TL;DR **Happy Birthday Ethereum Stack Exchange Community!  Let's remind people we have a high quality library of questions and answers on Ethereum**.

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<del>On January 20th 2016, or **365** days ago, [Ethereum Stack Exchange launched][2] with its first question:</del>

> <del>[Is Vitalik Buterin a real Satoshi Nakamoto ? \[deleted\]][3]</del>

Oh, well, that didn't work out. Let's do that again. On January 20th 2016, or **365** days ago, [Ethereum Stack Exchange launched][2] with its _second_ question:

> [How can an Ethereum contract get data from a website?][4]

Since that moment, **4269** questions and **5159** answers had been posted in the last **12** months. We now have **5256** registered users and **2902** unique visitors per day, mainly coming from search engines.

We want to take the chance to thank every user for visiting, reading, asking brilliant questions, and contributing outstanding answers. _You_ helped this site to become one of the _most active_ beta sites [within the whole Stack Exchange][5] network right from the beginning.

# **Happy Birthday Ethereum Stack Exchange Community!**

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But enough self-adulation, no meta post should come without a **call-for-participation**: Please use the <del>comments and</del> answers below to **post your honest opinion** on Ethereum Stack Exchange:

- How likely is it that you would recommend Ethereum Stack Exchange to a friend or colleague? Where 0 is not likely at all and 10 is very likely.
- What's working well so far? What's working not so well? 
- Are enough questions answered? And is it taking too long to receive an answer?
- Do you feel this is a dedicated, stand-alone community yet? Or is it just a subset of [r/ethereum][7] posting technical questions here?
- Is it helping reduce the questions on Gitter and r/ethereum ?

Please continue to remind others that they can find very good answers to their questions here, and if [it hasn't been asked and isn't an opinion-based or chatty question][8], to encourage them to ask here.  :)  Of course, very welcome for them to post great answers too!

Happy _new_ year,

JorisBontje ♦ && eth ♦ && 5chdn ♦

Update: [65 **Yearling** badges arwarded already][9]! Thanks everyone!


  [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/aXTXy.png
  [2]: https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/89704
  [3]: http://ethereum.stackexchange.com/q/1
  [4]: http://ethereum.stackexchange.com/q/2
  [5]: https://stackexchange.com/sites
  [6]: https://i.sstatic.net/3E0VJ.jpg
  [7]: http://reddit.com/r/ethereum
  [8]: https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask
  [9]: https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/help/badges/13