It was another amazing year in our corner of the Spuffy world. We celebrated our 12th birthday with the 12 Years 12 Seasons Challenge, which produced 31 wonderful new stories, we were lucky enough to have OffYourBird join our admin team, we passed the 5,000 story mark, and we continued to work both behind and in front of the curtain to make sure that Elysian Fields remains a welcoming, user-friendly place to be.
With no sign of slowing down, we're excited for 2019, which will include some site events that you won't want to miss. Also, we're set to register our 20,000th member sometime this year, which is no small feat. We promise to continue to do all we can to make sure that Elysian Fields feels like home.
Three cheers for everyone who made 2018 special at Elysian Fields, and who are carrying that energy into 2019! Here's to the authors, the artists, the commenters, the readers, and even the lurkers (no time like 2019 to come out of the shadows) 
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2018 by the numbers:
Total number of words added: 7,495,574
Total number of stories added: 323
Total number of chapters added: 2,277
Number of new members: 1,689
Number of members who logged in: 5,966
Number of likes left: 72,747
Number of comments written: 42,250
Number of words written in comments: 2,298,018
Ten Most Prolific Authors of 2018:
1. Soulburnt (1,468,620 words)
2. Passion4Spike (531,974 words)
3. Axell (340,340 words)
4. All4Spike (292,579 words)
5. sandy_s (240,811 words)
6. -Carrie-Ann- (227,316 words)
7. Toften (191,273 words)
8. holetoledo (170,185 words)
9. OffYourBird (168,215 words)
10. Sigyn (141,677 words)
Ten Most Prolific Commenters of 2018:
1. pfeifferpack (445,950 words)
2. magnus374 (220,103 words)
3. Badwolfjedi (214,037 words)
4. OffYourBird (79,671 words)
5. All4Spike (66,786 words)
6. thenewbuzwuzz (58,165 words)
7. acekoomboom (57,013 words)
8. SpindleKitten (56,547 words)
9. jeweledichneumon (56,095 words)
10. Chosenname (53,094 words)
--Susan on January 01, 2019 07:33am 9 Comments
Cheers to all of the authors, artists, reviewers and lurkers who make our community so fabulous! 
Love seeing our family thrive and grow! YAY and on to 2019.
Kathleen
This is very cool! Thanks for pulling together all this info (and our nifty awards on our profiles) Susan & EF Mods! 
I totally agree with all the comments above (and yeah way to go OffYourBird and All4Spike for being in both lists - that is quite a feat)!
Congrats to all members on an awesome year in our Spuffy fandom home - thanks to all for making it such a special place!
Looking forward to 2019 with everyone! 
I'm so amazed by our wonderful and active community! Love you all bunches. 
Whoa... how did I sneak in there at number 10? I wasn't even trying.
1.4 million!! ❤️❤️❤️
How many of those >20,000 peeps logged on last year? Congratulations to the site on their upcoming vignt-milleièm future member.
@JustWriter: 5,966 members logged on at some point last year
Wow, that's a lot of members! :) Somehow, EF feels like it must be small because it's so cozy...
And I just love that there are so many comment words they're almost in the same league as story words. I'm imagining a 3000 word chapter with 1000 words of comments -- that's not exactly how it works, because people can comment on older stories (not only the ones added this year), but still. <3
Hey, wow, OffYourBird and All4Spike are on *both* Most Prolific lists! How do they do it? :))