Happy 1st Voxiversary!

Today marks the first anniversary since Vox's official launch.  Although we'd been in an invitation-only beta for several months prior, October 25th was the day we opened Vox's doors to the public.  In writing about Vox's past year, it would be easy to just recount the changes and improvements the team has made to Vox's features and functionality, but instead I'm going to focus on the people -- the brilliant and creative people who make Vox and the brilliant and creative people who use it.  

It's hard to believe it's been a year since Vox opened to the public.  As you can see during the technical process to make Vox public, the team got a little punchy but then were really excited when the launch finally happened.  I mean, really excited:

In the Team Vox post on last year's launch day, we were already celebrating a diverse and vibrant community which has continued to grow magnificently over the past year.  Stop by the [this is good] feature to see just a few of the Voxers who posted to celebrate their own first Voxiversary.
 

All of our international teams are celebrating the first anniversary with us, so be sure to stop by Team Vox in France, Spain and Japan to see (and read, if you can) what they have to say.  We're all tagging our Voxiversary-related posts, QotDs and Vox Hunts with the tag "vox1anniversary" so you can check all of the celebrations out by doing a search on that tag. 

Walt was kind enough to take a photo of Team Vox outside the San Francisco office.  Isn't everyone looking Voxy?

Another important addition to Team Vox is Miss Penelope Trott, Ben and Mena's finest creation.  (Thanks to Lilia for taking this photo.)

A few of us Team members work remotely so we aren't in the photo.  So here are Kristine and Lauren from Support, and me too since I moved away from San Francisco.  Kristine and Lauren both posted about spending over a year on Vox. 

And now, for your reading pleasure, we're honoring the top 10 posts with the most comments and most favorites over the past year.  These are active English-language Voxers (We DQ'd popular Italian Voxer Luca Viscardi who would have taken several of the top spots).

Top 10 public posts with the most comments
As you may guess, topics that get people talking include race, religion, politics and cats.  Note that these are posts with the most comments, not with the most commenters.  Want to get into the top 10 next year?  Get people into a conversation in the comments!

1. 355 comments:  natalie's "QotD: Anywhere But Here"   
   
2. 315 comments:  Laurie's "Oscar Liveblog - join the fun!"
   
3. 216 comments:  Jodi's "Which would you rather eat?"   
   
4. 136 comments: Team Vox's own Nick with "Name Our Cat And Win A Prize"  
   
5. 130 comments:  Dabysan's "Guilty Pleasure of the (cough) Week - Flathead"  
   
6. 123 comments: mariser's "Liveblogging the State of the Union address"  
   
7. 122 comments: Mark's "Burning Before His Throne Means Standing In The All-Consuming Fire"  
   
8. 111 comments: crankypant's "stuff my mom says that I now realize is weird"   
   
9. 103 comments: Jodi's "Things I always wanted to do because of the song"
   
10. 97 comments: StickyKeys' "Dearest Whitefolk"   
    

Top 10 most favorited public posts or assets
Many of the most favorited posts were featured in [this is good], so keep those nominations coming in.

1. 99 favorites: Yogi's "Today's "Out My Office Window" photo   
   
2. 63 favorites: Team Vox's own Xantus' "Your very own Vox site counter"   
   
3. 61 favorites: karen's "But what would I write about?"  
   
4. 58 favorites: Laurie's "How to Make Chocolate Spring Rolls"
   
5. 53 favorites: Dmitry's "Blue Morning"   
   
6. 50 favorites: Sarajea's "An Open Letter to the Spider Lurking Somewhere in My Dorm Room"  
   
7. 50 favorites: ●ßoηi†a.in.Ρink●'s "I heart Photoshop!"  
   
8. 47 favorites: girl wonder's "the perfect deviled eggs"   
   
9. 46 favorites: DeWitte's "Email : Answers from Kids"  
   
10. 44 favorites: Sonia's "Fit Tips that are actually useful and not lame.  Really!"  
    

Happy Voxiversary everyone!  Thanks for making Vox such a great place to be!