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Author: http://fruitarians.net/Lena (162)2010.05.23 04:16 
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History

The very beginning

It all started with the Fruitarian page on facebook, it grew fast and had more than 400 fans.

After discovering that I am making a new informational site on fruitarianism (based on a different platform) experienced community leader and fruitarian Jane offered me to create a network on NING in addition to that, which I did - fruiri.ning.com: 

Fruitarians on NING

I spent many hours adjusting it, but on the same day NING informed me the are going out of free services, and there were so many limitations... After a short research it was clear, that all other network platforms are not suitable. Then I decided to drop my work on another script and just use an available nice  community software.

First week of our site

2010, May 7 - Birthday of the site

Today the site of fruitarian international community was created.

The script calls Dolphin, it is open source software. There is no limit in storage and bandwidth. I have paid for the server (a special one, because the script needed a special environment to function) a year ahead. We have no sponsors - I am kind of one, but it doesn't count :)

While I made the site (two days, many hours) I was enjoying watermelons and oranges, hope it is a good start :) Wish you all joyful fruitarian communication!

2010, May 8 - Domain name

I've got us fruitarians.net :)

2010, May 9 - Logo

New logo I made with my favorite GIMP.

2010, May 10 - Running

After reading tons of documentation on new script, forums and communicating with the stuff of my server provider, - everything is working!

2010, May 11 - View

I worked on styling, navigation, layouts, forms, some help files.

2010, May 12 - Forum

Forum sections and topics.

Author: http://fruitarians.net/Lena (162)2010.05.23 04:24 
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Why am I doing it?

  • I do it for myself because I want such site to exist. If somebody else would create it before me, I would just become a member of that community. I have some skills in web development that I like to use for common good.
  • I do it for all people (that's why it is an open community), because I wish them to get kinder and healthier.
  • I do it for vegans - many of them nurture themselves so badly they would not do that to animals! Hey, in some way we are animals too - do have respect to yourselves as a to all wonderful creatures on the Earth!
  • I do it for raw folks to show them that there is a simpler way to be raw and that there is a more common principle to it.
  • And of cause I do it for fruitarians! Guys, you are just great.

News

 2010.05.14 - License


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Additional rights reserved:
You should use intellectual property of members of this community,
represented on this site - fruitarians.net, according to their moral values.

2010.05.16 - Profiles

Now you can select multiple languages from the predefined list, rather then type them yourself. Please, next time you editing your profile, specify your languages again. Here is the explanatory picture: it's page.

There is a new section "Nutrition" with "Fruit", "Raw" and "Vegan" fields in our profiles, and the corresponding search possibility. I am thinking of adding vegetarian fields (lacto, ovo), but I am not sure yet that we need them - what do you think?

A couple of other fields are defined too.

Please guys, update your profiles and let me know if something works not like expected (I already tested it, but you never now :)

2010.05.20 - Sections

Forum now has only three sections: Fruitarianism, Lifestyle, Society - it makes navigation easier.
Rules are changed. And please, guys, read the help.

Author: http://fruitarians.net/Lena (162)2010.05.24 06:22 
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2010, May 24

We have 40 real members from 17 countries :)
Thank you so much for supporting this project guys!

Some of our members find the site somewhat difficult to use, so I am working second day on simplifying it. I am trying to make important links for you more obvious and being on the site more pleasurable with styling, but it takes pretty much work, and I need to switch off the server cashing, and then the site may work a little slower.

In general I need to go through lots of code and search for tips using it all over the internet, because our script is poorly documented. I never worked with it before, so I must learn it on the way.

I have submitted our feeds to Google, but our site will get easily discoverable from the web when we start to share its pages on other sites or provide links to them.

The video chatting was tested and works fine, you only need to click some buttons and allow your video and sound as well as your partners. The only problem we know for the moment is that the sound from one side could be heard on the other end 1-3 seconds later (like in was in a conversation US - Italy yesterday).

Author: http://fruitarians.net/Lena (162)2010.06.01 14:11 
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We have moved to a new server - it must be fast and stable. I decided to do that after we had another short downtime today. That was a lot of work, but thanks to a great support from Adam we moved without any losses :)

Author: http://fruitarians.net/Lena (162)2010.06.07 09:11 
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We are one month old! We have half a hundred members. We come on 3rd page of google search, we are 24th in the list of all related sites (keyword: fruitarians). Our page on facebook has 794 fans. Congratulations :)

Author: http://fruitarians.net/LENA (162)2010.08.20 19:42 
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We've gotten more that 1000 fans on our page on facebook! Now it is 1012 :) There are much more people who like fruitarianism and are in fruitarian groups.

The site description was shortened to fit it in restricted fields of search engines and sharing applications.

The viewing of profiles by guests and members is not any more included in the self-refreshing activity listings, because there are too many of them.

Author: http://fruitarians.net/LENA (162)2010.09.02 03:36 
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We are 100 - welcome, dear new members! And we have 1078 facebook page supporters :)

We have few inactive members (4 of them have not confirm their emails).

2010-09-03 Copyright change:

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Author: http://fruitarians.net/LENA (162)2010.12.08 07:11 
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We are 7 months old :) We have 136 members and 1389 fans. We are often the first search result for "fruitarians" on google.

We have now a food pyramid, a mind map "Fruitarian Tree", and FruitarianTV has 67 episodes.

