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Top 50 Posters Extrapolated, January 2014

Scepticalscribe said:
Actually, I am beginning to suspect that most join trip over the forums - or take a look at what is happening - after they buy a Mac computer, and need an answer to a question, rather than as part of the research necessary before you buy a Mac and/or switch.

I know that is the way it was for me. I bought a Mac computer in April 2008, as a belated birthday present to myself, and, as I was what is termed in the parlance 'a switcher' there was a lot I didn't know. Hence, googling (I didn't want to bombard the very professional, helpful and kind chap in the Apple shop who had sold it to me, and who was, in fairness, very patient & helpful in answering questions) to find out more, and then stumbling across this forum.

In any case, most days, a drop in visit, is part of my daily routine now……

And, when MR is down, or inexplicably inaccessible (as it was during the hack attack a few months ago), I feel a strange sense of deprivation, and loss.
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Tell me about it! When MR goes down it's then I realise how often I'm on here.
 
Apple fanboy said:
Tell me about it! When MR goes down it's then I realise how often I'm on here.
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Amen to that. I had a stopover in Istanbul airport for a few hours some months back (exactly the time the concerted hack attack caused the system to collapse). That was when I realised that what I had assumed was a brief daily drop in, sometimes, turned into a bit more than that.

Normally, I am an avid reader of current affairs, and was, that day, too, as per usual, but was amazed (at myself) at how often I returned to MR to check whether the forums were still down or whether that had been resurrected.

Having said that, sometimes you do disappear for weeks, or months, at a time, as the demands of 'real life' intrude and lay prior claim to your time.
 
Scepticalscribe said:
Amen to that. I had a stopover in Istanbul airport for a few hours some months back (exactly the time the concerted hack attack caused the system to collapse). That was when I realised that what I had assumed was a brief daily drop in, sometimes, turned into a bit more than that.

Normally, I am an avid reader of current affairs, and was, that day, too, as per usual, but was amazed (at myself) at how often I returned to MR to check whether the forums were still down or whether that had been resurrected.

Having said that, sometimes you do disappear for weeks, or months, at a time, as the demands of 'real life' intrude and lay prior claim to your time.
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I've not really disappeared since I got here, but that's probably because I don't have a life!
 
I am still around. It is just that there are many that expect you to be an extremist one way or the other. I really detracts from my enjoyment of the boards.
 
-BigMac- said:
Can we get an update on the user numbers pls? :rolleyes:
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There has been an update posted at six monthly intervals every six months since then, so there are a considerable number of threads with what I assume is the data you are seeking available on this forum.

The most recent of these threads was posted this January, that is, January 2018.
 
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