WSO - we have some great news to announce.... earlier today WSO officially hit 150k members!
This is BIG news as our growth has really been accelerating over the last year - we hit 90k members on 7/10/12, and 100k members on 10/9/12 ("WSO Hits 100k Members")
Our goal to hit 200k members by the end of the year is now clearly in site :) - let's hope we have that announcement to come sometime this December!
THANK YOU to all who have registered and made WSO what it is today!
To celebrate this exciting milestone, we'd like to offer some discounts for all of you:
1) $20 off any resume reviews or cover letter reviews until July 5th - (to first 5 people who write e-mail to [email protected] with "$20 Off, 150k Members" in subject to get special invoice - first 5 invoices to clear get the special price).
2) Free 3-Month Job Board Access to Certified Users (e-mail [email protected] w/ your username and "150k Job Board Special" to request access)
Some #'s for reference
- 2/23/06: First post on WSO and the official beginning of the site
- 10/18/10: WSO Reaches 40,000 Registered Members
- 2/15/11: 50,000 members
- 2/2/12: 80,000 members
- 7/10/12: 90,000 members
- 10/09/12: 100,000 members
- 6/26/13: 150,000 members
Learn more about the history of WSO:
- Interview on Mixergy (from 2010)
- Q&A with WSO Founder, Patrick (Part 1)
- Q&A with WSO Founder, Patrick (Part 2)
- See our Press page for more milestones
Thanks again to all of the members that have made WSO such a valuable resource.
Stay Strong,
Patrick & Andy
Congrats Andy, Patrick and rest of WSO team!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Congrats. Well deserved accomplishment for the WSO team and community!!!
I joined the site more than 2 years ago. Whenever I've checked back, I saw improvements in terms of the depth and quality of the content. And the exponential growth in users is a testament to that. Nicely done!
Thanks man, that means a lot. We're making a big push to clean the site up and improve UI and keep pushing for great content...still a long way to go but I think in 3-4 months people will find the overall experience even better.
Thanks, Patrick
Congrats!
Which by my math equates to a million lurkers.
Congrats guys.
3,616,246 unique visitors in 2013 so far...
The recent UI and design improvements are really nice. The new header = so fresh and so clean
Thanks! and we're not done yet with cleaning the header.
We are going to remove the white nav bar along the top and in its place have 2 icons. One will be a bell for notifications when you have a new PM, for example, and the other will a monkey-head icon that will represent your profile info. If you hover, it will display everything you see now, or if you click on it, will take you to your profile.
Once white nav bar is removed, header will be super clean. Then, we will make it so it disappears when you scroll down, but as soon as you start scrolling up, it reappears at top of browser.
There are still a lot of other cool jquery features we're going to add in the coming weeks (including having the "In Reply to" tabs slide open if you click on them so reveal what comment the person is replying to), so thanks for your patience...and the communities kick in the butt to improve the UI.
-Patrick
Really glad that some of the things mentioned in the improvements thread from a while back were considered.
I look forward to giving back in the future, since WSO has really been an invaluable resource.
You didn't build that!
Irish car Bombs on Friday
Andy or Patrick, any idea how many users are "active" within the past 6 months?
Congrats
That's a great question and kind of depends on how you define "active" -plus it's hard for me to give a definitive answer since our internal stats pages that try to measure this seem off (working to get that fixed asap)
That being said, if you clean the DB for inactive accounts (meaning ones that never logged in after registering), we are closer to ~120,000 (and we routinely clean those, on a 3 month trailing basis, if a new user hasn't logged in they are removed). So of those 120,000, I'd say a high % of them have at least logged in (ie were "active" at some point).
What I do see is that since January of this year there has been a rapid runup in # of users logged into the site. On average it's gone from ~100 (with peaks of 200) at any given time for most of 2012 to an average of ~200 (with peaks of 400) currently.
Congrats guys, great to hear!
Good stuff! Keep it going guys.
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