Thank you!

**Stuart Wright** · 01-12-2007, 12:55 PM

Just wanted to say a big thank you to all AVForums members and visitors. We had over 1 million unique users in November, showing that with your help, our community is going from strength to strength.
We are continuing to work hard to bring you new movie and hardware reviews, podcasts and other content. And we also continue to work hard, with the invaluable help of the moderators, to ensure that despite being big, we retain as friendly an atmosphere as possible.
All suggestions on how to improve the website are, as always, welcome.

Badger0-0 · 01-12-2007, 1:03 PM

I noticed the record for the highest number of users online was recently broken too.
Nice one

Rainfall · 01-12-2007, 8:07 PM

Super news for the super AVForums.

Good Luck

cheers Steve

Tejstar · 02-12-2007, 12:14 PM

1m unique users is very impressive - nice work Stuart.

PoochJD · 02-12-2007, 1:35 PM

Hi,

Congratulations to Stuart, all the Mods, and the staff at AV Forums too!

Keep up the excellent work, and I know I'll keep coming-back to the site!

Pooch

Usama · 02-12-2007, 5:12 PM

The Forum's members are growing and growing.

per-Sony-fied · 02-12-2007, 7:11 PM

I wonder how many signed up in the last month due to the Scan free postage deal?
I'd be interested as I know this deal got posted on several forums & as such I reckon many will not visit again.

Dr Force · 02-12-2007, 7:21 PM

No, thank you.

Without this fantastic site and its helpful members I would not have aquired the knowledge and enthusiasm for home cinema.

well done to everyone

mason · 02-12-2007, 11:16 PM

fantastic news and another milestone acheived

superb work

**Stuart Wright** · 03-12-2007, 7:51 AM

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Originally Posted by per-Sony-fied

I wonder how many signed up in the last month due to the Scan free postage deal?
I'd be interested as I know this deal got posted on several forums & as such I reckon many will not visit again.

During that busy time, I would say that near 2,000 extra people signed up because of the scan deal.
That's about an additional, maybe 8 days worth in one go.
That, of course, is a good thing, because a certain percentage of those people will become regular members.
We continue with our policy of removing inactive members' accounts, so for those people who let their email addresses become invalid, and don't update AVForums, their account will be deleted in 90 days.

David Mackenzie · 03-12-2007, 2:55 PM

Well done everyone at AVF. This is probably my favourite place on the web thanks to the great attitudes of the members and objectivity.

per-Sony-fied · 03-12-2007, 7:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stuart Wright

During that busy time, I would say that near 2,000 extra people signed up because of the scan deal.
That's about an additional, maybe 8 days worth in one go..

Well I have to say that I'm truly surprised that you get on average 2000 extra members over a weekly period. This shows then that the word of AVForums is truly getting around.

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That, of course, is a good thing, because a certain percentage of those people will become regular members..

Yes one would certainly hope so (I wonder what percentage that would be?) even if it took a deal for them to sign up of which I'm supposing this was a part of your aim.

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We continue with our policy of removing inactive members' accounts, so for those people who let their email addresses become invalid, and don't update AVForums, their account will be deleted in 90 days.

I know i'm being nosey

but what happens to the Scan accounts re: free delivery,if they become inactive "members"?.

**Stuart Wright** · 03-12-2007, 9:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by per-Sony-fied

I know i'm being nosey

but what happens to the Scan accounts re: free delivery,if they become inactive "members"?.

The deal is for AVForums members. On another site, the offer is only open to actively posting members with more than 25 posts.

chappies · 03-12-2007, 11:23 PM

I don't post too often, but like many, I guess, have picked up huge amounts of top information from this site. Impressive statistic - hats off

mjcairney · 05-12-2007, 9:48 AM

Stuart, just for clarification, what exactly do you mean by unique visitor?

For example, if I visit the site 7 times in a week does that make me one (1) unique visitor, or seven (7) unique visitors?

Nothing other than curiosity makes me ask this question.

Cheers,

Martin.

sparky1 · 05-12-2007, 12:14 PM

no THANKYOU Stuart for providing us with a brilliant site and all the hard work the MODS and yourself put into it.

**Stuart Wright** · 05-12-2007, 11:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mjcairney

Stuart, just for clarification, what exactly do you mean by unique visitor?

For example, if I visit the site 7 times in a week does that make me one (1) unique visitor, or seven (7) unique visitors?

