We don’t consider Discourse successful unless the communities using Discourse are thriving and growing. And no community we host has thrived quite like Choice of Games.
This topic is for comments on the original blog entry at: http://blog.discourse.org/2015/08/choice-of-games-and-discourse/
how did you have calculated 16.000 active users in a single year? I can’t get it
Probably out of Google Analytics or similar.
Those /about page stats mostly represent logged in users, which is only about 25% of overall volume.
You can see the rough breakdown of “pageviews” traffic here, this is based on traffic to Choice of Games forums in the last 30 days:
There’s obviously much more IP uniques diversity in anonymous users as well, logged in users will visit more pages for longer.