299,546 members so far. Who will be the 300000th member?
How many of them are serious coin-collectors/enthousiasts? I will be very surprised if it is 10%. I am afraid majority of this people are only here to find the value of a scratched euro-coin…
Estimated based on Numista’s past metrics: of the nearly 300,000 registered accounts, approximately 70,000 to 80,000 should have been active (logged in at least once) during the last 12 months.
4543 have contributed to the catalog in that time.
Estimated based on Numista’s past metrics: of the nearly 300,000 registered accounts, approximately 70,000 to 80,000 should have been active (logged in at least once) during the last 12 months.
4543 have contributed to the catalog in that time.
Those statistics are quite interesting, to be honest that is much higher than I expected.
I think that of the ~300,000 accounts, there are only a handful of us who are somewhat active in the forums.
From the 70-80K active user estimate I would further estimate and say 50% are recurring members (using Numista as intended over a long time) the rest will be one- or short-time users that want something identified or want to know ‘how many monies?’ something is they found between their cushions, on the ground or sometimes elsewhere.
Like rsirian said the vast majority of Numista is non-members (passive users).
So basically correct me if I’m wrong we’re close to having 300,000 members but if the ID numbers are over 514,000 that means over 200,000 members have either deleted their account or left it dormant for it to be deleted (after 1-2 years of inactivity I believe).
Also from Idolenz statistics I would agree that most are here to ask about what my coin is worth, inherited a collection etc. But we do need to factor in though users who are active in different areas of Numsita. For example some users are very active with their collections but never/rarely post in the forum, whilst others are activity mainly with swapping, catalog contributions etc. I would be confident that out of that number only a few hundred if that are active on the forums (posts more than one topics/comments in a month).
Hi to whoever is reading this. Did you know that TYPEWRITER (on a QWERTY keyboard) is the longest word you can type using only the letters on one row of the keyboard.
So basically correct me if I’m wrong we’re close to having 300,000 members but if the ID numbers are over 514,000 that means over 200,000 members have either deleted their account or left it dormant for it to be deleted (after 1-2 years of inactivity I believe).
Dormant accounts are never deleted. Only the member can delete their account. Even BOT accounts are not deleted.
So basically correct me if I’m wrong we’re close to having 300,000 members but if the ID numbers are over 514,000 that means over 200,000 members have either deleted their account or left it dormant for it to be deleted (after 1-2 years of inactivity I believe).
Dormant accounts are never deleted. Only the member can delete their account. Even BOT accounts are not deleted.
I thought the email warning notification system was implemented, guess I was wrong.
Hi to whoever is reading this. Did you know that TYPEWRITER (on a QWERTY keyboard) is the longest word you can type using only the letters on one row of the keyboard.
I sometimes wonder that if the user dies, so will the info they made here will too? 🤔
How would anyone that has the power to delete an account know?
Good question. On rare occasions, a family member will get a hold of the account, and announce the passing of said person. But yeah, on average most accounts lay dormant basically forever.
My apologies what I meant by “implemented” it seems to be limited towards referees as there was a major issue with inactive referees in 2021-22. The former was just a discussion not an open request.
Hi to whoever is reading this. Did you know that TYPEWRITER (on a QWERTY keyboard) is the longest word you can type using only the letters on one row of the keyboard.
And out of those 37 it appears only 2 are logging in their collection.
Hi to whoever is reading this. Did you know that TYPEWRITER (on a QWERTY keyboard) is the longest word you can type using only the letters on one row of the keyboard.
Probably want to give them at least 1 day to learn how to do that?
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I'm more worried bout the one already having recorded over a hundred coins only after being a member for less than an hour 🤨
That doesn't bother me. Probably hung around for awhile before becoming a member and knew how to find and enter coins and is a serious collector who had coins in flips already identified.
What bothers me is that 67% of the 269,077 members that allow their statistics to be seen have entered zero items in their collection.
It's nice to see that Numista reached this new milestone.
At the same time, the number of members is not a very important or meaningful metric for me.
Numista is designed so that no account is needed unless really necessary, for example to register a collection or write on the forum. As a matter of fact, 87% of the visits on Numista are from visitors without an account. The idea is that it should be as easy as possible to access information.
Also, it should be noted that it's very easy to open an account. Opening an account doesn't mean becoming a committed member. 66% of the accounts opened in the last 365 days were never really used: the people opened the account, probably didn't find what they expected, and never came back again.
Overall, there are about 47 000 active members (counted as peopled who logged in to their account at least twice in the past 365 days). Most of them use their account to manage their collection.
Among those 47 000 members:
70% registered coins or banknotes in their collection (55% registered more than 30 items)
19% posted on the forum (6% posted more than 10 messages)
It's nice to see that Numista reached this new milestone.
At the same time, the number of members is not a very important or meaningful metric for me.
Numista is designed so that no account is needed unless really necessary, for example to register a collection or write on the forum. As a matter of fact, 87% of the visits on Numista are from visitors without an account. The idea is that it should be as easy as possible to access information.
Also, it should be noted that it's very easy to open an account. Opening an account doesn't mean becoming a committed member. 66% of the accounts opened in the last 365 days were never really used: the people opened the account, probably didn't find what they expected, and never came back again.
Overall, there are about 47 000 active members (counted as peopled who logged in to their account at least twice in the past 365 days). Most of them use their account to manage their collection.
Among those 47 000 members:
70% registered coins or banknotes in their collection (55% registered more than 30 items)
19% posted on the forum (6% posted more than 10 messages)
10% completed a swap
7% contributed to the catalogue
It's true. In fact, the first few times I came to Numista were to download images of banknotes that I thought were nice before I started collecting coins in June 2023 (meaning my Numista account was created about half a year after I started collecting). I'm no longer doing this because otherwise my prehistoric cell phone (a Samsung Galaxy J7 Prime) would run out of storage quickly, but I'm waiting to download banknote images again after downloading coin images.
Back to the topic, you're also right about Numista reaching 300,000 users. It's not that interesting, not to the point of having to create a commemorative coin with the profile picture of the 300,000th user in pure gold and gift it to that same user. I may be exaggerating, but it's true. It depends on the person whether it's important to them or not. In my case, it wouldn't be important unless Numista became the numismatic website with the most users in the world.
