Quote from: HankePoster on February 22, 2020, 09:17:11 AM

<> 2) is there any rough guess of how many users are there on bitcointalk.org

Regarding your second question, the number of users on the forum can be seen from various perspectives. For example, we could consider the total number of accounts on the forum, the total number of accounts that have logged-in over a certain period of time, the total number of accounts that have posted in a given timeframe, and so on.

Recently someone asked a similar question, and heres some of the feedback on the matter:

Quote from: DdmrDdmr on February 07, 2020, 08:02:37 AM

Derived from the information that @malevolent pointed to earlier on, @Coin-1 keeps a nice thread where the numbers are charted in an easier to read manner: [Chart] Bitcointalk statistics on impression counts for ads.

The data was updated at the end of December 2019, and there are two interesting charts to view:

- "Unique IPs from logged-out visitors for one round (10 days)", where the most recent reading is on 94.086 IPs in that timeframe.

- "Unique logged-in users for one round (10 days)", where the most recent reading is on 13.714 users in that timeframe.

This second reading is likely the most accurate one for a short timeframe window on 10 days. There are obviously non-logged in readers that do not show on the second toll count, but are included in the first of the above provided.
Note that the timeframe here is 10 days, whilst before we were talking about larger timeframes on other readings (3 months on BPIP).

Quote from: LTU_btc on February 06, 2020, 11:39:45 PM

<...> @DdmrDdmr, maybe you have stats how many users had made at least 1 post in 3 months? It would more accurate number of active users.

That would probably be a better reading. I could do that in relation to merited profiles, but not the rest, since I do not keep data on unmerited profiles. I did do something of the sort though a year ago (see Analysis net posts created/destroyed in a month per rank). I thought it was pretty interesting, and from the data there (end of 2018 though) I derived that 53.858 accounts has posted in a timeframe of 1 month.

So here on this thread there are multiple possible readings, and two things come to mind:
- "Active users" will vary depending on the definition we give it (logged-in, posted at least once, etc.).
- The results will also vary depending on the timeframe (10 days, 30 days, 3 months, etc.).

The complete thread: How many active users here?