Am I seeing the right stats for this forum?

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In summary, The homepage of this forum provides the following stats: Threads: 638,474, Posts: 4,515,531, Members: 205,067. These numbers are not counted from the very first day the forum was founded and there was a rebuild at some point resulting in a loss of around 200,000 posts. The current number of posts including deleted ones since 2003 is 4,820,000. It would be nice to have access to the time trends for these metrics.
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The homepage of this forum gives the following stats:

Threads: 638,474
Posts: 4,515,531
Members: 205,067

Are these the aggregates since the very first day this forum was founded (ie. 2001)?

May I know what has been the trends for these metrics over time?
 
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I don't think those stats are counted from the very first day the forum was founded. PhysicsForums, as far as I know, got completely rebuilt once, from 0. I believe the stats before that rebuild are not counted there.
 
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crackjack said:
The homepage of this forum gives the following stats:

Threads: 638,474
Posts: 4,515,531
Members: 205,067

Are these the aggregates since the very first day this forum was founded (ie. 2001)?

May I know what has been the trends for these metrics over time?

As DataGG mentioned, those stats are only starting from some point in 2003. We lost around 200,000 posts when we moved to vBulletin. We also continually prune poor quality threads, posts and members.
 
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ignore[Approximately when were those numbers reset?]

It would be nice to know the time trends for those metrics, like how data.stackexchange provides.
 
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crackjack said:
ignore[Approximately when were those numbers reset?]

It would be nice to know the time trends for those metrics, like how data.stackexchange provides.

Yes it would be nice
 
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Including deleted posts, we are at 4,820,000 since 2003. You can see this number via the postid of each post (part of the direct link to a post). This post has the ID 4,820,293.
 

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