***6,000,000th Post Contest***

[dodge man]

You won riches beyond belief, congrats!

 

[The Deerslayer]

July.

The 7th actually.

7/7/27 @ 7:27am will be the 7 millionth...lol

May The Force Be With You........

 

[NoTrespassing]

Hopefully it will actually happen sooner than that. Just with everything, this forum has had ups and downs.

October 2006 was 1M
6/10/2010 was 2M posts
So 3y9m for 1-2M

9/27/2012 was 3M
So 2y3M for 2-3M

4M came in 1/31/2015
So 2y4m for 3-4m

5M came in 3/23/2018
So 3y2m for 4-5M

BUT.....to get to 6 million we just hit that 12/25/22
So it took 4y9m to get this last million. Seems we have slowed down ALOT

If we get back to posting like we were a decade ago, from 2010-2015.....we'd be looking at 7m by early 2025

Might have slowed down a little when politics when away, it was pretty active. Muhamed would know.

 

[LD1]

Might have slowed down a little when politics when away, it was pretty active. Muhamed would know.

That and a rash of double posts that plagued the forum there for awhile. I dont know if all those ended up removed of if those did have an effect in the final tally

 

[Muhammad]

Hopefully it will actually happen sooner than that. Just with everything, this forum has had ups and downs.

October 2006 was 1M
6/10/2010 was 2M posts
So 3y9m for 1-2M

9/27/2012 was 3M
So 2y3M for 2-3M

4M came in 1/31/2015
So 2y4m for 3-4m

5M came in 3/23/2018
So 3y2m for 4-5M

BUT.....to get to 6 million we just hit that 12/25/22
So it took 4y9m to get this last million. Seems we have slowed down ALOT

If we get back to posting like we were a decade ago, from 2010-2015.....we'd be looking at 7m by early 2025

When we upgraded our forum software, post volume went down 30% overnight. I guess some members couldn't adjust. Actually every forum software change has resulted in a drop.

 

[Muhammad]

These are the numbers since our current forum software switch almost two years ago. Posts are pretty flat, new threads down, user registrations up...

At peak, I think in 2015, we had a couple months where we topped 50k posts vs about 25k per month average right now.

Keep in mind that a LOT of our users have "aged out" of forum participation. We have certainly lost some to boredom with posting, etc.

But....... I keep track of activity numbers on other tractor forums and we have had the highest posts per day and members joining for the past 12 years (and there was only a short period in 2010 when we briefly dropped to #2 in posts per day only). Other forums have seen drops way bigger than ours. My point in mentioning that is, forums overall have seen a decline over the past 10 years.

 

[Jstpssng]

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These are the numbers since our current forum software switch almost two years ago. Posts are pretty flat, new threads down, user registrations up...

At peak, I think in 2015, we had a couple months where we topped 50k posts vs about 25k per month average right now.

Keep in mind that a LOT of our users have "aged out" of forum participation. We have certainly lost some to boredom with posting, etc.

But....... I keep track of activity numbers on other tractor forums and we have had the highest posts per day and members joining for the past 12 years (and there was only a short period in 2010 when we briefly dropped to #2 in posts per day only). Other forums have seen drops way bigger than ours. My point in mentioning that is, forums overall have seen a decline over the past 10 years.

I believe that one reason for the drop with the new format is that people are using the "like" icon whereas before, they were actually thinking when they told somebody that the post was appreciated. I'm not sure how much of a difference that actually is.

 

[Muhammad]

I believe that one reason for the drop with the new format is that people are using the "like" icon whereas before, they were actually thinking when they told somebody that the post was appreciated. I'm not sure how much of a difference that actually is.

Certainly could be part of it.

Post reactions have been steadily climbing over the past two years since we added them.

 

[Wagtail]

I believe that one reason for the drop with the new format is that people are using the "like" icon whereas before, they were actually thinking when they told somebody that the post was appreciated. I'm not sure how much of a difference that actually is.

I wholeheartedly agree. The 'like/Good Post' is very convenient.

 

[LD1]

@Muhammad

Thanks for those statistics.

I agree that post reactions could have alot......

IF we are averaging ~800 posts a day, and likes are over 1000.....certainly not hard to think that 20% or even more of those "post likes" have taken over people posting that they agree with someone.

And I think forums are going to continue to decline as things age and evolve.
How many people under 25 even know what a forum is? Too much Facebook, twitter, tickock, etc.

There will always be a need for the good content and information sharing that goes on here though.