30,000 Members!!!!!

[Jaymz]

i joined in 2007 this place is great love u every one

[heresmo]

Originally Posted by swedishskoda

...Top name has 27,382 posts but my lips are sealed

Oh and thanks for the access info but I'm not sure I dare look at it Mind you, if it displayed useful posts, I'd be off the end. Breathes again

Mo

[auroan]

And now for some blatent advertising.

Colin has given in to mine and alex (Apinner) persistent pestering and let us startup a wiki under the briskoda name. Hopefully once some more config is done. There will be the beginings of a strucuture and guides in place next week

Something else for out 30,000 users to get their teeth into.

[swedishskoda]

Originally Posted by auroan

And now for some blatent advertising.

Colin has given in to mine and alex (Apinner) persistent pestering and let us startup a wiki under the briskoda name. Hopefully once some more config is done. There will be the beginings of a strucuture and guides in place next week

Something else for out 30,000 users to get their teeth into.

Took a peek yesterday not that there is so much to see yet, but the project is commendable and a big Thanks to you and Alex for launching the project! Hope you'll not run out of inspiration due to lack of input from the rest of us...

[auroan]

Originally Posted by swedishskoda

Took a peek yesterday not that there is so much to see yet, but the project is commendable and a big Thanks to you and Alex for launching the project! Hope you'll not run out of inspiration due to lack of input from the rest of us...

Te he... we have a Dev site hidden away which we've been working on. Everything will become apparant soon

[apinner]

Yep auroan is a complete noob and im having to do everything..

Just kidding we are both working hard to get it ready for your input next week (fingers crossed). It really is your input that we need! We need guides and articles written by yourselves. Most of you do it over and over again every day on the forums answering the same questions over and over.

Even if you don't know how the wiki works, just submit what you have to either myself or auroan and i'm sure we can edit it for you. But i cant stress enough how important it is that you guys all chip in!

[ColinD]

As to stat's, it's not doing to badly. Of all the VAG sites I think it's still the fastest growing, it certainly was a year or so ago. However we have a different demographic and that's noticeable in a number of ways. We have a far higher % of people visiting and reading than posting for example

Last month we had over 54k unique visitors, approx 1.5 million page views, might be more for March as last week was 424k alone with 56k visitors*. The 7k active is signed in members visiting the site in the last 2 weeks. Not everyone posts and not everyone signs in.

Let me do some figures...it's been a while since I have...

Now bear in mind some of these are spurious, bot's etc, but of all we only have 200 totally dud accounts.

November 2003 169
December 2003 130
January 2004 181
February 2004 309
March 2004 311
April 2004 313
May 2004 281
June 2004 254
July 2004 203
August 2004 216
September 2004 230
October 2004 241
November 2004 302
December 2004 255
January 2005 330
February 2005 341
March 2005 376
April 2005 343
May 2005 414
June 2005 337
July 2005 367
August 2005 403
September 2005 378
October 2005 437
November 2005 429
December 2005 457
January 2006 501
February 2006 455
March 2006 590
April 2006 559
May 2006 604
June 2006 577
July 2006 662
August 2006 856
September 2006 838
October 2006 670
November 2006 562
December 2006 599
January 2007 866
February 2007 854
March 2007 829
April 2007 809
May 2007 672
June 2007 914
July 2007 937
August 2007 950
September 2007 923
October 2007 1052
November 2007 1167
December 2007 1122
January 2008 1475
February 2008 1356
March 2008 1421

And yesterday we had our busiest day with 1382 members.

But all the above is nought without the community working together for the good of all. Way back in the early days it was better. The success brings it's own problems and I think we've all seen that in recent months.

So please lets all work for a better place, I'm confident that the initial sites goals can still be met, despite a massively different profile of users, it would be sad, very sad to think it can't still be a great place to be, irrespective of the membership count.

*figures are google analytics take on stats.

[cheezemonkhai]

Did notice the server busy today.

I've sent you an e-mail Colin about the server parts and have a pair of heat sinks for a 2u chassis. Not heard anything in a couple of weeks, so if you could let me know so I can keep hold of it for you.

You're not far off 31'000 members too