It was 3 years ago today that iraf.net officially took over user support for our users, and the site has grown considerably since then: In 2008, we had over 75,000 unique visitors, served more than a million pages from the site, served an avg of 157 iraf-help-pages/day from the banner bar, transferred enough bandwidth for hundreds of full IRAF systems, answered many hundreds of user questions, and we are approaching 1200 registered users. 2009 has the potential for significant (and 'official') IRAF development, let's all hope for better budgets in the coming year.

Thanks again to all of you who use this site, and especially to those who regularly contribute to truly make it a community forum.