Compilation of CS Historical Fun Facts

[Targaryen]

I love learning more about the old site, thank you.

[Solloby]

I'd forgotten about that book, but I'm glad I made it because I don't remember a lot of those things!
I found the original version with separate images: Forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=9200&p=195247#p195247

[bark]

I love this thread, random facts and trivia is my jam-
I had no idea that there wasn't an adoption limit back then! :0 That's a lottttt of card pups!

[nickjr]

Glad people like this thread

I'd forgotten about that book, but I'm glad I made it because I don't remember a lot of those things!
I found the original version with separate images: Forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=9200&p=195247#p195247

YES THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT I SAW THANK YOU

[Seasonal]

Wow, this made me really nostalgic! CS used to be such an innocent and fun little pet adoptable site. It's incredible that the site has grown into what it is today.

[nickjr]

Definitely o: CS is a giant now...

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at this point I'm half-tempted to make a new List that goes something like this before adding non-08 pets:

July/August 08 rats
July 08 dogs minus sorbets and galaxies
September 08 rats
August 08 dogs plus sorbets and galaxies
September 08 dogs
November 08 rats
October, November, and Advent 08 pets

(with no ordering within each group)

The only problem is that I don't have any proof ready for such a list LOL

[--I am Sherlocked--]

Awesome! Wish I had been able to join back then c:

[Cyrinus]

I remember being able to adopt re-released pets twice back in 2011!

[nickjr]

Fun facts from pet IDs (anyone can find this information right now):

June 30, 2008 - July 28, 2008: 10,000 pets adopted
July 28, 2008 - August 22, 2008: another 50,000 pets adopted (60,000 total)
August 22, 2008 - September 17, 2008: another 100,000 pets adopted (160,000 total)
September 17, 2008 - October 13, 2008: another 150,000 pets adopted (310,000 total)
October 13, 2008 - November 11, 2008: another 200,000 pets adopted (510,000 total)

January 1 - 31, 2009: about 330,000 pets adopted

November 1 - 30, 2009: about 1,060,000 pets adopted (mind that we had our first staff litter--although as far as staff litters go, this one wasn't particularly big) (about 6,300,000 pets total on CS at this point)

AND starting in January 2009, we've been getting roughly the same number of pet outcomes every month, and eyeballing the archives pages tells me we got maybe half or two thirds of the usual amount per month in 2008

while there are a lot of other factors that these numbers don't take into account (e.g. extended releases), I think it's still pretty clear that CS's fastest growth was in the first 3ish months (July 2008 pets ARE valuable!) and then after that there's no reason to use the same exponential value system that can be argued for the first 3ish months of 08

[Law]

Do those IDs include off-site adopts? :O

When I was doing pet counts I didn't bother to look at the username (whoops)