olderthannetfic:lauramkaye:olderthannetfic:olderthannetfic:olderthannetfic:I used the data people ga
olderthannetfic:lauramkaye:olderthannetfic:olderthannetfic:olderthannetfic:I used the data people gave me on my post about user ID numbers plus some other recent users I found to track accounts over time.This isn’t AO3 traffic. That jumped right away when FFN screwed the pooch, sending the invite queue from a wait of 24 hours to a wait of months. This is the actual user ID numbers accounts created at these different times had.Closed beta started on 3 October 2008. As you can see that on that first image, a few accounts got made right at the beginning for coders and committee members (#87, baby!), and then tester accounts got made over the rest of hat time. (The dots are just examples in my sample. Accounts would have been made all through that period, climbing from around 100 to around 1000 400.)AO3 entered open beta on November 14, 2009. (Not Nov 15 like in that recent post, unless things got delayed a day and I’ve forgotten?) And then the first big bump in numbers came from Yuletide!The first account in my sample is #8 — astolat — and the latest is #12,545,743, which was created on October 28th, 2021. #wait your id is just straight up the number of people who joined before you???#huh#mine is just under 2 mil#bonkersAs far as I know, yes. #there are 12 MILLION users on ao3 now?????#that’s insane#when i signed up it was only over a million and that was 6 years agoYes and no. Something like 12 million accounts have been made. That means that the real number of existing accounts is lower (some will have been deleted) and the real number of active accounts is much lower (many people make one and do nothing with it).However, lots of people read on AO3 without making an account, so the true number of users in the sense of individual humans who use the site, must be way higher. #4830 baby! I distinctly remember when the original “I want us to own the servers” post was going around my friends list on LJ and LOOK AT US NOW!!!! Your number is 294,721. It’s on your profile page, which has the URL format:https://archiveofourown.org/users/USERNAME/profile This is nostalgic. I joined on november 23, 2009, so 8-9 days after open beta was released. My account number is 1993.12 million accounts. That’s amazing. -- source link