19000 is still pretty small. I'm curious to see how it keeps growing. At this point I think all of the "Jeff Gerstmann oh boy!" people are already here, so now it's down to the quality of the editorial stuff and the whole wiki thing to keep it growing.
Not to be a nay-sayer -- I love the site and believe in it, but 19,000 seems a little low.
Gamespot used to boast of 21 million unique users per month. If even 1/2 of 1% of those people -- a tiny fraction -- came here, that would be 105,000 people.
"Not to be a nay-sayer -- I love the site and believe in it, but 19,000 seems a little low.
Gamespot used to boast of 21 million unique users per month. If even 1/2 of 1% of those people -- a tiny fraction -- came here, that would be 105,000 people.
Given all the hullabaloo when Jeff got canned and the other guys quit, I'm surprised that more people haven't followed them here. Maybe registered accounts is a poor barometer of traffic.
"And as of right now, I'm number 823. Mua ha ha ha!"
As of right now I'm number 35!
And as of right now, Matt Bodega is #1!
Of course, some of that is point bugs, but still!"
823 > 35"
I think not, good sir."
Oh no, I'm quite certain. :}"
8,616>494
Sorry chap. I clearly have a larger e-penis "
But my point stands: 823 > 35.
Sorry guv'nor.
Why are we using big text again?
I'm not sure the fact that this site doesn't have as many people as Gamespot is saying much. Gamespot is ancient and has a lot of content this site doesn't have yet.
Not to make this thread into a thread about gamespot and their ammount of users, but they usually have around 2200 registered users logged in (judging from the counter at the forums). Right now they have 1600. it's rare to see that number crawl above 2900.
I remember back in the day when Jeff, Ryan, Brad, Rich Gallup, Greg Kasavin, Carrie and all the other awesome people who left (or was fired :P) from GS was still around. There could easily be 9k or more logged in at the same time. So it's obvious that a lot of people have left GS to join Giantbomb, and other sites.
On a second note, yay 19000 members! soon 20k!! Giantbomb owns all!
I believe I am like 28th person to sign up. And 5th on the leaderboards, although some of thats bugged. And heres to another 19,000 users, and many more!
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