StackExchange reaches 16 million users, 131% growth • Hacker News Board

Re: StackExchange reaches 16 million users, 131% growth

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Post by inscitekjeff » Mon, Jan 24, 2011, 7:11 PM UTC

Jun8 wrote: post #7

brm wrote: post #3

I believe it says they grew to 16 million VISITORS not users? Did I miss something?

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15991/how-many-users... This says that last August they had around 86K users, so by now they should have around 100K. The huge visitor to user ratio is a sign of their success, I think. (I'm assuming SO represents most of their traffic) Edit: Wikipedia page says: "As of September 2010, Stack Overflow has about 243,000 registered users"

If you look at the users page on StackOverflow.com, you'll see there are over 320,000 registered users there on just that site alone.

Re: StackExchange reaches 16 million users, 131% growth

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Post by albedoa » Mon, Jan 24, 2011, 7:50 PM UTC

pavel_lishin wrote: post #6

I really wish they hadn't balkanized into a billion sub-sites. I need to ask a question about compiling a 32-bit library on a 64-bit system, so it'll work with XAMPP's 32-bit Apache compile. Do I go to one of the web-dev ones? One of the sysadmin sites? Is there one for compilers?

They handle this well with their migration process. It's still being tweaked, but it's not as if nobody has thought of or encountered the problem you mention. They're adaptive.

Re: StackExchange reaches 16 million users, 131% growth

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Post by ctekin » Mon, Jan 24, 2011, 8:10 PM UTC

Jun8 wrote: post #7

brm wrote: post #3

I believe it says they grew to 16 million VISITORS not users? Did I miss something?

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15991/how-many-users... This says that last August they had around 86K users, so by now they should have around 100K. The huge visitor to user ratio is a sign of their success, I think. (I'm assuming SO represents most of their traffic) Edit: Wikipedia page says: "As of September 2010, Stack Overflow has about 243,000 registered users"

That SO answer was posted on Aug '09. So it wasn't last August.

Re: StackExchange reaches 16 million users, 131% growth

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Post by Jun8 » Mon, Jan 24, 2011, 8:32 PM UTC

ctekin wrote: post #13

Jun8 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15991/how-many-users... This says that last August they had around 86K users, so by now they should have around 100K. The huge visitor to user ratio is a sign of their success, I think. (I'm assuming SO represents most of their traffic) Edit: Wikipedia page says: "As of September 2010, Stack Overflow has about 243,000 registered users"

That SO answer was posted on Aug '09. So it wasn't last August.

Yep, my bad. So they went from ~86K in August 2009 to ~250K in September 2010. That's impressive! I didn't realize SO had that many members.

Re: StackExchange reaches 16 million users, 131% growth

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Post by smackfu » Tue, Jan 25, 2011, 6:45 PM UTC

Jun8 wrote: post #14

ctekin wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That SO answer was posted on Aug '09. So it wasn't last August.

Yep, my bad. So they went from ~86K in August 2009 to ~250K in September 2010. That's impressive! I didn't realize SO had that many members.

Maybe just people forgetting which OpenID login they used.