About 14 year ago a wonderful member of our community noticed that there were a TON of people "lurking" (browsing BYC as non-members) and asked: "How can there be 100+ people lurking on BYC right now?"
Well, a LOT has changed since then... and as I type, I see this listed on the homepage of BYC:
		
		
	
	
		
	
YUP, that's almost 20 TIMES as many "lurkers" as we saw online 14 years ago!
		
	
So, I'd like to echo the perfect words spoken 14 years ago: "C'mon, y'all, sign up and talk to us!
		
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...and once you join, reply here and let us know why you were lurking, what convinced you to sign-up, and what we (as a community) can do better to convert more lurkers to members.
		
	
(oh, and if anybody notices a larger number of lurkers than the current record of 1,832 please screenshot it and post it here)
	
		
			
		
		
	
				
			Well, a LOT has changed since then... and as I type, I see this listed on the homepage of BYC:
YUP, that's almost 20 TIMES as many "lurkers" as we saw online 14 years ago!
	So, I'd like to echo the perfect words spoken 14 years ago: "C'mon, y'all, sign up and talk to us!
	...and once you join, reply here and let us know why you were lurking, what convinced you to sign-up, and what we (as a community) can do better to convert more lurkers to members.
	(oh, and if anybody notices a larger number of lurkers than the current record of 1,832 please screenshot it and post it here)
	

