MacRumors Celebrates Eighth Birthday, Over Five Million Forum Posts
Today marks the eighth birthday of the MacRumors.com website. It also happens to be the 53rd birthday of Apple CEO Steve Jobs.
The MacRumors Forums, the discussion boards for the MacRumors family of sites, reached a milestone this week as well, passing five million forum posts.
It took MacRumors 3.3 years to reach one million posts, 1.3 years to reach two million posts, 10 months to reach three million posts, 9 months to reach four million posts, and only 6 months to reach five million posts. We attribute our continued rate of growth both to MacRumors' rank as the top Apple news site on the web, and to the increased interest in Apple and its products, especially since the introduction of the iPhone.
MacRumors is celebrating its latest forum milestone as it has in the past, with an Avatar Contest! Forum members are invited to create original avatars and enter them in the contest. The winners will be selected in polls and will receive extra forum privileges. For the full contest description and rules, see the Five Million Post Avatar Contest.
A few interesting reader stats from our recent survey:
- 52% own a MacBook Pro (or PowerBook)
- 41% own an iMac
- 40% own a MacBook (or iBook)
- 30% own a Mac Pro (or PowerMac)
- 17% own a Mac mini
- 2.6% own an Xserve
- 74% own an iPod
- 31% own an iPhone
- 13% own an iPod Touch
- 12% own an Apple TV
We thank our members, contributors, sponsors, and all those for whom MacRumors is an online home or a regular stop. We'd also like to thank our volunteers for their hard work and continued efforts in keeping MacRumors the popular site it is.
Editors: arn, longofest
Administrators: Doctor Q, Knox, Mudbug, WildCowboy
Moderators: AmbitiousLemon, Blue Velvet, devilot, edesignuk, HexMonkey, jsw, mad jew, Mitthrawnuruodo, mkrishnan, Mr. Anderson, Nermal, Rower_CPU, WinterMute, xUKHCx, yellow
The MacRumors Forums, the discussion boards for the MacRumors family of sites, reached a milestone this week as well, passing five million forum posts.
It took MacRumors 3.3 years to reach one million posts, 1.3 years to reach two million posts, 10 months to reach three million posts, 9 months to reach four million posts, and only 6 months to reach five million posts. We attribute our continued rate of growth both to MacRumors' rank as the top Apple news site on the web, and to the increased interest in Apple and its products, especially since the introduction of the iPhone.
MacRumors is celebrating its latest forum milestone as it has in the past, with an Avatar Contest! Forum members are invited to create original avatars and enter them in the contest. The winners will be selected in polls and will receive extra forum privileges. For the full contest description and rules, see the Five Million Post Avatar Contest.
A few interesting reader stats from our recent survey:
- 52% own a MacBook Pro (or PowerBook)
- 41% own an iMac
- 40% own a MacBook (or iBook)
- 30% own a Mac Pro (or PowerMac)
- 17% own a Mac mini
- 2.6% own an Xserve
- 74% own an iPod
- 31% own an iPhone
- 13% own an iPod Touch
- 12% own an Apple TV
We thank our members, contributors, sponsors, and all those for whom MacRumors is an online home or a regular stop. We'd also like to thank our volunteers for their hard work and continued efforts in keeping MacRumors the popular site it is.
Editors: arn, longofest
Administrators: Doctor Q, Knox, Mudbug, WildCowboy
Moderators: AmbitiousLemon, Blue Velvet, devilot, edesignuk, HexMonkey, jsw, mad jew, Mitthrawnuruodo, mkrishnan, Mr. Anderson, Nermal, Rower_CPU, WinterMute, xUKHCx, yellow
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52 months ago
Woop!!! Happy Birthday!!!
I can't believe how many posts there are on this forum...
I can't believe how many posts there are on this forum...
52 months ago
iPhone's release looks like it caused a visible bump in the posting rate! You can see it in the steep upswing in number of posts that happens right after the july 07 mark on that graph, and then the post rate slopes back down to where the previous posting rate trend was projecting towards.
52 months ago
well done, thats awesome. I have been reading macrumurs for ages but when the iPhone was being released in late June, thats what made me sign up and talk in the forums. I love macrumurs, and thanks for the great reading material over the years.
52 months ago
Congrats! Here's to another very successful year!
Proud owner/user of [see sig] plus a growing collection of Macs (and Newton 130) dating back to 1984 (FAT Mac). Use to have a 128k, too.
Proud owner/user of [see sig] plus a growing collection of Macs (and Newton 130) dating back to 1984 (FAT Mac). Use to have a 128k, too.
52 months ago
Congratulations.
I'm proud to say I've made nearly 0.02% of those 5 million posts :D
I'm proud to say I've made nearly 0.02% of those 5 million posts :D
52 months ago
Congratulations on the milestones.
This place is a great resource and a great community. Keep up the good work.
This place is a great resource and a great community. Keep up the good work.
52 months ago
Congratulations Arn, keep up the good work. Here's to the further future success of mac rumors!
52 months ago
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MACRUMORS!!!!!!
And a BIG congrats to Arn for a huge success.:cool:
And a BIG congrats to Arn for a huge success.:cool:
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