We have even a simple gift application "Fruitarian Presents" on facebook.

Author: http://fruitarians.net/LENA (162)2011.02.09 08:11 
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 From the beginning of the year in our fruitarian group "Фрукторианцы (Fruitarians.net)" on the biggest social network for Russian-speaking people vk.com we gathered 1700 members. We have 37 active forum topics, 8 albums with fruits, nature, and member's portraits, video collection and a great leading team of experienced fruitarians :) The page of the group here, in Russian: http://fruitarians.net/m/sites/view/-

Author: http://fruitarians.net/LENA (162)2011.05.07 14:27 
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Dear Fruitarians, our site is one year online today, on 7th of May! We are already 197, and I thank each and every one of you for your support. Thanks, guys!

We are also celebrating a global Fruitarian Day right now:
(if you are on facebook, check it out http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=118936631508531)

Dear friends, let us celebrate fruitarian ethics at this date:
- eat lots of fresh fruit :),
- do not buy new wooden things, or new books or journals printed on usual paper.
Thank you so much for thinking about it!

189 people are attending!

1,673 people like our fruitarian page: http://www.facebook.com/fruitarians

Our biggest non-English community is Russian and it is 2,768 members strong.

Wish you a wonderful time!
Lena

PS: Here are few other new fruitarian groups made to allow people to know fruitarianism better:

Author: http://fruitarians.net/LENA (162)2011.05.29 06:54 
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Dear members and visitors, from now on new profiles need to be approved first, before the new members get all privileges (to send private messages, comment, etc.), because more and more accounts are created by people only to send spam messages. They are sent not by robots, and normal anti-spam methods do not work.

We also have two new tools on the site:

  • multilingual blogs (already tested and in a working state, one person had difficulties to use it on Mac though)
  • and ads (testing stage, categories are not ready yet, and there are few issues with Firefox 4).

You can add a new blog post right from the main menu in "My profile" -> "My Blog +", and choose your language. If your preferred language is not in the menu, please, let me know you want to use it here in a comment:  Welcome!


Welcome to the International Fruitarian Network Fruitarians.net - a site about fruitarianism: fruit diet, fruitarian philosophy and lifestyle. You are fruitarian if your diet is based primarily on fresh fruits and seeds (usually 75-100% - 3/4 of the daily caloric intake and up). Let's share our experience and knowledge - unite!



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Aims, Description and Rules



Aims

  1. To create a truthful and versatile informational source about fruitarianism.
  2. To inspire people to eat enough of fresh fruit with solid reasons.
  3. To connect like-minded people and to combine their experiences.



Description

The subject of this site is fruitarianism - a quest for optimal basic food, presumably fruit, and for the best ethical and maintainable way to live on this planet.



The main thing that unite fruitarians of all kinds is that they consider various fresh ripe edible fruits to be such a good food, that they make them to a main element of their diet, usually from 75% of total caloric intake and up. Normally they complement fruits by seeds, but there are many ways to be a fruitarian - for health, environmental and ethical reasons.



We want to gather all fruitarians in one place. If you are a fruitarian, please, represent yourself here (it would take only few minutes). We also invite non-fruitarian folks to support the site, especially scientists, doctors and philosophers) who have something significant to say on the subject.



Fruitarians.net is an open independent platform: most information is freely reachable for all internet users without any need for registration. We are not selling anything, there is no hidden agenda behind the project, and it is privately funded and maintained by a fruitarian. It is independent from any ideology or religion.



This place is for people who are interested in fruitarianism and who find the subject important enough to express their original or thoughtfully adapted ideas and concepts in a courteous manner, and in a nicely organized environment.



We make no difference between people of various backgrounds, genders, ethnicity, income, body shapes and looks, age, philosophical positions, religious believes, sexual behaviors, origin, nationality, etc. Important are your friendliness and your bright mind.



Rules

General Guidelines

  1. Be truthful and polite.
    Provide proof for your statements: only from your own experience, observation or scientific data.

  2. Avoid promotion of goods and services inconsistent with values of fruitarianism.
    If you advise a book, please give a link to it's electronic edition or to the site where it could be acquired used or printed on recycled or non-wooden paper.

  3. Intimidation and imagery of violence are prohibited.
    Unattractive pictures are not allowed either :) Fruitarianism is beautiful.

Specific Rules for Members

Profiles' Data

  1. Profiles are only for real people - one for each individual.
  2. Please, use your photographic portrait as avatar.
  3. Pictures on your profile must represent you personally or illustrate the fruitarian aspect of your life (please upload maximum: 4 at a time).
  4. Links should be relevant to fruitarianism.
  5. All added items should be properly named, described and tagged.
  6. Your profile must contain enough data to be informative for public, otherwise it will be deleted.
  7. Please, use private messaging system with courtesy.
    Messages can be deleted from the secure database after 12 month - save all you need.


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of the site have access to most site information, can rate profiles and content, assign points to member comments, discuss images and links, subscribe to changes on profiles.

Members additionally can:
  • build a specialized profile with a dedicated URL (fruitarians.net/nickname),
  • add links and images,
  • add comments with rich text, links and embed images to members content,
  • communicate with each other privately,
  • greet and fave other members or block and report,
  • welcome new people,
  • add friends,
  • explore similar profiles and be notified about new ones by mail,
  • gather favorite images,
  • track changes of the content from your member area or by email.




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