[SOLVED] Help us count down to 500,000 members!

[jdong]

We are on the verge of breaking the 500,000 members mark. It'd be great to have a screenshot of this momentous landmark in UbuntuForums history, so everyone keep your eyes open on the homepage!

(And if that's some special field only I can see, feel free to hit me with blunt objects)

[FuturePilot]

493 to go :guitar:

[LaRoza]

It should be there in 12 - 15 hours, based on the past statistics.

[LookTJ]

Congratulations to our 500,000th member (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=501180) of the Ubuntu Forums: djablo

[hhhhhx]

someone should register the name '500'000th' right when were at 499.999 :)

[Presto123]

someone should register the name '500'000th' right when were at 499.999 :)

LOL I would almost stay up just long enough to keep refreshing to register that one!

[BigSilly]

500,000!!

But where are we going to put them all?

:shock:

[hhhhhx]

only 396 left, that means it went from 493 to 396 in 3hrs!! :)

[LaRoza]

only 396 left, that means it went from 493 to 396 in 3hrs!! :)

Moving slow today it is.

[hhhhhx]

Moving slow today it is.
ya, but its like 1:50 am, also i notice your avatar is changed back.

[LaRoza]

ya, but its like 1:50 am, also i notice your avatar is changed back.

Yeah, I changed it a couple days ago.

0519 here

[Vadi]

The forums were down..

but "Members: 499,929" now

[jpeddicord]

A few hours left!

[corney91]

499,931 now

[popch]

You are all counting up. The thread's title says to count down.

[corney91]

You are all counting up. The thread's title says to count down.
Sorry, 63 then!:)

[benerivo]

Given the current time, it's probably going to be someone in western europe or the americas. Does the 500,000th person win 1 minutes worth of free shopping in the ubuntu store?! 60.

[corney91]

Wow. 54. There's probably a surge because of the maintenance...

[Danni]

50 to go!

[meho_r]

49:)

[jdong]

16:13 <+dongbotu> New Member 499949 is sonhodemiurgo, 51 more to go
16:16 <+dongbotu> New Member 499950 is rommie7, 50 more to go
16:17 <+dongbotu> New Member 499951 is RumorsOfWar, 49 more to go


If anyone wants to join in #ubuntuforums on irc.freenode.org, I have set up a bot that's counting us down to 500,000 :)

[forestpixie]

what's the 500000th member gonna get - some free software :D

[FuturePilot]

A free copy of Ubuntu :D

[Superkoop]

A free copy of Ubuntu :D


Lucky! :O

[sloggerkhan]

41 to go. I thought it would take a bit longer to reach 500000.

[Midwest-Linux]

1/2 million members? Cool, is that a record?
What is the forum with the most members?
Are we going into the Guinness World Book of Records?

I wonder how many of the half million use Linux, and how many of them use more than one Linux distro on their computer. Ballmer must be getting nervous...lol

Congrats to Ubuntu forums!

[jdong]

Ok, just in case anyone else wants to do voodoo fortune telling like:



16:43 <+dongbotu> New Member 499966 is paulbarnes, 34 more to go
16:43 <+dongbotu> Judging from the past 20 members in 2174 seconds (108 seconds/member), 1h1m35s left to go


But hopefully more statistically correct than linear extrapolation.... I have made logs available at http://jdong.mit.edu/~jdong/forums-members.txt.

Example parsing code at end. Please do not wget or otherwise scrape the forum -- it increases load on the servers.





require "time"
class TimeInterval
@@unit_map={:s => 1, :m => 60, :h => 3600,
:d => 86400, :w => 604800}
attr_accessor :val
def initialize(i)
@val=i
end
def to_i
@val
end
def to_s
val=@val
s=String.new
if val < 0
s << "-"
val *= -1
end
tokens=Hash.new
@@unit_map.sort_by{|k,v| -v}.each do |unit, n|
tokens[unit]=(val/n).to_i
val=val-tokens[unit]*n
if tokens[unit] != 0
s << "#{tokens[unit]}#{unit}"
end
end
s
end
def self.from_s(s)
time_tokens=s.scan(/([\d]+)([wdhms])/)
# Tokens are [ ["1","d"], ["3","m"] ] and so on
# Now, let's convert these to seconds
secs=0
time_tokens.each do |quantity, unit|
next unless quantity and unit
secs+= quantity.to_i*@@unit_map[unit.to_sym]
end
if s =~ /^-/
secs *= -1
end
return TimeInterval.new(secs)
end
end

timediffs=Array.new
epoch=nil
members=0
File.open("/tmp/members","r") do |f|
f.each_line do |l|
next if l.empty?
t=Time.parse(l.scan(/(^.*) New/).flatten[0])
unless epoch
epoch=t
else
timediffs << (t-epoch).abs
epoch=t
end
members=l.scan(/Member ([\d]+)/).flatten[0].to_i
end
end
def sum(list)
s=0
list.each {|i| s+=i.to_i}
s
end
timediffs=timediffs.slice(timediffs.length-20,timediffs.length)
puts "Judging from the past #{timediffs.length} members in #{sum(timediffs)} seconds (#{(sum(timediffs).to_f/timediffs.length).to_i} seconds/member), #{TimeInterval.new((500000-members)*sum(timediffs).to_f/timediffs.length)} left to go"

