Today, we are proud to announce that the gCaptain.com forum has reached 5,000 members! With what started out in 2007 as a little known blog and forum for fellow professional mariners, gCaptain.com quickly grew to become one of the highest trafficked maritime websites and largest communities of maritime professionals on the web. Today, gCaptain.com’s forum houses the collective knowledge of 5,000+ professionals working in the maritime industry and we could not be more happy with the way things are going.
To give you a run down of gCapatain.com’s current statistics, as of right now (February 3, 2010) gCaptain.com has:
5,008 forum members
3,288 forum threads
24,607 posts
1,769 blog posts
3,394 job listings
Just in the past 30 days, gCaptain.com has had:
160,571 unique visitors
483,268 pageviews
Served 204 countries throughout the world
It’s truly ubelievable how far we have come over the past few years and we have gCaptain.com community members to thank. THANK YOU!
Following the successful redesign of our blog we re-focused our efforts on Discoverer. The feature was never intended to be complicated and with a little getting used to, past visitors like Richard Adams have used it to receive all their maritime news in one spot:
Despite the praise we’ve received discoverer has lapsed behind the work we have accomplished elsewhere on the site. Today that changed. The new discoverer contains the same breaking news headlines you’ve grown to depend on but takes one step forward by providing more sources, on an even easier to use platform. Here’s what is new:
A New Look
Headlines Broken Down By Site
More Information Sources
Easy Reload Button
Navigation Flash Page
We hope you like the work we have done and we look forward to your input. If you have a suggestion, either in page design or content, please be sure to leave a comment below otherwise get started with our instructional vidcast LINK.