/r/DIY_eJuice through time...
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June 18, 2012 - 64 Subs - http://web.archive.org/web/20120618163410/http://www.reddit.com/r/DIY_eJuice
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August 22, 2012 - 142 subs - http://web.archive.org/web/20120822093058/http://www.reddit.com/r/DIY_eJuice
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October 21, 2013 - 2,266 subs - (slight facelift) http://web.archive.org/web/20131031211941/http://www.reddit.com/r/DIY_eJuice/
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Feb 13, 2015 - 11,581 subs - (damn, we need to clean up the Sidebar) http://web.archive.org/web/20150213015047/http://www.reddit.com/r/DIY_eJuice/
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November 9, 2015 - 20,036 subs - (going strong)
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November 30, 2016 - 30,000 subs.
From this sub's humble beginnings, I would like to extend a big thank-you to everyone who has made /r/DIY_eJuice the great place it has become.
A special thanks to the new(ish) mods on the scene, /u/ID10-T /u/wh1skeyk1ng /u/skiddlzninja who have all brought a huge amount of great ideas and enthusiasm to the team.
Keep on mixin'
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This is very awesome. Great job, everyone
I hope you're including yourself in everyone! You do a lot of great work around here in the New Mixers' Questions thread and elsewhere.
Wow, it's quite an honor to get a special thanks from one of the architects of this wonderful place that I've come to think of as kind of a second home. Thank you, /u/InertiaCreeping, for building that home!
This seems like it would be an excellent time to discuss ideas for the future of this sub, /u/skiddlzninja, /u/wh1skeyk1ng, /u/Botboy141, /u/kirkt
Mods, I'm all for growing the sub and having more vapers "cut the cord" in terms of their dependence on vendor-juice, but please please, think of ways of growing the sub that can avoid or reduce the flood of newbie questions upon a mass-subscription. I think it was /u/vurve who posted on ECR about this sub and there was a sudden influx of subscribers, thus, sidebar non-readers. It was quite a frustrating period. Anyways, really appreciate the stuff you guys do behind the scenes to keep this sub clean and knowledge-friendly. Please keep it up!
Edit: uh-oh, here we go
The issue there is that without those simple questions, it doesn't allow the experienced users to "flex" their knowledge and keep it at the front of their minds. A big part of knowledge is the ability to recall that knowledge, and if you don't use it, you lose it. On top of this, thise threads allow other new users to have their questions answered by observing the thread, and helps us mods gauge the community mood and response to new subscribers. A lot of information is gained from new mixer posts, and without them, the subreddit will stagnate and we will lose a fair amount of our curated knowledge.
Me & /u/DataNotAnecdotes are in progress of creating a somewhat automated flavor wiki. Hope he doesn't mind me releasing a bit of the plans. =/
Where users will be able to easily add new flavors with flavor information, add flavor tags something akin to #taste:creamy #taste:peel #taste:strawberry #vendor:tfa #taste:harsh,
be able to add more background information like "Found out that fructose was added later on, was the #1 flavor of the month[1]"
It'll still be a Wikipedia, but automated. And all the flavor tags will allow for it to be automatically generate lists. So if you add one new flavor it will add that flavor to list of TFA flavors, list of strawberries, list of creamy flavors, list of donut flavors, etc. Automatically. Simple. Easy.
So the community will be able to to have ALLLLLLLL the flavors and information all in one place. In addition to links to AllTheFlavor pages, e-liquid-recipes, & subreddit flavor notes.
ID10-T[M] already had a look at the early prototype that I worked on alone for a bit.
http://diy-ejuice.wikia.com/wiki/DIY_eJuice_Wiki
I'm hoping to keep it integrated with the DIY_eJuice subreddit community. If we don't have support from the mods we can always just have it be a fork off that supplements the subreddit.
Anyways, lately the subreddit has really been killing it. Congrats to all the mods!
I don't think anyone wants another mass-subscription. The sub is already growing every single day as more people discover the joys of DIY and the growth rate is a nice steady pace that doesn't have the same headaches as a flood of newbies. But do you ever think that maybe it's almost too clean? Not much gets posted here (or it does, but gets removed for breaking the rules, I think I remove at least two a day myself, often more) and we tell people they must search for answers, but the search often only turns up old, archived posts that they can't comment on to ask for clarification or even just thank someone for the answer. Are there really no new answers to the same questions, or new voices who want to talk about those answers? How do we know if we don't allow the questions to be asked outside of the New Mixer's thread?
Nobody wants a ton of very basic New Mixers-type "obviously didn't read the sidebar questions," but we have been talking about asking the community as whole for opinions and ideas about things that will encourage activity and participation, especially by the people who are already here. Trying to keep the sub from growing cold and stale. Questions like, what would be a good way to get fresh answers to old questions without cluttering up the sub? Something like a time limit on the "use the search function or your post will be removed" rule, such as six months since that's how long Reddit gives before archiving? As well as more general stuff like, how can we best retain the interest and participation of talented mixers while also best helping out new mixers as well?
I think the mod convo that /u/Kirkt is talking about starting is just firming up which are the right questions to ask and how to ask them. I can tell you one thing for sure, and that's that the mods here (or at least this one) are going to do what the community wants us to do. But what is that, exactly? Seems like it doesn't hurt to ask from time to time, and hitting the 30,000 mark seems like a good time to do it.
> Trying to keep the sub from growing cold and stale.
This is a huge thing, I remember like 2-4 months back if somebody posted a question that didn't have much thought or could've been in the new mixer's thread, they were immediately just flamed beyond belief. We've definitely grown as a community to not be as harsh and actually directing them, or just straight up answering their questions while directing them. Along with the mass increase in flavor reviews, and FOTW revamp, this sub just keeps getting better and better.
Big thanks to the creators of this sub and to the mods and contributers. This is where I landed when I first googled diy ejuice and I was engorged in a wealth of invaluable information that never stops giving. This sub is the fucking best. No better way to say it.
And now I'm kind of curious how many old-timers are still here, be it posting or lurking. I've definitely seen quite a few names come and go since I've joined.
Lurking mostly, with occasional forays into being an asshole when newer members are egregiously stupid.
Still mixing though! I just hit my anniversary last week. 2 years later and I'm still at it playing with new flavors and old flavors in new ways.
My first post (quickly deleted) was in the February 2015 Recipe Thread... Since I claimed to have only diyed a couple weeks (which why those recipes sucked enough to be deleted), I'm gonna assume I've been here since about November 2014 lol. Keep trying to convince myself to be more active here and less of a loner.
Edit: Forgot the main point, I make pretty fucking good juice (I checked with other people to make sure)... And I can only do that because of the things I learned in here (and my ridiculously picky palate) so thank you to those of you I stole knowledge from without so much as a comment (my bad fam... Again with the trying harder).