## anonymous one year ago How many users (approximately) are constantly joining OS per day?

1. anonymous

I recall you saying 20-30? @Nnesha

2. Compassionate

I know we reached 20,000,000 unique users awhile ago. So, I guess we should take it and divide it by the number of days, which gives me 10951; then take that and divide it by 365; which is about 30 users a day.

3. anonymous

How long ago did we reach 20 million? @Compassionate

4. Compassionate

I think just last year

5. anonymous

20-30% users have fake accounts. They are operating those fake accounts using different IP. Every since OS started using decentralize approach (using many servers) they can't delete those fake accounts.

6. e.mccormick

annas, the farm has nothing to do with why they do not delete accounts. The SmartScore and many other things are comparitive, so they use inofmration on all users. Also, the user name is a master key for the data that gets used in all these other things. This means that deleting a user is not a low resource task.

7. anonymous

huh.. @Compassionate "I know we reached 20,000,000 unique users awhile ago. So, I guess we should take it and divide it by the number of days, which gives me 10951; then take that and divide it by 365; which is about 30 users a day." you sure about your math here?

8. anonymous

20,000,000 / the number of days = 10951 this is the number of users per day why do u divide it by 365 further? wtf

9. anonymous

10. Preetha

Hahaha I love OS Math!

11. Compassionate

@AeroSmith , you need to average it.

12. anonymous

@Compassionate 10951 is the average how did you get chosen for ambassador when u can't perform basic elementary school math

13. Compassionate

It's because the math is faulty. That would imply a new account is made every seven seconds, for five years. You are not averaging certain things between, like account for fake accounts, duplicates an so on. It would be absurd to assume the moment OpenStudy was created, every 7 seconds, someone new was joining. Also, be kind with your language, okay? Be constructive.

14. anonymous

lmao, this is the most ridiculously stupid argument i've ever heard You are claiming OS has a growth rate of 30 users/day, to achieve 20M users it would take 666k days, which is 1826 years. Simple math, 20M/30/365 = 1826

15. anonymous

but what u did was u messed up the logic, and divided 1826 by 365 = 5, which is the 5 years you used for presuming OS existed for 5 years

16. anonymous

17. Compassionate

Listen, I am going to ask you one more time to be nice and respectful. You need to be constructive. I am not going to make a scene here. @Preetha can give you more precise analytics.

18. anonymous

@Compassionate ill give you one more chance, show your calculation again on how u arrived at 30 users/day

19. rvc

peace here please @AeroSmith and @Compassionate

20. Compassionate

I'm going to show you why your math is wrong, @AeroSmith . If you take Facebook, it's been around since 2003; and has 550,000,000 users. Now, if you take that and divide it by the 9 years, you get 152,106. Now, how many seconds are in a day? 86,400. So, it would be impossible for this to even happen unless two accounts were made every second for 9 years straight, which is absurd. When you look at OpenStudy's statistics, which I have pulled up, 10,000 a day does not make sense.

21. Compassionate

@AeroSmith , do you know what unique users are?

22. anonymous

I agreed with @Compassionate when he started with the math in the first reply.. I understood that it was being averaged.

23. Compassionate

You need to understand 20,000,000 unique users does not imply what you think it does.

24. anonymous

My only concern is that since OS reached 20,000,000 users last year, wouldn't the average number be a bit higher since OS is a growing community?

25. EclipsedStar

I think you should also take into account the month and time of the year that users usually sign up. During the summer there isn't as much activity due to the summer break. During finals I do see more users signing up than usual. A few weeks back I saw more than a dozen new users checking out the site in an hour. There are times where there are just more newer users popping up and the next week the site goes really quiet. :)

26. anonymous

Fair point… but then again I'm just looking at the average (including any outliers) that would give me a general idea of how many active users join OS daily.

27. EclipsedStar

Yeah, I get your point. X)

28. anonymous

@Compassionate, facebook indeed DOES have dozens of account created at every seconds for many years straight

29. anonymous

"If you take Facebook, it's been around since 2003; and has 550,000,000 users. Now, if you take that and divide it by the 9 years, you get 152,106." 9 years have passed from 2003 until now. Congratulation, you just went full retard

30. CausticSyndicalist

Your "Congratulations" lost an s there, bud.

31. anonymous

Okay guys let's retain that friendliness It's just a curious question. (:

32. anonymous

@CausticSyndicalist I heard you've been caught for DoSing a governmentally funded website, do you know you are going to jail soon?

33. geekfromthefutur

@Compassionate if u remember our trainning. If you have some one agurvationg you talk in a calm voice to prevent a war in @e.mccormick tutorial said

34. CausticSyndicalist

"governmentally" Learn better English before trolling.

35. geekfromthefutur

I think @AeroSmith is just trying to blow smoke on this conversation and make it a fight

36. CausticSyndicalist

You might be right. He could be butthurt. Time to evacuate the building. e.e

37. geekfromthefutur

yupp

38. geekfromthefutur

And good question @Aureyliant

39. rvc

R.I.P this post :)

40. geekfromthefutur

u ppl either have a lot to say or just hit a space and left it

41. Whitemonsterbunny17

$$\large\bf\underline{\color{red}{Please~stop~fighting~and~be~nice!}}$$ $$\large\bf\color{black}{Please~remove~any~rude/unkind~replies~from~this~post.}$$ $$\large\bf\color{cyan}{Open}\color{lime}{Study~}$$ should be filled with kindness and joy, not hatred and anger. Please, stop fighting, this truly is a sad tragedy to see. Aureyliant asked a good question, a genuinely good question that should not have been bombarded with such hatred. $$\bf\color{blueviolet}{If~you~don't~have~anything~nice~to~say,~please~do~not~say~anything~at~all.}$$ So please, $$\large\frak\color{blueviolet}{Be~Kind!}$$

42. Whitemonsterbunny17

If you are not here to post a relevant reply to the topic at hand, please leave this post. Thanks.

