Only two comments per user? wow, I know many people make a lot more than that. That must mean that some of the 50,000 users make a LOT of comments, while the rest of them hardly ever post at all (if ever).

This is how it is most places where people register. Many come once or twice and leave forever.

Not me! I'm here to stay. (anyone wanna send me an 84+SE?

-dabud15

Same. But I rarely post anymore, too busy with other stuff... '-_-

Yeah, I've done that for a couple of message boards I went too... registered because it was required, made a post, and when the business was taken care of, I've never needed to return since. :)

now there is acualy 50051 people now

Wow. 51 people joined in ~2h 40m.
Cool.

that's 19 1/8 people per hour! at that rate it should take...about 109 days to get to 100,000 users! That's less than 4 months! Three cheers for exponential growth!
Hip! Hip! <resounding> Hooray! </resounding>
Hip! Hip! <resounding> Hooray! </resounding>
Hip! Hip! <resounding> Hooray! </resounding>

BTW, I do know that it is actually logistic, but I'm just using exponential as an approximation...

but now there are 50094 users, which is a much slower rate than before. I suspect that when people saw the news article, they were inspired to create an account. If we just post a new article every few users, well get to 100,000 in no time...
Ticalc.org reaches 50,100 accounts...
Ticalc.org reaches 50,124 accounts...
Ticalc.org reaches 50,126 accounts...

I think that would work pretty well, and it might also inspire more posting so the average post count can go up...

> Ticalc.org reaches 50,124 accounts...
> Ticalc.org reaches 50,126 accounts...

LOL! Every two new users there's a PARADE! YAY!

I think the time of day also has a big influence on the number of people signing up for an account (how many people do you know who would sign up at 3:00AM? Not many I hope), so it may take two years or more to reach 100,000.

> how many people do you know who would sign up at 3:00AM?

Depends on what side of the world they're on. :)

Good point, but about 77.1% of the people with a user account on ticalc live in the USA.

Is 77.1% exact? :)
Weird. We're on the message boards talking about getting accounts and I just got my first message telling me to verify my account information. Weird.

It's every 120 days since you get your account, I think.

Yeah, that's what the page said when it asked me to.

You sound like Spock. "Approxomately 77.1587456419165199%" (so I'm exaggerating a little)

No, it was closer to 77.08niner ... something percent. :-)

Just out of curiosity, how does your news numbering system work? Like the "Help wanted" news article had an ID of 111370 and this article's ID was 111548...it gets really confusing...

The counter is shared between articles, comments and a few other things.

Is it me, or does this guy's website link to microsoft's website?

cant you tell, steve taylor is really a code name for Bill Gates...

No, he just accidentally typed "http//" instead of "http://" and that makes you go to Micro$ofts website for a reason I don't know.

Right, it's all rather simple. This guy typed in http// as you said, but ticalc adds http:// to the beginning of any URL that does not already have it at the beginning. So, that's how you explain the http//http://. Now, when you click on an invalid link like that, if you're using IE, then it's very possible that you're just getting some kind of help page, or maybe that one where it tries to make your URL into a search result. So, if it bothers you that it's doing that... then don't use IE ;-) Although, I just tried clicking on the link with my IE6.0 and it didn't do that. But I bet that's what it was anyway.

it goes to microsoft in firefox, but it gets redirected to google first. Anyways, even once youve fixed the link the site still doesnt exist...

Ah. I use firefox.