Interesting stats :-o

phpdiplomacy.net: Logged on:77 Registered:10005 Pages served: 13784932
Facebook phpdiplomacy: Logged on:53 Registered:11705 Pages served: 3322675

The best thing about the traitors is that I can include their numbers within my own :-) http://playdiplomacy.com/LICENSE.txt

But yep kudos everyone, the actual community isn't 20k+ people of course but activity has grown constantly for months, and there's lots of good features to come
I think thanks to active web communities like these there has been no better time to be a Diplomacy player or to become a Diplomacy player

Anyway here's to 10000 more, and many more meaningless but fun milestones along the way :-)

"Not taking sides or anything" - do, we're right they're wrong!
Kestas, how many active members are there on this site then? could you do a quick check of people who've logged in in the last week or something please?

Hooray! I was planning on posting this when it got to 10000 but I forgot. Luckily figlesquidge had the same idea. Great minds think alike... But then, fools seldom differ.

It's an ultimately arbitrary milestone... but for just over two years since the inception of phpDip this growth is incredible.

Conception, you mean?

I'm pretty sure inception also works...

The site's conception would have been when Kestas first thought of the site.

Btw it says on Wikipedia that phpdiplomacy started in 2004.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Diplomacy
That's not right is it? - since Kestas joined in August 2006.

fig; About 1100 for .net and Facebook each, but activity doesn't have any bearing on whos right in that debate I think

spyman; I started work on phpDip, posted the first source and news etc, in Dec 2004. Aug '06 is when 0.72 was released, which was the last version where I just deleted the old database when I installed the new version

Oh my, I had no idea. There was even a long, long before time from when I joined? Do we have any relics of that age still here?

So Kestas do you mean that this site was up and running by 2005? Did you have many players?

Not many at all until 2007, when 0.75 came out.

Yup there'd usually be a game or two going on back then at best, and up until 0.72 it was pretty unstable

Also it ran at phpdiplomacy.kuliukas.com before I registered phpdiplomacy.net at ~0.75, so when phpdiplomacy started depends on whether you mean the code, the site, the database, or the domain name

Here's the sourceforge icon tracker graph for anyone interested:
http://tinyurl.com/6mvtns

Very interesting. I can see the little jump at December 06, where my friends and I joined. What happened through early 2007 though?

Wow, yeah I was about to ask what figle just asked.

Patch followed by steady decline due to CD followed by massive increase with points. Reason why we will never have a different point system- too much hangs on it

Ghost, how can you say that - you weren't here back then :S
That was a very notable patch though, because it was around Christmas that you stopped taking SC's in spring, or building in any SC etc...

I used the graph in a thread TGM was in which defended the points system. Here's a labeled graph: http://tinyurl.com/6kuwwj

I can speak somewhat to the recent user spike. Some unnamed big corporations banned Solitaire and the like on company computers, and an unnamed source sent a mass email to tell people to play webgames instead, including phpDip.

Thats interesting, I didnt know about that, but actually the spike at 0.81 was because Facebook phpDip started using the same codebase at that point, so they contributed to the sourceforge icon hits, which caused the sudden jump