Post number 1 million on the Forum!

[ivar]

Dear all,

I remember making the first post on the forum in 2004. I was the only member and posted it to myself...

We are now (in late December of 2022) closing in on 1.000.000 posts. Wow! (As I write this we are at 999,478). Amazing!

Thank you all for making this a good place to be so many years later.

I want to celebrate this, by giving away a guidebook to the pilgrim that makes the post number 1 million on the forum. I hope I can figure out who it is since there is not really a link between who posts and what number we are at. I think we just need to keep an eye on the counter on the front page:

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/

(You can find this on the sidebar if you are on a computer, or towards the bottom on the homepage if you are on a phone).

I hope I can get some help from you guys to figure out who this is...

Anyway, thank you so much everyone.. and happy holidays!
Ivar

 

[VNwalking]

Thank you all for making this a good place to be so many years later.

Gracias Ivar, for starting this, keeping it going, and constantly dealing with all our invested opinions. Gracias also for all the mods, past and present. This is a wonderful virtual albergue, with rooms for everyone. And unlike a physical albergue there are never bedbugs, nor is it ever completo.

I hope I can get some help from you guys to figure out who this is...

First we need to get there, so with lots of posting today, who knows? I assume you want reports when it gets to 999, 9xx?

And do PMs count?

 

[ivar]

Gracias Ivar, for starting this, keeping it going, and constantly dealing with all our invested opinions. Gracias also for all the mods, past and present. This is a wonderful virtual albergue, with rooms for everyone. And unlike a physical albergue there are never bedbugs, nor is it ever completo.


First we need to get there, so with lots of posting today, who knows? I assume you want reports when it gets to 999, 9xx?

And do PMs count?

No, only posts… we have about 300 posts per day lately so not many days before we hit a million I think.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

I see that your first post on this thread was number 1,088,601.

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/post-number-1-million-on-the-forum.77915/#post-1088601

 

[ivar]

I see that your first post on this thread was number 1,088,601.

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/post-number-1-million-on-the-forum.77915/#post-1088601

I guess we had some spam posts and others that we needed to delete.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

I hope I can get some help from you guys to figure out who this is...

1,088,601 - 999,478 = 89123

So disallow deletions and look for a URL with /#post-1089123 in it once the counter reads a million.

This one is /#post-1088617

 

[ivar]

1,088,601 - 999,478 = 89123

So disallow deletions and look for a URL with /#post-1089123 in it.

This one is /#post-1088617

Ahh… math!

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Ahh… math!

Three years of college math courses and all I use now is arithmetic.

 

[Vacajoe]

To paraphrase Tom Hanks, “There’s no mathing in pilgrimage!”

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Ahh… math!

I noticed that you quoted my post before I made a helpful edit to it. Keep your eye on the counter.

So disallow deletions and look for a URL with /#post-1089123 in it once the counter reads a million.

 

[peregrina2000]

if you guys keep this back-and-forth going on long enough, you’ll be that lucky millionth poster!

 

[trecile]

if you guys keep this back-and-forth going on long enough, you’ll be that lucky millionth poster!

If Ivar has the millionth post he can give himself a guidebook and use it to walk a Camino!

 

[Kiwi-family]

If you prefer, you could just choose me and close this thread ;-)

 

[dbier]

Wait...memememe, please.
(Still waiting to see if Ciccione(?) updates the Primitivo guide from 2019, since I guess Brierley won't be writing one...

 

[OzAnnie]

Are we there yet?

Happy Christmas Ivar - it's such a great forum

 

[lalaone]

I don't know if anyone else is like me, trying to avoid making that epic post? That might be weird, but I guess I am looking forward to seeing and celebrating whoever lands with the free book and the lucky one millionth post. So many wonderful people here. Safe for now, posting wise, but probably happening soon! Echoing the thanks for a really great forum.

 

[ivar]

Are we there yet?

