Asked by Kiteman in Living

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How many members does Instructables currently have? Answered

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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kelseymh

Best Answer 12 years ago

The last page of the list https://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.

NachoMahma

Answer 12 years ago

. 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.

n8man

Answer 12 years ago

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

Zaphod Beeblebrox

11 years ago

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

ewilhelm

12 years ago

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

Kiteman

Answer 12 years ago

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

ewilhelm

Answer 12 years ago

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

Kiteman

Answer 12 years ago

OK, thanks.

SoapyHollow

Answer 12 years ago

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.

Karroo Oakey

Answer 11 years ago

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

Kryptonite

Answer 12 years ago

What? How does that work?

SoapyHollow

Answer 12 years ago

I believe it's a trade secret.

;)

Kryptonite

Answer 12 years ago

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.

SoapyHollow

Answer 12 years ago

Dude...it's a joke.

Kryptonite

Answer 12 years ago

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

Hiyadudez

Answer 11 years ago

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

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

comodore

Answer 12 years ago

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?