# The elephant in the room. 4063 active members

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Just an observation, but here are some very random statistics.  
I used Wayback to check “active members” on the SDMB main page. I don’t think that the “active members” feature of vBulletin has always been enabled, so the first number I can find is from…

5/23/2011, 11,167 active members

9/1/2013, 6289  
9/28/2015, 5410  
2/20/2017, 4489  
6/4/2017, 4063

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