THREE MILLION USERS

[+user13371]

Just mentioning it, in case nobody else noticed...

 

GC.com now has over three million registered users.

http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?id=3000000

 

I wonder how many ACTIVE geocachers there really are? Even if you subtract all the lurkers, one-time visitors, non-cachers, sock-puppets and spambots, I imagine it's still quite a large number

Edited February 19, 2010 by lee_rimar

[Mr.Yuck]

Just menbtioning it, in case nobody else noticed...

 

GC.com now has over three million registered users.

http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?id=3000000

 

I wonder how many ACTIVE geocachers there really are? Even if you subtract all the lurkers, one-time visitors, non-cachers, sock-puppets and spambots, I imagine it's still quite a large number

 

"Bob" will probably never find or hide a single cache, not unlike 2,000,000th user or the 1,000,000th user

 

Well, I always say Cacherstats.com shows that only 79,000 people in the entire world have found more than 200 Geocaches. That's a shockingly small number, and shows you just what a fringe activity we still are.

[+simpjkee]

User 1 - User 1,000,000 = 78 months

User 1,000,000 - User 2,000,000 = 21 months

User 2,000,000 - User 3,000,000 = 15 months

User 3,000,000 - User 4,000,000 = ?? months

 

Hhmmm....maybe user 4,000,000 by the end of this year?

[Mr.Yuck]

User 1 - User 1,000,000 = 78 months

User 1,000,000 - User 2,000,000 = 21 months

User 2,000,000 - User 3,000,000 = 15 months

User 3,000,000 - User 4,000,000 = ?? months

 

Hhmmm....maybe user 4,000,000 by the end of this year?

 

I'll take that bet. I say they can do it.

 

I believe Markwell or Fizzymagic (and I'm leaning towards Fizzy) had plotted the growth in users some time ago. That would be interesting to see again.

[+briansnat]

Just menbtioning it, in case nobody else noticed...

 

GC.com now has over three million registered users.

http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?id=3000000

 

I wonder how many ACTIVE geocachers there really are? Even if you subtract all the lurkers, one-time visitors, non-cachers, sock-puppets and spambots, I imagine it's still quite a large number

 

"Bob" will probably never find or hide a single cache, not unlike 2,000,000th user or the 1,000,000th user

 

Well, I always say Cacherstats.com shows that only 79,000 people in the entire world have found more than 200 Geocaches. That's a shockingly small number, and shows you just what a fringe activity we still are.

 

The 200 find level is not necessarily an indicator. Once you start getting up in numbers I guess you can be considered an "avid" geocacher. But there are many more casual geocachers. I get finds on my caches frequently from people who have very low find counts, but who have been at this for a surprising amount of time.

 

The casual cachers may find a handful of caches a year, but I think they can still be considered active. Heck, I received a fairly recent log on one of my caches from someone who has something like 9 finds going back to 2004. He's still out there finding caches, but it's only one or two a year.

[+GeoTrailGuy]

The 200 find level is not necessarily an indicator. Once you start getting up in numbers I guess you can be considered an "avid" geocacher. But there are many more casual geocachers. I get finds on my caches frequently from people who have very low find counts, but who have been at this for a surprising amount of time.

 

The casual cachers may find a handful of caches a year, but I think they can still be considered active. Heck, I received a fairly recent log on one of my caches from someone who has something like 9 finds going back to 2004. He's still out there finding caches, but it's only one or two a year.

 

Agreed. I'd be interested in an 'active user' stat that uses a definition of a find/hide within the last 6 months.

 

There's definitely going to be a small subset of these users who have logged high numbers, placed many caches, are very active in forums, attend many local events, etc. This type of highly engaged user exists in any activity but can't be used as the basis for the wider population of 'regular' users. Freaks.

 

Besides, with a younger population of users (referencing the shorter time frames from above to reach each successive millionth user), wouldn't the base skew to fewer caches found? Even amongst active cachers?

[+Isonzo Karst]

Ditto what briansnat just said.

 

I had a note posted to a cache of mine recently, warning me that it had burnt. A user name I recognize from many many logbooks - they have zero logged finds. I'm sure they've been caching longer than I have. Although I don't see the user sig as often as I used to, I'd guess they found 60% of the first 500 caches I did, and I still see that sig on most hiking caches north of me.

 

Find count is a poor indicator of activity.

 

This is not to discount the notion that many accounts are unused, or haven't been used in a long while, or that some are second (or third +) accounts of one individual or household.

Agreed. I'd be interested in an 'active user' stat that uses a definition of a find/hide within the last 6 months.

 

Or, site visits, or site downloads. I'm assuming my note-writing cacher is downloading something, though I suppose it's possible to simply write down coords, read, remember and go.