[Mazza558]

1/2 million members? Cool, is that a record?
What is the forum with the most members?
Are we going into the Guinness World Book of Records?


IIRC, Gaia Online (random online Japanese MMO) has about 4 million members.

[AsoSako]

499,976

[Midwest-Linux]

IIRC, Gaia Online (random online Japanese MMO) has about 4 million members.


We must be the most popular Linux forum out there.

[hhhhhx]

499,986, why are there 2 threads about this?

[jdong]

499,986, why are there 2 threads about this?
Well obviously I'm more important so this thread is the real one. (kidding :D)

[Dr Small]

13 left :)

[hhhhhx]

9 leaft!!, so close, yet so far

[Dr Small]

6 left!!!

[p_quarles]

Got an early screenshot.

[hhhhhx]

6 left // how come if you go to the profile of the 500000th, its already taken

http://ohioloco.ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=500000


EDIT ; 5 members left!
EDIT : 3 members
EDIT 2 mem

[xeth_delta]

5 to go!

[mali2297]

4,3,..

[benerivo]

[QUOTE=xhhux;4306288]6 left // how come if you go to the profile of the 500000th, its already taken

http://ohioloco.ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=500000

Don't know, but 500,550 has also been taken.

[matthew]

6 left // how come if you go to the profile of the 500000th, its already taken

http://ohioloco.ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=500000


EDIT ; 5 members left!
EDIT : 3 members
EDIT 2 memEarly on in the forum's history we used to allow user accounts to be deleted...then we later discovered it can do odd things in the database, so we don't allow it anymore. Anyway, that's why the discrepancy exists.

[eye208]

499,998...

[benerivo]

6 left // how come if you go to the profile of the 500000th, its already taken

http://ohioloco.ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=500000


EDIT ; 5 members left!
EDIT : 3 members[/QUOTE]

Don't know, but 500,550 has also been taken.

[AsoSako]

Threads: 674,839, Posts: 4,294,458, Members: 500,000
Welcome to our newest member, djablo (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=501180)
http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=59310&stc=1&d=1202682357

[xeth_delta]

Happy 500000th user, Ubuntu forums! ;)

[hhhhhx]

499999 :
http://stashbox.org/80809/Screenshot-1.png

500000 :
http://stashbox.org/80812/Screenshot-2.png

500000 user :
http://ohioloco.ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=501180

[popch]

Well, it's done. Well done.

Mark the thread as 'solved', then, please.

[jpeddicord]

500,000!

[FuturePilot]

Whoohooo!!!!11!! :guitar:

[-grubby]

just missed the screenshot. My luck :(

[matthew]

Woohoo! Thanks for the screenshots. My attempt captured 500,001...

[corney91]

Woohoo! Thanks for the screenshots. My attempt captured 500,001...
Ditto:(
Ah well, life goes on and ubuntuforums continue to prosper....

[corney91]

500,073.

...we not carrying on to a million??:)

[JT9161]

http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/Ubuntu_Forums_reaches_500_000_users

[josh.tessin]

Wooohoo! I can't wait until the 5,000,000 user.

[andrewabc]

Early on in the forum's history we used to allow user accounts to be deleted...then we later discovered it can do odd things in the database, so we don't allow it anymore. Anyway, that's why the discrepancy exists.

So someone could have created an account 4 years ago and made no posts, and still be in the database? seems like a waste of space to me. I thought pruning users with no posts was normal for forums

[jdong]

So someone could have created an account 4 years ago and made no posts, and still be in the database? seems like a waste of space to me. I thought pruning users with no posts was normal for forums


Well as always said, storage is cheap and the 5KB or whatever needed to store the e-mail address and post count of a user is not as much of an issue as the namespace cluttering.

Sooner or later, a purge/prune would not be a bad idea to free up some usernames for everyone's benefit.

[aimran]

Not doing anything for the 500kth member? Like custom user title "500,000th" member?

[jdong]

I don't think the 500,000th user needs any more harassment than what has already been propagated ;-)

I wouldn't be surprised if he/she's sifting through 1000 private messages and has a full e-mail inbox by now :D