Ubuntu Forums New Members - Incredible membership rate...

[Mazza558]

Here's a fun thing to do:

Open the main page of the Ubuntu forums and look at the number of members. Memorise this and then refresh a few minutes later. I just did this and 4 new members had joined. That's incredible! I don't know about other forum which 4 new memberships in such a short time. :D

I'll start a new one (with a longer wait time):

First look:


Threads: 448,050, Posts: 2,744,472, Members: 310,880
Welcome to our newest member, loa


Second look (after 5 minutes):


Threads: 448,056, Posts: 2,744,509, Members: 310,884
Welcome to our newest member, repulze


Just noticed the amount of activity on the forums, too.

In 5 minutes:
-6 new threads
-37 new posts
-4 new members.

[Lucifiel]

Threads: 448,056, Posts: 2,744,521, Members: 310,885
Welcome to our newest member, gunbladeiv

Crud... the buttons for the forum aren't working. :(

[Cyvros]

I know what! Let's derive an equation and plot a graph to properly express this phenomenon... and then take some partial derivatives to calculate the error!

[Mazza558]

I know what! Let's derive an equation and plot a graph to properly express this phenomenon... and then take some partial derivatives to calculate the error!

Hey! I was bored :p

[Cyvros]

Hey! I was bored :p

Heh, so was I. :D

We have horror Physics labs every Wednesday, so don't blame me.

[Mazza558]

Okay, let's imagine that there is 1/4 as much activity in the forums during the night (about 8 hours or so). Doing a bit of maths, an average day will yield:

- 748 new threads
- 4329 new posts
- 468 new members.

Okay, I'm really bored :p

EDIT: Since the last update, look at the stats now :D


Threads: 448,071, Posts: 2,744,599, Members: 310,891
Welcome to our newest member, jeros

[forrestcupp]

Yeah, but for the "number of posts" increments, you have to subtract for the people posting their figures in this thread that normally wouldn't have made that post.

[starcraft.man]

Lol, mazza and cyvros, you two such spammers :p.

How about going and answering the back log of beginner questions?

That should keep you busy till..... uhh.... you get bored again? :D

[Mazza558]

Lol, mazza and cyvros, you two such spammers :p.

How about going and answering the back log of beginner questions?

That should keep you busy till..... uhh.... you get bored again? :D

I have 68 beans to my name. That's not much compared to the time I spend idling here :)

[Cyvros]

Lol, mazza and cyvros, you two such spammers :p.

How about going and answering the back log of beginner questions?

That should keep you busy till..... uhh.... you get bored again? :D

Mate, I've been trying. Believe me, I've been trying, but, forum ***** I may be, I'm no uber-helper. :D

[starcraft.man]

Mate, I've been trying. Believe me, I've been trying, but, forum ***** I may be, I'm no uber-helper. :D

LOL, well find some uber-helper learning DVD and load it into your xbox bot mainframe :p

Oh and yay for ctrl alt del :D

[Cyvros]

LOL, well find some uber-helper learning DVD and load it into your xbox bot mainframe :p

Oh and yay for ctrl alt del :D

Yes! Finally, some fanboy recognition! :D (My desktop's named Zekey, incidentally. :P)

[bapoumba]

Okay, let's imagine that there is 1/4 as much activity in the forums during the night (about 8 hours or so). <snip>
Remember, this is a world-wide-community, and _your_ timezones does not mean that much ^^
u-g has released some forums numbers a couple months ago:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=380980
Alot of websites don't release information such as this, however we wanted to share some cool forum facts with our users :)

Here we go..

We register over 14,000 new accounts each month
We average 22,000 new threads a month
We average about 136,000 new posts each month

We average about 3.7million visits each month
We average about 12.6million page views per month

~74% of our visitors use Firefox
~12% of our visitors use IE
~4% of our visitors use opera
~3% of our visitors use mozilla
~2.9% of our visitors use konqueror

~61% of our visitors use Linux
~35% of our visitors use Windows

~57% of our traffic is recurring visitors
~42% of our traffic is new traffic visitors

~69% of our traffic comes from google
~3% of our traffic comes from digg.com
~5% of our traffic comes from *.ubuntu.com

Rock on forums community! :guitar:

[starcraft.man]

Yes! Finally, some fanboy recognition! :D (My desktop's named Zekey, incidentally. :P)

ROFL! Addict... thats just plain, well... wrong >.>.

[Mazza558]

Remember, this is a world-wide-community, and _your_ timezones does not mean that much ^^
u-g has released some forums numbers a couple months ago:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=380980

Nice - I was pretty close with my calculations (mine would be 13,800 new accounts a month)