MacRumors Reaches 200,000 Members

[WildCowboy]

MacRumors has reached yet another noteworthy milestone: the 200,000th forum registration.

The rate of new registrations reached a peak of nearly 10,000 per month in January and February 2008, in the wake of the MacBook Air launch at Macworld San Francisco. The rate decreased in the months following but recently spiked again to nearly 8,500 in June, due to excitement over the iPhone 3G launch at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference.

Dates of previous membership count milestones:

Apr 2001: MacRumors vBulletin Forums Launch
Nov 2003: 25,000 members
Apr 2005: 50,000 members
Jun 2006: 75,000 members
Feb 2007: 100,000 members
Sep 2007: 125,000 members
Jan 2008: 150,000 members
Mar 2008: 175,000 members
Jul 2008: 200,000 members
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Not all of these members are still active, of course, but it shows that the news, rumors, and discussions at MacRumors have continued to attract a larger and larger audience.

We thank our forum members for their participation and for making MacRumors a primary Internet destination for all things Apple.

 

[dukebound85]

very cool indeed. shows popularity of MR

i was member 55,620

 

[thebassoonist]

Awesome!

 

[GGJstudios]

Congratulations, MacRumors!!!!!

 

[David G.]

Who was the lucky member?

 

[dukebound85]

the forum page currently says there are 199,861 members

does this take into account banned members?

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

*** Sigh *** Even more newbies to heard...





Just kidding, this is excellent news!

Here's to 300.000.

 

[David G.]

the forum page currently says there are 199,861 members

does this take into account banned members?

That or it's slow to update, kinda like the avatars taking hours to do so.

 

[WildCowboy]

the forum page currently says there are 199,861 members

does this take into account banned members?

We're actually not sure where the discrepancy comes in. We've definitely banned a lot more than 139 members, so that's not it. It probably comes from a few instances in which we've merged two accounts, or possibly deleted a few entirely.

 

[GGJstudios]

any idea how many current members?

 

[WildCowboy]

any idea how many current members?

Well, what do you mean by "current?"

On any given day, we generally have anywhere from 6,000-8,000 registered members logging in.

Roughly 81,000 members have logged in at least once in 2008. About 54,000 of those have made at least one post during that time.

 

[GGJstudios]

Well, what do you mean by "current?"

On any given day, we generally have anywhere from 6,000-8,000 registered members logging in.

Roughly 81,000 members have logged in at least once in 2008. About 54,000 of those have made at least one post during that time.

That's what I meant... that's great!!

 

[EvanLugh]

Bravo!

 

[Blue Velvet]

...the 200,000th forum registration.

That graph is looking scarily logarithmic-ish. Good in many ways, but potentially opening a Pandora's Box of scale and demand-related issues, I would imagine, especially with Mac market share inching upwards and the potential iPhone halo effect to take root.

I wonder what reasonable projections can be made from the known knowns and the unknown knowns, to borrow a phrase from Donald Rumsfeld... when we might reasonably expect a million registrations, for instance, when maybe upwards of 30,000 people a day are logging in...

If there's no practical limit, can you imagine how fast Forum Spy might be moving at that point? Especially on big news days?

 

[BigPrince]

That graph is looking scarily logarithmic-ish. Good in many ways, but potentially opening a Pandora's Box of scale and demand-related issues, I would imagine, especially with Mac market share inching upwards and the potential iPhone halo effect to take root.

I wonder what reasonable projections can be made from the known knowns and the unknown knowns, to borrow a phrase from Donald Rumsfeld... when we might reasonably expect a million registrations, for instance, when maybe upwards of 30,000 people a day are logging in...

If there's no practical limit, can you imagine how fast Forum Spy might be moving at that point? Especially on big news days?

I wonder what the most active VB forum is and how well it works.

 

[Doctor Q]

I wonder what the most active VB forum is and how well it works.

cfan, a Chinese computer forum, reportedly has over 3 million members.

Major League Gaming has 1,973,297 members.

Other large vBulletin forums:

mlg gamebattles has 1,972,506.

MOTOR-TALK (German) has 1,890,275.

The Sims Resource has 1,805,199.

codemasters has 1,593,071.

ForumPlanet has 1,569,653.

jolt online gaming (UK) has 1,491,850.

Giga.de (German) has 1,435,453.
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Even Bodybuilding.com has 1,118,679!

 

[PlaceofDis]

its interesting to see the rate of new members increasing so rapidly over time.

good work to the mods,admins, and knox for keeping it all going and growing.

 

[sushi]

cfan, a Chinese computer forum, reportedly has over 3 million members.

<snip list of other million plus member sites.>

Guess we need to get the word out!

Wow, 200,000 registered members.

Quite an accomplishment I would say.

 

[JML42691]

cfan, a Chinese computer forum, reportedly has over 3 million members.

Major League Gaming has 1,973,297 members.

Other large vBulletin forums:

mlg gamebattles has 1,972,506.

MOTOR-TALK (German) has 1,890,275.

The Sims Resource has 1,805,199.

codemasters has 1,593,071.

ForumPlanet has 1,569,653.

jolt online gaming (UK) has 1,491,850.

Giga.de (German) has 1,435,453.
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Even Bodybuilding.com has 1,118,679!

Wow, and I though we may have been among one of the largest, congrats MR!! It seems like we hit a new milestone here about every other day now. Here is to 300,000!!

I predict 1,000,000 by 2011.

 

[BigPrince]

are you familar with how well they operate?

 

[kabunaru]

What if there's going to be too many people and the servers cannot handle them all?

 

[BigPrince]

we will get more servers?

 

[Doctor Q]

What if there's going to be too many people and the servers cannot handle them all?

we will get more servers?

If more and more people accessed the same servers with the same available bandwidth, response time would go down. That's why, over time, MacRumors adds more capacity to keep pace.

 

[Pwned]

Congrats guys, keep up the good work!

 

[kjs862]

Wow, great news. Glad to hear my favorite website is doing well.