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How many members does Instructables currently have?

300,000 subscribers to the newsletter, 2.4 million new views per month, but how many actual signed-up members? How many of those members could be classed as "active" (for any given definition of "active")?

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Feb 27, 2009. 3:10 PM

kelseymh says:

The last page of the list http://www.instructables.com/tag/type:user/?&offset=575660 has 13 entries, so 575,673.

How many are active? I think that would require a more invasive database query, asking for each user when they last logged in. I have no idea if I'bles even keeps that information internally.

Feb 28, 2009. 10:27 AMn8man says:

They keep track of log-ons, look at the maker fair austin topic.

Mar 1, 2009. 2:50 AMNachoMahma says:

. All the info should be in the server logs. . I think number of posts would be a better metric of activity than number of logins. I haven't taken the time to investigate how posts are handled, but they should show up in the logs so that they can be gleaned. YMMV.

Jan 20, 2010. 2:45 PMZaphod Beeblebrox says:

as of when the staff went to trapese world (or something like that) there were exactly 100,000,000

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Feb 27, 2009. 5:45 PM

ewilhelm says:

In the past 30 days, we had 100 K logins. Half of those were new users.

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Feb 28, 2009. 8:32 AM

Kiteman (author) says:

>insert surprised face< 50 thousand new members per month. Adding in a fudge-factor for slow initial growth, call that 2 million members??

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Feb 28, 2009. 6:05 PM

ewilhelm says:

No, kelseymh's method is accurate. The growth hasn't been linear, and was much slower in the beginning.

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Mar 1, 2009. 3:44 AM

Kiteman (author) says:

OK, thanks.

Sep 30, 2009. 9:20 AM

Hiyadudez says:

It is different. Now there is currently 1084840 members on Instructables.

http://www.instructables.com/tag/type:user/?&offset=1084840

Mar 1, 2009. 9:59 PM

SoapyHollow says:

Don't let him fool you. There's only 13 members. A crafty cabal, if you will. All the rest are clever Turing devices. It's true. I wouldn't make things like that up.

Nov 17, 2009. 11:27 AMKarroo Oakey says:

Ha! you can't fool me! I know you're programmed to say that!

Mar 2, 2009. 8:31 PMKryptonite says:

What? How does that work?

Mar 3, 2009. 2:42 PM

SoapyHollow says:

I believe it's a trade secret.

;)

Mar 3, 2009. 11:40 PMKryptonite says:

How does any of those links have anything to do with only 13 members? Although seriously it could be true, most people's last log in was like 6 months ago.

Mar 4, 2009. 6:52 AM

SoapyHollow says:

Dude...it's a joke.

Mar 4, 2009. 9:35 PMKryptonite says:

Yea yea whatever, although thanks for the link to the stick figure cartoon joke website thingy, there's some pretty funny stuff on it.

Feb 28, 2009. 7:21 AMcomodore says:

Wow! That is quite a lot! I mean Instructables is the best site I know on the net but still it has some good competitors like youtube and metacafe and make... How many members actually have more than 1000 comments?