topic Re: 1 Million posts.....nearly! in Community Site Feedback

1 Million posts.....nearly!

chrispurvey — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 09:27:59 GMT

Just pointing out to anyone that may like to know that we're about to hit 1 million community forum posts.
I guess there's been some very helpful and also some very interesting posts over the years........
A nice milestone to reach though , thanks to everyone that has contributed.

86 to go and counting!

Re: 1 Million posts.....nearly!

dvorak — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 09:30:39 GMT

does the one millionth post get free broadband for a year?

Re: 1 Million posts.....nearly!

Chris — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 09:35:25 GMT

Nope, but we might be able to dig out a Plusnet goody bag

Re: 1 Million posts.....nearly!

picbits — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 10:03:28 GMT

65 more posts to go ......

Re: 1 Million posts.....nearly!

dvorak — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 10:32:12 GMT

1..

Re: 1 Million posts.....nearly!

dvorak — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 10:32:20 GMT

2..

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Razer — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 10:33:09 GMT

Which is just going to make people spam furiously. And if a fucking pun post gets it I'll be furious!

Re: 1 Million posts.....nearly!

w23 — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 10:35:51 GMT

I see the statistics go back to April 2007
http://community.plus.net/forum/index.php?action=stats
Was that the beginning of the community forums?

Re: 1 Million posts.....nearly!

dvorak — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 10:36:40 GMT

There was another set of forums before this one.

Re: 1 Million posts.....nearly!

Kelly — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 10:38:19 GMT

Yeah, we used to host a PHPBB forum on portal.plus.net and imported them across when we set up this site.

Re: 1 Million posts.....nearly!

w23 — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 10:39:42 GMT

Not important but do the stats include the 'imports'?
i.e. is that a Million posts since 4th April 2007 or since some time before?
[Edit to clarify question]

Re: 1 Million posts.....nearly!

Alex — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 10:49:06 GMT

I assume so, I used to use the old forums and remember having to create a new account on the new (beta back then) forums.
I then had to fill in a form which linked your old username (your PlusNet account name) to the user account on these forums.
Before the old posts were imported the post counts were reset, but after the import they included all the posts from the old forums.

Re: 1 Million posts.....nearly!

w23 — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 10:51:38 GMT

Thanks Alex - I edited my post as you answered

Re: 1 Million posts.....nearly!

Alex — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 10:54:00 GMT

Also realised when you view someone's profile the URL will contain a user ID, which I assume is in cronological order in which the account on these forums was created.
Admin account is obviously No. 1, looks like I'm No. 42 then
I wonder when the forums started .. I think 2002-2003-ish?

Re: 1 Million posts.....nearly!

picbits — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 10:56:56 GMT

One of the forums I help moderate has just passed the 4.5 millionth post. I have been a member on there for nearly 12 years though

Re: 1 Million posts.....nearly!

Razer — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 11:09:06 GMT

Actually, 1 million posts has seemingly already been exceeded. Check the post number of any post in this and other recent threads. The one above, for example, is #1004456.

Re: 1 Million posts.....nearly!

Chris — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 11:10:27 GMT

Yeah but we're not counting deleted ones etc, just the official number at the bottom:
999971 Posts in 114556 Topics by 22366 Members
29 to go.

Re: 1 Million posts.....nearly!

w23 — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 11:11:24 GMT

@ Razer - don't spoil the party!!
I imagine that some of the larger ISPs, for example, have a much higher post count in their forums but a much lower proportion of helpful ones!

Re: 1 Million posts.....nearly!

picbits — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 11:12:12 GMT

Quote from: vilefoxdemonofdoom
That hard drive only has a 8GB SSD.
Even worse, its only 5400 rpm.
Get a 7200 rpm disk instead.

I make that the millionth post lol.

Re: 1 Million posts.....nearly!

w23 — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 11:13:37 GMT

Post number 1000000, not the millionth (counting) post though.