Forum has >20,000 Members

[dai sensei]

Ok it's quite a few over 20,000 and active members are a lot less, and perhaps I should have noticed a week ago (or when ever we hit 20,000), but I see it as another congratulations to the forums

[ss_11000]

and it only took 9 years

[wheelinround]

Now lets see 20,000 subtract those who have auto sign in turned add those who sit outside and haven't joined YET subtract those who have multiple sign ins

Well done best forum best forumites most helpful generous

[ubeaut]

The official number as at 11:30 pm 25th May 2008 was actually 25,162.

However we've deleted 5,085 spammers, pedlars, troublemakers, etc taking us back to the 20,077.

Currently we also have another 500+ members on file who have been banned. Mostly for trying to spam the forums with advertising, religious propaganda, and other unsavoury stuff. Plus a handful of antagonistic, slanderous, troublemakers.

Your admins and mods working quietly in the background to keep these forums free from garbage.

Another major cull could be coming up in the near future so don't be surprised if it drops below 20,000 again.

Cheers - Neil

[Claw Hama]

Oh no, my days may be numbered.


Truly a great job you guys have done though, congrats

[billym]

[prozac]

That is most impressive. How many hits a day does the site turn?

prozac

[ubeaut]

Hits per day average between 560,000 and 650,000, form between 13,000 - 17,000 unique visitors per day. Bandwidth around 4.2GB - 4.5GB

Monthly averages for 2008

• Hits: 17,813,636
• Unique visitors: 446,690
• Band 124.57 GB

[artme]

[FXST01]

and today we passed 21000, geez that didn't take long

[Calm]

The official number as at 11:30 pm 25th May 2008 was actually 25,162.

However we've deleted 5,085 spammers, pedlars, troublemakers, etc taking us back to the 20,077.

Currently we also have another 500+ members on file who have been banned. Mostly for trying to spam the forums with advertising, religious propaganda, and other unsavoury stuff. Plus a handful of antagonistic, slanderous, troublemakers.

Your admins and mods working quietly in the background to keep these forums free from garbage.

Another major cull could be coming up in the near future so don't be surprised if it drops below 20,000 again.

Cheers - Neil

I hope your taste in jokes doesnt influence your decisions. - ah well see you john, allan, barry & wheelin -

keep up the good work guys & jokes

cheers

[echnidna]

how many regular contributors?

[attie]

Hits per day average between 560,000 and 650,000, form between 13,000 - 17,000 unique visitors per day. Bandwidth around 4.2GB - 4.5GB

Monthly averages for 2008

• Hits: 17,813,636
• Unique visitors: 446,690
• Band 124.57 GB

These are Big numbers compared to most other forums, well done guys.

[ubeaut]

how many regular contributors?

Curerently around 5,986 active members. No idea on how many contributors but an active members is anyone who has more than 1 post and has been logged on over the last 30 days. This does not necessarily mean they've posted anything.

We currently average around 45 new threads and 600 new posts per day. The worst day for posts in the past week was 542 posts and the best was 827. This does not include posts in Jokes, Drivel, Open Slather and a couple of other forums which do not count towards the stats or users posts.

The vast majority of visitors to the forums are either not members or members who don't log in and there are plenty who don't. For many people the forums are like a drug and they have to get their daily fix. According to many of the emails I received in the last couple of days there are a lot who visit every day but only log in to respond to posts etc.

Cheers - Neil