Ended Guess When BYC Will Reach 500,000 Members!

[Tookie]

Thanks, guys!

Looks like you'll be in the top 16!

 

[Patiocoturnix]

Looks like you'll be in the top 16!

So will you!

 

[Tookie]

So will you!

Yes!

 

[WallyG74]

What time is it?

Peanut butter and jelly time?

 

[LaurenRitz]

As the time creeps closer, minite by minute, the site is first confused, then overwhelmed, then catatonic as the homepage is hit over and over again, people madly checking the numbers!

 

[Yard Farmer]

Looks like you'll be in the top 16!

That's fantastic!

 

[SilverBirds]

We're about to reach 500,000 members. How come there are "member numbers" over 600,000? https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/whats-your-number.1612733/page-5

 

[Tookie]

We're about to reach 500,000 members. How come there are "member numbers" over 600,000? https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/whats-your-number.1612733/page-5

Here's your answer!

I can answer

The number on the homepage is the number that excludes spammers and other deleted accounts.

We get thousands of spammers per year, but years and years ago (on a different platform, and before we had the awesome anti-spammer system we have now) we got hit with thousands and thousands of spammers per day!!!

So, 18 years of lots of spammers, etc. accounts deleted is the reason for the difference.

 

[Patiocoturnix]

We're about to reach 500,000 members. How come there are "member numbers" over 600,000? https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/whats-your-number.1612733/page-5

This was addressed earlier in the contest Years and years ago they would get hundreds or maybe thousands I dont remember spam users a day they had to remove

 

[LaurenRitz]

As the time nears and demands increase, there's only one to go!

The site freezes. Is the next task an and or an or? Or something else entirely? It doesn't know.

The fate of the world hangs on a server glitch...