7,900 Members in 3 months...Yeah !
 

My site has been up since Early December 2002. I started out using postnuke and Invision Board. Feb 14th I had 4,000 members on the forums when I converted to VB, Now less than a month later - 7,900 + members. ( I also deleted 800 members who had not verified email )

We are also using vbPortal. I love it ! Thanks to all of you for helping me learn a bit about vb so this tranformation was almost seemless.

wots ur url ? wots the site about ?how the [censored - try to be smart with spelling to get around our censors, and you will be banned - Erwin] did u get that many members ?

oops... May help to tell the url .... ALso --- If anyone has any suggestions to about the site - I am not open to overhaul - but I am open to simple suggestions. ( I have changed the look too many times already... need to keep it the same a bit...)

The URL : http://www.aximsite.com <-- vbportal Main
: http://www.aximsite.com/boards <-- vBulletin

Also... I am VERY new to vb, I have used ikonboard for a while and then Invision Board - THis is my 1st time using vBulletin - So any tip/pointers anyone that looks at my site may, feel free to share...

Also - I like this community and vbulletin so much that I have acually bought 3 separate 1 year leases ( will buy a lifetime on the sites that pan out )

Thanks for looking

It looks good but that style is a style wich you can find on alot of vbulletin forums because it's a free style wich can be downloaded.

You have alot of members but not alot of posts, you have an average of 3,8 posts per member. That's very low.

I have currently 2637 members and 210.316 posts, that's an average of 79,8 posts per member. See the difference? :D

You have alot of inactive users.

How did you get 8000 members in such short time? It's only possible if your site was there before you had forums or something, or your forums are a sequel to a previous site, where the members have all come over...something like that...

It's true what Lesane says there though. I have 3003 members and 152,000 posts, so my average # of posts per user is quite high too :p

However, I've seen a forum which has 900 members and 800 posts =/...

Congrats on the 8000 members in such a short time, however you did it :p

It may be a high number of members but the ratio of members to posts is relatively low. :(

Lots of members but i agree that they must be inactive in most cases :(

- miSt

Yep. I see the point about post per user....

- The site is a support type site for the Dell Axim handheld users.
- Most users hang around a week or so till they figure out all they needed to know. ( Explains the inactive users )
- The way I got so many so fast. Dell refers folks to the site for support to answers that can't answer. It was the 1st and pretty much the only site dedicated to this product.

The template aside(which has been modified a bit, but is a freely downloaded style) - Any suggestions regarding the layout of the forums. Hack suggestions I should implement?

Also, when a user clicks on last post, It goes to the top of the last page.... I think this template left something out.

Thanks

Great site but I have to say I got a very large laugh out of the fact that your ad in the upper left hand corner still has that guy from Dell that got arrested for drug possession.

Dude! I am getting a cell! :)