Quote from: ralph123 on July 26, 2012, 12:04 amI'm not voting because I like it. keep up the good work DPR! Honestly tho SR is still very young. I suspect this is only one of the many changes that were liable to see. I wander if he added anymore servers or some much needed bandwidth. I think he's doing a really great job. This place will definitely morph into a different look many more times. I imagine that there has been many offers to buy it. Zuckerbird probably wants to buy it hahaha. How many members does SR have now? Almost 28,000?According to a journalist, Eileen Ormsby of The Age (an Australian broadsheet newspaper, because the Aussie journalists have bigger balls than Americans or Brits these days), there's roughly 20,000 forum members, 100+ active at any moment, and there is a great deal many more people active on the actual SR site, 100,000 active buyers or so.Can that figure be accurate at all?IMHO, we can extrapolate from the number of forum users to ascertain how many SR users there are. This is because the vast majority of people online with any major website are not forum participants, but lurkers instead. As a rule of thumb, about 5% - 10% are 'community oriented' enough to be participants and the rest lurk (hence a disproportionate amount of geeks here and on other internet forums, but this is always a very inaccurate impression of overall site participation, since geeks themselves are a tiny percentage of the overall population which is likely ~1%-3%). So, I believe that these figures are basically accurate, even accounting for certain biases such as the fact you need to know something about using computers before you manage to get here (but honestly, not that much, and it's literally ten seconds to show somebody else how to download Tor and find SR's url even if they are as dumb as a stump).See: assume 50% of the forum are geeks -> 10k, then multiply by 10 because they only represent 10% of the 'real population' = 100,000. This is actually a rather conservative estimate, due to the illegal nature of transactions on SR, it could put people off participating in the community so it could be much higher.So, that's the good news. The bad news is that the other 90% contain the majority of people who would benefit the most from joining my PGP Club and reading the forum in general to protect their security and improve transaction rates etc. The proverbial battle may not always be won by 'the swift' and the 'the mighty', but it sure fucking is most of the time, so these types could lose out big time.Also: if Eileen Ormsby's source on transaction quantity and value is as accurate as the number of active participants on SR, then SR pulls down a minimum of half a million US dollars per week, which, you know, is rather respectable I think.