21-09-2003 20:45									#1
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That's wat it sais on the frontpage anyway (actually I missed 40000 I saw 39999 and 40002)

It sure is a high flow of registering posters.

	21-09-2003 21:24									#2
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We'll soon have enough for a consipiracy of world domination.

	21-09-2003 21:57									#3
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Damn that's a lot of people.

	21-09-2003 22:07									#4
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Noooo, not another one of those threads! Can't see the stupid "Good job, AH" jokes any more! Must... close... browser.



I second what ixnay said, though: man, that's a load of posters.

	21-09-2003 22:33									#5
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quote: actually I missed 40000 I saw 39999 and 40002

Same here, but I was at work so I couldn't post about it earlier. Either way...

In honour of this momentous occassion I have updated the tables and graphs I posted a while ago about the history of this statistic. (Note: these stats are sometimes based on educated guesses so I don't guarantee their accuracy, but they shouldn't be off by much.)

Raw data (don't worry, pictures below ):

code:
members		date of			days to reach	days to reach
(in 1000)	milestone				(cumulative)
0		26-7-1998		0		0
1		4-4-1999		252		252
2		7-5-1999		33		285
3		28-7-1999		82		367
4		13-11-1999		108		475
5		23-1-2000		71		546
6		20-5-2000		118		664
7		14-10-2000		147		811
8		20-12-2000		67		878
9		19-2-2001		61		939
10		14-5-2001		84		1023
11		16-8-2001		94		1117
12		19-10-2001		64		1181
13		6-11-2001		18		1199
14		10-11-2001		4		1203
15		22-11-2001		12		1215
16		11-12-2001		19		1234
17		17-1-2002		37		1271
18		5-4-2002		78		1349
19		27-4-2002		22		1371
20		8-6-2002		42		1413
21		16-7-2002		38		1451
22		31-8-2002		46		1497
23		1-10-2002		31		1528
24		5-11-2002		35		1563
25		28-11-2002		23		1586
26		26-12-2002		28		1614
27		22-1-2003		27		1641
28		27-2-2003		36		1677
29		11-3-2003		12		1689
30		4-4-2003		24		1713
31		12-5-2003		38		1751
32		25-5-2003		13		1764
33		6-6-2003		12		1776
34		17-6-2003		11		1787
35		30-6-2003		13		1800
36		13-7-2003		13		1813
37		30-7-2003		17		1830
38		17-8-2003		18		1848
39		2-9-2003		16		1864
40		21-9-2003		19		1883

	21-09-2003 22:34									#6
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Table 2: Growth of forum logins (with major events)

Attachment: forumlogins40.jpg
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	21-09-2003 22:34									#7
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Table 3: Time to reach milestone (plain)

Attachment: milestones40pl.jpg
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	21-09-2003 22:35									#8
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Table 4: Time to reach milestone (with major events)

Attachment: milestones40.jpg
This has been downloaded 172 time(s).

	21-09-2003 22:36									#9
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And last but not least...

Table 5: Time to reach milestone (since 2002)

Attachment: milestones40recpl.jpg
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	21-09-2003 22:56									#10
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Great graphs. Settler II seems to have dome sometinh with the speed of new registrations... I wonder what...

	21-09-2003 23:05									#11
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More likely it's the aftermath of the combo of 3 new games (RoN, GalCiv, MoO3) and the announcement of Civ3:Conquests.

	21-09-2003 23:31									#12
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How many of those 40k have actually been used in the last year?

	21-09-2003 23:33									#13
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Good, good. Those graphs does something to freshening up a what would usually be a deja-vu thread! I was amazed by seing that we were around 7000-8000 memebers when I registered! Guess things are going faster than I thought it did...

	21-09-2003 23:41									#14
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Well... congratulations to everyone . 40k, that's really a lot of users, even though few are used regularly.

	22-09-2003 00:06									#15
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quote: Originally posted by Oerdin How many of those 40k have actually been used in the last year?

About 6500.

Edit: That is, to post with. At least some people only use their accounts to be able to see attachments, vote on polls, review Directory files, read the forums when guests are being blocked due to traffic, etc... I don't know how many of such people there are, but they exist.

	22-09-2003 00:48									#16
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Looking at those graphs....RON seems to be responsible for an increase in traffic, etc etc...

interesting.

	22-09-2003 00:51									#17
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Has the average of about 1000 active posters a day changed significantly?

	22-09-2003 00:59									#18
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They's isn't tables!

They's is graphs!

	22-09-2003 01:48									#19
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Nice work, Locutus. Awesome, in fact.

And: CONGRATULATIONS, APOLYTON.

Asmodean

	22-09-2003 01:57									#20
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Good work Locutus!

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(and of course, apolyton )

	22-09-2003 02:43									#21
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quote: Originally posted by Locutus Active posters (this one's for DrSpike ): About 850 posters posted in the last week About 1300 posters posted in the last month About 2300 posters posted in the last 3 months

Oh, and:

	22-09-2003 03:20									#22
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Cool stuff, Locutus. I've always been a great fan of little graphs like the Growth of forum logins (with major events) one.

	22-09-2003 03:51									#23
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40 000...

	22-09-2003 04:05									#24
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We should send an email to all posters (or all posters with no posts that registered more than a week ago) and any who don't reply that they want to keep the account, delete.

	22-09-2003 05:28									#25
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Might as well.

Good work AH!

Seems the growth rate after RON has started to level. Let's hope Settler 2 can keep up.

	22-09-2003 05:50									#26
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quote: Originally posted by skywalker We should send an email to all posters (or all posters with no posts that registered more than a week ago) and any who don't reply that they want to keep the account, delete.

And after the effort of sending this mass-email (spam, if you will) to everyone registered, and then compiling a list of everyone who did reply, the admins then carefully delete those who did not respond. This must be done very carefully, as selecting the poster above or the poster below will likely remove someone here who is active.

Then, after all that effort, the benefit this site receives is . . . ?

	22-09-2003 07:20									#27
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quote: Then, after all that effort, the benefit this site receives is . . . ?

It's likely that an easier script for the kind of thing would be possible. But the whole thing just seems icky, and even if there is a script it wouldn't be worth writing it--you only have to have so much database space per dead login. (In addition, the more posters we have, the more "established" people will think we are, even if only a tenth of those posters are active.)

	22-09-2003 08:01									#28
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Thats the point though. No matter how great a programmer you are, you still won't be able to beat no risk and no effort, which is what just leaving these names alone will take.

	22-09-2003 11:27									#29
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Another way of doing could be to delete all posters/logins who have not logged on to Apolyton in the last two years.

But the benefit would be minimal, since the vast majority of posters have registered during the last two years.

I say leave it alone

Asmodean

	22-09-2003 11:39									#30
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Poly has increased sevenfold since I registered. I still remember when Geography Dan posted the 6000 thread.


I complement Locotus on his nice graphs.