# Discourse Team Grows by 50% **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-team-grows-by-50/36259 **Category:** Blog **Created:** [2 Dicembre 2015, 9:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-team-grows-by-50/36259 "2015-12-02T21:57:57Z") **Posts on this page:** 5 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror) #### Post date: [2 Dicembre 2015, 9:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-team-grows-by-50/36259/1 "2015-12-02T21:57:57Z")
The Discourse team has grown slowly: Jeff, Robin, Sam, Neil launch team (Feb 2013) Régis joins (Sep 2013) Arpit joins (May 2015) Look at any successful open source project, and you’ll see that it takes a while. And we’re OK with that. We’ve said from the beginning we are on a 10 year mission. In… * * * This topic is for comments on the original blog entry at: [Discourse Team Grows by 50%](http://blog.discourse.org/2015/12/discourse-team-grows-by-50/) ---
### Author: ![charleswalter](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/charleswalter/32/116433_2.png) [@charleswalter](https://meta.discourse.org/u/charleswalter) #### Post date: [2 Dicembre 2015, 10:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-team-grows-by-50/36259/2 "2015-12-02T22:48:53Z")
The product seems to be working great, so you are off to an amazing start. Best forum platform that I’m aware of. ---
### Author: ![erlend\_sh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erlend_sh/32/119475_2.png) [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh) #### Post date: [3 Dicembre 2015, 12:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-team-grows-by-50/36259/3 "2015-12-03T00:55:43Z")
Weee! Such a blast to be part of this. Here’s to the 10 year mission! 🍻 ---
### Author: ![tgxworld](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tgxworld/32/106117_2.png) [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld) #### Post date: [3 Dicembre 2015, 3:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-team-grows-by-50/36259/4 "2015-12-03T03:47:29Z")
Yay! :allthethings: Felice di unirmi al team nella sua missione!! Ecco un gatto felice 😸 ![giphy](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/e/c/d/ecdca4098cf7de6de6d72f4428cb855db93e550e.gif) ---
### Author: ![cregox](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cregox/32/115904_2.png) [@cregox](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cregox) #### Post date: [3 Dicembre 2015, 9:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-team-grows-by-50/36259/5 "2015-12-03T09:04:07Z")
Agreed @charleswalter. But it’s good to know [there are great competitors popping up](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-vs-muut-vs-other/20338/16). 😉 @tgxworld that cat is waving its tail like a happy dog… creepy! 😄 > [@codinghorror](#): > > next 7 years Wait, I always thought the “10 years plan” would always stay 10 years in the future! 😛 What will happen in 2024?