I see 502 members!!!
Not sure how to ID the exact moment - but it must have been recent. I'm just one of the 502, but well done and congratulations to all of you who made this happen! :thumbsup2:
(But if some ice cream floated in my direction, it wouldn't go to waste - just plain old vanilla with whipped cream will do - LOL!)
I'd be interested in seeing statistics if easy to do without programming (as I'm not familiar with capabilities of vBullitin to provide such data (even if a bit of formatting may be needed - or perhaps it's good as is) without separare SQL queries needing to be developed and sent to the ISP):
1. Growth curve from 1 to 502 over forum start.
2. Participation of members (not individualized, but categorized by number of posts or threads or visits or whatever) to see if we have 50 who do 95% of the posting/viewing and 5% really active, or how many are one thread issue people who get help and then move on, a comparison of post/thread growth to member growth to see if there's a correlation or if mostly the same people show the increased activity, and so forth).
3. Top 10 with helpful votes (by post or overall) - names not needed, (or just the total number of helpfuls) just to get a feel for how helpful efforts here are perceived (or classified in that manner).
4. Y'all get the idea. In essence, anything else that we can celebrate that might not normally be apparent or visible or published but could be (again, some or all in a more limited/private forum if it seems more appropriate - unless that already happens and most intentionally simply don't have access to that forum - :r1:).
Just an idea FWIW to use this moment to highlight some other things to celebrate that might not be so easily seen.
Anyway, great work all of you and contratulations to all of you!
Kosh
P.S. Though I expect this will expand in time to other areas (if allowed), IMHO this is (if it wasn't already true from day 1) by far the best BSOD help site on the internet. I've been sending people from other forums here (or asking for help there by PM to some here with the expectation that the first bit there - to show them what CAN be done - can be accompanied by a link to get them here) rather than observe the attempts otherwise being made in them that aren't even in the same ballpark - knowing the OP isn't getting the best even if it is the best that forum can do.