# Why would the number of all time sign-ups ever decrease?

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**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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**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")

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> [@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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