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Well this site has reached a milestone today, it has hit a member count of 500,000, yes a half a million members.

Nice catch... must be a lot of deleted users, userid 500000 was assigned last year - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/member.php?u=500000

Yeah probably, the last member to sign up as of this post has a id # of 517,332

But at least the counter has finally reached the milestone. :)

What's the meaning of Total Members when the Active members are just 1o/o ??
Threads: 270,416, Posts: 2,185,768, Members: 500,022, Active Members: 5,692

There are thousands who have to visit this site for 5+ years. Even my first username is still here but has to appear online since Dec 2003 :)

It's no big meaning, it is just a milestone. Same thing as a forum having 2,000,000 posts, not all of them have been read recently, or read in many years. :)

...lol...... Do you know that feeling to know that you're writing something wrong but can't find it? It tooks me 15 min... and finally was 1 o/o and not 1 o/oo.
Yes, I do agree. It was mostly a sad post... I believe that around 2005-2007 the active members were around 10%. I'm not totally sure they were a lot.

Yeah member participation has dropped somewhat, but that is probably due to XenForo and the fact that their is so many sites out there that offer vBulletin support now, so alot of members choose to go there rather than here.

I don't believe that xenForo is a reason ... or the forum competition at all. Most people prefer to use FB instead forums. And you know something? Not because FB is something so nice. For me is nothing. But is easier to use and (most important), easier to access it with smartphones. I'm seeing it everyday with my daughter and my niece. Don't know if it's a local service or international but the access 0.facebook.com which is free of mobile charges. All the day are connected there. The same person they connect to FB very rarelly from their laptops. So, the problem is how easy can access the news on nowadays.

Don't know how old are you but maybe you have heard for Usenet Newsgroups. Were so popular 15+ years ago. Now who knows them or who uses them?

I do have a feeling that in some years only some very big and/or unique forums will be alive. Maybe using vB, or xF or IPB has no sense. Should be few only.

No its due to most going to other forum software...:D

Yeah that is why I mentioned XenForo, since it is the new kid on the block, and quite a few good members from here migrated to that. :)