Happy Christmas Ivar - it's such great forum

This post should be number: 999,647

 

[JabbaPapa]

If Ivar has the millionth post he can give himself a guidebook and use it to walk a Camino!

What an absolutely brilliant idea !!

 

[Lexicos]

Thisposthastakenmeamillionthofasecondtocompose. Doesthatcount??

 

[imwalking]

Congratulations, Ivar. What a wonderful initiative you have shared with us all. I really enjoy checking in on the Firum even though health problems prevent me from returning to the Camino. Thanks to your regular posts, I can enjoy some virtual adventures!
Happy Christmas to you and all pilgrims.

 

[VNwalking]

If Ivar has the millionth post he can give himself a guidebook and use it to walk a Camino!

I like this solution best.
But thus is a close second:

If you prefer, you could just choose me and close this thread ;-)

Thanks for the chuckle everyone!
Edit. Mine was 999,700. Do round numbers count for anything @ivar?

 

[wisepilgrim]

I don't know if anyone else is like me, trying to avoid making that epic post? That might be weird, but I guess I am looking forward to seeing and celebrating whoever lands with the free book and the lucky one millionth post. So many wonderful people here. Safe for now, posting wise, but probably happening soon! Echoing the thanks for a really great forum.

Not me. I gotta get my hands on that book!

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Do round numbers count for anything @ivar?

You didn't ask me but I say the roundest number is, and counts for, 0.

 

[GuyA]

1,088,601 - 999,478 = 89123

So disallow deletions and look for a URL with /#post-1089123 in it once the counter reads a million.

This one is /#post-1088617

Let me refer this to my wife, 2 daughters and son-in-law…all Actuaries …it would take them forever and the recommendation would be both impossible to understand and implement . Great job Ivar!

Guy

 

[JabbaPapa]

If I get post one million, I am definitely sending it to Ivar.

Enough !! Stop writing about it, and just do it !!

Even just a 100K job, even just from home for 50K and back again, Ivar needs to walk the Way of Saint James.

 

[LTfit]

Not me. I gotta get my hands on that book!

I thought you were going to say you have enough books on your hands

 

[John Hawke]

Merry Christmas and Buen Camino to all!

 

[Annetom]

Dear all,

I remember making the first post on the forum in 2004. I was the only member and posted it to myself...

We are now (in late December of 2022) closing in on 1.000.000 posts. Wow! (As I write this we are at 999,478). Amazing!

Thank you all for making this a good place to be so many years later.

I want to celebrate this, by giving away a guidebook to the pilgrim that makes the post number 1 million on the forum. I hope I can figure out who it is since there is not really a link between who posts and what number we are at. I think we just need to keep an eye on the counter on the front page:

View attachment 138322

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/

(You can find this on the sidebar if you are on a computer, or towards the bottom on the homepage if you are on a phone).

I hope I can get some help from you guys to figure out who this is...

Anyway, thank you so much everyone.. and happy holidays!
Ivar

Happy Christmas to you and your family Ivar. Thank you for all your hard work it is much appreciated. Next year, new hip permitting, I hope to walk the Norte from Irun then divert to Oviedo and on to Santiago. Look forward to meeting you then. Best wishes, Anne Thompson.

 

[Luther]

Merry Christmas to you, Ivar, the moderators, and all of you folks here on the forum. Thanks for keeping the Camino alive for so many of us!

 

[Rex]

Mahalo (Gracias) to Ivar and all the Mods and all those who share their experience and wisdom on the Forum. Been a great source of information (maybe NOT, sometimes) and always a source of entertainment and inspiration.
Aloha and Mele Kalikimaka!

 

[Jakke]

Dear all,

I remember making the first post on the forum in 2004. I was the only member and posted it to myself...

We are now (in late December of 2022) closing in on 1.000.000 posts. Wow! (As I write this we are at 999,478). Amazing!

Thank you all for making this a good place to be so many years later.

