About heosemys.org
• The primary goal of heosemys.org is to exchange information about Giant Asian pond turtles in order to preserve the species.
• You can help us by joining our community.
Basic facts
• Founded in November 2000, this forum is one of the oldest turtle forums that are still around today.
• This message board was one of the first that specialized in a single turtle species.
• Heosemys.org is ad-free.
• Every 20 days a new member joins the board.
• Being a member is and always will be free.
• This site is visited by 40 people every day.
• Topics in heosemys.org get as many page views as topics in the largest turtle forums.
• The last succesful spam attack was in December 2007.
Statistics
Total posts 530 •Total topics 162 •Total members 144 •Our newest member Eric
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Forum history
Yahoo club 2000-2002
This forum was founded as a Yahoo!club on November 16, 2000 and quickly grew to 30 members.
Yahoo group 2002-2007
In 2001 Yahoo took over eGroups.com, and yahoo!clubs and eGroups merged into Yahoo!Groups. The Yahoo!Groups layout has hardly changed since then. Over the years, the number of members rose to 93 but in the last two years the activity level dropped.
November 2007
There was no possibility to upgrade the yahoo!group to something with more features, so we decided to start something new: a php-forum. The contents of the yahoo-group were transferred to the new forum.
February 2008
In January the forum was upgraded to phpBB version 3.0.0, with a new default style: prosilver.
July 2008
Upgrade to version 3.0.2 and minor layout changes.