Growing Popularity of RFF

When we are 10,000 strong, we could start plan to get special deals from insurance companies as a "group". Another way is to get special deals from labs and photosupply stores.
 
Stephen

You (&mods need a troll button)

A poll thread e.g.

What Stephen could say to Mr K

e.g. small batch of the Nikon F to Contax adapters

whatever, feedback is strange.

Noel
 
When a thread on informal testing of some lenses gets several thousand views here on RFF, this is simply amazing to me. People here mostly are caring people who can contribute to a variety of topics about life. Without such people, RFF would not be as a good a site as it is now.
 
raid said:
When we are 10,000 strong,
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While I don't doubt that there are 10,000 entries in the user list, I seriously doubt that there are anywhere near 10,000 active users.

Why do I say this? I don't consider myself to be the most prolific poster there is, but I'm consistently number 40-something on the "top" list. That means that out of 10,000 users, 9960 of them post less than I do.

Would it be possible to get, say, the number of users who have logged in during the past 90 days, or the number of users who have posted either to the forums (fora?) or gallery within the past 90 days?

That might be very interesting, to see how many truly active users there are here. I really have no clue, but I am curious.
 
Similar things happen at universities when you don't really know how many students are actively enrolled unless you check with instructors to see if their students are handing in assignments or taking exams ... etc. Else, student counts are inflated.
 
At any given time, there are more than 100 "photographers" (registered users) online, plus several hundred visitors. A few forum members seem to be always online, but others come and go.
 
dmr said:
While I don't doubt that there are 10,000 entries in the user list, I seriously doubt that there are anywhere near 10,000 active users.

Why do I say this? I don't consider myself to be the most prolific poster there is, but I'm consistently number 40-something on the "top" list. That means that out of 10,000 users, 9960 of them post less than I do.

Would it be possible to get, say, the number of users who have logged in during the past 90 days, or the number of users who have posted either to the forums (fora?) or gallery within the past 90 days?

That might be very interesting, to see how many truly active users there are here. I really have no clue, but I am curious.
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That's interesting. I can't seem to find the "top" list. Not that I'm really up on it, but it would be neat to look at...
 
Al Patterson said:
That's interesting. I can't seem to find the "top" list. Not that I'm really up on it, but it would be neat to look at...
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Easy,
click on the forum index:
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/index.php

On the left side meru bar pull down the "Module Jump" and choose statistics.
You will find it on that page on the right side.

Kiu
 
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Yes a Hexar forum please

Yes a Hexar forum please

aizan said:
yeah, the m8 probably caused the jump.

a konica hexar af/rf forum is long overdue, and maybe you could hire raid to do more lens tests. and how about rangefinder workshops worldwide?
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😉
I'd like to see one too.
 
I remember day one. I placed a couple of posts on other forums and anxiously sat in front of the monitor for hours just looking at traffic and what people were saying. So many said, We don't need another photo site. There are plenty already. I sure would like to talk to those skeptics today 🙂

Look at this snapshot from 2003:

http://web.archive.org/web/20030807010934/http://www.rangefinderforum.com/

Only 3 people on line 🙂

I am hoping the CameraGAS will experience the same popularity as RFF. But, It takes all the members here and in other places to make that happen.

Glad to see my creation come to life 😀

Frankenstein_Satire.jpg
 
Kiu,

It is a very informative section here. As a statistician, I view statistics as useful information. I saw above me Brian Sweeney, Rover, FrankS and Joe.

Raid
 
CameraQuest said:
In January 2007 RFF had just under 9800 registered members. Today we have 13,850, an increase of about 40% in six months. In January during the day, there were usually about 300 people visiting RFF (though of course this varied throughout the day). Lately 400 people on RFF has not been unusual. This morning at 7:19 AM Pacific Time, RFF had 513 people online. Amazingly this growth was accomplished with an advertising budget of zero.

It seems our little rangefinder community is growing, even thriving, in this digital SLR and Point N Shoot world. I would like to extend a big thanks to everyone, and ask you all,

How we can make RFF even better?

Stephen
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My grandmother had a saying "a fish starts to stink from the head", the application here being that the tone of a site is set from the top. So you can take a well-deserved bow Stephen, because RFF remains a hospitable place to come, despite a fast influx, mainly because trolling and disrupting for the sport of it aren't tolerated. I'm not the least bit surprised that readership has skyrocketed, I'll bet a lot of them are defectors from " that other" internet photo site where the inmates run the asylum.
 
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