# Why would the number of all time sign-ups ever decrease?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-would-the-number-of-all-time-sign-ups-ever-decrease/259962
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 30, 2023, 8:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-would-the-number-of-all-time-sign-ups-ever-decrease/259962 "2023-03-30T08:25:23Z")
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### Author:  [@rogerdean](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rogerdean)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2023, 8:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-would-the-number-of-all-time-sign-ups-ever-decrease/259962/1 "2023-03-30T08:25:23Z")
Hi folks. I’ve seen this a couple of times this week alone, as reported on the About page. Why could this be?
Thanks in advance
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2023, 9:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-would-the-number-of-all-time-sign-ups-ever-decrease/259962/2 "2023-03-30T09:47:28Z")
Maybe it is because of the automatic clean up of inactive users. By default users who did not reach trust level 1 (so very short reading time) and never posted anything are deleted after two years.
You can modify that with the **clean up inactive users after days** setting.
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### Author:  [@rogerdean](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rogerdean)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2023, 10:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-would-the-number-of-all-time-sign-ups-ever-decrease/259962/3 "2023-03-30T10:21:45Z")
Interesting, thanks. That setting is the default 730 days, but my community has only been running for 2 months…
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### Author:  [@MikeNolan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MikeNolan)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2023, 1:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-would-the-number-of-all-time-sign-ups-ever-decrease/259962/4 "2023-03-30T13:52:45Z")
Could sign-up counts include those who were invited but never responded to the invitation?
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### Author:  [@rogerdean](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rogerdean)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2023, 1:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-would-the-number-of-all-time-sign-ups-ever-decrease/259962/5 "2023-03-30T13:56:12Z")
Hi Mike. I think that’d be kinda counter-intuitive but would be on the right sort of scale for what I’ve observed with my numbers…
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### Author:  [@not-ethan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/not-ethan)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2023, 2:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-would-the-number-of-all-time-sign-ups-ever-decrease/259962/6 "2023-03-30T14:03:11Z")
Users can delete their accounts if their account is still young and does not have a lot of posts. Moderators can do the same to any user.
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2023, 2:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-would-the-number-of-all-time-sign-ups-ever-decrease/259962/7 "2023-03-30T14:06:03Z")
> [@rogerdean](#):
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> Hi folks. I’ve seen this a couple of times this week alone, as reported on the About page. Why could this be?
Sign-Ups on the About pages is a User count. That used to be called, correctly, “Users” but was renamed recently to “Sign-Ups” in
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/19020](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/19020)
As a simple User count, it doesn’t really track Sign-Ups, but counts the number of Users in a site as a proxy to the Sign-Ups, meaning that users who are deleted, never activated via the email link, etc are removed from the count.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2023, 11:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-would-the-number-of-all-time-sign-ups-ever-decrease/259962/8 "2023-07-03T11:57:49Z")
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