27-04-2002 14:13									#1
	19000 members! Support Apolyton, buy Alpha Centauri

And the winner is ... kylevp! Gratulations for registering as member no. 19000!

	27-04-2002 14:25									#2
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well, not no 19000 actually

	27-04-2002 14:48									#3
	Tired of ads?

Yes, I noticed that also when I registered as the 10792th member and my user id was 10858. BTW, what's the reason for the small difference?

Two more questions to the site owner:

- When will Apolyton hit the mark of 20000 members?
- When will Civfanatics catch up?

	27-04-2002 15:29									#4
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Users sometimes are deleted, and the conversion to vB skipped some numbers (for all changed handles I guess, but I'm not sure)

	27-04-2002 15:45									#5
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19,000 members. Thats quite a lot.

	27-04-2002 18:34									#6
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quote: Originally posted by lockstep - When will Apolyton hit the mark of 20000 members?

I'm sure they'll tell you they aren't sure, but that they'd love it the sooner the better without a ton of dls. (Am I kind of right Mark?)

quote: - When will Civfanatics catch up?

Never, or at least that would be the hope.

	27-04-2002 18:43									#7
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quote: - When will Civfanatics catch up?

When the asteroid 1950 hits Earth (that is, either in 2880 or *never*)

	27-04-2002 18:43									#8
	Support Apolyton, buy Civilization 2

i'm sure ~ 10000 are d/ls

	27-04-2002 18:45									#9
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quote: i'm sure ~ 10000 are d/ls

9900 of them Horsie's, 100 of them mine (where else did you think our prevalence in the Location poll came from?).

	27-04-2002 18:48									#10
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Does one need to register to get downloads? (MArk?) That would falsely inflate the size of the community...

How many active posters are there. (people who posted in last month say...)

	27-04-2002 20:13									#11
	Inflate your Upload Space

quote: Originally posted by GP Does one need to register to get downloads? (MArk?)

nope

quote: How many active posters are there. (people who posted in last month say...)

visited(and logged in, one can have an account, lurk without log in and therefore not be counted) in the last month: 2705
posted in the last month: 1651

visited in the last 3 months: 4947
posted in the last 3 months: 2932

	27-04-2002 20:16									#12
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And how many posted on topic?

	27-04-2002 20:20									#13
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quote: Originally posted by Gramphos And how many posted on topic?

i dont have a script to measure that yet

	27-04-2002 20:46									#14
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Can't be so hard to do... Just to add "WHERE forumid <> 147" in the querry

	27-04-2002 23:42									#15
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Mark, very nice statistics. I'm impressed that you have such a good handleon this stuff.

Any idea on how this compares to other sites (not Civ but internet in general?) Like say ESPN or Straight Dope or what have you? How impressive are these numbers to other people (advertisers, etc)?

Are you guys seen as bigger than a normal hobby site? OR are there lots of other "Apolyton size" sites out there? Maybe AOE Heaven? They are bigger than us, right?

	27-04-2002 23:49									#16
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What is the largest bulletin board site out there, in terms of registered members? Is Poly the largest in the Civ-esque game category?

	27-04-2002 23:49									#17
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well the aok heaven forums have 29 people right now

but that doesnt mean that we're 10 times bigger than them

	28-04-2002 04:00									#18
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there were something like 4900 when I registered
(IIRC of course).

quote: Originally posted by lockstep Yes, I noticed that also when I registered as the 10792th member and my user id was 10858.

where I can find my ID number?

	28-04-2002 10:26									#19
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Click on your user profile, the icon with a folder and a person standing next to it. In the address, it will have something like
userid=4616

Which is your ID number, btw

	28-04-2002 12:11									#20
	Increase the size of your Attachments

When did we surpass AOE? Di they go downhill?

	28-04-2002 13:10									#21
	Tired of ads?

i'm not sure on what happened with them. it might simply be that they have a different way to measure "currently online" visitors...

	29-04-2002 01:14									#22
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19000 Members. Yet less than 3000 active? That is silly. I assume that activity increases drastically when a patch or so is announced.

	29-04-2002 01:16									#23
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quote: That is silly

no, that's life. we didnt start yesterday, we started over 3.5 years ago. people come and go....

	29-04-2002 04:02									#24
	Suffering from ads?

quote: visited(and logged in, one can have an account, lurk without log in and therefore not be counted) in the last month: 2705 posted in the last month: 1651 visited in the last 3 months: 4947 posted in the last 3 months: 2932

quote: no, that's life. we didnt start yesterday, we started over 3.5 years ago. people come and go....

...And the rest are unused DL's

But you have to admit, those aren't good numbers- we need to get the post in last 3 months up to 5000 at least!
There will one day be too few people here to post- I fear that we have about 2 years of good activity, 2 years of slipping, and 2 years of dying- if Mark and dan keep the site up and the site does not expand to other games

Hopefully Civ IV will be released in 6 years... It was 4 yrs between I (1992) and II (1996) and 5 between II and III (2001)

	29-04-2002 04:44									#25
	Support Apolyton or Terrorists Win

when a new game is announced people will start coming agian

it will live

Jon Miller

	29-04-2002 05:10									#26
	Full PM-box? Change here!

I still don't get why so many people come, register, and don't post at all. These mute registered are more than 1 half of the members !

	29-04-2002 05:12									#27
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Aren't you deleting accounts after they've been inactive for a certain time? Doesn't the inactive user info take up space on the database ?

	29-04-2002 11:48									#28
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quote: Originally posted by Richelieu Aren't you deleting accounts after they've been inactive for a certain time?

no. you never know when someone will decide to return

quote: Doesn't the inactive user info take up space on the database ?

not really. the user tables are currently 26mb.
meanwhile, we have over 800mb of attachements on the forums

	29-04-2002 11:50									#29
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quote: Originally posted by DarkCloud There will one day be too few people here to post- I fear that we have about 2 years of good activity, 2 years of slipping, and 2 years of dying- if Mark and dan keep the site up and the site does not expand to other games

you probably didnt notice the expansion of our coverage over the last few months

	29-04-2002 12:17									#30
	Got spare money?

Ooooh... very nice .

Congrats