How well known is Fluther and how many users are there?

700 million.. and counting…

Look at the Fluther Awards list. It will give you a good idea.
For example 17,547 people asked their first question. 25,302 wrote their first answer.

@LuckyGuy Wow, that’s a lot of people. I really thought it was less. Is Fluther well known in the world, if you know what I mean?

@eiram I’ve been using Fluther for almost 3 years and have still never met anyone who has heard of it.

Fluther is not well known. There is hardly any mention of it in the trade publications, and since Google changed their formula for items that appear on the first page of their search, Fluther has gotten less and less use.

I don’t believe fluther is well known. Outside of the site I don’t personally know of anyone that had ever heard of it. I’ve told other people about it, but no bite. That doesn’t mean it isn’t a quality site though.

I have told a few people about it, but I am not sure if they ever checked it out or became regular users. If they did, they don’t talk about it. I am pretty careful who I refer to this site, because if people I know started using it, they could and might quickly figure out who I am, and that could be dreadful. On here, over the last 5 years, I have discussed sex, work, family, relationships, all sorts of personal stuff that I might not want people to know about me. They could have a field day.

It is my secret vice, so I don’t ask people about it. I have never heard anyone I know speaking of Fluther though.

We used to have a lot more active members, before Google changed the algorithm, and our ‘hits’ went way down. We had been up to a million different visitors a month!

We have an international userbase, though most of our members are in the US. I wouldn’t say we’re well known, but we’re not unheard of, either. :)

It’s famous in Israel.

I don’t think it’s very well known, which is both good and bad. It’s bad, because we really do need some fresh blood to keep the site hopping. It’s good, because I like being able to openly discuss personal things on a site that’s not over-populated.

@zensky Really? Why?

A large percentage of our userbase is not active. A large number were never active, some weren’t even human, and many have left.

Out of the 25,302 people who have written an answer, only 3,684 have ever made to 100 lurve. Out of those 3684 people, 1244 have either left or not yet made it to 250 lurve.

If you pick 500 lurve as the benchmark for a user that has been active on Fluther for some point in time, then 1720 would qualify, not the 25,000 that have written an answer. An even better metric for a solid userbase of regular users would be those who have reached 5000 lurve: there are only 433 people who have made it to that point.

While we may have had 25000 “users”, only a couple hundred of them have stuck around for a substantial amount of time.

@PhiNotPi Great answer, thanks.

The world keeps gettin smaller.