1 million members on MacRumors?

[radhak]

Eight years ago, I had wondered that we had got to 30,000 members on these forums : 30,000 Members here?


Looks like we are now approaching a million members!

Again, maybe the millionth user to sign up should be greeted with a (virtual) pinyata exploding on-screen or something !

(Is this the biggest forum in terms of members? Must be somewhere in the top?)

 

[macmacguy]

Yep, we're getting close. A few months and we'll reach 1 million.

 

[radhak]

I gotta confess I must have had a dyslexic moment when I posted this yesterday. I saw that first '1' also as a '9' , and thought it was a lot closer to a million already (999,918) !

We can wait, I guess...

 

[jeremysteele]

(Is this the biggest forum in terms of members? Must be somewhere in the top?)

It is one of the biggest, but far from the biggest. (link is slightly out of date on the #s).

I am curious how many members are actually active?

Wonder if the admins are planning anything? iPad giveaway or something? Free booze for all?

 

[The Doctor11]

This made me wonder what number member I was.... It is cool how we're getting close to 1,000,000 members.

 

[radhak]

This made me wonder what number member I was.... It is cool how we're getting close to 1,000,000 members.

You are #866430.

If you hover your mouse over your username on the left, the link displayed on the status bar ends with the user number. I am #20855, and as yet, the 'oldest' of the posters in this thread !

 

[The Doctor11]

You are #866430.

If you hover your mouse over your username on the left, the link displayed on the status bar ends with the user number. I am #20855, and as yet, the 'oldest' of the posters in this thread !

Thanks. And damn you have been here forever.

 

[Apple fanboy]

Thanks. And damn you have been here forever.

Might have been here forever, but not exactly a prolific poster.

 

[mobilehaathi]

1,000,000 members, but only ~10% with >1 post.

 

[rdowns]

You are #866430.

If you hover your mouse over your username on the left, the link displayed on the status bar ends with the user number. I am #20855, and as yet, the 'oldest' of the posters in this thread !

Ahem.

 

[iShater]

You are #866430.

If you hover your mouse over your username on the left, the link displayed on the status bar ends with the user number. I am #20855, and as yet, the 'oldest' of the posters in this thread !

Ahem.

*cough* *cough*

 

[rdowns]

*cough* *cough*

My reign as the oldest member in the thread was short but quite fulfilling.

 

[iShater]

My reign as the oldest member in the thread was short but quite fulfilling.

Depends if we are talking age or membership

I am almost a 1/5th of your posts though. wow.

 

[Cursor]

Depends if we are talking age or membership

I am almost a 1/5th of your posts though. wow.

Beat you by a month!

 

[Scepticalscribe]

While this is a very impressive statistic - and MR is undoubtedly a growing and thriving site - I do have a number of slight reservations, in that I suspect that the number of almost one million makes it look a bit more populated than it actually is.

Out of that almost one million members, I find myself wondering, firstly, how many are active members, that is, members who are both active and genuine, which brings me to my second observation and reservation which is, secondly, I'd be prepared to wager that a considerable number of that membership are those individuals who registered to post spam posts.

Inevitably, they get noticed, and reported and banned. Are banned members - both spammers who have been reported and genuine members who have been banned also counted in this total of almost one million? In other words, does this statistic of almost one million include everyone who has ever opened an account, the inactive genuine members, the banned genuine members, and the countless number of accounts opened purely for the purpose of posting spam?

 

[smithrh]

If you hover your mouse over your username on the left, the link displayed on the status bar ends with the user number. I am #20855, and as yet, the 'oldest' of the posters in this thread !

I'm #286,499.

Maybe I should find the account I originally had... I swear that was around the time of the original iPod.

However, I didn't post much then though, it wouldn't be that easy to find. Lost the login/pass eons ago. Oh well.

 

[FrankieTDouglas]

Macrumors is one of the biggest Mac-related forums though, right?

I remember joining years ago, right before I bought my first Powerbook.

 

[Truefan31]

What other Mac related forums are this big?

 

[samiwas]

It is one of the biggest, but far from the biggest. (link is slightly out of date on the #s).

That's a pretty cool list. I'm kind of shocked that "bodybuilding.com" is so huge. Are there that many people that into bodybuilding who go onto forums to talk about it? Never even thought about it.

But, holy crap 4chan...over 1.5 billion posts??

 

[Truefan31]

That's a pretty cool list. I'm kind of shocked that "bodybuilding.com" is so huge. Are there that many people that into bodybuilding who go onto forums to talk about it? Never even thought about it.



But, holy crap 4chan...over 1.5 billion posts??

Yeah I'm a member of bodybuilding. Diet advice, workout advice, progress pics, etc. it's very informative

 

[iShater]

Beat you by a month!

Nice! I hovered around and read the forum before creating my user. I should have been quicker

 

[jav6454]

That's a pretty cool list. I'm kind of shocked that "bodybuilding.com" is so huge. Are there that many people that into bodybuilding who go onto forums to talk about it? Never even thought about it.

But, holy crap 4chan...over 1.5 billion posts??

4chan has over 1.5 Billion posts due to its /b/ board. However, people rarely venture into the other (albeit not as Work Safe) boards which can be informative if filtered correctly.

/g/ for example can be a great guide to computer hardware enthusiasts... however be warned, you have to really read through to sort out the idiotic postings.

 

[Astroboy907]

I'm #286,499.

Maybe I should find the account I originally had... I swear that was around the time of the original iPod.

However, I didn't post much then though, it wouldn't be that easy to find. Lost the login/pass eons ago. Oh well.

Maybe, maybe not. Might be worth contacting the mods about to see if they can find anything, search accounts by email or whatnot!
If it was indeed from the era of the original iPod you would be one of the firsts...

But of course, this is coming from the #695,213th member...

Edit: doing a quick advanced search shows an mjsmith and an agent_smith from around 2001... either yours?

 

[JackieInCo]

I wonder how many of those people registered still visit. People eventually move on and lose interest.

 

[roadbloc]

I wonder how many of the million actually post?

Edit: Jackie beat me to it