Ratebeer user growth over time

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Message FatPhil P beers 26266 º places 998 º 22:17 Wed 8/23/2017 Polling random users (highly rate-limitted, I’ve only checked 200 overnight) it seems like almost nobody is active - just one in that 200. I don’t have enough data to see if any particular era has a higher or lower retention rate than any other. During the process, I’ve detected some Last Seen anomolies: http://www.google.ee/search?q=%22last+seen+Jan+1+1900%22+site:ratebeer.com
Message CH-303 P beers 4551 º places 137 º 00:57 Thu 8/24/2017 Originally posted by Drake Originally posted by SarkyNorthener Originally posted by ebone1988 I’m in the 2012 group too As I said. Quality. Good job achieving 2nd place. Sincerely, Class of 2007
Message cheap P beers 8870 º places 328 º 09:58 Thu 8/24/2017 UT says they have over 3 million users? Since each of our members is qualitatively worth 10 of theirs, we’re still ahead in quality.

Message puzzl beers 3258 º places 138 º 11:00 Thu 8/24/2017 Originally posted by cheap UT says they have over 3 million users? Since each of our members is qualitatively worth 10 of theirs, we’re still ahead in quality. 7 million. And those are active users, not registered accounts. Ratebeer likely has fewer than 10k active users.
Message cheap P beers 8870 º places 328 º 14:42 Thu 8/24/2017 Hey, I can’t find UT’s forum/discussion page? Do you think RB really only has 10K active users? How many before the sale? I’m a fricken cromag-dinosour. Time has left me behind!
Message NeoHippie2 beers 1074 º places 51 º 16:16 Thu 8/24/2017 2007 User here. Does that make me officially an old timer now? :P
Message Marko P admin beers 17941 º places 879 º 17:23 Thu 8/24/2017 Originally posted by NeoHippie2 2007 User here. Does that make me officially an old timer now? :P Last rate in 2014 makes you a "returning former user" more than an oldtimer, but hey, welcome back! :)

Message puzzl beers 3258 º places 138 º 20:18 Thu 8/24/2017 Originally posted by cheap Do you think RB really only has 10K active users? With registered accounts? Absolutely. Remember, we’ve only had 500k account registrations ever, in over 15 years. Punch in random user numbers and you’ll see that practically none of them are active. 1 in 50 even seems like a stretch. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if we had fewer than 5000 monthly actives, 3000 weekly actives, and fewer than 2000 active raters. How many people come to RB without having an account/logging in is a different story, but we have no way to estimate that data.
Message SinH4 P beers 15470 º places 416 º 04:00 Fri 8/25/2017 Originally posted by SarkyNorthener Seriously. The class of 2012 is epic. Me, you, ebone1988, RichtheVillan, Theydon Bois and many more. Beerhunter111 as well. Originally posted by puzzl Originally posted by cheap Do you think RB really only has 10K active users? With registered accounts? Absolutely. Remember, we’ve only had 500k account registrations ever, in over 15 years. Punch in random user numbers and you’ll see that practically none of them are active. 1 in 50 even seems like a stretch. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if we had fewer than 5000 monthly actives, 3000 weekly actives, and fewer than 2000 active raters. How many people come to RB without having an account/logging in is a different story, but we have no way to estimate that data. I don’t think this is a belief. We have about 7000 people with more than 100 ratings (not all of which are still rating) Now, of course, we also have a couple of people with zero ratings who are there only for the forum or trades, but still.
Message Iznogud P beers 13233 º places 1283 º 04:09 Fri 8/25/2017 Out of those 7000 my guess is at least 25-30% is not active anymore. I’m around 450th place and 15 out of next 50 users are inactive (rated less than 50 beers in 2017)