I remember threads typically lasting on the front page for a week and a bit, which is a bit less time than the current range (just over a week and a half between the oldest thread and the newest).
And that made me think of how many PPCers there are, anyway, so have some quick stats. I downloaded the front page (which, a few minutes ago, contained 243 posts) and counted (automatically, I'm not crazy) how many people posted on the front page and how many posts each of them had made.
Here's the list, with convenient semicolons for importing into your stats program of choice. (Note: corrections have been made to address a few times someone posted under an alternate name, or typo'd their username, or left an extra space at the end of the Author field.)
1;Badger421
1;Ffwydriad
1;Hieronymus Graubart
1;JulyFlame
1;Mikelus
1;palindromordnilap
1;RandomPasserBy
1;S.M.F.
1;The Good Mod Addict
2;Alleb
2;Bramandin
2;Daniel Stretulch
2;Meta
2;OrangeYoshi99
2;Phobos
2;sonofheaven176
3;Aegis
3;Granz the Ice Cream Monarch
3;HerrWozzeck
3;Mattman The Comet
4;doctorlit
4;Khryssty
4;Sergio Turbo
4;SkarmorySilver
5;Cat-on-the-Keyboard
5;Larfen J. Stocke, esq.
5;SquidBoi
6;Bram
6;Matt Cipher
6;Storme Hawk
8;eatpraylove
8;Neshomeh
8;The Triumvirate
10;CodeCom
10;KoolKoopaGirl
10;Tomash
11;Hardric
13;Scapegrace
13;Zingenmir
16;Iximaz
21;Desdendelle
31;Huinesoron
This list shows that there are
42 recently-active Boarders. If memory serves correctly, this is about consistent with the last time I analyzed these statistics a few months ago.
Chat, which I don't have precise stats on, hovers around 25 people online during US evenings, and has peaked 30 before. There's at least a few people that I'd consider "around" (mostly from seeing them in chat) who aren't on that Board list, such as Delta Juliette or VM, so I think I can say there's somewhere around 45-50 people who are some degree of active in the PPC.
Does that number sound right to y'all?
Bonus info: the average Boarder has posted about 5.8 times over the last few weeks, and "post count"
feels exponentially distributed.