We've Hit 500 Members!

[Richard Kaufman]

Despite the fact that we now have "only" 500 members versus 10,000, the Forum doesn't seem to have noticeably suffered.

[Pete Biro]

When did you have 10k members?

[Dustin Stinett]

Back before we made the switch. a few thousand of those were probably Mark Lewis's. :D

[James Nelson]

Didn't the forum have a directory link somewhere before?

[Chris Aguilar]

Originally posted by James Nelson:
Didn't the forum have a directory link somewhere before?

Yes, it used to be there, but is gone now.

[Richard Kaufman]

It's shut off so people can maintain their aliases.

[James Nelson]

Being a construction worker, a millwright by trade, I have noticed that the number of blue collar workers interested in magic are far and few. The numbers seem to favor professionals and white collar.

[Bob Postelnik]

That's an interesting observation, I never considered it until you mentioned it here. When I think of all of the magicians I know they are all either white collar or professionals; magicians, lawyers, writers, teachers, doctors, actors, etc.

I think Larry Jennings was a plumber but he is the only craftsman that I could think of on short notice.

[Steve Bryant]

Think Marlo.

[Richard Kaufman]

Marlo was a tool and die maker, I believe.

Jennings was a plumber, and later repaired boilers for city of Los Angeles.

Many amateur and professional magicians are salesmen of some type (Cliff Green was a shoe salesman); insurance, real estate, clothing, and so on.

[Kevin Connolly]

Is the 500 with the glitch that jumped from 30 members to 130 or something like that?

[Richard Kaufman]

No--there are now over 500 registered members. (Actual member numbers don't reflect reality because of the glitches encounter and the work-arounds Brad made to get everything running). The fact that it's all working now is somewhat miraculous because Brad forced the software to do something it was never designed for!

[Rick Ruhl]

Originally posted by Richard Kaufman:
No--there are now over 500 registered members. (Actual member numbers don't reflect reality because of the glitches encounter and the work-arounds Brad made to get everything running). The fact that it's all working now is somewhat miraculous because Brad forced the software to do something it was never designed for!

A good coder can make any code do what he wants it to do. Sounds like Brad has some good experience behind him.

Brad, ever done any assembly, C or C++?