Nothing other than curiosity makes me ask this question.

Cheers,

Martin.

If you visit the site 7 times in any period, then in that period, you were 1 unique visitor with 7 visits.
According to Google Analytics (which is conservative if anything), we had, in November, 1,422,429 visitors, 2,813,681 visits and 17,334,682 page views.
We've had over a million unique visitors for some time, but Google Analytics includes our archive which carries no advertising. For this reason, we didn't want to announce the 1 million statistic until the number of visitors seeing adverts rose to that number. Otherwise advertisers might think we're cheating.

ufitsy · 05-12-2007, 11:23 PM

Reccomended Scan via AVForums to some friends of mine darn sarth - they have had massive problems. Not with Scan but with the courier City Link.

I am disappointed;

1. Because it makes AVFoums look bad to new members

2. Because Scan are aware of this and still stay with their courier.

3. Because i'm embarrassed when I recommend a product/sevice to friends which is endorsed by AVForums and fails to live up to expectations.

mjcairney · 05-12-2007, 11:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stuart Wright

If you visit the site 7 times in any period, then in that period, you were 1 unique visitor with 7 visits.
According to Google Analytics (which is conservative if anything), we had, in November, 1,422,429 visitors, 2,813,681 visits and 17,334,682 page views.
We've had over a million unique visitors for some time, but Google Analytics includes our archive which carries no advertising. For this reason, we didn't want to announce the 1 million statistic until the number of visitors seeing adverts rose to that number. Otherwise advertisers might think we're cheating.

Thanks for the clarification Stuart.

Cheers,

martin.

Jay · 05-12-2007, 11:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Lyris

This is probably my favourite place on the web thanks to the great attitudes of the members and objectivity.

Same here, on the whole the community here is great, and everyone is always willing to help.

**Stuart Wright** · 05-12-2007, 11:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ufitsy

Reccomended Scan via AVForums to some friends of mine darn sarth - they have had massive problems. Not with Scan but with the courier City Link.

I am disappointed;

1. Because it makes AVFoums look bad to new members

2. Because Scan are aware of this and still stay with their courier.

3. Because i'm embarrassed when I recommend a product/sevice to friends which is endorsed by AVForums and fails to live up to expectations.

Let's face it, there will be problems with EVERY courier at some point. It's hardly our fault. Or yours.

Max Payne · 06-12-2007, 2:21 PM

A truly fantastic achievement - huge congrats to all.

I for one, would be completely lost without this forum and if there is anything us wee mortals can do to help in the future, just let us know.

THANK YOU!

Badger0-0 · 08-12-2007, 2:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Badger0-0

I noticed the record for the highest number of users online was recently broken too.
Nice one

Hey, it's gone again

smithbob · 08-12-2007, 5:56 PM

I may not post too often but I certainly learn a lot from you all.
Thank you very much and well done.

LicensedTaximan · 08-12-2007, 10:18 PM

Congrats to all those who work their little intergrated circuits off to help in running this friendly AV forum.

I have, as with others, gleaned a lot of helpfull information on my favourite hobby, well the one you can have the most fun with without taking your kit off anyway.

I also hope with my little input from time to time that I've also been helpfull to others.

I will now take this opportunity to wish all on these forums a healthy (without that you have nothing) happy and prosperous new year.

Badger0-0 · 09-12-2007, 7:29 AM

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Originally Posted by LicensedTaximan

Congrats to all who those work their little intergrated circuits off to help in running this friendly AV forum.

I have, as with others, gleaned a lot of helpfull information on my favourite hobby, well the one you can have the most fun with without taking your kit off anyway.

I also hope with my little input from time to time that I've also been helpfull to others.

I will now take this opportunity to wish all on these forums a healthy (without that you have nothing) happy and prosperous new year.

Very true

I don't need to wish you a good one, do I?

You'll be coining it in, hopefully

And fair play to you

Dave Weystoner · 11-02-2008, 9:06 PM

Great milestone Stuart, and thanks for making this forum the best on the net. However, the figures have me wondering - does the number of users signify a demographic of happy audiophiles, all rushing home at night to chill to their favourite CD/DVD/download, or does it represent a seething mass of troubled souls who go home and try to get their kit to work yet again before crying for help on these pages?

Just a thought.

Dave

Badger0-0 · 11-02-2008, 9:37 PM

It's both mate