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How are members finding Atheist Nexus?

I just saw the member count (6283). I forgot how i found this place. I just did a google search for "atheist forum", and it wasn't in the first two pages. Is there an ad somewhere promoting this site? I'm kind of curious about how i stumbled on it. Was i just browsing ning? Maybe. Well, here's an update; i have 15 minutes to edit right? I just searched "atheist networking", and it was on the bottom of the first page. Maybe that was it.

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Permalink Reply by Moonbeam on February 8, 2009 at 2:41pm

I linked to it from some other atheist site--I forgot which one. That's not very helpful, is it?

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Permalink Reply by Gabriel dCF on February 8, 2009 at 3:52pm

I read about it on an atheist forum, then I visited A|N, I liked it and I signed up.

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Permalink Reply by Goz on February 16, 2009 at 4:00pm

As did I... A woman \on Atheist Moms (even though I'm not a mom.) mentioned it.

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Permalink Reply by Фелч Гроган on February 8, 2009 at 5:23pm

Stumbleupon is responsible for the massive sudden site growth. See -

http://atheistnexus.org/forum/topics/the-stumble-effect

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Permalink Reply by Tannie on February 11, 2009 at 10:20am

Stumbled across it through google. There actually used to be a message board called agnosticforums.com that was very active and had been around for a while, then one day just disappeared. I believe that I found this site while searching for what happened to AF.

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Permalink Reply by Jennifer W on February 12, 2009 at 9:34am

I stumbled upon a christian social site by accident and googled atheist social network as a semi joke/wish.

At first I was turned off by the color scheme, but then I read all of the bloggers and forumites (after a bit of an eye adjustment) and I felt that they were very smart, and had similiar characteristics to me.

Two things that are quite refreshing: #1 There were alot more female atheists than I thought. #2 There seems to be a general sense of non prejudiceness. Anyone Gay, Black, White, from across the world can join this site with no guilt trip whatsoever.

Even though I was completely off on January, the people still read and listen to my blogs. I'm growing to the groups section alot too, I feel like I'm getting smarter joining this website.

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Permalink Reply by Kit Ann Kaboodle on February 12, 2009 at 11:38pm

I searched for "feminist atheists", and behold!

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Permalink Reply by Jude Johnson on February 13, 2009 at 8:57pm

I found AN on RichardDawkins.net.
People were talking about AN there when the site first started.

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Permalink Reply by George on February 14, 2009 at 6:03pm

Is the site growing fast enough to sustain itself?

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Permalink Reply by JayBarti on February 19, 2009 at 12:08pm

I wandered in here via a Humanist website though I forget which one.

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Permalink Reply by Buffy on February 19, 2009 at 10:03pm

I discovered it through one of the blogs on the Atheist Blogroll (it had one of those handy, eyecatching widgets on the sidebar). There are more than 600 blogs on the AB and I have a habit of just randomly checking them out as it scrolls around (in addition to reading my favorites) so I'm afraid I can't recall which one it was I first discovered AN on.