That’s a very positive outlook. In fact…too positive
Although you may reach a stable equilibrium if the only terms you consider are rate of change of membership and processor speed, you also have to consider the rate of change of enabling board features that facilitate user interaction such as private messages. Unless this term eventually goes to zero, the board will at some point come to a grinding halt, even if these additions are periodic. It’s possible that increases in processing, memory and disk capacity could supplant this growth, but it’s also possible that, consistent with our experience, enabling board features far exceeds the capacity of the technology the Reader thinks they are able to pay for given the size of their membership. This will cause the target demographic to ask their General Questions elsewhere, where such features are available, and thus we will see a decline in membership.
The market is already known to be far larger than the membership of this board, yet the Reader has failed to attract these new members en masse, primarily for not understanding how enabling and inviting new technologies (such as search engines) can positively effect their bottom line.
That is My Very Humble Opinion. Hopefully I’m around to see myself proved wrong.
Well, I did say that it was an upper bound. And anything which causes our target demographic to be smaller than the entire population of the Earth (luddites, disappointment with lack of features, etc.) will only hasten the time at which the server capabilities are finally adequate.
So, why can’t we just assume we have 6.6 billion users and plan a server for it? Then we’ll be fine.
I kid, people. Put your pitchforks and rolleyes away, will ya?
