Talking about being observant, here’s one for you. During which challenge or lesson, did Iestyn request that you send him a ginger cat. Or was I just having a weird dream?
I haven’t done the southern course, but @aran requests something similar – a yellow cat or an orange dog or something – right near/at the end of old course 2 or 3. I think that in the last lesson he complains that no-one has sent him one, so it’s probably requested in the lesson before. If I were trying to hunt it down I’d go for Course 3 Lesson 25 and start from there…
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There are in total 5652 forum users/members among who I at the moment don’t find the data how many are active but if there is 1/4 of them it’s about 1413 of them what is prety big amount.
Hope it helps. About how I joined the forum a bit later maybe of you can go through my posts around the forum and might find this data also. 
Hwyl!
Tatjana
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I don’t remember that one, but I think he once complained because people had not sent cake.
Sue
Hmmm … do you do different lessons from those I did … I don’t remember either of these or I’ve maybe half-slept in hope this will help me with learning … (you know the “discovery” that you can learn while sleeping and such things. 
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I have often wondered about this too. I’ve just done a short, very unscientific survey by feeding four random sets of three letters each, comprising components of people’s names, into the search box: ‘geo’, ‘ann’, ‘pat’, and ‘rob’, then dividing the results into ‘active’ and ‘inactive’. By ‘active’ I mean anyone who has ever done a forum post; by ‘inactive’ I mean anyone who hasn’t, even though some of these are recorded as having made searches from time to time.
These are the results:
‘geo’: active 15; inactive 25
‘ann’: active 15; inactive 35
‘pat’: active 17; inactive 15
‘rob’: active 1; inactive 49
Totalling: active 48; inactive 124.
Some of the inactive members joined very recently, others joined as far back as 2013. Some of the active members are very active up to the present; others may have made their last post in 2014-16. And I’ve no idea whether the imbalance of the ‘rob’ results is comparable to any others, or a complete fluke.
But if these results are in any way typical, at 38.7% they compare very favourably with @tatjana’s estimate of 1/4 of the membership being active, and would give a figure of over 2,000 active members (though not necessarily all at the same time) if applied to her overall figure of 5652. But it’s a completely random snapshot.
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I think you’re spoiling all the fun, James.
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I guess “Active” in the statistics posted by James means “logged in”.
A sort of “Active reader”.
But since you don’t need to be logged in or even a registered user to see posts, actual readers are way more than that.
Users list have quite a bunch of info. From a quick look, last week active users who wrote at least one reply appear to be about a 100.
If anyone has a long trip on a train and nothing to do can count the same way for longest periods of time as well.
Just for fun, an approximate empirical statistics of all time top posters list is pretty quick. People who wrote:
More than 1000 replies = about 20 users
More than 500/less than 1000 = about 20 users
More than 100 /Less than 500 = about 100 users
More than 50/Less than 100 = about 100 users
More than 10/less than 50 = about 400-500 users
Less than 10 /at least one = too many! I guess more than 1000
p.s…er…uhm…I just realized I’m quite a pest, spreading faster than weeds in a veg garden! 
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In the very early days of SSiW (slightly before my time actually), the way people got the lessons was to download them from the forum. That had changed by the time I joined, but I could see references to that having been the case in the forum as it was then.
There have been several revamps of both website and forum since then.
Personally, I was already a member of several forums when I joined SSiW, so joining its forum seemed natural and obvious. But not everyone was forum-inclined, even then, and since then, forums do not seem to have been able to compete with Facebook and the like, at least at the social end of the tinternetsphere. At the more nerdy, tech-ish end, there are still some good active ones that I’m aware of, and this one seems to have survived. (It probably ticks the “nerdy” box, among many others. 
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All what I know here is that one and only “rob” active is @robbruce Da iawn ti Rob! I love your posts wherever they appear and especially in Welsh Music Videos and Audio Files !
And yes @jamesmahoney this is exactly what I was looking for and I knew it has to be somewhere I just didn’t have the time to look closely as I was at work and it’s hard to eat good food (during the lunch time) and writing/searching things.
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When I saw all those stats, I just had to look at my own. I know I’ve been on the forum some time, but…
1,500 days visited
21 days read time
3,900 topics viewed
72,400 posts read (how many?!!! I like reading )
12 topics created, 363 posts created
906 likes given, 871 received (I’m glad I’ve given more than I received 
)
It’s a wonder I have any spare time to learn Welsh!
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Well, you started the fun so I will continue it (I wanted to write “continue fe” ) Here are my stats. 
A member (of this new(ish) forum) from February 11th 2013 (theoretically I came a year and a half earlier than @aran did )
- 1,425 days visited
- 44 days read time (approximately little for the time being here (and I thought I’m lingering on here like a spider’s net which can’t be swept off
) ) - 2,697 topics viewed (yah I’m glued to some so appearance goes to them mainly.
) - 44,848 posts read (of course @helenlindsay you were on here a month earlier than me )
- 44 topics created
- 4,757 posts created (this one would count as 4,758. ) (woopsy … I’ve said I’m talking too much! Why there’s no statistics about how many of them is nonsense )
- 4,970 likes given
- 5,891 likes received (thank you all!
- 60 bookmarks made
- Profile viewed 594 times.
- Top liked reply The ‘5 Minutes’ Test - recordings 15
- Top liked topic Tatjana - progress reports 746
- Top link Transcripts for the courses? 35 clicks
- Most replied to @aran 423 replies
- Most liked by Aran 2,013
- Most liked to Aran 700 (ummm … he’s one of our head leaders, you know … )
- Top category General/Questions with 25 topics and 3,959 replies (isn’t this category top by us all???)
Exactly from 16.01.2013.
Oh, this is fun …
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This just shows how much time and effort you put into supporting this forum.
Diolch yn fawr iawn
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Diolch yn fawr iawn i chi gyd!
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…or those who have started on the new forum without including those who never made the transfer from the old one…
…these days they are more likely to benefit from a double-vodka…maybe at the Tenth Anniversary 
(theoretically I came a year and a half earlier than @aran did
)
He’s beginning to catch up, though. 
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