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Thread: I thought this article was helpful.... for getting users to register and post

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    I thought this article was helpful.... for getting users to register and post


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    That does seem helpful. I'm always getting emails from people who are screwing up the email confirm.
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    thanks, the article will help in my community building. I do have question. How long it take you to develop this large community scubaboard.com member?

    thanks

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    I implemented this at my literature site at the beginning of June, here are my results.

    User registrations:

    June 2004 138
    July 2004 109
    August 2004 122
    September 2004 127
    October 2004 144
    November 2004 192
    December 2004 200
    January 2005 231
    February 2005 278
    March 2005 248
    April 2005 319
    May 2005 367
    June 2005 490

    New Posts

    June 2004 2731
    July 2004 2611
    August 2004 1454
    September 2004 931
    October 2004 1784
    November 2004 4415
    December 2004 3787
    January 2005 3387
    February 2005 3807
    March 2005 4304
    April 2005 4926
    May 2005 10769
    June 2005 7221


    Ignore May for the new posts, I did a mass addition of my legacy comment database into the forum so it inflated the numbers by around 6k

    Overall, well worth the time.
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    Very nice, are you going to implement it here?
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    possibly, but most webmasters I'd think are well versed in forum software operation and the changes really just make things more user friendly for those who don't know how to register/post a thread/confirm email/ etc
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    Thanks for the link. It's bookmarked.

    Should come in handy when I impliment forums on a site I'm currently working on.

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