40000 Apolytoners

[Gramphos]

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.

[General Ludd]

We'll soon have enough for a consipiracy of world domination.

[ixnay]

Damn that's a lot of people.

[vovan]

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.

[Locutus]

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 ):

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

Average # of days to reach milestone...
... in the last 3 months: 		15
... in the last 6 months: 		18
... in the last 12 months: 		21
... since 2003: 			19
... since 2002: 			27
... since the beginning: 		46

Average # of new registrations per day...
... in the last 3 months: 		66
... in the last 6 months: 		57
... in the last 12 months:		47
... since 2003: 			52
... since 2002:				37
... since the beginning:		22

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

Major events in Apolyton's History:

Birth of Apolyton			26-07-1998
Release of Civ2:MGE			04-12-1998
Release of SMAC				09-02-1999
Release of C:CtP			30-03-1999
Release of Civ2: ToT			31-07-1999
Release of SMAC-X			19-10-1999
Birth of Big Huge Games			28-02-2000
Release of CtP2				19-11-2000
Upgrade of ACS Forums to vBulletin	21-05-2001
Release of Civ3				29-10-2001
Death of GameStats			31-01-2002
Birth of Settler I			21-04-2002
Release of Civ3:PtW			29-10-2002
Release of MoO3				25-02-2003
Release of GalCiv			25-03-2003
Birth of Settler II			24-04-2003
Release of Rise of Nations		20-05-2003
Upgrade of Settler II RAM		27-08-2003
Release of GalCiv:EU			16-09-2003

(Disclaimer: meaning of 'major event' entirely subjective and not based on anything other than my personal opinion and what fitted nicely into the graphs)





Table 1: Growth of forum logins (plain)

[Locutus]

Table 2: Growth of forum logins (with major events)

[Locutus]

Table 3: Time to reach milestone (plain)

[Locutus]

Table 4: Time to reach milestone (with major events)

[Locutus]

And last but not least...

Table 5: Time to reach milestone (since 2002)

[Gramphos]

Great graphs. Settler II seems to have dome sometinh with the speed of new registrations... I wonder what...

[Locutus]

More likely it's the aftermath of the combo of 3 new games (RoN, GalCiv, MoO3) and the announcement of Civ3:Conquests.

[Oerdin]

How many of those 40k have actually been used in the last year?

[Nikolai]

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...

[Solver]

Well... congratulations to everyone . 40k, that's really a lot of users, even though few are used regularly.

[Locutus]

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.

[Nubclear]

Looking at those graphs....RON seems to be responsible for an increase in traffic, etc etc...

interesting.

[Kuciwalker]

Has the average of about 1000 active posters a day changed significantly?

[Frozzy]

They's isn't tables!

They's is graphs!

[Asmodean]

Nice work, Locutus. Awesome, in fact.

And: CONGRATULATIONS, APOLYTON.

Asmodean

[DarkCloud]

Good work Locutus!

-
(and of course, apolyton )

[DrSpike]

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:

[vovan]

Cool stuff, Locutus. I've always been a great fan of little graphs like the Growth of forum logins (with major events) one.

[Rasbelin]

40 000...

[Kuciwalker]

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.

[Ben Kenobi]

Might as well.

Good work AH!

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

[Skanky Burns]

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 . . . ?

[mrmitchell]

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.)

[Skanky Burns]

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.

[Asmodean]

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

[Jaguar]

Poly has increased sevenfold since I registered. I still remember when Geography Dan posted the 6000 thread.


I complement Locotus on his nice graphs.