What's your number?

[regularguy13]

I glanced a someone's biography page and noticed the writer had a seven digit I.D number. They became a member in 2021.

Hmmm? I wonder who is active with the lowest number?

I joined in July, 2005 and I have a six digit I.D. I'm 540063.

Who are some old dogs?

HeyAll is has been around since June, 2008, and is #992050
oggbashan joined in June 2002 and is #129447

Anyone with a lower number?

 

[NotWise]

I glanced a someone's biography page and noticed the writer had a seven digit I.D number. They became a member in 2021.

Hmmm? I wonder who is active with the lowest number?

I joined in July, 2005 and I have a six digit I.D. I'm 540063.

Who are some old dogs?

HeyAll is has been around since June, 2008, and is #992050
oggbashan joined in June 2002 and is #129447

Anyone with a lower number?

Manu is user #2. I'll guess that Laurel is user #1.

 

[SimonDoom]

I never thought about this at all. I had no idea what my number was until you posted this, and I looked it up.

I became a Literotica member on April 9, 2015. My number is 2528007.

An author who recently became a member on June 1, 2021 is number 5990579. If we assume number assignments are in order, that means that although this Site is 21 years old the number of members has more than doubled in the last 6 years. That's interesting. I would not have guessed that.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Manu is user #2. I'll guess that Laurel is user #1.

Laurel is #7. #1 looks to have been deleted, if it ever existed.

Pretty sure numbers are sequential with date of creation, yes.

 

[KeithD]

sr71plt, July, 2006: 721539

 

[Comshaw]

join date: 9 November 2000

member ID #: 5866

Comshaw

 

[SimonDoom]

join date: 9 November 2000

member ID #: 5866

Comshaw

Impressive. I wonder how many of those 10,000 or below are still involved in the Site.

 

[RejectReality]

Darkniciad 525,847 June 5, 2005.
LesLumens 774,924 Nov. 1, 2006.
RejectReality 1,049,328 Jan. 1, 2009

 

[Sextified]

Join Date: September 3, 2007
Member #: 888723

Sextified

 

[HeyAll]

Who are some old dogs?

HeyAll is has been around since June, 2008, and is #992050
oggbashan joined in June 2002 and is #129447

For context, when I signed up in 2008, I was 24 years old with no intention of writing. I just wanted to look at the nude pictures on the forum. You had the register to see them.

I decided to try writing later in 2011 and remembered I had this account. I had a lot of stories in 2011 and 2012, but deleted many of them and rewrote them.

 

[Rustyoznail]

It would be interesting to graph the numbers vs year to see the take up.

 

[Comshaw]

Impressive. I wonder how many of those 10,000 or below are still involved in the Site.

Quite a few actually. Go take a look at this thread on the GB : Can anyone beat my join date?

Comshaw

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Zeb_Carter - June 15, 2006 - 704,709

Zeb1094 - December 24, 2003 - 292,878 (Messed this one up somehow)

 

[lovecraft68]

July 13th 2009

1115397

 

[lovecraft68]

Laurel is #7. #1 looks to have been deleted, if it ever existed.

Pretty sure numbers are sequential with date of creation, yes.

Well, it should be obvious who had #1

That guy who had the most sales and royalties in Literotica history!

 

[SimonDoom]

Well, it should be obvious who had #1

So in the roughly 6 years between you becoming a member and me becoming a member, the member total roughly doubled, and in the next 6 years the member total roughly doubled again. That surprises me.

 

[Payne_Hall]

So in the roughly 6 years between you becoming a member and me becoming a member, the member total roughly doubled, and in the next 6 years the member total roughly doubled again. That surprises me.

It probably shouldn’t if you think about last year alone, which makes me curious what the number looked like from 2019.

 

[lovecraft68]

So in the roughly 6 years between you becoming a member and me becoming a member, the member total roughly doubled, and in the next 6 years the member total roughly doubled again. That surprises me.

I imagine that if someone leaves and deletes their account the number does not get recycled so there's probably not as many members as the new highest numbers indicate.

Then you figure how many people, both authors and readers and board posters alike, leave, but just let the account stay dormant.

be interesting to see how many active members there are in the number.

 

[jaF0]

If we assume number assignments are in order, that means that although this Site is 21 years old the number of members has more than doubled in the last 6 years. That's interesting. I would not have guessed that.

I know of at least two members that have had 20 or more IDs each, most of which have been banned.

 

[JuanSeiszFitzHall]

It probably shouldn’t if you think about last year alone, which makes me curious what the number looked like from 2019.

Since you asked, I just happen to have joined in June 2019, and was given the number 5,116,173.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Since you asked, I just happen to have joined in June 2019, and was given the number 5,116,173.

I joined in May 2014 with #2002042, so that's just over three million new accounts in five years.

 

[lovecraft68]

I know of at least two members that have had 20 or more IDs each, most of which have been banned.

True, about a dozen members of the GB are probably responsible for 1000k plus alts over he years and that's not really an exaggeration.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

So in the roughly 6 years between you becoming a member and me becoming a member, the member total roughly doubled, and in the next 6 years the member total roughly doubled again. That surprises me.

It shouldn't if you know anything about the general board. There are guys over there making new IDs, they call them alts over there, at the drop of a hat.

 

[SimonDoom]

It shouldn't if you know anything about the general board. There are guys over there making new IDs, they call them alts over there, at the drop of a hat.

I usually avoid the General Board and the Politics Board, so I'm not really familiar with what's going on there. I've checked out some threads and I have yet to find a worthwhile discussion. It's all "Fuck you, Tony." "No, fuck you!"

Regarding my surprise at the increase, it's not the absolute numbers but the rate of increase that's interesting to me. I imagine the act of creating many alts has existed from the beginning, so that shouldn't affect the rate of increase. I would have thought that by 2015 Literotica membership would have stabilized somewhat and the rate of increase would diminish, but that's not so.

 

[KeithD]

A number that would be more interesting to me than the number of accounts created is the number of stories in the file. Once you could get that from an "All Stories" alpha list, but I can't find a way to do that now.