Member Count Update

[RichardPF]

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January 2014 turned out to be the second highest month for new members in the history of the Anchorage site. It fell a bit short of the all time high month of April 2013 which was in the thick of the KS project.

[RichardPF]

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New site members by day for January 2014 shows some interesting things. For the first half of the month, the new member trajectory was running just behind but very close to the WoG site new members track.

On January 15th it seems to have caught a fresh breeze.

For the second half of January, new members were joining the site at a rate of well over twice that of the first half of the month.
This equates approximately to the time that the last large shipment of KS awards was being received, but the sharp turn in the chart on the 15th is very interesting.

[7eat51]

I believe the 15th was about the time stores started selling SoG components.

[KeithS]

That was what prompted me to sign up.

[Jack Aubrey]

That`s interesting; thanks for your work

[The Royal Hajj]

Thanks Bruce, these are always helpful for me.

[RichardPF]

Another week done.
The WoG new member track slope is holding steady.
The SoG new member track has faded a bit from its fast pace set on and after Jan 15th to a rate just about equal to that of the WoG track.

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[KeithS]

Maybe the difficulties in getting hold of starter sets in some places is slowing things down a little.

[Пилот]

Bruce,

maybe it would be interesting how many members belong both to Anchorage and to Aerodrome, and how many belong to just one of this forums?

[Comte de Brueys]

Nice statistics.

[RichardPF]

Year to date thru the end of the third week of February:
SoG still has a slight lead in total new members for the year, but WoG has a much more consistent rate of new member additions.

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Unfortunately, I do not have enough information to determine who is or isn't a member of both sites.

[Naharaht]

Is it worth setting up a poll to find out who is or is not a member of both sites?

[Coog]

Is it worth setting up a poll to find out who is or is not a member of both sites?

You could do it for fun. Unfortunately a lot of members who signed up when the Anchorage started no longer or rarely participate, although many are still quite active on the Aerodrome site. And then you have those who sign up only to download files. Therefore a poll would not accurately reflect all members. You can check the member list and it illustrates this.

[RichardPF]

You could do it for fun. Unfortunately a lot of members who signed up when the Anchorage started no longer or rarely participate, although many are still quite active on the Aerodrome site. And then you have those who sign up only to download files. Therefore a poll would not accurately reflect all members. You can check the member list and it illustrates this.

So one of the ways that I look at the comparative site numbers is to look at the absolute number and percentage of members who have logged on to each site in the past three(ish) days.
To do that, I go to the Member list under Community> Member List and sort the list by Last Visit descending.
Then I count the total of the "Today", "Yesterday", and first actual date below that members.

As I write this (and in round numbers), the SoG site has 100 of 500 members with a last visit in the last three days (20%).
The WoG has 225 of 3000 members with a last visit in the last three days (7.5%).
No doubt this is greatly influenced by the relative length of time each site has been around, but it may be a worthwhile indicator of relative site activity breadth (if not depth).

None of this is profound or anything, but I just like to play with stats.