How many people use myLot? The real numbers...

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I've seen a few people asking how many of 'us' (myLot members) there are, and myself and a friend have tossed a few numbers out there about it, and used some data from the friendly Bug Guy to back up what we thought. Of course, the numbers were a few months old, but we figured they were close enough for government work. But then, I posted about SharonBucks the other day, and the amazing number of people she 'follows' (over 886,000) and in responses to that discussion, someone nudged my memory a bit, and I remembered that myLot had a 'population' figure of only slightly over 251,000 members when they used to publish the number on the old 'home page'. So how, I wondered, could someone follow 886,000 users if there were only 251,000? (To make it even a bit more complicated, SharonBucks had over 922,000 'friends' in the old version) So I asked ol' Bugsy yesterday if he could tell me the REAL numbers for myLot. And here they are, provided by myLotBugs: Including all signups, there are 1,407,793 users total . This is everyone that has ever signed up, including several hundred thousand that did nothing after they signed up. There are 280,319 users with a rating of at least (1), meaning they did something besides just sign up (which is where the old population figure came from...it only counted users that had actually done something.) Since the 'revamped' myLot came out in August 2015, there have been: 44,693 new users have signed up. Of those, 3,367 became new, active users (making at least some type of post) There have been 7,032 active users total (this includes those returning users who signed up before August) So a 'population' figure for here would now read 7,032. Not huge...but the 280,000 population would have been for 10 years total on this site, and 7 thousand active users since this past August is still respectable. So there you have it, for those that were curious...