I want to celebrate this, by giving away a guidebook to the pilgrim that makes the post number 1 million on the forum. I hope I can figure out who it is since there is not really a link between who posts and what number we are at. I think we just need to keep an eye on the counter on the front page:

View attachment 138322

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/

(You can find this on the sidebar if you are on a computer, or towards the bottom on the homepage if you are on a phone).

I hope I can get some help from you guys to figure out who this is...

Anyway, thank you so much everyone.. and happy holidays!

Ivar

Thanks, Ivar, for your work - and especially this Forum. It has been an inspiration and still is. God bless you and all peregrinos

 

[David Tallan]

What are the odds that post #1,000,000 will be in this thread?

 

[Harland2019]

What are the odds that post #1,000,000 will be in this thread?

About the same as my wife allowing me to go off walking for 5 weeks again!

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

What are the odds that post #1,000,000 will be in this thread?

There's a good chance because @nycwalking is watching and she's a real sneak. I've seen her make a series of one word posts to be able to get post numbers ending in double zeros and here she can triple that.

This time I'm serious.

 

[Hilary Van Norstrand]

Dear all,

I remember making the first post on the forum in 2004. I was the only member and posted it to myself...

We are now (in late December of 2022) closing in on 1.000.000 posts. Wow! (As I write this we are at 999,478). Amazing!

Thank you all for making this a good place to be so many years later.

I want to celebrate this, by giving away a guidebook to the pilgrim that makes the post number 1 million on the forum. I hope I can figure out who it is since there is not really a link between who posts and what number we are at. I think we just need to keep an eye on the counter on the front page:

View attachment 138322

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/

(You can find this on the sidebar if you are on a computer, or towards the bottom on the homepage if you are on a phone).

I hope I can get some help from you guys to figure out who this is...

Anyway, thank you so much everyone.. and happy holidays!
Ivar

Ivar, you are the BEST!! Happy Holidays to all you fellow pilgrims and friends. Buen Camino! Hilary

 

[Hugh Larkin]

I join with all the other posters in giving a BIG THANK YOU to Ivar and crew for starting and maintaining this site.

And I hope the 1M poster is someone who has yet to walk and that receiving the guidebook will be the lighting of the fuse to do the Camino soon.

Holiday wishes to all,
Hugh

 

[KimKR]

Ivar and pelegrinos, thank you for all your companionship on this journey. May all your Christmases be white, and all your trails be happy ones!

 

[Leaderene]

Thank you Ivar for all that you do and for me, it was such a great pleasure to meet you in person at Casa Ivar this year.

 

[AJGuillaume]

Thank you @ivar and all the moderators for all the great work you do!

Merry Christmas! ¡Feliz Navidad! Joyeux Noël !

 

[Sweething]

Thank you Ivar for this wonderful forum! It truly is a font of information. So I'd like to thank Ivar, the Moderators, Veteran Members and all the contributors. It is the first thing I check on my phone every morning, and I have learnt SO much. My husband, myself and my best friend are walking our first Camino late April '23, and I'm sure we couldn't do it without all the forum members help . Have a wonderful Xmas and safe New Year everyone.

 

[dbier]

Feliz Navidad a todos, y a todos una buena noche. (Ya yo sé que esta no es correcta).

Y Prospero Año Nuevo!

 

[natcire]

Dear all,

I remember making the first post on the forum in 2004. I was the only member and posted it to myself...

We are now (in late December of 2022) closing in on 1.000.000 posts. Wow! (As I write this we are at 999,478). Amazing!

Thank you all for making this a good place to be so many years later.

I want to celebrate this, by giving away a guidebook to the pilgrim that makes the post number 1 million on the forum. I hope I can figure out who it is since there is not really a link between who posts and what number we are at. I think we just need to keep an eye on the counter on the front page:

View attachment 138322

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/

(You can find this on the sidebar if you are on a computer, or towards the bottom on the homepage if you are on a phone).

I hope I can get some help from you guys to figure out who this is...

