My Opera community site close to reaching 1 million registered members
Published August 22nd, 2007 7:43 PM EDT By Daniel GoldmanThe number of registered users at the My Opera community site is getting ever so close to 1,000,000. Yup, that’s one million users with an account on My Opera.
Here are some of the latest numbers:
- 969,361 registered members
- 193,077 blogs hosted on My Opera
- 295,630 photo albums hosted on My Opera
- 3.1 million photos stored on My Opera
- An average of 1,500 new member signups per day
- 1.75 million forum threads
- 1.9 million unique weekly visitors
So, any guesses on when we’ll reach one million members? How long will it take?
According to my estimation it should take about a month to reach 1 million.
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“Yup, that’s one million users with an account on My Opera.”
nope. that is ‘one milion acounts of considerably smaller user group’. many users have more than one account. some were banned like me [for death threats
c'mon mods, impress me more next time] several times, some lost their passwords like me.
i point it out, because if opera is going to use this as their selling/marketing point IMMEDIATELY people will bring that out. this is no ‘one milion users, this is one milion accounts’. and after someone brings that out, it wouldnt be important any more, everybody will talk about how cheap are the methods opera uses to sell itself.
play that card better, it is a good card, but saying that this is one milion USERS youll waste it and loose more than youll gain from it. people are not dumb, you know and dont like to be treated like one
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i point it out
Ok, I think we all know this already. Registered members is the metric they all use, though. Facebook, Myspace, most other forums.
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I have already voted for September 19
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September 17, 15:00 GMT
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Just wondering — will Mozilla get the same benefit of the doubt the next time they post download numbers?
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Not everyone uses a second account. I’m one of the few. But that’s because I’m an advanced user that needs to test stuff and how it looks to other people. I’m also a moderator of more than 60% of my groups and I make stuff I need to test every now and then.
What I’m saying it that I believe a lot of those almost 1 million members are unique users. And Tamil have reported member decrease some months which must mean Opera Software actually removes some accounts.
Facebook arguments with their active users, that’s people who log in once a month. That’s a bit more than 30 million users. I used to argument with My Opera has 1/30 of the facebook users but I’m not sure if that argument is valid. Perhaps it’s more like 1/50 but that’s still impressive.
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If Kelson’s memory fails him, maybe we should remind him that Mozilla did use download numbers as a huge part of their marketing efforts
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Nelson, and mozilla was punished for that in comments in various places, on my.opera too. and most probably will never do that mistake again. not, that mozilla needs that, they dont use such marketing efforts now, that are infancy phase marketing tricks.
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>> An average of 1,500 new member signups per day
This month average is 1902.
>> So, any guesses on when we’ll reach one million members?
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/findpost.pl?id=2196155
>> How long will it take?
17 days.
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…which is exactly why I brought it up. If it’s OK for Opera to use the registered-users metric in promotion, why wasn’t it OK for Mozilla to use the downloads metric?
Sid, at least, is consistent in saying it’s a bad idea whether Mozilla or Opera is doing it.
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Who says that it’s a bad thing?
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Why not setup a profit-sharing ad program for MyOpera members? It might increase the number of sign-uppers, would raise awareness for Opera’s brand, and generate extra revenues for R&D/advertising…
Win-win-win?
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More interesting question would be what will happen earlier: first release of Opera 9.5 or MyOpera get its 1000000th member?
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They also refuse to delete accounts. I tried contacting Opera several times about deleting mine but they never respond.
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junkerR:
Actually, Tamil’s stats reported a decrease in the # of users at certain times. Apparently accounts CAN be deleted. But that’s more difficult if you have lost of forum posts and such, which you probably. Deleting a forum account would lead to massive confusion. So special cases like (I assume) you, those extremely few people with lots of activity who suddenly want their account deleted for whatever reason won’t be deleted. But that won’t have an impact on the stats since there are so few of you.
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My guess is that the decrease in accounts is primarily a result of spam fighting and not user requests. With any setup that allows for free blog hosting, you’re bound to see thousands or even tens of thousands of spam accounts.
At Spread Firefox, for example, we’ve got about 80,000 active users (people with some legitimate account activity in the last month) even though there have been several hundred thousand accounts created. A large number of those accounts were created just for spam purposes.
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