Did anyone notice...DU hit 71,000 members yesterday

[Atman]

or was it today?

Good going DU! Rock on.

[LifeDuringWartime]

1. hm

is there a way of knowing how many are active posters/viewers and how many are tombstoned/no longer active

[sweetheart]

2. Not a popular statistic

As interesting as that would be to know, surely the admins don't
want the world to know how many are actually logged in, as it is surely
much less than the 71,000... and that number does not go down
for tombstones. As well, some spoofers have achieved multiple DU
logins with 1 person, even if tombstoned... again statistics are
designed to mislead.

For a while, there was a "views" column on a thread, and the numbers
told all, but this as well showed how many persons were active in DU
and they took it out... too much info... better to enjoy the illusion
of millions.