Strange. Digging into some history of this forum, I found some very interesting stuff:

divinedolphin

@debbie Thanks for the information! I've been wondering about some of these things too, especially about why there are so many accounts, yet barely any active users. Interesting how so many people paid 33¢ (to make an account).

The Blade Dancer

PayPal pulled in a couple hundred bucks on this forum alone

The Blade Dancer

Also I think the scans have either slowed down/ stopped, because if you look I specifically mention just the first 400, not any of the other ones, which have around 1 profile view each (could be because I clicked on it too)

sqwishy

@The-Blade-Dancer woahh thats a lot of information!! I was going to say that everyone who has a Daily Challenge account is automatically registered with a forum account but it looks like @debbie beat me to it! haha

RZ923

@The-Blade-Dancer said in Strange. Digging into some history of this forum, I found some very interesting stuff::

Weird thing: about 400 of the earliest-created accounts on the forum have over 300 profile views, despite having never created a post. I doubt those views are actual ones, because the amount of users who have ever created a post here doesn't even go over 50. The ratio of users with avatars/ edited usernames to ones without is somewhere like 1 : 100.

I actually thought they hacked the forum at first...

RZ923

@The-Blade-Dancer

I did some calculation and found out that PayPal got $1305.48 at the time of writing (12 September)
At the time on writing, @The-Blade-Dancer has the most profile views:

The Blade Dancer

coolio all my "years" of profile editing has paid off

The Blade Dancer

Also user with most followers is most likely @debbie, with 11. Chances are the accounts with no activity won't have them, but I don't have an easy way of checking either.

RZ923

@The-Blade-Dancer
@po is close though.

PS is Prof Loh ever going to participate on the forum? Is it because he is too busy?

debbie

@RZ923 Yes, he's very busy with NOVID right now, writing code and doing a lot of business calls, but it's working, and NOVID will hopefully get to be more well-known and widespread soon.

RZ923

Umm...
I think it is because @alex has no reputations?

Bulba_Bulbasaur

yep, even though he deserves some.

RZ923