The Animorphs Fan Forum Blog

Hiya guys it’s Elfangor here. Ellimist has allowed me to post here so I thought I would.

Isn’t it amazing how much we’ve grown as a site and as a community 1 year 5 months ago Ellimist made this site. On the first day there was one member, by day two 4. 2 months later there where 25 members. Now 1 and a half years later we have 1229 members (Not mentioning the one who have left). Along with these 1229 members are 55711 posts. On top of that if you search Google for “Animorphs Forum,” AFF is at the top of the list which means we are the top Animorphs Forum site.

Isn’t this forum just great?

Today is the One Year Anniversary of the Animorphs Fan Forum! So, to celebrate, I’m going to tell everyone out there on the world wide web the story of how I became an Animorphs fan, along with a touch of AFF’s history.

I’d always eyed the Animorphs books in the library… intrigued by the cover pictures. Of course, I never actually picked one up and read it, but I would occasionally pull the books half-way off the little rotating rack and gaze at the covers. That was back when I was… what, eight or nine?

Anyway, one day about a year ago, I was day-dreaming about animals, and the morphing thereof. From somewhere, the memory of those shiny, appealing book-covers came bubbling up into the forefront of my mind. Now, at this point I had an exponentially more substantial set of resources, (namely Google), with which to locate information, so I turned those resources towards finding more about the Animorphs.

I of course spent a considerable amount of time poking around on the Scholastics Animorphs sight, and when that resource was exhausted, I turned to Wikipedia. I read every last plot synopsis for every single Animorphs book. But that wasn’t enough. By that point I was hooked; I needed to read the real books.

Of course, being a sixteen year old and going down to the kid’s section of the library to check out books can be just slightly embarrassing, and it was quite some time before I plucked up the courage to do it. When I finally did check out the first ten books, I told the librarian that it was in my sister’s name. (I still feel guilty about that…)

I read the first ten books about five times each, till I had them practically memorized. By the time the three weeks were over, I was sincerely in love with Jake, Rachel, Ax, Marco and Tobias. (Even back then I hated Cassie…). I had to read the rest of the books; that much I knew. But I also was unable to bring myself to go to the library and check out the next books. So, I did what I should have done all along.

Of course, the Google search for “Animorphs” “Ebooks” “free download” lead my on quite a long and drawn out chase, leading most often to a free download of some new book by K.A.A., not the Animorphs. Finally, Google lead me to RAF. I registered there, but since I gave a dummy email address, I was unable to validate my account. Thus, I continued searching until I found it: The Animorphs Fan Forum.

I registered, and immediately downloaded all the ebooks. (We didn’t have the five post requirement back then.) As I was reading them, however, I came up with more and more nitpicks, (or KASUs), that I simply had to find out if anyone else had ever thought of them before. So, I returned to AFF, and, after posting my favorite character, I went right to work with my list of nitpicks.

I remember well those early days, when it was just me, Ellimist, and Darkflame posting in the Coffee Lounge and the discussion area. (Believe it or not, when I first joined, there were only four games in the Coffee Lounge: Choices Game, Count to 1,000,000, Ban the Person Above You and Guess Who Will Post Next.) At that time, we had just over 1000 posts, with some 200 members.

Well, a lot has changed in a year. Today, we have the number of members that we did posts when I first joined: 1275 members total. We now have nearly 26,000 posts, along with some 800 topics. And I myself, the Animorphs fan of less than a year, am an Admin on the Animorphs Fan Forum. (Yeah, go figure).

Anyway, we all owe a lot to Ellimist, Darkflame, and the other founding members of this forum, who started out as a Orkut group with a vision. And the one year anniversary of AFF is certainly a huge reason to celebrate.

So, now that the boring speech is out of the way…

LET’S PARTY!!!

This is an announcement concerning the two new forums that have been recently created in the Coffee Lounge. Those forums are “Religion” and “Politics”. We know that a lot of our members have some strong opinions about these topics, (myself included), and we’d like to invite you to join in the discussion.

However, we will not tolerate flaming (the expression of strong, negative emotion, use of derogatory, obscene, or inappropriate language, or personal insults) on any of our forums, and these two in particular. We will be keeping a sharp eye on both of these forums for any of the things listed above.

With that out of the way, enjoy the new forums, and have a great day!

Congratulations, AFF members! We have, as of today, 906 members, 463 topics, and over 10,000 posts! We have certainly grown a lot over the past months!

We have gone from an itty-bitty forum with only a few active members and just a handful of topics to a healthy, thriving community with several very active forums in multiple languages and many active members. I hope that over the next year, we will see more of this kind of growth and progress.

Till now, The Animorphs Downloads board at AFF was only accessible to ‘Full members’(members with 5 posts or more).

One of our forum regulars, mrchuckles, has suggested that the new users should be allowed to download the first ten of the ebooks. He has also provided valid reasons to support his suggestion.

Quote from his post :

One, it will act like a “teaser” or a “free-trial version” of the forum, so that people won’t give up on the five posts. And two, it will give people who had never read the books before coming to this sight, (like me), something to discuss in their first five posts.

I’m already in the process of implementing this. Hope it works out well.

Update : This has been implemented. New users can download the first ten Animorphs e-books(in PDF format) from this topic: http://animorphsfanforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=49

But to access the rest of the ebooks(11 – 54, as well as the Chronicles, Megamorphs and Alternamorphs) to need to have a minimum of 5 posts in the forum.

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