Edited February 19, 2010 by Isonzo Karst

[Mr.Yuck]

Ditto what briansnat just said.

 

I had a note posted to a cache of mine recently, warning me that it had burnt. A user name I recognize from many many logbooks - they have zero finds. I'm sure they've been caching longer than I have. Although I don't see the user sig as often as I used to, I'd guess they found 60% of the first 500 caches I did, and I still see that sig on most hiking caches north of me.

 

Find count is a poor indicator of activity.

 

This is not to discount the notion that many accounts are unused, or haven't been used in a long while, or that some are second (or third +) accounts of one individual or household.

 

Ok, Ok. I have been sufficiently slapped upside the head for the "200 finds" indicator. But I still find it amazing only 79,000 people in the world have logged more than 200 finds on Geocaching.com though.

 

Whoa Nelly!!! Here's a new development. Remember that blurb on the bottom of the main page that used to say "In the last x days, there have been y logs by z users"? And "z" was always under 50,000 users? Here's what is says as of a couple of minutes ago:

 

There are 989,957 active caches and an estimated 3-4 million geocachers worldwide. In the last 30 days, there have been 1,914,815 new logs submitted. Check out the recent logs or photos.

[+user13371]

1,914,815 new logs submitted...

 

That has to be a tabulation error or other kind of typo.

[+DragonsWest]

1,914,815 new logs submitted...

 

That has to be a tabulation error or other kind of typo.

 

That could be California alone... the past weekend was beautiful weather and the caches I own were visited often.

[knowschad]

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[+TeamTrekkerz]

We may have 3,000,000 users BUT alot are not active cachers.

 

I did some checking (since I have nothing better to do):

 

The 500K user has SIX finds and no hides,

The 1M user has ZERO finds or hides,

The 1.5M use has ONE find and no hides,

The 1.75M use has ZERO hides or finds,

The 2M user has ZERO hides and finds,

The 2.5M user has ZERO hides and finds, and

The 3M user has ZERO hides and finds (although they just registered).

 

So, saying that geocaching.com has 3M users is kind of a miss statement.

 

I wonder if people are registering new accounts just so they could be the 1M, 2M, 3M user...

[+simpjkee]

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lol...I see whatcha did there

[+simpjkee]

We may have 3,000,000 users BUT alot are not active cachers.

 

I did some checking (since I have nothing better to do):

 

The 500K user has SIX finds and no hides,

The 1M user has ZERO finds or hides,

The 1.5M use has ONE find and no hides,

The 1.75M use has ZERO hides or finds,

The 2M user has ZERO hides and finds,

The 2.5M user has ZERO hides and finds, and

The 3M user has ZERO hides and finds (although they just registered).

 

So, saying that geocaching.com has 3M users is kind of a miss statement.

 

I wonder if people are registering new accounts just so they could be the 1M, 2M, 3M user...

 

so they register accounts to be the millionth account and then abandon it? Whats the point of that?

[+smstext]

it be interesting if a number of active geocachers could be sought. If 3M members all placed out one cache or in another term if all cachers who have never placed a cache put just one out, then there be triple out there for us all to find.

[+Kacher The Dog]

I'm very new to caching; only been at it 11 months. I'm a single mom with 3 little ones, but we've found over 70 (& laid 2) despite me working full-time. I think that's an achievement; it's quality not quantity!

[+Snoogans]

So. At least a million of those registered users are MY sock puppet accounts.

[Mr.Yuck]

We may have 3,000,000 users BUT alot are not active cachers.

 

I did some checking (since I have nothing better to do):

 

The 500K user has SIX finds and no hides,

The 1M user has ZERO finds or hides,

The 1.5M use has ONE find and no hides,

The 1.75M use has ZERO hides or finds,

The 2M user has ZERO hides and finds,

The 2.5M user has ZERO hides and finds, and

The 3M user has ZERO hides and finds (although they just registered).

 

So, saying that geocaching.com has 3M users is kind of a miss statement.

 

I wonder if people are registering new accounts just so they could be the 1M, 2M, 3M user...

 

I have to write down this date. 19 February, 2010. Someone besides me finally noticed the dirty little secret about all the 0 find 0 hide accounts. Don't worry, no one cares. Just take the 3-4 million figure, and roll with it. Besides, 1/3 of them probably belong to Snoogans.

[GOF and Bacall]

We may have 3,000,000 users BUT alot are not active cachers.

 

I did some checking (since I have nothing better to do):

 

The 500K user has SIX finds and no hides,

The 1M user has ZERO finds or hides,

The 1.5M use has ONE find and no hides,

The 1.75M use has ZERO hides or finds,

The 2M user has ZERO hides and finds,

The 2.5M user has ZERO hides and finds, and

The 3M user has ZERO hides and finds (although they just registered).

