Hungry Onion is now 10 years old!

Wow. 10 years! It is amazing that Hungry Onion has been around for that long already. Thank you, the entire HO community, for passionately arguing for 10 years about every tiny detail around eating and food. You all make up this wonderful community. The community doesn’t exist without you taking the time to discuss your latest eating and cooking adventures! Thank you!

Some interesting tidbits about Hungry Onion:

  • It has 4502 dedicated members, and countless readers.
  • Our largest user groups is 25-34 years old, followed closely by 35-44 years old.
  • California is more than 10% of the site traffic. Other notables are: New York (6%), Virginia (4%), Canada (6%), Texas (3%), Massachusetts (3%), England (3%), Singapore (5.5%), Malaysia (5.4%).
  • 54% of users access the site via mobile. 44% desktop.
  • For the technophiles, and a bit surprising to me, the most common screen resolution used to access the site is, 3840x2160, a 4K screen.
  • The topic series that generates the most views- 228K- Regional Chinese roundup 3.0 (SF Bay Area) thanks to the monumental effort @hyperbowler took to put this resource together.
  • The topic series that generates the most replies- 77,078 replies and counting (thanks @LindaWhit for counting the total, studiously starting the discussion every month.) - is What's for Dinner? #1, the Inaugural Edition- through 10/17/2015
  • The user who wrote the most topics for us all to enjoy: @klyeoh - all 1280 of them. :person_bowing:

To the next 10 years!

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Wow! 10 years? Already? Doesnt seem possible, but happy anniversary to us, and THANK YOU for creating this space!

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Happy 10th birthday to Hungry Onion! Thank you for creating this community.

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Wish I had discovered HO earlier (2 or 3 years now). It’s a great community!

:birthday_cake::birthday_cake::birthday_cake::birthday_cake::birthday_cake::birthday_cake::birthday_cake::birthday_cake::birthday_cake::birthday_cake: ten cakes as opposed to 10 candles!

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Happy birthday! Time flies when yer having fun :slight_smile:

Thanks for providing us a space to talk about food & everything relating to it.

PS: Also, this doesn’t surprise me one bit. Perhaps the friendliest, most jovial discussion thread in the entire history of this site.

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I’m unsurprised by the 4K screens. IMac’s and other “all in one” desktop designs have had 4K screens as standard for well over a decade, and now all but the very lowest end tablets and phones have 4k screens.

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A VERY happy anniversary to us all! It’s been a crazy 10 years, but glad we found a home that’s comfy and warm and welcoming.

Soooo…I just had to do it. :smiley: Used an Excel spreadsheet and searched for all wfd tags. I found that #96 wasn’t tagged, so I added that. Also found that I skipped using label #97, which should have been September 2023, but went right to #98 for that month.

But in adding ALL of the WFD replies, based on the replies in this search view of all wfd tags:

and NOT including the current month of September 2025, there have been 76,698 replies to the WFD threads. (Including Sept '25, we’re at 77,078 so far.)

And I’m just that type of person who needs things to be right and who might go back and relabel from 97 on. @hungryonion , that won’t screw up anyone’s bookmarks or anything else, will it?

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:rofl:

I think it should be fine.

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:star_struck: Congratulations and thank you!!!

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Happy Birthday / Happy Anniversary to Hungry Onion!

Much gratitude to @hungryonion for the creation of and continuing efforts to maintain the site.

Many thanks also to all the volunteers, some who moderate different parts of the space, some who shepherd ongoing topics and themes to build and maintain momentum and encourage participation, and to all the folks who make it a positive community with interesting discussions and constructive debates.

:partying_face: :birthday_cake: :clinking_glasses:

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Happy Birthday and thank you. So wonderful to have found a warm, welcoming site for all of us refugees from CH. :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

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Happy happy birthday!!

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WOW! Happy happy birthday HO!!!

This is a surprise, maybe they aren’t the most vocal.

Thanks everyone to make this happen! Any celebrations on HO or off HO?

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I was wondering how long I have been coming here and I think I found my first post!

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Oooh! I should check mine. How did you find yours without scrolling for … 10 years? :slight_smile:

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I remembered I posted on Top Chef so that limited the scrolling. I searched Top Chef filtered for posted by me. I thought I remembered a date joined with my profile but couldn’t find it.

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Ah. I wonder if one can search one’s own profile by date posted? I joined a few days after HO started.

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“Our largest user groups is 25-34 years old, followed closely by 35-44 years old.”

“This is a surprise, maybe they aren’t the most vocal.”

This surprised me too.

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Huh. I would have thought the over 40’s would be the top group here. I wonder if you could figure out which group POSTS most?

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