Author Topic: IS New Members Per Year - Revised (Read 2445 times)

RacePhoto · « **on:** November 10, 2011, 14:42 »

New members per year - calculated Nov. 2010 -

2002 - 968
2003 - 1321
2004 - 2077
2005 - 4701
2006 - 7456
2007 - 7310
2008 - 7556
2009 - 4091
2010 - 1972
2011 - 159

Seems the figures at Contributor Charts have increased a bit since 2008 when I did this last. How much will it change in another couple of months?

Total Contributors: 37619
Exclusive Contributors: 5749 (15.28%) [found Jan 2011 5874 at 15.97% ]

BlackDiamondContributors:45
DiamondContributors:891 (2%)
GoldContributors:1230 (3%)
SilverContributors:3564 (10%)
BronzeContributors:9529 (25%)

BaseContributors:22360 (holding at roughly 60%)

Under 100 DLs 16259 / 43% (very roughly, first cash out point)

Previously - January 3rd 2011 - total 36,782

Number of photographers end of each year:

2002 - 956 - 956
2003 - 2269 - 1313 new
2004 - 4340 - 2071
2005 - 9004 - 4664
2006 - 16,401 - 7397
2007 - 23,607 - 7206
2008 - 31,071 - 7464
2009 - 34,927 - 3856
2010 - 36,782 - 1855

FD · « **Reply #1 on:** November 10, 2011, 15:01 »

And the point is?

RacePhoto · « **Reply #2 on:** November 10, 2011, 15:53 »

Quote from: AttilaTheNun on November 10, 2011, 15:01

And the point is?

In a different thread the topic came up about users, new users and number of users. Rather than do a complete hijack, I posted it here for discussion.

Point? I'm not sure that a bunch of numbers have any point. Just for the record, number of contributors increasing year after year. New users per year may be tapering off?

If the figures are valid, 2006 to 2009 new members run about 7500 a year, which might be interesting because that's how many people joined the four years before 2006.

If the charts are right and people are leaving, eventually the number for each year should change and drop, because they have left the database. So far nothing but going up!

Just can't wait for January and see if the new contributors in 2011 is really going to be about 200? Is that right? Oh boy...

Anyone have numbers for any of the other sites? Has the flood stopped or is this IS only?

Freedom · « **Reply #3 on:** November 10, 2011, 15:58 »

I don't have any opinion one way or the other.

It is also interesting to see how many contributors have stopped contributing for over a year. Do you have any stats for it?

Freedom · « **Reply #4 on:** November 10, 2011, 16:57 »

Race, got your PM. I understand it is not easy.

The reason I asked is because some of my friends stopped uploading after submitting less than 10 images. Many have never uploaded more than 300, though I am going to check the chart myself.

Freedom · « **Reply #5 on:** November 10, 2011, 17:12 »

Just looked.

Total contributors: 37619

Contributors with less than 10 images: 9112 (starting from position #28507). 37619-28507=9112

Most inactive members have joined for more than 1 year.

However, I believe many of the newly accepted contributors will be active. The acceptance standard is higher now, I assume the new members will have to be reasonably good to be accepted.