We’ve grown to 300 amazing members - strong and thriving!

[LuxRiches]

Congratulations to everyone who’s joined and supported OO - we’ve officially hit 300 members!

Your energy, ideas, and contributions are what make this community so special.

Here’s to growing, learning, and building together. Onwards and upwards!

 

[roydan]

Well done!!! And thanks @scarletdiva to take us over the finish line

 

[Prey24]

Congrats outlaws!

 

[back2form]

Well done @LuxRiches ,

I was waited for the past few days to create as soon as reached 300 .

Missed my eyes That's fine!

Let's see it on 400 outlaws ..

And Congrats to all 300 outlaws.

 

[Webmath SEO]

Wooo

 

[back2form]

Wooo

 

[TheVigilante]

Any number you have in mind Z by the end of the year?

 

[roydan]

Any number you have in mind Z by the end of the year?

 

[SirTop]

Wooo

Hear me out @Zwielicht ... “STOP THE COUNT!”

 

[Zwielicht]

Any number you have in mind Z by the end of the year?

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Yeah, 9001 members seems good.

I'm not aiming for a specific number of members as I'm going for quality over quantity: genuine active members.

I'm not sure if you read the changelog often, but I've been putting a lot of measures in place to keep out spam bots and low-effort spammers. This coupled with our manual approval process to make sure real people are joining means that we're growing the numbers more slowly, but we're getting more active genuine members who want to participate here.

In terms of progress, I frequently compare OO's activity to other forums with real people like the Xenforo community forums; they're not a competitor obviously, but it gives me a good idea of where this forum is at so far in terms of activity.

I've never been keen on the idea of being numbers-based when it comes to communities. However, there is actually one aspect that I do have a goal in mind when it comes to numbers, and it's the number of Outlaws online at once. During peak hours (2AM-12PM PST) we usually have about 30-35 members online at once, with this number dipping to around 4-15 during the early to mid-afternoon since most of the members here don't live in the Americas. At the end of the year, I'd love to be able to get to the point where we have a minimum of 100 members online at once at any given time. At the rate we're going, I feel like this is goal is very realistic as well, but I won't be upset if we don't meet this goal as I'm pretty happy already with how this is turning out.

I thought I'd share this with you and everyone else just to keep everyone updated with any goals or plans for OO. It's amazing that we already have 300 members after only a bit over 2 months since we properly opened the forum up to the IM community.

 

[Starblazer]

Any number you have in mind Z by the end of the year?

10k members is possible. I think we need cross promotion or a few viral threads to reach more people.

 

[Zwielicht]

10k members is possible. I think we need cross promotion or a few viral threads to reach more people.

Viral threads would definitely help. Our impressions in Google's search have doubled since last month and the organic traffic we're getting are from threads that have specific keywords in them, like @back2form's thread asking about the "Best SEO forums". When it comes to forums like this one, Google and other search engines put a lot of weight on the thread title and then on the opening post content. So, whenever members create threads using valuable keywords like @back2form did, that's what helps us get organic traffic. Aside from that, interlinking like I did in this post also helps as it would with any other website. There's an add-on I was going to get that has a list of related threads that appears at the bottom of existing threads, but I haven't had a chance to look over it fully yet.

I've mentioned this in other posts, but there are similarly-minded people in some subReddits who I believe would really get along with this community and have a lot of value to add. Because of that, we're looking into trying to get some people from Reddit over here as well. @Impulse has started doing that, but there's something I need to do that I haven't started myself on that matter.

 

[Champagne]

What an amazing achievement for Office Outlaw. We appreciate every single member here. Once again, thanks to all members for your continued contributions and help in growing this forum. Let's make this something amazing.