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How did you find us?

How did you find DisneyPinForum.com?

  • Web Search

    Votes: 9 56.3%

  • Pin & Pop (Link from their Page or mention on their Facebook)

    Votes: 5 31.3%

  • Social Media (Reddit, Instagram, etc)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • AI (Claude, ChatGPT, etc)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Word of Mouth

    Votes: 2 12.5%

  • Other

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    16
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There have been quite a few new users joining us lately. Which is awesome, but I'm always curious as how people find our little corner of the pin world these days. I notice that when I ask Claude some pin related questions, the results refer to posts from here so that's why "AI" is also included as a choice. Carousel of Progress, I suppose!
 
Within a year or so of my start in 2014, I found DisneyPinForum by doing disney pin searches (ie, pin research) on google. I cannot remember exactly what was my trigger to become a member... I remember being slightly intimidated by all of the info and the pin activities. Especially the games. I remember not even wanting to look at the games (that one took me years to get over). Auctions... I felt clueless. All of it was so new.

It took time to gel and build the network of great pin pals I now have because of DPF. Now here I am loving this platform/website and hoping others get as much out of it as I have.
 
ViciousLady said:
I was actually looking for I believe the old Dizpins forum because I used to be on there back when I first started trading. Realized it was defunct but found this forum (and very happy I did, everyone is so sweet.)
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Yep! We are the phoenix that rose from Dizpins ashes. As the announced closure of their forums is what prompted our site owner @Cicada and his cousins to start this place. Our other admin @dancecats, as well as me (mostly a lurker back then), users like @Jabberwocky and a few others my mind is blanking on, are also remnants from the Dizpins era.
 
Same story @hopemax
I was lost and heartbroken when Dizpins dissolved. It was everything in the early 2000's.
But I found DPF which I visit constantly. How is our 15th Anniversary Donation Drive going??
This then led me to PTDB and a friendly race with @TheMickeyMouseRules to see who could post the most pins (balloons).
She won (3,735 vrs 3,417) and here is a shoutout to @starry_solo for 17,189 pin entries,
to which eventually helped Pin & Pop to materialize.

Common threads woven
 
I chose word of mouth but it was online word of mouth if that counts 😅 I use to be part of VinylNation which seems crazy to me that Vinylmations have been gone for about 10 years now but hear we are 😂 (funny that they keep coming out with other plastic blind boxes that they could easily make Mickey shape and just not over saturate the market with them but I digress…)

I can’t remember who I heard it from on the site, but I was starting to take my pin collecting seriously in 2011 which my mom has been in since a fantasyland park pin was given to her as an entrance gift before my time in the late 80s early 90s. I am forever grateful I was introduced to such a refreshing fun community to learn from and thankful to all the behind the scenes work and active members that keeps this place thriving and such a fun resource to visit 😍❣️
 
The VinylNation mention resonates with me—those blind-box days felt like their own little ecosystem, and it's odd to think how long ago that era wrapped up. Your point about the community's behind-the-scenes work is well made; it's often the quiet moderation and resource upkeep that keeps a place useful long after the initial discovery. The repeated nudge from trading partners in the last post is a familiar pattern too—sometimes it takes hearing it twice before someone actually signs up. Madison here, so I appreciate a good word-of-mouth chain.
 
splashmtnman said:
Same story @hopemax
I was lost and heartbroken when Dizpins dissolved. It was everything in the early 2000's.
But I found DPF which I visit constantly. How is our 15th Anniversary Donation Drive going??
This then led me to PTDB and a friendly race with @TheMickeyMouseRules to see who could post the most pins (balloons).
She won (3,735 vrs 3,417) and here is a shoutout to @starry_solo for 17,189 pin entries,
to which eventually helped Pin & Pop to materialize.

Common threads woven
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Is the competition over?

I will say pnp is a distraction from PTDB, but I always mean to keep going with it.

Love the stories. Hoping for more.
 
hopemax said:
Yep! We are the phoenix that rose from Dizpins ashes. As the announced closure of their forums is what prompted our site owner @Cicada and his cousins to start this place. Our other admin @dancecats, as well as me (mostly a lurker back then), users like @Jabberwocky and a few others my mind is blanking on, are also remnants from the Dizpins era.
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As @hopemax said, I was an active member (actually an administrator) on Dizpins when its closure was announced and this forum was created to give us our new online pin home. I signed up almost as soon as the proverbial lights were turned on, along with the aforementioned users and quite a few others, some of whom no longer are active on here and others I believe have left pins altogether (but everyone is welcome to come back at any time).
 
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