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MacRumors Reaches Half a Million Forum Members

Wow, never would have expected MR would have grown to be this big when I joined in 2004 (there were about 30,000 members then). It seems that the growing popularity of Apple, especially with the iPhone, has considerably swollen the ranks. Of course, there are those old-school members who wish we would talk about Macs once in a while...

Gus said:
Just for kicks I took a look back at a thread I remembered:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/10885/
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Looking at that thread, people were complaining about how bad trolling and flame wars had been in the days before MR hit 10K members. Well, just look at how things are now...
 
I have read this site since I got my first Mac in 2007, I only registered to post, and I havent done many of those. I suspect a lot of other people do what I do, I often read the site without logging in.
 
just about 6 years!

i was reading MR about a year or so before i actually registered.
i waited until i got my first mac before i registered.
ahhh the memories. a shinny new G5 with a 30" display.
i thought i was in heaven!

thank you to arn and all the mods for making this my favorite
everyday site!
 
Maybe...

Maybe they could migrate over to a better forum software now. Where reply's are grouped by threads.
 
Congratulations!! I joined MacRumors about 6 months ago only for curiosity and I ended up buying all sort of Apple machines and accesories and now I cant believe I didnt do it before then. I'm a Mac converted thanks to MacRumors and so proud of it. THANKS!!
 
britboy said:
I can't help but wonder though - is this now a full-time job for Arn, or does he still make use of his medical qualifications :)
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Unless you count website triage as medical care, arn is not in medical practice. He keeps quite busy managing multiple websites, including MacRumors, touchArcade, and AppShopper.

true777 said:
Congratulations from a very early member (since 2000)!
I still read MR everyday.
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Your ten-year mark is coming up in a few months. You are a "true" friend of the site.
 
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.1-update1; en-gb; Dell Streak Build/ERE27) AppleWebKit/530.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/530.17)

Amazing statistic. :) Look at that growth.

Well done to all behind MR!
 
dejo said:
What don't you like about http://mobile.macrumors.com/ ?
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Maybe the fact that I didn't know it existed?

Macrumors does not detect my iPhone so when I open stories from my RSS reader I get the regular Macrumors site. Even if I type macrumors.com into my iphone browser I get the regular site. And forums.macrumors.com also uses the regular site and doesn't detect my iPhone.

Hmm.

Well now that I know it exists, I will use it more - but it will still be a pain, because I am reading stories via the RSS feed, then I click on them and it takes me to the regular site so I will have to retype the URL.

So I modify my comment to say they need to auto-detect iOS browsers. :)
 
Proud member since 2003, and lurker for years before that.

Used to regularly visit MacNN, Macintouch, and MacRumors. The others have fallen off my watch list. MR is all that is needed.

Congratulations and thanks, Arn. Sometimes I wish I could walk away from the MD to become a full time :apple:-head.
 
Yea... Macrumors is the bomb.

I think I joined right after that giant ipod touch was released, and all the iphone 4 speculation was floating around.
 
Doctor Q said:
I don't have figures for that, and we know that some users register, post a question or comment, stick around for that thread, and then disappear forever. But the last time we found a way to estimate the number of active users the result was "surprisingly many." Of course there are varying ways to define "active" since some users post regularly but many log in to visit/read without posting, and some users disappear for months or years and then return to posting.
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Personally I'd like to see a policy that if you haven't posted for 3 months that your account is deleted instantly; far too many people seem join up never to actually participate and when they do post they never actually participate in some sort of discussion other than rushing into a thread, stirring up trouble and then leaving the forum for a few months.

Is this a forum where a community develops or merely 'speakers corner' where people get up to rant and rave and then bugger off after they've had their backside handed to them?
 
great news!

I can't begin to list off all the things I've learned from this site - how to switch out HD's, reinstall my OS, upgrade RAM, bootcamp, "back-up" knowledge, etc.

love it - it's part of my daily reading
 
Congrats to arn and MR. By far this is and has been one of my most favorite sites on the net.

Here's looking forward to another 10 years...
 
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