So after noticing that everyone's profile on the forum here has a "user-id" associated, and seeing that I was the 107066nd to sign up:
https://productioncommunity.publicmobile.ca/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/107066
Which got me thinking, how many are there today since I signed up in Nov 2019? What are the oldest accounts? How many accounts are created every year? Well... just by editing the number in that URL above you can explore...
The highest number was 179,928 as of last night.
Here's the numbers.
| Year | Total registered for year | user-id range for year |
| 2014 | 9 | (1-9) |
| 2015 | 920 | (10-9215) |
| 2016 | 12437 | (9216-21653) |
| 2017 | 16742 | (21654-38396) |
| 2018 | 31400 | (38397-69797) |
| 2019 | 48722 | (69798-118520) |
| 2020 | 51790 | (118521-170311) |
| 2021 | 66671* | (170312-236982) * Actual # is 9681 as of Feb 23. Extrapolated to 365 days from first 54 days of 2021 |
And some pretty charts to go with it. 😁
Lots of new accounts in 2018, and a lull in 2020, but 2021 at the rate as of Feb 23 is projected to have decent growth.
Of course a large swath of these accounts are dormant and have never posted a public message. That would be an order of magnitude more work to check each and every accounts activity (and would probably get your account and/or IP banned in the process from excessive requests!!)
So "what's your number?" 😁
