As is customary and traditional, we celebrate every new 1,000 members here and share the traffic stats. This time it's 34,000!
There were 1.95 million page views this month, which is a new record (we get over 70,000 page views a day). It took us just 21 days to get this latest 1,000 members--we're averaging about one new member every 30 minutes.
Thanks as always to all the community members who make this growth possible, and especially the moderators who approve membership applications and blog posts and otherwise answer questions and keep things ticking here. We've got about 65 moderators now, but if anyone would like to join this group, please PM me. If you've been here for a while and have been participating, you'll fit in great.
Comment by Emery c. Chandler on January 30, 2013 at 3:28pm haha this is good, iv been on for a year but participating only recently and this is good. im happy to see such progress.

Thanks Chris for posting the statistical reports for every 1,000 members its awesome to be able to see the growth of the site.
- Joshua
Comment by LanMark on January 30, 2013 at 4:26pm Is that just DIYDrones.com? do you have stats for the code.google.com site where the wiki stuff is located?

Mark: that's just DIY Drones. For the two main Google Code sites: ArduCopter and ArduPlane, the stats are as follows:
Combined, the DIY Drones group of sites (there are few other Google code pages as part of this) gets more than 3 million pageview/month
Comment by LanMark on January 30, 2013 at 9:27pm Chris can you get someone to fix the infinate scroll on the mobile version of the diydrones site.. on my Windows Phone (haven't tried it on others) as you run out of items and it fetches the next batch it just repeates first item it gets over and over and over again.
Comment by LanMark on January 30, 2013 at 9:28pm Nice stats btw.. clearly growing in popularity.

Mark: We're based on the Ning platform, which I don't control. But they tell me that they're totally redoing the mobile version, so hopefully that will fix it.
Comment by LanMark on January 30, 2013 at 9:37pm awesome... I really enjoy being able to read up on my drone news on my smartphone. I think the site works rather well in organization and functionalty... keep up the great work.
Comment by LanMark on January 30, 2013 at 9:50pm You guys should have a social media presence if not to just to push out content... right now your site is passive in a lot of respects.. it seems like there should be 3DR postings that also post out through a facebook feed and such. There is quite a following that would passively watch / read stuff from diydrones if it was stuff that showed up in their news feeds and such.. instead of requiring them to visit the site often to figure out what all is going on.
Comment by Harry on January 30, 2013 at 10:09pm I predict a spike in page views in late March, early April.
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