# The elephant in the room. 4063 active members **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 4, 2017, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-elephant-in-the-room-4063-active-members/788139 "2017-06-04T23:07:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 15
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2017, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-elephant-in-the-room-4063-active-members/788139/15 "2017-06-05T00:08:19Z")
> [@steatopygia](#): > > 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 Thanks. I used our search for active members and came up with 2016 5-19 5,051 2012-10/22 6,864 5/23/2011 8.307 2010 5,836 2002 3,500(logged in in 30 days, not 60 days) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-elephant-in-the-room-4063-active-members/788139)._