 

So, saying that geocaching.com has 3M users is kind of a miss statement.

 

I wonder if people are registering new accounts just so they could be the 1M, 2M, 3M user...

 

I have to write down this date. 19 February, 2010. Someone besides me finally noticed the dirty little secret about all the 0 find 0 hide accounts. Don't worry, no one cares. Just take the 3-4 million figure, and roll with it. Besides, 1/3 of them probably belong to Snoogans.

Where did you think all those Snoogans on the wall came from?

[+Snoogans]

We may have 3,000,000 users BUT alot are not active cachers.

 

I did some checking (since I have nothing better to do):

 

The 500K user has SIX finds and no hides,

The 1M user has ZERO finds or hides,

The 1.5M use has ONE find and no hides,

The 1.75M use has ZERO hides or finds,

The 2M user has ZERO hides and finds,

The 2.5M user has ZERO hides and finds, and

The 3M user has ZERO hides and finds (although they just registered).

 

So, saying that geocaching.com has 3M users is kind of a miss statement.

 

I wonder if people are registering new accounts just so they could be the 1M, 2M, 3M user...

 

I have to write down this date. 19 February, 2010. Someone besides me finally noticed the dirty little secret about all the 0 find 0 hide accounts. Don't worry, no one cares. Just take the 3-4 million figure, and roll with it. Besides, 1/3 of them probably belong to Snoogans.

Where did you think all those Snoogans on the wall came from?

 

I knowww right? It's gonna be another 300,874 YEARS (by my math at the rate Snooganses are being counted down which average 11 per day for the last 4 years) before the last Snoogans is counted down and the $25 prize can be rightfully awarded.

[GOF and Bacall]

We may have 3,000,000 users BUT alot are not active cachers.

 

I did some checking (since I have nothing better to do):

 

The 500K user has SIX finds and no hides,

The 1M user has ZERO finds or hides,

The 1.5M use has ONE find and no hides,

The 1.75M use has ZERO hides or finds,

The 2M user has ZERO hides and finds,

The 2.5M user has ZERO hides and finds, and

The 3M user has ZERO hides and finds (although they just registered).

 

So, saying that geocaching.com has 3M users is kind of a miss statement.

 

I wonder if people are registering new accounts just so they could be the 1M, 2M, 3M user...

 

I have to write down this date. 19 February, 2010. Someone besides me finally noticed the dirty little secret about all the 0 find 0 hide accounts. Don't worry, no one cares. Just take the 3-4 million figure, and roll with it. Besides, 1/3 of them probably belong to Snoogans.

Where did you think all those Snoogans on the wall came from?

 

I knowww right? It's gonna be another 300,874 YEARS (by my math at the rate Snooganses are being counted down which average 11 per day for the last 4 years) before the last Snoogans is counted down and the $25 prize can be rightfully awarded.

Someday someone is going to creat a program to count that thread down so they can claim your $25. Until then I guess we are just stuck with that thing.

[+Snoogans]

We may have 3,000,000 users BUT alot are not active cachers.

 

I did some checking (since I have nothing better to do):

 

The 500K user has SIX finds and no hides,

The 1M user has ZERO finds or hides,

The 1.5M use has ONE find and no hides,

The 1.75M use has ZERO hides or finds,

The 2M user has ZERO hides and finds,

The 2.5M user has ZERO hides and finds, and

The 3M user has ZERO hides and finds (although they just registered).

 

So, saying that geocaching.com has 3M users is kind of a miss statement.

 

I wonder if people are registering new accounts just so they could be the 1M, 2M, 3M user...

 

I have to write down this date. 19 February, 2010. Someone besides me finally noticed the dirty little secret about all the 0 find 0 hide accounts. Don't worry, no one cares. Just take the 3-4 million figure, and roll with it. Besides, 1/3 of them probably belong to Snoogans.

Where did you think all those Snoogans on the wall came from?

 

I knowww right? It's gonna be another 300,874 YEARS (by my math at the rate Snooganses are being counted down which average 11 per day for the last 4 years) before the last Snoogans is counted down and the $25 prize can be rightfully awarded.

Someday someone is going to creat a program to count that thread down so they can claim your $25. Until then I guess we are just stuck with that thing.

 

If you factor in flood control and assume the site will NEVER go down.... If they start in the next 5 minutes, it will STILL take about 10 YEARS to count it down. I better start saving up to pay off.

[GOF and Bacall]

I found a quarter today. I'll chip it in but you'll have to pay the postage.