These days on a good day I see around 5 new posts in all the forum sections combined.

I only joined recently, but would any members like to share what the forum was like in the past?  Was it more exciting or was it pretty much the same as today?

You can check out the post statistics (drop down menu in the top right).
The record month for posts was quite a long time ago: over 14000 posts in January 2010 alone!
In comparison in April 2020 we had only 582 posts.
During 2018 we had more like 1000 posts per month, there was a definite decline in posts starting about April 2019 (riots?) and it still continues, the pandemic certainly doesn't help...

Bottom line bros, punt more and report more!

A question I've always wondered was do any of the Forum Moderators / OGs know each other or met each other in person before?

(Such as: porkchops, twiceAweek, JackTheBat, jeffzek, ePetay_1283, Thai-delight etc...)

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How far are do you want to go back ?  Just read some of the older reports and see what was going on.  I have been here

on the English side even before 2007 on the Chinese side of sex141.  I register on 2007 user id 69.

I had a very slow internet connection.  It was like 56K modem land line.  There was some bad time which

I was told not to talk about it in private.

I have meet up with a few;

Obe
Petay
Cruman
Hkpunter

We have had good times in China, HK,Thailand and Vietnam.

During the heyday of this forum, we got a lot of drama (SEAJ), a lot of christmas cracker jokes (twiceaweek), a lot of beautiful WG photos (Cass), a lot of food photography (Devilgodspeed), a lot of detective work ("Tell me the colour of the wallpaper there." "Green?" "You are banned!"), a lot of IT detective work ("Don't ask me how I know but members XXX and YYY are the same person, you are banned!") and a lot of drama (SEAJ, oh I have mentioned that already haven't I)....

During the heyday of this forum, no member told WGs about us or showed them our reports. No WG could read English anyway. So, this forum was a truly secret society and members communicated in a coded language (English). Today, many WGs have better English than mine. Many members use information about this forum (and its members) to gain favours from their WG. Secret society no more.

During the heyday of this forum, newbies were more supported and the threshold for climbing up the rank was lower. Today, reports in the restricted section receive more Ks on average than those in the Newbie section. It should be the other way round, I think.

During the heyday of this forum, I was a happy man. Today, I am sick, old, lonely and loveless. Oh, the last bit has nothing to do with this forum...

hey porkchops, how do I find my registered date? I am just curious to know, thanks.

nevermind, it was there all the time, silly me.................. 6-3-2009

woah.  How did SEAJ and Cass get banned?

zebra covers up a lot of my thoughts. I registered here 11 years ago now. I'd been lurking for a year before that. Some other thoughts...

- I missed what happened with SEAJ. I wasn't here regularly when whatever happened. All I know is that one day he was gone. I liked his posts.
- Cass had the best photos. Always gorgeous Thai girls too. It was his reports that got me interested in Thai girls.
- devilgodspeed always had blog style reports with local food and sites. I began styling my reports after his.
- Unfortunately there was a lot of drama between frequent posters from 2015 to 2017. Some great posters left from this.
- Climbing the RA ranks was a lot tougher and the requirements higher.
- There were a lot more reports on places like 37 Dundas and 311 Portland. I think these places cater more to Chinese speaking locals but they're still the best value in Hong Kong.
- Girls were more open to having photos and videos taken.
- The Chinese forum was a treasure trove of photos. Drama on that side, various changes of ownership/mods and takeover by agents with fake reports ruined the Chinese forum.
- I feel like there were more WGs available. Definitely a lot more 141 girls advertised.
- $500 was considered high end! $600 if the girl was saucy.
- 1 shot or 40 min whichever came first was a real thing.
- Tsim Sha Tsui had freelancers in bars. Hari’s Bar had Mongolians and Columbians. Sticky Fingers had the DHs. The former has been empty for years while the later closed years ago.
- I can only speculate why there were more reports back then. Hong Kong was politically stable and the general mood was pretty lively. Posting reports was a fun hobby to share. A lot more WGs lived in Hong Kong so it was easier to find the girl who someone had reported on.

Around 2010-2011 there were a lot of meetups. Unfortunately ego got the best of several members. Who have I met? Almost the whole mod team around 2010 (the original squad), plus contributors at the time like Goose, SEAJ, GARY, TonyToro, petay, dabest, marsupial, Rico, wander  and JackTheBat.

Met twiceaweek and petay many times, and had the pleasure of meeting Sex141.

While Seaj was annoying at times, his reports were informative. I enjoyed meeting him. Different from his persona on the forum. Even met him after he got banned.

This is our hay day

I don’t give a shit for the glory days. This is the situation now