In reply to Eduardo (msg # 3):

Unfortunately there isn't a way to do that.

Happy birthday RpoL! I've been here since 2008, half of RpoL's lifetime.

I came in during 2001. Was on PBW before that and people there told me of this site.

June 2002 for me (I know this because I started a game then).  Also came from PBW.

I tried scrolling through the changelog to suss out when I joined. I know I was here about a year (ish) before GM usernames were displayed with the game name. And sometime after that there was the major visual overhaul. But I can't find the GM name change in the version history.

I'm guessing 2005/2006 or so.
This message was last edited by the user at 19:56, Fri 25 Aug 2017.

Happy birthday, RPoL. You survived robustly long enough for me to find you through a random link on the Talislanta website. Although even simple explanations are mostly now done through video rather than text, you provide a comfortable space for those of us for whom text is our thing. May you outlive the entire video gaming industry!

In reply to bigbadron (msg # 7):

Slight tangent, but what is/was PBW?  Mostly what does the acronym stand for?

In reply to Eduardo (msg # 3):

If you have some spare time and can stand to browse through search results, go to Google and search for: site:rpol.net [your username]

If you've not made a lot of posts in public forums, you should be able to find early posts and narrow down when you joined.  I've been able to narrow it down to early 2008 for me.

If you're a heavy user of the site and have 20000 posts, it might take you time and detective work. :P
This message was last edited by the user at 20:37, Fri 25 Aug 2017.

Well in 2006 I had 6 posts in the public forums.  Still not sure how long ago I joined.  ^___^

In reply to pdboddy (msg # 10):

Another gaming site - PlayByWeb.

I stumbled upon this website out of random when I was seeking for an Inuyasha roleplaying forum.

I managed to stumble upon the chat part of RpoL and met quite a few awesome people that I feel bad for just disappearing on them now that I remember it.

I eventually got told about the PbP part of RpoL and registered and boom! 9 years later here I am.

Still stuck on free-form based games, but out of all sites I ran into online, RpoL is the mst organized and user-friendly one.

In reply to pdboddy (msg # 11):

I don't think we have anybody with 20,000 posts.  I believe the person with the most posts in the public forums currently has 15,420.  :D
This message was last edited by the user at 22:24, Fri 25 Aug 2017.

Just a historical note. PlayByWeb came out before Rpol by a couple years. I found it when I first got online in 1998. A friend who played there told me of it. He had been playing on PBW since 97. At one time it was The place to game, now Rpol holds that title and most of the gamers. But it's still out there and some still use it. Me I use it to store old characters. The one feature Rpol does not have. Allot of the Mods here played there to start, same for players. Every now and then I come across someone else I know from there. Over all this site is more user friendly and that has made a huge difference between the sites.

In reply to bigbadron (msg # 15):

Hah, well, if you can't remember when you joined, you might have some searching ahead of you.  That's a lot of posts. xD

Well, I wish RPOL another 17 years, at minimum. :D  I want to be a crotchety old fart still playing here there.

You can get some idea of how long you've been here by looking for your very first rMail message.  Not a definite indicator, because some people were on RPOL for a while before they did anything with rMail.  But you can at least point to it and say, 'Sometime before this date...'  (I know I was on RPOL for months before I ever really looked at any of the public threads, much less traded rMailwith anyone.)

In reply to pdboddy (msg # 17):

Nah, I know exactly when I joined (see msg #7, above),


In reply to facemaker329 (msg # 19):

That wouldn't work for a lot of long term users, since rMail didn't exist until some time between 2004 and 2007.

I can't remember when I joined. I regularly perform housekeeping on my stuff in here, so my rMail list only goes back to October. A Google search like the one suggested above didn't help either.

I know it's been at least 10 years, but that's all I know for certain. Why aren't accounts tagged with their creation date?

I know when I joined, because I put it in my bio line.

Happy Birthday RPoL !

November 2012 for me ... as near as I can tell that was my first game ... but I think I was playing for a few years before I posted my first game ?
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In reply to bigbadron (msg # 20):

It doesn't work that well for me, either, as I have no idea how long I was on RPOL before I sent/received an rMail message.  It gives me a vague ballpark...about as accurate as saying I know I joined RPOL before I joined Facebook, because I remember using MySpace to talk with the friend who first invited me to join and participate in his game...

I can't look for anything from that game.  It's long since defunct.

A good way to get the exact date is if you didn't delete the email they sent you upon registering on the site from the beginning. Should still be in your inbox with the email you used to first sign up and register on the site. I've been using the same email since I registered and I didn't delete the email apparently due to the fact it had my account name and password  in there in case I may have forgotten it and it was also the same email that you had to open up in order to activate your account.

In reply to WhiteComic (msg # 25):

.... I almost wish I had deleted it. That's a very long time ago.

I still use PBW, better interface for phone.

Happy Birthday, RPoL!  Thanks for hanging in there for this long, and here's hoping for many more years of RP enjoyment.