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[TamaraEnLaPlaya]

To prove Sam's point this was the position just now:

37 users active in the past 15 minutes (4 members, 0 of whom are invisible, and 29 guests).

[TamaraEnLaPlaya]

Unsurprisingly under the circumstances there has been a big jump in numbers:

Posts: 13,462
Threads: 1,115
Members: 430

Welcome to all our new members, hope you're finding this site useful and interesting. To everyone who is contributing - thank you - this forum has been a vital resource during our lockdown, my heartfelt thanks that Sam stepped up when he did and got the forum up and running in easier times.

A round of applause for Sam, along with all the emergency services and health teams and all who are doing their bit to protect and help us. 👏👏👏

[TamaraEnLaPlaya]

Posts: 14,388
Threads: 1,150
Members: 443

Numbers are up again. A big thankyou to our new regular contributors as well as the 'old timers!   

It is just about 18 months since this forum was launched! Doesn't time fly? And who would have guessed that we would be living in such a strange and worrying period of our lives?

I think it is as good a time as any to remind ourselves of the 'welcome to this forum' message, thank you for living up to it:

Thank you for your visit and taking the time to read this post.

This forum has been created to keep all the nice people living and/or visiting Fuerteventura, in one place. So we can share the joy and knowledge and help each other.

Here are some guidelines:

• Keep your posts relevant to the forum category, please.
  
  
  
• Be respectful of others and don’t sweat the small stuff.
  
  
  
• Please do not post any personal information or photos that you wouldn’t want to be seen by the public.
  
  
  
• Swearing will not be tolerated in any form.
  
  
  
• Do not post hateful or illegal content. Do not post copyrighted material without proper attribution.
  
  
  
• SPAM will not be tolerated.
  
  
  
• Use private messages to chat with moderators or other members in private.
  
  
  

In summary: be polite, enjoy yourself, help others and share your love for this wonderful island with the rest of us. 

Together we are helping each other to keep safe and sane during this crisis. The info we post re the virus and restrictions is verified wherever possible and clearly marked as unverified if we have not been able to check it. This means you can trust the info, unlike many social media sources, and this in itself can keep you safe/healthy and help you avoid fines for non-compliance!

Of course not everything we post is virus related - please feel free to join in threads re Weather, gardening, internet etc etc - it's nice to read about/discuss something other than the virus!

Thanks everyone, stay safe, show appreciation for everyone who is still working and therefore helping us to live our lives.  👏 (that clapping hands emoji really is dire!)

[milestone11]

Just want to thank again to everyone, keeping the forum tidy and up to date, especially right now when we all are overwhelmed with so much fake news everywhere.

Couple of screenshots to see our progress in search results:

Google - second place, right behind tripadvisor. Caleta Forum is also up (at fourth place), from the tenth position last year. Congrats Captain!

Thanks again to all of you for contributing, sharing forum links on social media and keeping this community growing so fast, no one could've ever guessed would be possible 18 months ago.

Top now Sam.

[Can the Man]

Top spot in Ireland, if you tell me an email address I can send it to you, not able to post photos on forum.



EDIT: Added the print screen. Sam.

[TamaraEnLaPlaya]

Hi Can

Sam can pick up from here:

click@fuerteventura.click

[Can the Man]

Hi Can

Sam can pick up from here:

click@fuerteventura.click

Thanks Tamara 

[Can the Man]

Added the print screen, thanks Can. Would you mind to try it again in a private window? Search results could be a bit different if you're logged in your account - Google already knows your preference.

Ok Sam, will do the search from my work computer tomorrow and email you the screenshot

[TamaraEnLaPlaya]

and the latest stats:

Posts: 15,885
Threads: 1,213
Members: 476

Wow! Onwards and upwards. Thanks everyone.   

Of these figures, 30 threads and 1528 posts are in the COVID section. Thank goodness we had this forum to ask questions, share knowledge, vent feelings, and foremost, to support each other. It's been a case of recording history as it happened - hopefully we can look back on it in the future and thank our lucky stars that we survived it - I wonder how long it will be before we will be in that position though?

[Ducks]

I feel incredibly fortunate to have had this forum during the crisis! As someone who avoids social media like the plague and only has very basic Spanish, it was an ugly position to be in: unable to follow the national news or the majority of postings by the expats. 

Thank you so much for all the work and effort you've put in, Sam. We really are very lucky to have you! 

Further thanks to everyone who has provided updates and information throughout this unpleasantness. We're not out of it yet, but we've gotten this far which has been a lot easier thanks to all of you!