Yep auroan is a complete noob and im having to do everything.. :P

Just kidding we are both working hard to get it ready for your input next week (fingers crossed). It really is your input that we need! We need guides and articles written by yourselves. Most of you do it over and over again every day on the forums answering the same questions over and over.

Even if you don't know how the wiki works, just submit what you have to either myself or auroan and i'm sure we can edit it for you. But i cant stress enough how important it is that you guys all chip in!

As to stat's, it's not doing to badly. Of all the VAG sites I think it's still the fastest growing, it certainly was a year or so ago. However we have a different demographic and that's noticeable in a number of ways. We have a far higher % of people visiting and reading than posting for example

Last month we had over 54k unique visitors, approx 1.5 million page views, might be more for March as last week was 424k alone with 56k visitors*. The 7k active is signed in members visiting the site in the last 2 weeks. Not everyone posts and not everyone signs in.

Let me do some figures...it's been a while since I have...

Now bear in mind some of these are spurious, bot's etc, but of all we only have 200 totally dud accounts.

November 2003 169

December 2003 130

January 2004 181

February 2004 309

March 2004 311

April 2004 313

May 2004 281

June 2004 254

July 2004 203

August 2004 216

September 2004 230

October 2004 241

November 2004 302

December 2004 255

January 2005 330

February 2005 341

March 2005 376

April 2005 343

May 2005 414

June 2005 337

July 2005 367

August 2005 403

September 2005 378

October 2005 437

November 2005 429

December 2005 457

January 2006 501

February 2006 455

March 2006 590

April 2006 559

May 2006 604

June 2006 577

July 2006 662

August 2006 856

September 2006 838

October 2006 670

November 2006 562

December 2006 599

January 2007 866

February 2007 854

March 2007 829

April 2007 809

May 2007 672

June 2007 914

July 2007 937

August 2007 950

September 2007 923

October 2007 1052

November 2007 1167

December 2007 1122

January 2008 1475

February 2008 1356

March 2008 1421

And yesterday we had our busiest day with 1382 members.

But all the above is nought without the community working together for the good of all. Way back in the early days it was better. The success brings it's own problems and I think we've all seen that in recent months.

So please lets all work for a better place, I'm confident that the initial sites goals can still be met, despite a massively different profile of users, it would be sad, very sad to think it can't still be a great place to be, irrespective of the membership count.

*figures are google analytics take on stats.

Did notice the server busy today.

I've sent you an e-mail Colin about the server parts and have a pair of heat sinks for a 2u chassis. Not heard anything in a couple of weeks, so if you could let me know so I can keep hold of it for you.

You're not far off 31'000 members too