Endless Sphere passes new milestones

[Reid Welch]

Volunteer labor not counted,

what is the hard dollar cost of running this site (bandwidth or other hidden/direct costs),
and never auto-pruning mere text, as from General?
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Also, if there is a cost in site-self hosting of members' pictures,
what is that cost, proportionately? Pictures on site are HUGE files,
compared against mere text.

I post thousands of images here, but they are not =here=,
I use free and easy Photobucket; that's where the picture files are.... = no cost to E.S.
YT, same thing.

[fechter]

Just passed 250,000 posts and 15,000 topics!

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[TylerDurden]

"Most users ever online was 236 on Wed Jul 07, 2010 3:34 pm"

Not bad, considering our low spammer count.

[Papa]

Just an interesting comparison between ES and another 'adult' cycling related site (Info via Alexa.com):

[fechter]

300,000 posts.

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[Doctorbass]

Yep.. 300 000 post and still no publicity or banners!!!...

Thanks you very much for that effort

Doc

[neptronix]

We seem to have high rankings on google here. Every time i search for something eBike related, i get ES one of the first 5 links.

I am also VERY GLAD we do not have banners or issues with being particular with one vendor or the other. I'd tolerate pledge drives before i tolerate that.

[Jeremy Harris]

We seem to have high rankings on google here. Every time i search for something eBike related, i get ES one of the first 5 links.

I am also VERY GLAD we do not have banners or issues with being particular with one vendor or the other. I'd tolerate pledge drives before i tolerate that.

Talking of which, let us know if the board needs more funding. I'm sure I'm not alone in being happy to donate to keep the forum advert-free.

Jeremy

[Gordo]

I was just thinking the same thing. What a pleasure it is to hang out here without the constant distraction of pimps flashing in your face and scrolling on top of the margins. Time to contribute!

[fizzit]

I'm pretty sure there's a way to find the 300,000th post. I don't remember how though, messing around with the URL isn't working for me

[Miles]

Probably one that's been deleted.......

It works for 300001: viewtopic.php?p=300001#p300001

The number sequence doesn't alter with deletions but the figure for the total seems to....

[fizzit]

Probably one that's been deleted.......

It works for 300001: http://www.endless-sphere.com/forums/vi ... 01#p300001

The number sequence doesn't alter with deletions but the figure for the total seems to....

I guess you'll have to divide the bags of money between that one and 299,999

[Miles]

[fechter]

Just passed 20,000 topics.

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No kidney stones yet

[TylerDurden]

A few days ago Dogman passed the 10K mark.


Not a single graph, IIRC.

[Miles]

A few days ago Dogman passed the 10K mark.

Damn! I meant to point that out as it happened!

Congratulations Dogman!

[Ypedal]

we just passed the 10,000 mark today !!!!

[TylerDurden]

10K members, that is... including ~7500 members with five or less posts. (Some folks join for the sorting/tracking features.)

[Miles]

343554 posts. Close to half of them coming from the 50 most prolific posters

[TylerDurden]

6K of mine don't count... they were just safe-baiting.

[Miles]

[fechter]

Over 30,000 topics.
We'll have over 500,000 posts soon.

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[amberwolf]

(but our number of "members" is shrinking. )

[fechter]

Half a million posts!

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