Priuschat Membership Numbers

11,000 members! That deserves a wow! PriusChat has grown greatly in the last two years, and still remains the best Prius site on the Internet. IMHO

Anyone know how many Prius have been sold since PriusChat started? It would be interesting to know what percentage of Prius owners frequent PriusChat.

 

I wish you would not post oversized graphics that cause the entire thread to be displayed in a window too large for my screen. Why not just post a thumbnail, so that clicking on it opens the full-size graphic?

 

Wow! We're like the KISS Army!

 

Don't kill me for being a downer but I bet less than half of the members are active. Some people just sign up to make 1 post and then never come back. It still is a good way to know that new people are signing up and the power of the Prius is growing.

 

TonyPSchaefer

Tony,

When are you going to make posting your Location and Prius Year/Package MANDATORY!!

I'm not a mind reader; it's really getting difficult to understand and respond to questions from (mostly new) PC members who don't supply this important information.

The more members we have the worse the problem is getting. Maybe you (or someone else) should start a separate chat room for serious members!

 

actually the figure is probably more like 5% are active

 

I'd say 2 1/2% maybe less, that's about 300 active members, do you really think it's that high? I really don't think it is, more like 1% but at least it's still active.

 

Wow, that's about 1,000 a month.

And while I don't think year and model should be mandatory, location would really help in answering a lot of the questions that come up.

 

actually if you do a search of members with at least 50 posts who have posted in the last month, we have 689 members.

now that will leave out the very newest members who have not had a chance to get to 50 yet. so we do a search, people who have joined since feb 1, have less than 50 posts and have posted in the last week

we have 105 that makes active members to be about 794.

 

Regardless to the percent of active "posting" members the concentration should be more to the active "viewing" members. I'm not sure why this site was created but I believe that its main purpose now is to inform people of the Prius. I don't post much, in fact this is only my 9th post, but I read the crap out of the posts. I just enjoy reading what others write about the Prius and get ideas from them along with building my own ideas from the ones I read. So even if only 5% post, I think 80% just read, 75% of which aren't even Prius owners but the reason they signed up is to learn about their "soon to be investment" and might want to ask questions.
I signed up for PriusChat before I got a Prius just to learn more about them before I spent over 30 grand on one. ok I'm done now.

 

well a lot are just lookie loos and that is natural for a site that has matured. nearly every question asked has been answered so looking thru the archives can get most what they want. sure new stuff comes up once in a while but most is already been asked, told, related, or hashed out.

 

Meat of various discussions also comes up as google results and the
like, so you'll get a lot of people dipping in for one or two posts
or threads and probably not even realizing it. But if they're
paying attention, they might go "ooh, that looks like a cool forum"
and dig deeper...
.
_H*

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(hobbit @ May 22 2006, 10:28 PM) [snapback]259536[/snapback]</div>

/raises hand

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Vincent @ Feb 11 2006, 07:20 PM) [snapback]207907[/snapback]</div>

I am almost never serious. :blink:

 

Hey Tony...

Your original links are gone...hack hangover?

Some of us(!) are STILL interested!

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(bookrats @ Jan 2 2006, 09:09 AM) [snapback]182936[/snapback]</div>

Wow man... Kiss Army is that anything like Dead Heads? I need to go out and work on the VW van it needs another new engine. third since 69. bummer man.