Can't believe I've been 'lurging' round here for nearly 6 years now.
Great milestone to reach.
40,000+ users.... how many bans ;-)
An edcutated guess less than 5% each month, most of those are spammers and are ban deleted.
I'm not really too fussed about the big numbers, it's the content and banter that matters the most to me. But needless to say over 40,000 registered of course it's quite amazing to see.
In reality there are currently just over 18,000 of those registered users who have visited the forum in the last year, many of those 40,000 maybe inactive or visit infrequently. You'll see the same trends on most forums anywhere, the knack is to keep a good percentage coming back and keep new registrations coming too. It's certainly not stagnant and continues to show steady growth.
Taking a sample from the last 12 months (July08 - July09) the average registrations per month was 982 new users each month over the period.
What i find more interesting is the amount of people who log-in daily.
On average more than 1500 registered users visit the forum every single day, and I've based that on the last full month of stats (July01 - July31 2009) That's a typical month, and the trend shows it's been growing steadily year on year.
