# Welcome Régis Hanol to the Discourse team
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/welcome-regis-hanol-to-the-discourse-team/9856
**Category:** Blog
**Created:** [9월 17, 2013, 6:54오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/welcome-regis-hanol-to-the-discourse-team/9856 "2013-09-17T18:54:09Z")
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [9월 17, 2013, 6:54오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/welcome-regis-hanol-to-the-discourse-team/9856/1 "2013-09-17T18:54:10Z")
The Discourse Team has always been intentionally small. We did have plans to add a team member sometime after the public launch of the project. But we wanted just the right person, someone brave enough to take on the risk of a project as broadly ambitious as Discourse, someone willing to prove to us that…
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This topic is for comments on the original blog entry at: [Welcome Régis Hanol to the Discourse team](http://blog.discourse.org/2013/09/welcome-regis-hanol-to-the-discourse-team/)
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### Author:  [@Sander78](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sander78)
#### Post date: [9월 18, 2013, 9:16오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/welcome-regis-hanol-to-the-discourse-team/9856/2 "2013-09-18T09:16:08Z")
Oh yeah, this makes a lot of sense. Making it official is hardly a transition anymore with all the great contributions made by @zogstrip. Nice!
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### Author:  [@tshepang](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tshepang)
#### Post date: [9월 19, 2013, 10:47오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/welcome-regis-hanol-to-the-discourse-team/9856/3 "2013-09-19T22:47:40Z")
What is $25? Also, I don’t understand the orphan joke.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [9월 19, 2013, 10:51오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/welcome-regis-hanol-to-the-discourse-team/9856/4 "2013-09-19T22:51:50Z")
Both of those things are related to the image in the post about the Pony Express.
> **[Pony Express](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pony_Express)**
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> The Pony Express was an American express mail service that used relays of horse-mounted riders between Missouri and California. It was operated by the Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express Company.
> During its 18 months of operation beginning in 1860, the Pony Express reduced the time for messages to travel between the east and west US coast to about 10 days. It became the west's most direct means of east–west communication before the first transcontinental telegraph was establish...
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### Author:  [@tshepang](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tshepang)
#### Post date: [9월 19, 2013, 11:32오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/welcome-regis-hanol-to-the-discourse-team/9856/5 "2013-09-19T23:32:38Z")
Oh, I ignored the image. Sori.
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### Author:  [@Sjors](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sjors)
#### Post date: [9월 20, 2013, 3:38오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/welcome-regis-hanol-to-the-discourse-team/9856/6 "2013-09-20T15:38:50Z")
Just curious @zogstrip, did you expect to get hired by Jeff because you were a frequent contributor? Congratulations man! Very well deserved.
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### Author:  [@happycollision](https://meta.discourse.org/u/happycollision)
#### Post date: [9월 27, 2013, 6:13오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/welcome-regis-hanol-to-the-discourse-team/9856/7 "2013-09-27T06:13:47Z")
I am curious, why did you ignore the image? I promise this is not a loaded question or anything.
I am actually wondering if it has anything to do with your eyes trying to skip over ads. I notice that I do that sometimes.
I am so disgusted with sites that I go to (especially for news) that are _inundated_ with ads. When I see an article that uses imagery to actually support the article they are in, I sometimes have to pause and recognize the image as something other than noise.
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [9월 27, 2013, 8:26오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/welcome-regis-hanol-to-the-discourse-team/9856/8 "2013-09-27T08:26:32Z")
I ignored the image too. I can only guess at why, but here goes:
In traditional media (like a novel or a newspaper article), pictures are _illustrations_ that enhance the text. You can read the text and have all of the meaning, and at any time, you can read the picture.
Usually, when I come to Illustrations, or Block Quotes, or Pull Quotes or those ‘Did you know?’ sections in a magazine article, I go right past it, and make a mental note to come back to it. I prefer to reach the end of a paragraph first, if possible, before I interrupt my reading of the text to study one of these ‘asides’.
So I’m guessing that’s what I did here. So when I got to the end, I was all like “damn, $25? that’s it? I guess this project is at its core just about building things with [internet style love](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1TZaElTAs) afterall…Even so, I feel like I missed something. Let me go back and read again…”
I went back to the beginning (not a very long piece after all). I read it again. “Hmm… I’m guessing this $25 thing is just something you are already supposed to know - some standard FOSS-style kudos I’m not familiar with maybe… or maybe he made some reference in another article on the Blog or the [FAQ](http://www.discourse.org/faq/) or something”.
Then I let it go. And I decided to take a look at that image. Not because I thought it had the answer, just because I was done with the text and ready to move on to the ‘good stuff I had saved for last’. “Aha!” and “Ha! Pretty crazy stuff that pony express thing!”
But Jeff’s writing style is 21st century. The non-text media is decidedly part of the content. Its something a modern reader may take for granted. Or maybe not. Either way its fun, and unexpected and some of us just take a little while to catch up sometimes.
… TMI?
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### Author:  [@tshepang](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tshepang)
#### Post date: [9월 28, 2013, 1:50오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/welcome-regis-hanol-to-the-discourse-team/9856/9 "2013-09-28T13:50:43Z")
@happycollision this explains why I skipped it, and in more words than I would have invested.
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### Author:  [@trevor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/trevor)
#### Post date: [10월 14, 2013, 8:59오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/welcome-regis-hanol-to-the-discourse-team/9856/10 "2013-10-14T08:59:49Z")
Congrats @zogstrip your contributions to the application is indeed helpful.
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [1월 21, 2014, 9:27오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/welcome-regis-hanol-to-the-discourse-team/9856/11 "2014-01-21T09:27:01Z")
I know I’m late, but better late than never. Congratulations @zogstrip, you truly deserved it man. Keep 'em coming. 👍
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### Author:  [@JAB1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JAB1)
#### Post date: [1월 26, 2014, 3:38오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/welcome-regis-hanol-to-the-discourse-team/9856/12 "2014-01-26T03:38:24Z")
Cool un français!! Congratulations!!! And thanks. I love your project. Somehow proud and reassured to have one of us in this dev just for my users’ POV.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [4월 18, 2016, 9:01오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/welcome-regis-hanol-to-the-discourse-team/9856/13 "2016-04-18T21:01:24Z")