2 or 3 different angles. I think we learn more that way. I think they compliment each other more than compete at this point. The pendulum swings back and forth, you just have to wait long enough.<br><br>I find it funny when the &quot;other&quot; site is mentioned in posts, seems nobody over here goes over &quot;there&quot;(or will admit to) but lots of people are up to date on what's going on! not a flame, just an observation. Plus a lot of handles are the same(me included) and it can't be a coincidence! ;D<br><br>I think it's all good and we all have one thing in common, an expensive addiction! More ideas we get, the thinner our wallets will be and that's a good thing! Kepp the economy going. I'll be glad to do my part.<br><br>Glenn

 

I've been a member of TDR for about 4 years now. I spend most of my time in the 1st Gen forum for obvious reasons..<br>I have also felt that the gripeing and pot-shotting is pretty tiresome, but it has become more civilized of late.<br>In the group that I moderate (1st Gen Forum) we have what is probably the most cooperative bunch on the site.<br>I don't know if it's because of the truck vintage, or as someone pointed out to me, there was less to &quot;argue about&quot; with our older trucks but it is really the more open and friendly Forum on the site... but then I'm a bit prejudiced.<br>Guys like Lil' Dog are the kind of people that hang in that Forum. I for one miss his input, and comradrie there... right Lil' Dog?? <br>I think it was BigBlue who mentioned &quot;fun&quot;. I see more humor and teasing, with absolutely no flaming or complaining in there too. All in all a great bunch.<br>Now having said all of that, I very much enjoy coming in here since it really does have that &quot;homey&quot; feel to it. Also, some of us ole dogs get to help the new guys a bit more too.<br>I learned what I know from good old &quot;Old School&quot; who was never too busy to answer a question for the umpteenth time.<br>Him and a few others are the reason I, and I suspect most of us, try to help others.... just payback.<br>Anyway Jack, I really enjoy your site too. And I do, now, have some idea of what it's like to be a moderator.... kinda like being the baloney in the sandwich at times aint it..? <br>Great job Jack, keep strokin.<br><br>Bob.

 

[quote author=Bushy link=board=10;threadid=6943;start=30#66601 date=1037261790]<br>...Guys like Lil' Dog are the kind of people that hang in that Forum. I for one miss his input, and comradrie there... right Lil' Dog?? <br>[/quote]<br><br> :-[ :-[ Geeze Bob, Ya know it was a tough decision to make and nothing says I won't come back.. Hey, I will still be there in the wings anyway.. <br><br><br>J-eh

 

I to am a TDR member, I was one back in 93 for a year then dropped out. When I had my ford I never check on line for web sites but after I bought my 01 Dodge I started to check around on line and found this site first, lots of good info and helpful people. I then joined TDR mainly for the printed material, back in 93 thats all they had. One thing I will say is the TDR site has a spell checker that I like, I know DTR is working or looking at a spell checker down the road.<br><br>Great site thanks!!!! <br><br>KC