When a blog post follows up on a forum post, why not move the contents of the original forum post to the forum page that sits behind the blog post.

That way, people coming from the blog post will see immediately how the story unfolded.

Congratulations guys – Everyone makes this place such an amazing destination.. It's one of my favorite places on the entire internet! I'm so glad I wrote that random post about 'Googlelonia' back when I was in college. It was the post that introduced me to the 'outer-court'.. I'm curious how other people found the this forum, found Philipp or what they did for this website to find them.

>When a blog post follows up on a forum post, why not move the contents of the original forum post to the forum page that sits behind the blog post.

I don't think Philipp should ever meddle with what the forum member submits (retitling it etc.) better is what he currently often does, locking the comments for the post and linking to the Forum.

Justin, I arrived here when Philipp was an active Google Answers Researcher and was posting researcher profiles.

It took me another two years to find the forum though.

Admittedly, there was no forum in the beginning... in the beginning there was not even a comments system :)

I, too, was unaware of the forums until reading The Google Story where he mentions it.

Philipp, perhaps a site redesign could emphasis the dual nature of the site. I am sure this community could help with it.

i believe i came via early Digg or someone else comment, but i forgot. Now Blogoscoped & Digg are the only things i read each day.

I knew it for a long very very long time but never posted... only looked at the articles...

I personally was thinking that a front-page article could be a normal post within an existing thread (only if the discussion started earlier in the forum).

I'm also one of those click, click click don't read guys. I needed several months to realize that GB is based in Germany and it took me some more months to check out the forum.

I don't know when I realised there was a forum. I originally found the site of SEW. I used to subscribe to the blog there and read the articles by Gary Price. I found that the Google stories were often the ones I found most interesting (since it is a company whose services I use a lot), and for many of the posts Gary hat tipped a certain Philipp over at Google Blogoscoped.

Since then Gary has left SEW, and joined Ask. And he occassionally posts in these forums.

One of the first posts I ever read here was one where Philipp had linked directly to the forum, asking for opinions on what he'd written in his post, so I've always known that the forum exists. Lucky really!

That was just over 2 years ago. How things have changed since then...

I found this site via the official Google blog, and I discovered the forum a bit later.

I've found this site by searching "Google" in Google ;) And I knew about the forum from the very beginning.