I read WB for about a year (2009-2010), never participated in the boards.
I read HB since it began (??), started participating on the boards in Summer 2014 when I was TTC. So, 4 years of board participation.
HB has seen me through TTC, loss, fertility issues, LO1, and now LO2! I am so thankful for the knowledge and community.
Sometimes I even wonder if I would have gotten pregnant as "quickly" as I did (10 months!) without the knowledge I gained here.
hostess / papaya / 10219 posts
I was on WB in 2011-2012 and here after my son was born in 2013.
nectarine / 2047 posts
Weddingbee 2010-2013 and signed up for hellobee while it was still in beta!
persimmon / 1101 posts
I have been on WB since '09. 
Never posted though, only lurked. I joined HB right after my first daughter was born in 2013, but wasn't really a very active poster until I got pregnant with my second. Geez, can't believe it's been that long!
nectarine / 2809 posts
I was never on WeddingBee. I guess I didn’t know about it when I got married in 2008. I’ve been on HB since 2013 when we were trying for our first. I’ve been active on the TTC boards, infertility, pregnancy and parenting. It’s been a godsend, thanks to all of you lovely ladies!! 
persimmon / 1050 posts
I started lurking on WB around 2010-2011 when I was planning my wedding. I started on HB almost 5 years ago when we decided to start TTC.
cherry / 119 posts
I believe I lurked on WeddingBee years ago, but am not too sure.
Joined HelloBee on the tail end of July 2018. Found it while Googling pregnancy and Pcos.
wonderful pomelo / 30692 posts
Weddingbee 2008-2009 and then Hellobee since September 2011!! It's almost my 7 year anniversary of being a Hellobee member!
wonderful pea / 17279 posts
I’ve been on HB since Dec 2012. I was never on WB. I found HB through a google search and I still remember not quite understanding what I was looking at on the blogs at first. Then bam one day I saw the link to the boards and was at home lol.
pomegranate / 3768 posts
I was never an active user on WB but I joined HB the beginning of 2013. Do people still use WB?
pear / 1648 posts
I read WB while planning my wedding in 2013 but never participated in the boards. I lurked on HB and posted sporadically in the months before DD1 was born (2014) but got much more active while TTC DD2 in 2016. This community has been so great since I don't have a lot of close local mom friends
eggplant / 11716 posts
WB before my wedding in 2012--and I joined my birth month group there when I was pregnant in 2013; but I migrated pretty quickly over here at the same time.
Compared to other parenting websites I've popped into, HB has always been way more sane. Most people here are anti violence towards kids and read about parenting and milestones and child development. It's surprising how common really bad advice (in terms of child development) is on other sites. So I have always appreciated the "atmosphere" of HB in comparison.
apricot / 424 posts
I was never on WB, but started here I think in 2015 sometime while pregnant with my first.
pomegranate / 3904 posts
I mostly participated on wb when ttc and pregnant with my first son, so 2012-2014. I switched over here after that.
nectarine / 2964 posts
I was with Weddingbee since 2006! I was hired by Mrs. Bee to do their blogger icon illustrations back then and I created that bee icon that was still on that website. The goodness continued until they sold it off (now it looks corporate and horrible). Now they hired someone way better (Oana Befort, love her) to illustrate for Hellobee 
I still kept a preview of most of the icons I created for weddingbee:
http://eneri.net/EneriSite/irenesiohw/illustration/illustrations/illus_weddingbee.html
Mrs. Bee invited me to test out the Hellobee website back then before it was launched (around 2011), so I just absent-mindedly use my real name for the username, and didn't change it since. I was just pregnant back then so it was wonderful.
watermelon / 14467 posts
I read/commented on WB from 2005ish-2007 when I got married, and then I started on HB in 2012 when we decided to TTC. When I was on WB, there weren't any boards or they had just started, not sure about that. I was in college though and participating in message boards wasn't really a thing for me.
persimmon / 1095 posts
I was never on WB. I didn't do any searches for weddings as I didn't really care.