43. TheSmartOne

Where Compassionate's numbers come from: http://blog.openstudy.com/2014/09/29/2-million-learners-looking-for-a-little-help/ "Do numbers tell a story? 2 Million, that is the number of learners who came to OpenStudy in September looking for help. 1,590,443 questions asked. 22,049,458 OpenStudiers we have helped over the last 3 years. What stories do these numbers tell?"

44. TheSmartOne

and those numbers were back in: September 29, 2014, 5:25 pm OpenStudy is now bigger than even before, so a lot more users :D

45. anonymous

Which is why I'm initially asking this Q :)

46. anonymous

Usually i let kids troll on post, but it becomes unbearable when people like @Compassionate spread mind-blowing nonsense, and keeps coming up with more nonsense to cover their fault after being pointed out their error. What's more shocking is the audience seem to be a bunch of kids helping to defend their friends' faces, rather than taking a minimum 2 seconds to examine how invalid their mathematical equations are to the problem in question. OS has turned from a bunch of college geeks arguing about fourier series convergence and solving lagrange derivation into mass-upvoting arguments that contains stuffs like “9 years have passed from 2003 until now”. And yea, by an ambassador. RIP the time when mathematical truth and deep-thought analysis was encouraged, when truth was the only thing that mattered.

47. TheSmartOne

-.-

48. TheSmartOne

ty for your opinion; take your argument elsewhere as it isn't wanted in this post.

49. CausticSyndicalist

Wait, that was an argument? o-o

50. CausticSyndicalist

I thought I was reading the stuff written in the public bathroom stalls again.

51. sammixboo

Yes, Facebook has been a site for 9 years. He had a typo. It was created in 2004, but none of that is worth arguing over. Just simply work together to get an answer ^-^

52. Whitemonsterbunny17

Like I said earlier, $$\large\frak\color{blueviolet}{Be~Nice!}$$ If you are not going to be kind, please leave this post.

53. CausticSyndicalist

Exactly, time to /chillax. Let's put our paws together and work ourselves up to the solution.

54. Whitemonsterbunny17

Please, just close this post and leave it be. $$\Large\bf\underline{\color{red}{No~replies~after~this!}}$$

55. anonymous

I don't think that not replying to this post anymore is the right solution. Try effective communication, though I agree that this post has gone down the off-topic road, I still haven't received a valid answer to current day stats.

56. sammixboo

Ok, so OpenStudy has around 20,000,000 unique users since it began. OpenStudy launched in 2009, making that about 6 years ago. We need to find out about how many unique users joined in a year. 20,000,000/6 which is around 3,333,333 unique users a year. We know that there is 365 days in a year, do divide 3,333,333 by 365 Now we end up with around 9,132 users joining a DAY. That is a lot. (I also did this math many different ways and ended up with the same answer..) That is my math. I feel like I am wrong due to getting that high #, and my logic, but that is what I got We also know there is 2190 days in 6 years, so divide 20 million by 2190, and you get close to 9,132

57. sammixboo

I don't think the math to this is as basic as we think. (idk?) From what my logical side is saying that this is no way. Mathematics (from what is shown) says otherwise. But, let's try 2,000,000 now...... 2,000,000/6 = 913 That seems more like a reasonable answer. I thought there was 2 million uniques, not 20 mil

58. sammixboo
59. sammixboo

:) 20 million users have been HELPED, but there is around 2 million unique users. You have to think, around 1,000 users are on in the middle of the day. There is just around 100-150 that is a 50 SS - 100 SS. Rest is below (usually users who have joined that day)

60. TheSmartOne

"Do numbers tell a story? 2 Million, that is the number of learners who came to OpenStudy in September looking for help." ~ http://blog.openstudy.com/2014/09/29/2-million-learners-looking-for-a-little-help/ That was for 1 month only...

61. Miracrown

@Aureyliant - It's hard to determine such numbers, this is why it's best to question such stuff to the admins of OS – they know it best! You may consult @Preetha regarding this. @AeroSmith - There's no reason to start arguing with other members of the OS community. We're all inclined to making mistakes and no one should be punished for it. Reconsider your behaviour. Compassionate's response had logic behind it, it may or may not be accurate but that doesn't mean you use profanity and go completely against it – It's not acceptable at all costs on here. If you want to pick on others then I suggest you go do it somewhere else, but OS. Also, please put a shirt on and/or change your profile pic to something more appropriate for the well-being of others. I suggest you reread the OS code-of-conduct thoroughly, and don't let it go in one ear and out the other. Thank you! http://openstudy.com/code-of-conduct

62. thomaster

I think the amount of users joining per day rises exponentially (or at least something similar), and not linear like the calculations in this post suggest. There is no way to calculate or determine it as you don't know at what point in the timeline OS became more popular so it wouldn't be a correct curve. Only way to find out is by looking at the site statistics. Like my colleague above said, @preetha will know for sure.

63. sammixboo

Right :) As for the info given, I don't think we know how many unique users have joined OS

64. Compassionate

@AeroSmith , those were 2013 statistics

65. Compassionate

Yeah, I think I took the questions and unique users and mixed them somewhere.