Anyway, thank you so much everyone.. and happy holidays!
Ivar

Congratulations on bringing all these pilgrims together and allowing us to share our experiences. A very welcoming place that is safe.

 

[C clearly]

We must be very close to the magic number now!

 

[AJGuillaume]

We must be very close to the magic number now!

Are you also counting down to Christmas, @C clearly ?

 

[C clearly]

Just counting the days I need to thaw the turkey. Everything else is easy, and can be done at the last minute!

 

[C clearly]

It is now done! We'll have to wait until the referee wakes up and can figure out who won.

 

[Kanga]

My first post on the forum (that I can find; @ivar may do better) seems to have been in 2006.

 

[trecile]

My first post on the forum (that I can find; @ivar may do better) seems to have been in 2006.

This is the post from September 2005 is the oldest from you that I found: https://www.caminodesantiago.me/com...g-restricting-access-to-portico.401/post-1117

 

[camino07]

Thank you Ivar for this wonderful forum. I have found so much information about my 16 Caminos and now looking forward to walking from Lisbon . I would love to meet you next May when I am in Santiago.
May you and your family have a happy Christmas and prosperous New Year.

 

[Sharonih]

Dear all,

I remember making the first post on the forum in 2004. I was the only member and posted it to myself...

We are now (in late December of 2022) closing in on 1.000.000 posts. Wow! (As I write this we are at 999,478). Amazing!

Thank you all for making this a good place to be so many years later.

I want to celebrate this, by giving away a guidebook to the pilgrim that makes the post number 1 million on the forum. I hope I can figure out who it is since there is not really a link between who posts and what number we are at. I think we just need to keep an eye on the counter on the front page:

View attachment 138322

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/

(You can find this on the sidebar if you are on a computer, or towards the bottom on the homepage if you are on a phone).

I hope I can get some help from you guys to figure out who this is...

Anyway, thank you so much everyone.. and happy holidays!
Ivar

Congratulations, you have created and kept it going an amazing helpfully forum. Thank you so much

 

[VNwalking]

Hey @ivar, we're at 1,000,027.
You'll have a head scratcher when you log on this morning!

 

[Robo]

Congratulations @ivar
You provide a wonderful community for us and long may it continue.

 

[JennyH94]

This is such an awesome milestone Ivar! Hearty congratulations!
Best wishes to you and your family for a joyous Christmas and New Year -
Jenny

 

[ivar]

Hey @ivar, we're at 1,000,027.
You'll have a head scratcher when you log on this morning!

Ahh… I am on my way to the airport, going to Norway. Could someone please do the math to find the winner? If not I will do it tomorrow!

 

[JohnLloyd]

Dear all,

I remember making the first post on the forum in 2004. I was the only member and posted it to myself...

We are now (in late December of 2022) closing in on 1.000.000 posts. Wow! (As I write this we are at 999,478). Amazing!

Thank you all for making this a good place to be so many years later.

I want to celebrate this, by giving away a guidebook to the pilgrim that makes the post number 1 million on the forum. I hope I can figure out who it is since there is not really a link between who posts and what number we are at. I think we just need to keep an eye on the counter on the front page:

View attachment 138322

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/

(You can find this on the sidebar if you are on a computer, or towards the bottom on the homepage if you are on a phone).

I hope I can get some help from you guys to figure out who this is...

Anyway, thank you so much everyone.. and happy holidays!
Ivar

One of the finest spaces on the Internet - we are all so grateful for that, @ivar

 

[VNwalking]

Buen viaje, Ivar!
Well, we can wait. Pity though that it wasn't you - there'd be a fine symmetry to that.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Ahh… I am on my way to the airport, going to Norway. Could someone please do the math to find the winner? If not I will do it tomorrow!

