PropertyChat is 3 years old!

Discussion in 'News & Announcements' started by Simon Hampel, 18th Jun, 2018.

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  1. Simon Hampel

    Simon Hampel Founder Staff Member

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    PropertyChat turns 3 years old today! Happy birthday to us.

    We now have 574,000 posts - up 38% from this time last year, plus 13,100 validated members - up 34% from this time last year.

    We have actually pruned some inactive users from our database too - so the actual registered user count is much higher at over 15,600 including all deleted, banned and inactive users, but we only publicise the real user count.

    I am really busy at the moment working on the upgrade to the next version of the forum software, which is a complete rewrite from the ground up - so all my customisations need to be rebuilt. But that's okay, because the new version is a great platform for developing new features and functionality on, so I'm looking forward to adding a lot of new stuff to the site in the next 12 months.

    PS. new version supports unicode emojis, so the birthday cake emoji I tried to add to this post will actually work once I upgrade :D

    I'll post some forum stats over the course of the day today.
     
  2. wombat777

    wombat777 Well-Known Member

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    Congrats!
     
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  3. Phar Lap

    Phar Lap Well-Known Member

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    That DID go quick !
     
  4. DaveM

    DaveM Well-Known Member

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    I came for the happy bday, I stay for the stats and graphs.
     
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  5. Eric Wu

    Eric Wu Well-Known Member Business Member

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    happy birthday PC

    congratulations to you @Simon Hampel, and all the mods
     
  6. EN710

    EN710 Well-Known Member

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    Happy bday PC, time flies :)
     
  7. Scott No Mates

    Scott No Mates Well-Known Member

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    It's not PC to ask one's age even if it is PC. :confused:
     
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  8. Simon Hampel

    Simon Hampel Founder Staff Member

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    Posts per day (28 day moving average)

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    ... you can see the APRA effect from July 2017 ... and now that the Sydney market has cooled in 2018, things are fairly quiet.

    Just to give you some perspective - Somersoft's average between 2008 and 2015 was under 350 posts per day (and fairly consistently until mid 2013 when it started to pick up a bit), so we're still seeing more daily post volume in our "quiet period" than we used to get on Somersoft.
     
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  9. Simon Hampel

    Simon Hampel Founder Staff Member

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  10. Simon Hampel

    Simon Hampel Founder Staff Member

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  11. Simon Hampel

    Simon Hampel Founder Staff Member

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  12. Simon Hampel

    Simon Hampel Founder Staff Member

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    User registrations per day - 28 day moving average

    Note that this shows only "valid" users - meaning all deleted, banned, disabled and deactivated accounts are not included, even if those users were previously valid. The actual number of registrations per day is quite a bit higher - but we only count valid users.

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  13. Simon Hampel

    Simon Hampel Founder Staff Member

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    User registrations per month - valid users only

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  14. Simon Hampel

    Simon Hampel Founder Staff Member

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    User registrations per year - valid users only

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  15. Simon Hampel

    Simon Hampel Founder Staff Member

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    Cumulative user registrations - valid users only

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  16. Jess Peletier

    Jess Peletier Mortgage Broker & Finance Strategy, Aus Wide! Business Member

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    Congratulations Simon - amazing resource and community you've built.
     
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  17. Jamie Moore

    Jamie Moore MORTGAGE BROKER - AUSTRALIA WIDE Business Member

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    Happy birthday! That went fast! I still remember the day when the switch from SS to PC occurred - doesn't feel like three years ago!

    Cheers

    Jamie
     
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  18. Kassy

    Kassy Well-Known Member

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    Congratulations on 3years!

    My DH is one of the inactive accounts although he reads but doesn’t post so probably not strictly inactive...
     
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  19. Simon Hampel

    Simon Hampel Founder Staff Member

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    Inactive = hasn't logged in in the past 6 months.

    Invalid = emails have bounced back as undeliverable.

    Inactive or invalid for 12 months and never posted = account will be pruned in the next cleanup.
     
  20. devank

    devank Well-Known Member

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    13,100 members! Wow.. lots of watchers then.
    How many actually post? I feel like I can count number of people who actually post anything. Any chance of a posting frequency chart in last year??
     
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