I've been on HB since I was pregnant with my first in 2014, lurked a lot in the beginning. I've been sporadically active since then. I still do a lot of lurking. I found it by searching for parenting blogs.
wonderful kiwi / 23653 posts
I read WB but don't think I participated much on the boards. I didn't even realize there was an off-shoot HB till I was almost getting ready to TTC. I started on here Nov '13. Dec '13 was my last month of BC and we pregnant w/ DD1 Mar '14 and had her Dec '14! I too think that it wouldn't have happened so quickly if I didn't learn so much about TTC on here!
nectarine / 2460 posts
I was on WB 2008-2010 when I was planning my wedding. Mostly reading blogs and not really focused on the boards. After I got married I really wanted to find a family/kid version even though we were a few years out from TTC but it didn't exist at the time. I remember when I stumbled upon HB when it was in beta it felt like such a magical day 
grapefruit / 4278 posts
WB 2009-2011, Then our whole due date board moved over in fall 2011 during beta testing.
persimmon / 1367 posts
I mostly lurked on WB 2008 - 2010, I really liked the community. When I somewhat unexpectedly became pregnant in 2014, I remembered hearing that there were plans to launch a WB type site for baby things, so I went back to WB and searched around until I found the name Hellobee, and I've been here ever since! I have learned so much from this community, and the values are a good match to mine!
pomegranate / 3355 posts
I was on WB from 2010-2013 and then HB 2014 after having DD.
I wanted to be a BEE on WB but didn't get accepted. LOL.
I had a really tight knit birth month group that migrated to FB from WB.
cantaloupe / 6171 posts
I got married in 2010 and so was on WB from sometime in 2009-maaaybe 2011ish? We didn't start ttc lo1 until 2013 but I had baby-fever, so I think I joined here in 2012ish but prob lurked before lol
persimmon / 1141 posts
I only browsed WB back in the mid 2000's... 2005-2007 and when we were planning our wedding. I knew of Mrs. Bee through her Xanga and followed her from there. How is she doing, does she blog or have an active Instagram?
It wasn't until we were TTC that I joined HB in summer 2013!
pomelo / 5084 posts
@DesertDreams88:
WB - about 6.5 years (since my engagement!)
HB - about 4 years, from the time we first thought about having a baby He is now 2.5!
pomelo / 5084 posts
@peaches1038: I didnt know you ever did WB! Same username? Do you ever post these days over there (I do occasionally - same username)!
grapefruit / 4492 posts
I lurked on Wedding Bee a little in 2014-2015 while planning my wedding. I found Hellobee from a google search in March of this year and fell in love with the boards. Every other board I have ever lurked or participated in either moved way too fast, was full of nasty comments, or better than you attitudes. I wish I would have known about it when I was pregnant with my son.
pear / 1510 posts
WB in 2010/11 and HB in 2012 when I got pregnant with DD1. I do miss how active the boards used to be...but is nice that there is less drama
clementine / 874 posts
I started lurking on hellobee in 2013, didn't get an account till 2016 and I literally sat on my email invite for my account for months before that.
nectarine / 2690 posts
Hmm, I just had to log in to WB to see how far back my posts went, and I guess I started posting in 2011. I know I lurked on the boards and read the blog for at least a year or two before that. (side note, I heard about WB from the 20's board on WW lol 
)
I've been on HB for 6 years according to my profile LOL
cherry / 156 posts
Fun question! I think I was on WB from about 2007-2012 and HB since 2011. Same user name on both but not terribly active on either.
Side note: I hadn't been over to WB since before the Bees sold it. WHOA. It looks so different!
pear / 1728 posts
I lurked on WB when I was planning my wedding in 2012/2013. I starting lurking here in 2015 when I was pregnant with my daughter but didn't join until 2016.
grapefruit / 4144 posts
I'm sort of a NewBee.
pomegranate / 3973 posts
I was on WeddingBee from 2011-2012 when I was planning my 8/25/12 wedding, and still occasionally post when the HB boards are slow and I'm bored, same username.
I joined HB in 2014 I think when I was pregnant with DS, I think I just stumbled on it during a google search but not sure how I even found it.
squash / 13199 posts
@DesertDreams88: I was on weddingbee for about 8.5 years ago and then moved over to hellobee back when it was in the beta stage
persimmon / 1381 posts
I was on weddingbee from 2010-2012 ish....it was so helpful because I don't think Pinterest was around then. I've been on Hellobee since 2015 but mostly lurked until I got pregnant with DS2 in 2017.
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