 In late 2005, Hamsher expanded FDL into a group blog, featuring such regular contributors as Christy Hardin Smith (aka "Reddhead"), Marcy Wheeler (aka "emptywheel"), "TRex", "Pachacutec", and "Siun", later joined by others, and she published it utilizing WordPress, enabling moderated and filtered commenting.In 2008, in a profile of Hamsher published in the "Washingtonian", she stated that "FireDogLake has about 20 people who write for it, maybe a dozen site administrators who watch what's happening on the blog.