20,245
I think this thread should be renamed to Count to 100,000 (or even Count to 50,000); it would still take a while to reach but at least it’s a more realistic goal xD
It’s been about 7 years since this thread was created and we’re only about 2% of the way to 1,000,000; but if the goal were 100,000 we would be about 20% of the way there
As far as I know, the forums used to have more active users many years ago and that number seems to have decreased over time. On the very first day that this thread was posted, 169 was reached in a single day (up to the 9th page). If that rate kept up every day for 7 years, our current counting number would be about 432,090. About 125 numbers were then counted on the second day (-44 from the first), showing that the hype of the new thread was likely a factor in the thread activity (and if the second day’s rate continued to this year we’d be at about 319,594) . However, I also believe that the number of active users at the time also had an influence. This is especially apparent with the estimated numbers above of about 432,000 and 319,594 being quite large, while currently we are at 20,245.
On July 24th, 2023 I posted “17,776” to this thread (which was the first thing I ever posted on the forums xD). Since that date, it’s been roughly 1.38 years and about 2,469 numbers have been counted since then, which is equal to about 1,789 numbers per year. With this estimate, it would take about 547 years to reach 1,000,000 from where we’re currently at!
However, even if the goal were 100,000, it would take about 45 years to reach it! But it’s still better than multiple centuries xD
The message rate on this thread might increase and we could reach the goal of 100,000 sooner, but we could also even change the goal to something like 50,000 instead
Note: I used some rough estimates in this post
Wow this turned out quite long xD
Should I make a suggestion thread about this?