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Old July 20th, 2007   #1
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ubuntuforums gain 400 members a day
i dont have empirical evidence of this, but ive done the math over a few days, and ubuntuforums is growing big time. 450 people a day (average) is no joke.
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Old July 20th, 2007   #2
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Re: ubuntuforums gain 400 members a day
Average about 21,000 new users a month
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Old July 20th, 2007   #3
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Re: ubuntuforums gain 400 members a day
Cool. Does anyone have info on the current amount of linux (home) users? I did some googling... it seems that the total amount could sum up to 0,7 million instances(tuxmachines.org).

EDIT: how about Canonical? Do they have any statistcs?
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Old July 20th, 2007   #4
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Cool. Does anyone have info on the current amount of linux (home) users? I did some googling... it seems that the total amount could sum up to 0,7 million instances(tuxmachines.org).

EDIT: how about Canonical? Do they have any statistcs?
I'd be interested in this sort of information, as well. Or anything similar.
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Old July 20th, 2007   #5
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whenever I refresh I usually see another member has joined. very cool, indeed.
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Old July 20th, 2007   #6
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oh well, nevermind...
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i made a basic script:

and run it as a crontab job each 2 mn.

seems that total forum member is raising at 0.583/min.
Oh gee thats great! More unneeded traffic to swamp our servers.
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Old July 20th, 2007   #8
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Oh gee thats great! More unneeded traffic to swamp our servers.
i was just curious on the rate. I stop it after.
it just reads the 1st page, by the way


PS. I rm the mini-script from my post, to avoid copy past of random users feeling temptation of repeat it. Better remove it from your quote too.
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Old July 20th, 2007   #9
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Most people just register and either forget about it or stop posting when their one question is answered
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Old July 20th, 2007   #10
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Most people just register and either forget about it or stop posting when their one question is answered
That's true, but then there are a whole bunch of people who never register because their question is answered by existing posts and then a whole load more people who never even see the forums.

I wonder what the relationship between installbase and forum use is.
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