• Happy 10th Anniversary
  • #BW10 Years In Review

A Look Back in Time

Here's what happened.

"The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind."

BlowingWind the man started his site on GeoCities/Yahoo!

The site took its name from his favourite song - Bob Dylan's Blowin' in the Wind.

The description of my page is:
- gay philosophy 
- personal experiences 
- travels, stories, 
- GAY Bulletin Board

Archived on http://www.blowingwind.org/geocities/index.html

1997

GeoCities / Yahoo!

Readers start posting in his “Yahoo! Guest Book” and that interactivity changed his website to a Interactive Bulletin Board (BB).

1997 - 2000

EzBoard

In late December 2000, Yahoo! shut down the Guest Book feature.

BW Bulletin Board moved to EzBoard Forum.

Postings quality deteriorated and readers left.

2001 - 2005

Forumer

In 2005, Lungker approached BlowingWind to revive the Bullettin Board.

OralB and HendryTan was brought in to jump-start the BB.

This is the era where Lungker, OralB and HendryTan posted heavily.

2005

Temporary Relocation of Forum

We moved to Forumer phpBB for a short few days.

20 May 2005

Real Move

We made the final move to IPB BB.

BlowingWind posted his welcome message to the new Forumer.

24 May 2005

We wrote our first Posting Guidelines

Lungker wrote the following guidelines:

Strictly adults > 18yo

No Local Politics, No Religion, No Race

Allow Guest to post

It reflects BlowingWind’s concerns till today.

1 June 2005

Birth of BW Home-based Massage List (HML)

BW started the “Places for Massage” Thread.

One of our most popular series, BW Home-based Massage List (HML) has helped many Gay-friendly Masseurs in their business.

11 June 2005

Creation of Personal Forum

Started our Personal Folder.

It will become our 2nd most popular sub-forum.

7 October 2005

New addition to the family

Welcomed GachiMuchi as a moderator.

2006

Growing up

We had our 2nd anniversary party

Started 'Digital Rest Room' which was moderated by Ikutube.

Started 'Imperial Kitchen' moderated by Asura & Baloo.

Started 'Pets & Plants' by Buaya which was discontinued.

2007

New Full Moderator

Ikutube became a Full Moderator.

17 May 2007

Forumer kicked us out

Reason: For posting "questionable links and videos"

Mods rallied the members and set our future direction:
- Decision : BW to stay NON-Commercial
- Chose our Domain Name : www.blowingwind.org
- Decided to self Host in USA, Need to Pay
- Funding by Google Advertisements + Mod’s own top-up

12 Feburary 2008

Our first permanent home

Moved to our First "Low-Cost" hosting site in USA.

Setup the IRC chat software to link to #blowingwind.

06 March 2008

Started community service ads for AFA and Oogachaga

Started selling banner ads for charity.

Up to Year 2010 - $ 2.3 K proceeds going to charity.

Beneficiaries include AFA, Oogachaga, and Kwang Wai Shiu Hospital.

Read more 2008

Going Social

Upgraded BlowingWind Software to IPB 3.0.

Going Social with Profile pics, Twitter and Facebook.

2009

Another move

Massive increase in readership - our hosting site could not cope and evicted us.

Moved to a high capacity host.

September 2009

Added some very popular features

- Status Update
- Mobile Skin
- Profile personalization
- BW Real-time Chat

2010 - 2012

New addition to the team

Welcomed Bern on 3 July 12 as Moderator cum technical Admin.

3 July 2012

500,000th post

We celebrated our 500,000th post milestone on 19 March 2013.

The 500,000th post was made by Guest poster going by the name -Whisperer-.

His entry can be seen here - More

19 March 2013

BW Internet Blackout

Blowing Wind Forum joined the SG Internet 24-hour online blackout on June 6th, 2013 in protest of MDA's new internet censorship regulation.

Read more here - http://www.blowingwind.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=41374

6 June 2013

[ B W ] 8Ighth Anniversary

We celebrated our 8th Anniversary with an awesome party!

19 October 2013

Hardware Upgrades!

Our user base is growing rapidly.

For capacity planning, we made the move to our present hosting site in USA/LA that is 5x more performant.

20 December 2013

BW Supports PinkDot 2014

We continued our support of Pink Dot by flying their banner and rallying our members for the 4th straight year.

Pink Dot reached a record turnout of 26,000.

28 June 2014

Welcome Our New Moderators - Glyph And Amplify

For posterity, the team has been searching for new talent.

On 5th March, we welcomed the addition of two new moderators, Glyph and Amplify, to our small team of volunteers.

5 March 2015

One millionth post

BW reached the milestone of a million post.

The honour of the 1,000,000 record goes to WorldAngel. His post on 8th March 2015, 15:30 on "Alcohol Substitute" crossed the millionth mark.

9 March 2015

Blowing Wind 1/0Enth Anniversary Party 2015

We held our 10th anniversary party on 11 July 2015, where many of our members shared their #bw10 experience.

Amplify and Glyph quickly made their presence felt by masterminding BW's 10th Anniversary Party.

The party ended with a blast! - http://www.blowingwind.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=62683

11 July 2015

By The Numbers

$0 For community, by community
0.36s Response Time
1 Internet Blackout
2 Set of Servers
8 Moderators

38 Community Banners

22 Oogachaga
6 Action for AIDS
5 Pink Dot
5 Others

7 Anniversary Parties

10

Unplanned Outages since 2005

12

#BW10 Sponsors

15

New Members Per Day

149.1

Hours of Downtime in 10 years

498 Personal Messages Sent Per Day

628 Spams Filtered in A Month

1,032 Posts Per Day

1,191 Reports Moderated

2,865 Missed Connections

10,000 chat messages per day

25,480 Members

44,116 Threads

58,738 Content containing the word 'fun'

64,206 Likes

139,268 Moderators Action

139,274 Status Updates

222,409 Unique Visitors

1,129,284 Posts

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Notable Mentions

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The man who started it all

World Angel

1,000,000th Post Contributor

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BW Moderators

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