I'll say how I would find the post if I were on a PC. I just have a phone and doing this on it would be too aggravating. First assume that the one millionth post acually maps to 1089123 as I suggested very early in the thread. Second assumption is that the post is in a recently created thread (because that is where most of the action is). So use a browser to continually search for the post using the URL below or modifications of it where you change the thread number from 77900 to something else. There is a glitch though; if post 1089123 is not in the thread the thread will be shown with the first post. It may be possible that the first post is the one though. Check the URL your browser shows.

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/77900/#post-1089123

Have fun.

 

[C clearly]

I FOUND IT!

If we (and more importantly, Ivar) agree on Rick's suggestion that post #1089123 would be the winner (and since he declared it well in advance), then I have identified it. But I won't tell until Ivar gives the go ahead.

 

[ivar]

I FOUND IT!

If we (and more importantly, Ivar) agree on Rick's suggestion that post #1089123 would be the winner (and since he declared it well in advance), then I have identified it. But I won't tell until Ivar gives the go ahead.

I am at the gate in Porto on mobile… but I trust you Clare! ..who is it?

 

[C clearly]

Drumroll......

Here it is - none other than @mspath with this post on the classic thread "On-the-camino-one-day-at-a-time-one-photo-at-a-time."

Congratuations to a very deserving winner!

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Congratuations to a very deserving winner!

Deserving is right; @mspath submitted nearly 1% of the million posts!

 

[VNwalking]

Here it is - none other than @mspath with this post on the classic thread "On-the-camino-one-day-at-a-time-one-photo-at-a-time."

Woo hooo!
I can't think of a better person to have added the millionth post! She has already won the fondness and appreciation of many of us here for her long experience of walking and the gracious kindness with which she shares that.

Warm and happy congratulations, @mspath !

 

[Bala]

How wonderfully appropriate! Many thanks for all your warm, insightful and helpful posts, @mspath . And, @ivar , thanks a million for setting up and running this wonderful forum.

 

[mspath]

What happy news this is now at midnight here in rural France! Ouf!

One of the strengths of the Forum has been the importance of sharing. Tips and memories from/to scores of other readers, both known and unknown, pass through our community of digital acquaintances.

For those of us who have walked it is a meaningful way to keep our journey anew while providing practical advice to those who plan to walk.

Long may it be so....Ultreia!

 

[ivar]

Drumroll......

Here it is - none other than @mspath with this post on the classic thread "On-the-camino-one-day-at-a-time-one-photo-at-a-time."

Congratuations to a very deserving winner!

Yay!

What happy news this is now at midnight here in rural France! Ouf!

One of the strengths of the Forum has been the importance of sharing. Tips and memories from/to scores of other readers, both known and unknown, pass through our community of digital acquaintances.

For those of us who have walked it is a meaningful way to keep our journey anew while providing practical advice to those who plan to walk.

Long may it be so....Ultreia!

Will be in touch after I am back from Norway.. congrats!

 

[ranthr]

God jul, fra Finnmark, Ivar, where I think you once told me you spent some of your military service. Darkest day of the year today, but still looking forward to some walk on the camino in 2023.

 

[Kirkie]

What happy news this is now at midnight here in rural France! Ouf!

One of the strengths of the Forum has been the importance of sharing. Tips and memories from/to scores of other readers, both known and unknown, pass through our community of digital acquaintances.

For those of us who have walked it is a meaningful way to keep our journey anew while providing practical advice to those who plan to walk.

Long may it be so....Ultreia!

See? You shine through your posts.
This being a Pilgrimage site, and in the Christian tradition, I dare to offer a quote that stretches over two religious traditions.
Let it be deleted if it contravenes rules.
In the beauty and goodness of created things, the original author, by analogy, is seen.
Your unflinching commitment to easing the path for pilgrims is legendary, @mspath, and greatly valued.
Wishing you and yours delight in the prize you have just won!

 

[Kiwi-family]

I’m addition to all the other comments about mspath i offer the observation as exemplified in her acceptance post that all her qualities are encased in a deep humility Congratulations!! Which route will you choose?

