A PF milestone is approaching

Drakkith

Greg, did you ever in your dreams imagine PF would reach 4 million posts and half a million threads when you started it?

Greg Bernhardt

When I started PF, all I cared about was getting that extra credit to pass my physics course :D PF's success is shared by many people! I just push buttons back here. Usually the wrong ones! :D

Evo

LOL!

Well, congrats boss!! You've created a legacy.

mishrashubham

Yep! Congrats!

Astronuc

It took 685 days to get 1 million posts, and we're a lot busier now than then. I'd estimate 550 +/- 50 days, or around Aug 4, 2014.

AnTiFreeze3

Then allow me to be the first to guess Aug 5, 2014

micromass

My guess is Aug 18, 2014.

Astronuc

I seem to be wrong on activity (posting that is). It is cyclical, and has trended somewhat down.

It might take around 650 days give or take, or less if the members online increases.

The visitors have certainly gone up. We routinely have 5000 or more guests online.

The next milestone is 400,000 members, 600,000 threads or >10,000 persons online

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AnTiFreeze3

It appears PF is unattractive during the holidays.

phion

I donated some years back when I didn't understand anything (actually, I still don't understand anything), but I'd love to have Gold membership again! I'm just broke and jobless with a bunch of textbooks laying around at the moment...
I'll take the next screenshot!

mishrashubham

January 1 was a saturday, which is a trough in the graph and so I think that people visit PF less in the weekends.

Did something happen around October/November in 2011? There's a peak that goes all the way up to 3000.

Greg Bernhardt

Weekends, summers and holidays are low times.

Drakkith

Exactly the time when people aren't doing homework!

Greg Bernhardt

We need to create the "PF For More Homework" lobby group in Washington! :D

mfb

I think this is a general trend for internet boards, and not related to homework. I know the same trend (lower activity at weekends, holidays and hot summer months) from a gaming-related board, where you would expect the opposite for the first two factors.

Assuming ~1500 posts per day, my prediction for 5 million existing posts is November 30, 2014.
3:17 AM UTC :D

Drakkith

I can see that. People are just doing other things during this time.

Evo

Doesn't the reduction correlate to when all of those IP bans on spammers were done? Half the known world got blocked IIRC.

Perhaps we should open the PF Dating subforum.

<runs and hides>