# of Forum Members?

[PenelopeRose]

Hello,

I'm writing a paper on Backyard Farming as part of my MBA program. I can no longer find information on the number of Forum members present on BYC. Or maybe I forgot where it is located...I am trying to show growth / interest in Backyard Farming and since there is no substantiated data, I would like to show the increase in the number of BYC Forum members as an indicator. Can you point me to where the number of Forum members is located?

 

[N F C]

The number of members is located on the home page, toward the bottom right hand side. As of now, there are 322,924.

Good luck with your paper and getting your MBA!

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

Specifics on the number of people who are raising chickens, % growth, or geographic locations is hard to accurately measure because there aren’t any agencies gathering / sampling this data. For this reason we often use the growth of BYC over the past few years as a proxy for the growth in the trend. For example: In January 2007 the BYC community forum was created with about 50 members. It took us until 5/6/08 to get to 10k members and then less than a year, 3/14/09 to hit 25,000 members. In less than a year on 3/2/2010 we doubled our membership to an amazing 50,000. On 7/27/2011 we had doubled again and surpassed 100,000. On 8/21/2012 we hit 150,000 members, on 3/17/2014 we hit 250,000 members, and on 11/20/2014 we hit 300,000 members! We now have over 320,000 members.

 

[TwoCrows]

Specifics on the number of people who are raising chickens, % growth, or geographic locations is hard to accurately measure because there aren’t any agencies gathering / sampling this data. For this reason we often use the growth of BYC over the past few years as a proxy for the growth in the trend. For example: In January 2007 the BYC community forum was created with about 50 members. It took us until 5/6/08 to get to 10k members and then less than a year, 3/14/09 to hit 25,000 members. In less than a year on 3/2/2010 we doubled our membership to an amazing 50,000. On 7/27/2011 we had doubled again and surpassed 100,000. On 8/21/2012 we hit 150,000 members, on 3/17/2014 we hit 250,000 members, and on 11/20/2014 we hit 300,000 members! We now have over 320,000 members.

I find this absolutely amazing!!!

 

[PenelopeRose]

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

 

[N F C]

I find this absolutely amazing!!!

x2!

Really interesting @Nifty-Chicken ! And I'm so glad to have found this place and all the wonderful people that work so hard to make it the place it is.

 

[Chickenchick11]

Specifics on the number of people who are raising chickens, % growth, or geographic locations is hard to accurately measure because there aren’t any agencies gathering / sampling this data.  For this reason we often use the growth of BYC over the past few years as a proxy for the growth in the trend.  For example:  In January 2007 the BYC community forum was created with about 50 members.  It took us until 5/6/08 to get to 10k members and then less than a year, 3/14/09 to hit 25,000 members.   In less than a year on 3/2/2010 we doubled our membership to an amazing 50,000.  On 7/27/2011 we had doubled again and surpassed 100,000.  On 8/21/2012 we hit 150,000 members, on 3/17/2014 we hit 250,000 members, and on 11/20/2014 we hit 300,000 members! We now have over 320,000 members.

Wow, BYC sure has grown!

I'm so glad to have found BYC, I've gained tons of chicken knowledge and made so many friends since joining. Thanks for creating the very best chicken site ever Nifty-Chicken! :cd