 

[Camino Chrissy]

When I was just a newbie lurker on the forum in 2014, I was introduced to Margaret's own website early on and I devoured her many detailed writings of her winter weather pilgrimages to Santiago. She has left a lasting impression for me; a special lady indeed!

 

[rojasa]

When I was just a newbie lurker on the forum in 2014, I was introduced to Margaret's own website early on and I devoured her many detailed writings of her winter weather pilgrimages to Santiago. She has left a lasting impression for me; a special lady indeed!

Me, too! Margaret’s contributions are invaluable. Joyeux Noel to @mspath, god jul to the incredible Ivar…the peace of the season to you all. Very grateful for this forum. It helps immensely with pilgrimage both on and off Camino…

 

[peregrina2000]

I have said this to @mspath more privately but I think it’s nice to say thanks publicly. I think it’s very appropriate that you were the author of the forum’s 1,000,000th post, @mspath. I have learned a lot from your many posts of wide-ranging interest and camino-specific experiences.

If all forum members had @mspath’s grace, calm, and equanimity, we mods would be out of a job!

 

[nycwalking]

There's a good chance because @nycwalking is watching and she's a real sneak. I've seen her make a series of one word posts to be able to get post numbers ending in double zeros and here she can triple that.

This time I'm serious.

LMAO! Rick.

Congratulations @mspath.

Ivar, thanks for this wonderful forum. It’s been a boon for camino information. A platform for Not nonsense. Also, a place for an overall good time.

Buen camino to we all!

 

[natefaith]

@mspath You have been a fount of knowledge and practical advice regarding the Camino, and a calming presence encouraging thousands of pilgrims on this Forum that they can do it! Congratulations on penning the 1 millionth post and thank you for all the posts that came before that. You are truly one of our esteemed Camino veterans and we love having the privilege of knowing you and your gentle soul.

What a legacy!

Big hugs!

 

[Bob from L.A. !]

Yea!!!!!!!!!!

 

[LTfit]

I'm catching up here.
How wonderful and appropriate that @mspath is the luckily winner. I'm so glad that you are with us

 

[Canche]

Dear all,

I remember making the first post on the forum in 2004. I was the only member and posted it to myself...

We are now (in late December of 2022) closing in on 1.000.000 posts. Wow! (As I write this we are at 999,478). Amazing!

Thank you all for making this a good place to be so many years later.

I want to celebrate this, by giving away a guidebook to the pilgrim that makes the post number 1 million on the forum. I hope I can figure out who it is since there is not really a link between who posts and what number we are at. I think we just need to keep an eye on the counter on the front page:

View attachment 138322

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/

(You can find this on the sidebar if you are on a computer, or towards the bottom on the homepage if you are on a phone).

I hope I can get some help from you guys to figure out who this is...

Anyway, thank you so much everyone.. and happy holidays!
Ivar

Thank YOU for a wonderful way to get help for the Camino and best of all to make new friends on Zoom

 

[Bill Krueger]

Merry Christmas, Ivar and all, thanks for hosting this incredibly valuable forum...it was great meeting you in September!

 

[Nancy R.]

Dear all,

I remember making the first post on the forum in 2004. I was the only member and posted it to myself...

We are now (in late December of 2022) closing in on 1.000.000 posts. Wow! (As I write this we are at 999,478). Amazing!

Thank you all for making this a good place to be so many years later.

I want to celebrate this, by giving away a guidebook to the pilgrim that makes the post number 1 million on the forum. I hope I can figure out who it is since there is not really a link between who posts and what number we are at. I think we just need to keep an eye on the counter on the front page:

View attachment 138322

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/

(You can find this on the sidebar if you are on a computer, or towards the bottom on the homepage if you are on a phone).

I hope I can get some help from you guys to figure out who this is...

Anyway, thank you so much everyone.. and happy holidays!
Ivar

Bravo, Ivar! Your forum is excellent and I am happy to have access to such good feedback from everyone!