Fine, We Hit the Fifty Thousand Mark

[Gatekeeper]

C'mon, Jammmo, what do you have to say for yourself? Don't be afraid. Post in this thread! I assure you no one will compare IP numbers.

Gatekeeper

[DrSpike]

Jamski has had a lot of time on his hands recently......

[DanQ]

Originally posted by Locutus

DanQ,

Thanks, took quite a while to compile it too (especially for the last ~1.5 years since you didn't release a 'year in headlines' feature at the 5th birthday like you did for all previous birthdays). That's why I decided to post it: I went through all that trouble a couple of months ago, would've been a pity to just throw away because it was too long to be remotely useful

The "Year in Headlines" section of recent birthday features was not dropped by choice but rather of practicality: no time to compile them.

We're just over four months away before Apolyton's sixth birthday arrives. Would you be willing to revive the page for this time around? You have already taken care of a sizable portion of it, in fact, and retroactive inclusions may also be considered especially considering you have already gathered that data. Whatever your answer, please send it to me as a PM...

Oh, the suspense...

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Dan; Apolyton CS

[Solver]

Belated cheers from myself too .

Now this seems like a great number. Looking back at the charts, I can't believe that Civ 3 was out just a bit over a year after I registered.

The growth rate seems very good now, still going to be strong, though nothing is really happening. RoN and GalCiv expansions won't lead too many people here, and Civ4 at this point is something that few know about.

I remember new faces in the CtP forums after the source release though .

[Locutus]

Originally posted by Solver
The growth rate seems very good now, still going to be strong, though nothing is really happening. RoN and GalCiv expansions won't lead too many people here, and Civ4 at this point is something that few know about.

Actually, I was quite surprised one of my colleagues at work (who isn't really *that* big a Civ fan, or even a gamer) asked me about Civ4 earlier this week. So apparently the news *did* slip through to the outside world.

(Yes, pretty much everyone who knows me knows I 'work' at a Civ site )

I remember new faces in the CtP forums after the source release though .

Well, only two or three who actually stuck around. Which isn't much more than the usual flow through. Though there were quite a few some old posters who returned though.

[Rasputin]

great to achieve 50,000 of which 45,000 are prob DL but they are well hidden DLs so we can count them !!!!!

pity so few are actually active psoters, imagine how busy this place would be with 50,000 posters on every day !!!!!!

[The Slayer]

If you think it twice, that could mean actually more waiting in the server loads than before! . (in other words, a crowed apolyton would comsume a lot of bandwidth)

That's scary

[Rasputin]

longer laods slower server, means more ads to pay for upgrades.... yes very scary .....

[Static Universe]

Originally posted by Doc
It's usually around this time that somemone awkward points out it's stats on active members that are most interesting.

I guess it's time to put myself back on active member status.

Seems like the last time I was here 35000 was the milestone.

Congratuations.

[flipside]

Originally posted by Rasputin
longer laods slower server, means more ads to pay for upgrades.... yes very scary .....

Umm....
I would be interested to know how it pays off.
If you need a bigger server due to posting, then surely you can get more for your ad's and links?
Is there a point after which it becomes uneconomical to have more posters or is bigger better?

[Andemagne]

WOW! over 50000 members. didn't realise Apolyton had gotten that big. remember back in the day when I was like 4600th member.

[:) Smiley]

there are only 761 banned accounts

I wonder what the growth rate of the Poly dungeon has been.

[Flip McWho]

Congratulations

[Skanky Burns]

This thread is so last month.

[DrSpike]

I guess that fewer milestone threads means these get milked more.