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2nd May 2008 at 11:03 PM
Last edited by Delphy : 2nd May 2008 at
11:10 PM.
Four years later...
Hi All,
Back on the 2nd May 2004, when I first set up the CMS system that would become MTS2, little did I know that, 4 years later, the site would still be going strong, with millions of members joined, tens of thousands of people on per day, hundreds of thousands of items downloaded a month.
During the last 4 years we've seen a lot of changes around here. Many people have left, lots of new ones have joined, and stars have risen and fallen again.
We've had 1,941,679 members registered. And almost 1.3 million pruned for inactivity.
We've had at least 59,413 downloads posted on the site, including the very first one (which doesn't work anymore...), this one:
https://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=30401. (If you are wondering the reason it starts at 30,401 is becuase I had to write a custom script to import e107 threads to vBulletin in Sept/Oct 2004, and didn't reset the auto_increment values).
We've been through at least 3 major download overhauls, one complete software change (e107 -> vBulletin), a heck of a lot of tweaks, improvements and modifications, and seen people leave to setup thier own sites. Of course, it's not been without the drama too, but I feel that at this point in it's history, what the site stands for and has become is far more important that all of that.
So, I would like to thank all of the staff - current and past - all of the creators - featured, picked or just people who want to share things, all of the people who say thanks, or even just click the thanks button and above all,
you for visiting and reading this.
With the Sims 3 only a year or so away, this site is still going strong - over 40 million pageviews a month still, and some 16 million downloads. There is still a lot of life left here, and I wish you all the best of luck for another year.
Happy Birthday, MTS2! You've earned it...
Regards
Delphy and the MTS2 Staff
PS: Some interesting statistics:
Current member count: 646,470
Total members over time: 1,941,679
Total attachments: 373,629 taking up 113.5gb
Total downloads, all time: 284,239,950
Item with the most downloads: 155,982,
here
Average users joining per day (2007-2008): 2,263
Average posts per day (2007-2008): 780
Average member visits per day (2007-2008): 27,856
(I'll add more here as I look them up
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