We started building and testing the beginnings of VGCollect sometime around Christmas 2010. A year ago today, VGCollect opened up to the public and moved from alpha to beta, in our eyes this is the site's official birthday. The day we opened the floodgates and everything really started kicking into gear. Its been a great first year here at VGCollect, we've seen amazing growth with a bunch of new features added to the site and we even weathered a crisis. These things wouldn't have been possible without all of you guys and the community. So, in celebration on VGCollect's first birthday, we've got the stats for the year and a few announcements!

As of this writing we now have 2,771 users registered on the site, you all have collected a total of 91,472 items in collections with 4,244 wishlisted items and 142 things marked for sale/trade. To date, we have 20,278 items in the database with an average of 31 new items added daily. Our users have had 14,758 edits to the database submitted and approved, with an average of 129 edits being submitted per day.

Since we are a year old, we feel that now is a good time to come out of beta mode. So welcome to the official out-of-beta VGCollect! This means the Beta Badge for the website is being retired and is no longer attainable by new users. Though, the Beta Badge for the VGC Android app is still available to new users, since we are still working on tweaking and improving it. The Android app won't come out of beta until we release version 1.0.

Also, I'd like to announce the release of two new badges!

Unlocked for being a member for a year
Unlocked for being a member for 2 years

Matt will be implementing these in the next day or so and will pop on the anniversary of your sign up date. We have more badges coming and as soon as we squish any remaining bugs in the system we will be implementing those as well. As they go live I will update the VGC List O' Badges thread.

Thanks everyone for a great freshman year, and here's to many more excellent times ahead!