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BaconTheory

<div class="IPBDescription">Wow.</div> Probably most fo you have seen it but A) You didn't care B) You didn't look at it carefully. What I'm talking about is the NS Forums statistics. If you take a look its pretty astonishing and tells us that we either have no lives or this is a fantastic online community. I believe in the latter.

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We have 27385 registered members
The newest member is cannon_fodder1990
Most users ever online was 801 on Jul 31 2003, 08:38 AM<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

What do you think? I'm interested to hear what you have to say considering the forums have over a million posts.

docchimpy

Oddly enough, there is no millionth post, or something. We looked it up a while ago, and there was not a millionth post. Rather anticlimactic, really.

Edit: Various mistakes.

Sky

we're just chugging along to that 2 millionth post now....

Cold_NiTe

The community is so large and yet it feels so small. But then when you tend to stick to a few specific forums, you only see part of it I guess. That and the fact that we have access to said community from our very homes makes it feel small.

TommyVercetti

Using your statistics, that's about 47 posts per forumite.

RaVe

Unfortunately the majority of forumites don't even post. Ever.

If you don't believe me, look at the member database XD
Yes, the forums are that small when you count out the inactive users.

EDIT : Fixed something. We users can't access the central DB XD

AllUrHiveRblong2us

Do the mods ever clean out inactive users? Even just the extreme case ones that are just sitting there for more than a year with 0 posts. It would probly give a more accurate picture of the boards.

Liku

Each Forum has their own little community, jumping forums is like going to different towns. I like it. Very fun.

Seraph1

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I know <a href='http://www.unitedadmins.com/' target='_blank'>UA</a> did that a while ago, so I'm sure its possible...

Marik_Steele

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The actual number is most likely higher, but the count gets reset with each release-date-level-traffic-induced server crash. If we don't get a crash, we'll often disallow standard members from logging in; this is so staff members can still manage to communicate via the forums. This is especially important in the first few days of releases so mappers can talk about how people are reacting to mapchanges, game theorists can see whether changes produced desired effects, etc.

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If someone requests to create a username (or change their existing name) but it's already taken by an "old" account, we'll clear it to make room. But I can't remember the last time we went through and cleared the whole lot of them.
[edit]I just checked, and it is possible. We may do it sometime in the near future.

Mantrid

The 2nd Millionth post may be fun to wait for, but I want to see which post is "1337357".

I want to have the leetest post!

TychoCelchuuu

Really, the NS forums aren't exactly gigantic sized. There are forums where if you refresh twice in a few minutes, you will see a completey different page.

Mantrid

The World of Warcraft forums used to be like that.

They were the golden days: new posts everytime you refreshed (even at 3 AM), only one forum (General Discussion), almost no moderation (we kept each other in check with massive flaming), and no real topic to speak of.

'Twas fun. Then, the moderators started showing up, the forums split up, spam wasn't allowed, there were things WoW related to discuss beyond a few screenshots, and it was ruined.

EEK

Actually the number of active people here is very small... it seems like only about 30 or so people post, but they just spam a lot <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Caboose

Then you get people like me who deem it nessicary to post in every thread they look at...

Yea, this is little more than +1, but meh.

I am lookinjg forward to the 1337357 post though, that's be cool.