Half a Million Members
 

As at 1209 hours GMT, we have 425,835 members who have made at least one post in their time here. This may be a little premature, but when do you think we will hit 500,000?

It took around 5 years to hit 200,000 and only 4 years to double that.

I think sometime around July, personally. :)

I think it'll be somewhere in the last week of October, but for certain this year.

Kind regards,

Eric

I'll split the difference and say about the middle of August.

Where did you find this data?

The member ID number is already over 500,000, but there is a gap in the numbers back aways. Just guessing that the real total is more like 450,000, that includes everyone that has NEVER posted.

Note also that a list of members with exactly one post includes homework trolls and others that will almost certainly never post again.

Also, how do we count the spammers that have been permanently banned?

I want to know the number of reasonably active users, that would be more important. Like ones that come here or post here at least once a year or so.

With (roughly)75k members to go @ (app)2.5k/month, SpeedCrunch says 30 months, so June 2012 looks a little more realistic. However, the number of new members per month is still increasing, so that is definitely subject to change. ;)

Cheers

Keep in mind that we regularly delete inactive members who have never posted (which is why we have ~425k members but the uid's are > 500k).

--jeremy

That's what I was going to say. :)

Little late with that one, aren't we? ;)

Must've been speed-reading elsewhere...lol

Cheers

Nah, Jeremy has powers to make me post after him. It's probably a conspiracy. Whoops, wrong thread :)

ROFL

Must admit though, the rate of growth has increased dramatically over the past three years. :cool:

Cheers