1M members

[lavinog]

Threads: 1,358,004, Beans: 8,715,406, Members: 1,071,722, Active Members: 63,522


When did we go over one million members?
Who was the millionth member...should they get a prize (like a free copy of lucid :) )

[Sealbhach]

It happened a few months ago. I'm not sure if they did anything special about it.

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[Ylon]

Well... msg him http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=1000000


and tell something to these two too:

http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=999999
http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=1000001

:P

[chessnerd]

Threads: 1,358,004, Beans: 8,715,406, Members: 1,071,722, Active Members: 63,522


When did we go over one million members?
Who was the millionth member...should they get a prize (like a free copy of lucid :) )

Seems like the more important number there is the "Active Members" number, which is well below 100,000. Don't get me wrong, 1,000,000 members is a great accomplishment, but when only 0.0635% are active it's less impressive.

Also, members only average 8.715 posts and each member only creates about 1.24 threads. This isn't bad, but I do find it interesting. You, sir, have over 2500 posts. I have over 150. That means that there are a LOT of members who have made just one or two posts. Obviously this bell curve is skewed to the right...

[-grubby]

I remember how much hoopla there was back when we got our 500,000th member. I'm pretty surprised that 1 million barely got a mention. In any case, the number of active members is much more meaningful and has remained relatively stable for a while.

[lavinog]

Does the number of members still include banned members?
Edit: I guess it does.

In the past, didn't the statistics show most active at anytime?

[m4tic]

code red!! member number 3 missing, i repeat missing. anyone knows what happened to member number 3?

[98cwitr]

January 17th, 2010 join date...weaksauce

my MN is 863250, maybe those should be my lotto numbers for tonight ;)

[Johnsie]

It's also intersting to look at how many people stick it out... Look at the dates people signed up to the forums. I think there a good few people who have stuck it out for a few years...

We all need to do more to distribute Ubuntu computers. I'm rolling it out in some computers at work, but only when people agree to give it a try. I don't want to force it on people, because that will immediately make people not like it.

I'm also sticking it on a few machines that I am giving to people. I think the new theme and the speed imrpovments go a long way toward making Ubuntu more attractive for newbies.

It's now up to us to sell sell sell.

[98cwitr]

It's also intersting to look at how many people stick it out... Look at the dates people signed up to the forums.

yeah but look at the members with 0 posts too :? Is that was defines active vs all?

[NMFTM]

Numbers like 25, 50, 100, 1000, 10000, etc are meaningless. They're just random numbers that only hold a special meaning because of our decimal numeric system. Probably because we have 10 fingers. If we counted in binary the millionth member would be number"11110100001001000000" or in hexadecimal he'd be "F4240".

For some reason people think that the number one followed six zeroes is really impressive. But, don't find the letter F followed by four, two, four, and zero to be equally as impressive.

Okay, I'm done attempting to ruin everyone's excitement, carry on.

[MichealH]

code red!! member number 3 missing, i repeat missing. anyone knows what happened to member number 3?

Hey, Youre right! :P

[98cwitr]

Numbers like 25, 50, 100, 1000, 10000, etc are meaningless. They're just random numbers that only hold a special meaning because of our decimal numeric system. Probably because we have 10 fingers. If we counted in binary the millionth member would be number"11110100001001000000" or in hexadecimal he'd be "F4240".

For some reason people think that the number one followed six zeroes is really impressive. But, don't find the letter F followed by four, two, four, and zero to be equally as impressive.

Okay, I'm done attempting to ruin everyone's excitement, carry on.

yeah hate to say it but the member IDs are sequential and decimal-base10 in fashion. This can be proven if it you would just try it.

If base 10 numbers are meaningless, then logic would show that binary and hexadecimal notation is meaningless as well, subsequently making math meaningless...which just isn't the case.

[jetsam]

Yeah. The neatness and easily remembered 1,000,000 provides a convenient milestone. Base dependent, who cares? It's just the base 10 we've all used daily since we were three or four, after all.

The Megabyte Members Club will include the members with these numbers:
1,000,000
1,024,000
and
1,048,576

An elite group if ever there was one!

See Wikipedia for the different contexts of megabyte (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megabyte).

[alket]

The 1 Million'th member is
http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=1000000

EDIT: It's already said , sorry I didn't notice it.

[MasterNetra]

Seems like the more important number there is the "Active Members" number, which is well below 100,000. Don't get me wrong, 1,000,000 members is a great accomplishment, but when only 0.0635% are active it's less impressive.

Also, members only average 8.715 posts and each member only creates about 1.24 threads. This isn't bad, but I do find it interesting. You, sir, have over 2500 posts. I have over 150. That means that there are a LOT of members who have made just one or two posts. Obviously this bell curve is skewed to the right...

There very well could be more then 100,000 members active on the forums, they're just not on all at once. The active members number just shows who is online at that moment.

[NMFTM]

If base 10 numbers are meaningless, then logic would show that binary and hexadecimal notation is meaningless as well, subsequently making math meaningless...which just isn't the case.
I didn't mean that they were completely meaningless. I just meant the millionth member as expressed in decimal is no more meaningful than the 1048575th member as expressed in hedadecimal. If most people counted in hex than the FFFFFth member would be considered a great milestone.

[JDShu]

Numbers like 25, 50, 100, 1000, 10000, etc are meaningless. They're just random numbers that only hold a special meaning because of our decimal numeric system. Probably because we have 10 fingers. If we counted in binary the millionth member would be number"11110100001001000000" or in hexadecimal he'd be "F4240".

For some reason people think that the number one followed six zeroes is really impressive. But, don't find the letter F followed by four, two, four, and zero to be equally as impressive.

Okay, I'm done attempting to ruin everyone's excitement, carry on.

I think the reason is that we have 10 fingers.

[98cwitr]

I didn't mean that they were completely meaningless.

oh...

[ibuclaw]

code red!! member number 3 missing, i repeat missing. anyone knows what happened to member number 3?

My presumption for that is that we used to delete accounts here on the forums, but due to many reasons (and hiccups), this is no longer the case.

[steveneddy]

I've only been here for a few days myself.

[GeorgeVita]

There very well could be more then 100,000 members active on the forums, they're just not on all at once. The active members number just shows who is online at that moment.

Hi, I am 'triggering' this thread again just to get an answer on:

What is the 'active members' counter? It depends on 'user inactivity period'?

Today statistics show: Members: 1,121,551, Active Members: 53,269
and Currently Active Users: 7063 (392 members and 6276 guests and 395 Spiders)

'Currently Active Users' are probably the 'online users'.

Thanks in advance!
Regards,
George

[ibuclaw]

Hi, I am 'triggering' this thread again just to get an answer on:

What is the 'active members' counter? It depends on 'user inactivity period'?

Today statistics show: Members: 1,121,551, Active Members: 53,269
and Currently Active Users: 7063 (392 members and 6276 guests and 395 Spiders)

'Currently Active Users' are probably the 'online users'.

Thanks in advance!
Regards,
George

To answer your question, I don't know the exact current setting, but it was about a month inactivity until that member is defined as no longer active.

On that bombshell, thread closed.

Regards.