New forum so we don't loose everyone!

[Setec Astronomy]

I see 100's of people going to the forum on any given thread.

You've got to be careful with those numbers, right now on the forum home page it says there are 20 members and 3,542 guests. Some of those guests may be members who aren't logged in, some may be random people who are looking something up but would never sign up and post, but I think most of them are bots that are trolling web pages. I think the number you need to focus on is the 20 members--I think that's more representative of the active participants. Taking into account daily fluctuation, that's where I came up with my estimate of 50-100 active members where are here and posting in any given week, if you spread it out over a year maybe that goes up to some hundreds who actually post in a year.

You know that this goes in cycles, people come here when they have a new car...then the car gets old...they let it get run down, they don't do detailing, then they get a new ride and come back to see what the latest and greatest is.

Is there some magic to 1000 members? Does that somehow affect the forum fees?

PS Back in the old days, they used to show the statistics on Autopia, how many members there were, how many were active (forget how they defined that), etc. When AG started this forum, they always hid the stats here. I just looked on Autopia, and it says that there are 99,082 members (remember Autopia was started in 1999 or something) but it says total number of members that have visited the forum today: 41.

[Optimus Grime]

Give it time. Maybe start with a free forum hosting site.

Back in the day when I had a thriving hairline and my knees worked I joined a hip hop forum that was thriving at the time. When things went downhill a bunch of us core members jumped ship and started our own forum. We started with a free one and once we got our membership up and it was thriving I moved us to a paid forum. We had a dedicated admin team and we had thousands of members but about a hundred dedicated members that kept the site alive. At some point we even had rappers checking us out but this took time. It eventually died out but we hung around for a good three or 4 years with the paid forum and continued to grow, until everyone decided to become adults and have careers and families.

[hooked]

You know that this goes in cycles, people come here when they have a new car...then the car gets old...they let it get run down, they don't do detailing, then they get a new ride and come back to see what the latest and greatest is.

Get out of my brain!

[Desertnate]

You know that this goes in cycles, people come here when they have a new car...then the car gets old...they let it get run down, they don't do detailing, then they get a new ride and come back to see what the latest and greatest is.

I'd say it's seasonal too. It's still not really detailing weather in many parts of the country. In about a month that will start to change as people come out of hibernation and realize how dirty their cars are!

[Setec Astronomy]

I'd say it's seasonal too.

Oh sure, but I was thinking more about members who are active for a while, then disappear for a few years, but in the meantime are replaced by other members on a different cycle.

[MisterSnoop]

I'd say it's seasonal too. It's still not really detailing weather in many parts of the country. In about a month that will start to change as people come out of hibernation and realize how dirty their cars are!

That's why you need Australians to carry things when it's our winter. It's like having a store that does taxes and sells halloween costumes.

[Setec Astronomy]

It's like having a store that does taxes and sells halloween costumes.

Oh, you have those in PA too?

[hooked]

That's why you need Australians to carry things when it's our winter. It's like having a store that does taxes and sells halloween costumes.

Is that where you can pick up a Sexy CPA outfit?

[MisterSnoop]

Is that where you can pick up a Sexy CPA outfit?

I think they have Naughty CPA and Slutty CPA. Haven't seen Sexy CPA.

[Setec Astronomy]

You guys are good, LOL.