# Cakeday question **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 13, 2022, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cakeday-question/966095 "2022-06-13T11:33:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2022, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cakeday-question/966095/21 "2022-06-21T22:35:36Z")
Maybe the makers of Discourse couldn’t comprehend the notion of a message board pre-dating 2018? Maybe that’s when they started putting in anniversary badges, and so there aren’t badges for longer spans than that? ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2022, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cakeday-question/966095/22 "2022-06-23T03:33:13Z")
I was gonna say i dont think we’ve been here 5 years … ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2022, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cakeday-question/966095/23 "2022-06-23T15:09:49Z")
I’ve been wondering about a related issue. There is the “popular link” badge for posting an external link that receives more than fifty clicks. I _assume_ the click count started from zero the day we moved to it from vBulletin, but that means that a lot of people are clicking on links in old posts, because I’ve gotten it for links from more than a decade ago. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cakeday-question/966095.md?page=1)