Exactly 6 months ago, November 18th, I wrote a post with the title “2.000 users registered in the eBox forum”. If you read it, you will find the following sentence:
“[...] We hope to reach 3.000 members in the following 6 months [...]“
And guess what, today, exactly 6 months later, May 18th, we have reached 3.000 users registered in the eBox forum… Should I try now guessing the lottery numbers? 
However, I am afraid the 2.000 number given 6 months ago was not precise, by then we haven’t found out how many (SEO and the like) spammers were hidden among our real registered users.
We did an important cleaning during December, and we kept continuously doing it since then. Therefore, our current +3.000 users are for real.
In the medium term, as soon as the forum software we are based on (SMF from Simple Machines) releases its new version, a revamped SMF 2.0, we will migrate and install some extra plugins to keep spammers out, or at least put it more difficult to them.
On the other hand, would any of you guess when the eBox Forum will reach 4.000 registered members?
Tags: community
October has been a good month for records, our community is growing fast.
Last month, 163 users have enrolled in our forum, the main site for sharing ideas about the future of eBox Platform and getting free (as in beer) support.
eBox forum will reach 2.000 registered users before December. As of today, we are more than 1.900, from which 725 came in the last 6 months.
Directly from the stats section of the forum, 2009 October’s records:
- 163 new users registered. An impressive 21,6% growth compared to the last top: 134 in September.
- 184 new topics and 931 posts. 167 topics and 773 posts were the former highest, reached in May.
Another record is related to the number of downloads for the eBox 1.2 iso, more that 8.300 during October from the new Sourceforge repository. Another 20% increase compared to September less than 7.000.
Worth to say that those downloads don’t take into account our under development unstable release eBox 1.3, only for installation through packages, neither eBox deployments from Ubuntu repositories.
Therefore, both new users registered in eBox forum and the number of downloads of our eBox 1.2 iso have grown ~20% in the last month, compared to the former one. It seems to point out we are in the right path.
Tags: community
