19000 members!

[Andemagne]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
Click on your user profile, the icon with a folder and a person standing next to it. In the address, it will have something like
userid=4616 Which is your ID number, btw

thanks Skanky

[Skanky Burns]

My pleasure

[MarkG]

Originally posted by GP
Any idea on how this compares to other sites (not Civ but internet in general?) Like say ESPN or Straight Dope or what have you? How impressive are these numbers to other people (advertisers, etc)?

Are you guys seen as bigger than a normal hobby site? OR are there lots of other "Apolyton size" sites out there? Maybe AOE Heaven? They are bigger than us, right?

well, i've found a comparison

right now, we have 295 people on the forums. pc.ign has 979

http://boards.ign.com/users_online.asp

[ixnay]

Then again, the 979 there right now out of the 600,780 total registered members is 0.16% of their members, while at apolyton,
279 out of 19,000 is 1.5% of the total members at apolyton. They really lost most of their members when their boards went pay-only.

[Grrr]

Pay only bulletin boards are a turn off.

[TCO]

Back in the day, we used to have 1000 users. Too bad we couldn't keep them...

[MarkG]

you cant keep people who stop being interested in the core of their purpose for coming(civ3)

[DarkCloud]

How can they manage 1000 posters simultaneously in a pay=-only environment?
It must be chaos?
Or a really good forum?
How do they do it?

1000- posters... almost too many.

200 registered simultaneous and 100 guests is hard to deal with with our servers! :bugeyes:

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by MarkG
you cant keep people who stop being interested in the core of their purpose for coming(civ3)

I haven't played Civ for over a year, I still post!!!

I came for the game, stayed for the community.

[TCO]

I stay to tro...post interesting thoughts. I'm like BC.

[Cesa]

Originally posted by MarkG
no. you never know when someone will decide to return

Doesn't the inactive user info take up space on the database ?

not really. the user tables are currently 26mb.
meanwhile, we have over 800mb of attachements on the forums

Are you sure no users got deleted at any point in Apolyton's history? I had to register when I came here to talk abou..ehm, listening to people talking about civ3 in the end of 2001, but I'm sure I've been here before (say a year earlier) when I played Civ2, and though I don't post much, I'm pretty sure I had an account with the same name as now. (to answer polls if nothing else )

Oh, yeah, I was here when CtPII was new too, didn't stay long though, it kept crashing om my computer, haven't played it since...

[James Adams]

Well done Apolyton!

[rah]

Congrats.

RAH

[Az]

This may be a good time to remind ourself of the standings in the guesses of the number of logins.

Apolyton.

now , you did had to have an EE forum. A slight mistake on your side , me thinks.