Ratebeer user growth over time

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Message puzzl beers 3258 º places 138 º 22:36 Fri 8/25/2017 Originally posted by FatPhil who registered last year or before You mean everyone from 2016 and earlier?
Message Rciesla beers 5497 º places 3 º 23:57 Fri 8/25/2017 Thanks I really enjoyed this thread.
Message sloth P beers 3480 º places 102 º 05:18 Sat 8/26/2017 Wow. We suck

Message Prufrockstar beers 2132 º places 83 º 18:05 Sat 8/26/2017 Any way to measure the rate of attrition?
Message puzzl beers 3258 º places 138 º 19:39 Sat 8/26/2017 Originally posted by Prufrockstar Any way to measure the rate of attrition? Not unless I’d been logging data per day (or week or month). TBH I bet this info isn’t even available internally.
Message TheHOFF43 P beers 2045 º places 169 º 22:45 Sat 8/26/2017 Originally posted by puzzl Originally posted by Prufrockstar Any way to measure the rate of attrition? Not unless I’d been logging data per day (or week or month). TBH I bet this info isn’t even available internally. Active users is a hard thing to define. I appreciate what you’ve contributed though.
Message FatPhil P beers 26266 º places 998 º 04:46 Sun 8/27/2017 Originally posted by Prufrockstar Any way to measure the rate of attrition? There’s the last seen date which I’m gathering as I slowly sample the users, however, so few users stay longer than a day I really don’t have enough data to draw any even vaguely reliable conclusions yet. And it gets worse, as apparently some new users have neither a joined date nor a last seen date, so there will be no way of measuring retention: https://www.ratebeer.com/user/487080/ https://www.ratebeer.com/user/489738/ https://www.ratebeer.com/user/462265/ https://www.ratebeer.com/user/490014/ https://www.ratebeer.com/user/487183/ https://www.ratebeer.com/user/461717/ https://www.ratebeer.com/user/486885/ https://www.ratebeer.com/user/487754/ https://www.ratebeer.com/user/489352/ https://www.ratebeer.com/user/489728/ https://www.ratebeer.com/user/490161/ Strangely, I’ve detected someone with a last seen date, but no joined date. I’m not sure if that makes even less sense or not: https://www.ratebeer.com/user/489544/

Message FatPhil P beers 26266 º places 998 º 04:47 Sun 8/27/2017 Originally posted by sloth Wow. We suck No - we are great. We’re surrounded by people who suck, though.
Message cheap P beers 8870 º places 328 º 07:03 Sun 8/27/2017 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. OK, tried looking at the users all around my user number. Almost all of them have no ratings, one time log ins, and the the other couple haven’t logged in since 2007! Eye opener. None were active. But still, UT has no place to put text in about a user’s experience with the beer, just a star or tick rating, or am I missing something?
Message puzzl beers 3258 º places 138 º 07:13 Sun 8/27/2017 Originally posted by TheHOFF43 Originally posted by puzzl Originally posted by Prufrockstar Any way to measure the rate of attrition? Not unless I’d been logging data per day (or week or month). TBH I bet this info isn’t even available internally. Active users is a hard thing to define. I appreciate what you’ve contributed though. How is it hard to define? Active users is very well standardized in the industry.