# Seven years of discourse
**URL:** https://discourse.wota.xyz/t/seven-years-of-discourse/605
**Category:** News
**Created:** [19 November 2025 21:47 UTC](https://discourse.wota.xyz/t/seven-years-of-discourse/605 "2025-11-19T21:47:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@M5TEA](https://discourse.wota.xyz/u/M5TEA)
#### Post date: [19 November 2025 21:47 UTC](https://discourse.wota.xyz/t/seven-years-of-discourse/605/1 "2025-11-19T21:47:02Z")
Just wanted to acknowledge that this WOTA discourse server is now seven years old! Doesn’t seem more than a couple of years to me, but there we are.
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### Author:  [@M5TEA](https://discourse.wota.xyz/u/M5TEA)
#### Post date: [19 November 2025 22:16 UTC](https://discourse.wota.xyz/t/seven-years-of-discourse/605/2 "2025-11-19T22:16:11Z")
Here are some stats, for this year, just out of interest:
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### Author:  [@M5TEA](https://discourse.wota.xyz/u/M5TEA)
#### Post date: [19 November 2025 23:08 UTC](https://discourse.wota.xyz/t/seven-years-of-discourse/605/3 "2025-11-19T23:08:19Z")
… and an hour and a half I’ll never get back trying every possible combination of ports, authentication, secure layers, STARTTLS settings to get the discourse email system working again - finally!
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### Author:  [@2e0ldf](https://discourse.wota.xyz/u/2e0ldf)
#### Post date: [21 November 2025 19:04 UTC](https://discourse.wota.xyz/t/seven-years-of-discourse/605/4 "2025-11-21T19:04:02Z")
Hi Mark
I’m sure i speak for all involved in WOTA we appreciate your time and effort and time you put in to keeping the site up and running so smoothly
The stats are very interesting a long with the summits least activated , i can understand the outside Wainwright’s not being popular but the normal LDW’s you would have thought might be of more interest. There are some of the Far Eastern one’s i need to do so maybe next year’s to do list
still with the old callsign
Reg
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### Author:  [@M8XGO](https://discourse.wota.xyz/u/M8XGO)
#### Post date: [22 November 2025 13:08 UTC](https://discourse.wota.xyz/t/seven-years-of-discourse/605/5 "2025-11-22T13:08:34Z")
Yes much appreciated .
There are now very few forums like this compared to a few years ago , it seems like face book and other “social media” which I never use , has taken over from websites .
Richard.