Over a quarter million strong and growing...

Not only the Best Site - It is the ONLY Site!

MaryAnn, you and Johnathan deaserve a walk in the Cow pods for a few years.Wheeeeeew!!!!! What a job.
Congrads to both of you. de Cliff n8dii

MaryAnn,Johnathan,and all the great people that make POI-Factory such a great program and community.
I am at such a loss for words so just let me be the first to wish everyone a very MERRY XMAS LOL
de Cliff n8dii

Maybe I don't wanna know... Spent too many years in farms and pastures when I was a kid in Belgium... But I'll agree to it, if it happens to be a good thing.

CUZ THEY DESERVE IT ! They built the friendliest community I've seen so far

Agreed, they are doing an AWSOME job alright!

So... what are Cow pods anyhow???

Cow pods are places where deserving people take walks.

It is sort of like "no matter where you go, there you are".

Ditto

In US, Yes, but arond the world there are some very good ones indeed!

But POI factory is of great value when we travel in NA, good job!

only more would join in on the different chat's it would be nice.

-Bump!

I agree that this is one great site and enjoy reading comments and occasionally
adding my 2 cents.

i remember thousands, but millions??? CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There are currently about 270K registered users. The million mark is still a ways in the future.

We may not have millions but the people that are here are some of the best informed. I have learned so much about my GARMINs and been able to make them do what I want.

Thanks to the thousands!

Congratulations! Best POI and GPS site on the internet!

Great site! The place that I always come to for new POI's and the lastest news!

Would anyone care to wage a guess how many members this great site will have by the new year?

When people I know buy GPS's, I tell them about this site & offer to help them learn how to use POI's. It's amazing how a little help makes all the difference, as this site demonstrates.

Fred

the best site ever

thanks

I can see where this would do a lot of good.

Me too.

I like this site though.

That' alot of folks.

More than 270,000 but less than 280,000

So... how are we doing at the start of 2012? What are some of the numbers for people joining in Jan. 2012?

New 2012'ers... please let us know what your numbers are-

Is that correct?

Member for 4 years 17 weeks but I'm number 32,410?

This thread has been dated close to a year now. No wonder it's all off.

Yikes, I've been hanging around here for 4 years and 32 weeks?

Seems like only yesterday I joined.

God, I would be lost without my daily POI Factory check-in.

Please keep up the good work.

Member 17415

I'm bumping this to ask what the membership numbers are up to now.

283646

didn't realize the scope of this site. Keep up the good work.

Looking at the user list I did not get that many?

I agree. The user list at

http://www.poi-factory.com/profile

shows 12672 pages @ 20 users each ~= 253,440 registered users

One reason for the discrepancy could be that bot registrations have been deleted. Sometimes if you check the site very early in the morning you'll see the new (bogus) registrations in the "Online users" list.

jgermann, there is probably a better way to do it, but one way is to find a new user such as tcsmithgeol, go to their profile, right click on their ID and select "Properties" you will get something like http://www.poi-factory.com/user/287486 which reveals their user ID number.

I did what alanb said, but did not take into account the deleted accounts.

I wish that we could expand to like user create best trip route. which is like a list of poi.

While it is interesting to know the total number of registered users, and not to take away from the popularity and value of this site, I think what keeps it going (besides JM and his committed dedication of course) are the "core" users that show up daily or at least several times a week and willingly share their expertise and friendship with new users and veterans alike. It would be interesting to know how many regulars there are. I am betting it is a smaller number than we think ... my optimistic guess is a couple thousand.

Since I have joined I have learned alot of cool ways and features of my device. Let's keep it going.

This truly is a wonderful site. I've learned so much from it. Everyone is really helpful if you have a problem.

So let us not forget to give thanks to Angela (GlobeTurtle),
the newest staff member to assist Joanathn & MaryAnn.

Once in a while we get out of line and she keeps things running smoothly. My sincerest thanks to all staff members for their dedication and hard work.

I am quite impressed how current members welcome newbies. Other forums are not as accomodating to newbies compared to the POI Factory.
Sure they ask obvious questions, but they seem to always get answered and in a cordial manner.
I suppose that's why the numbers keep growing, word of mouth is the best advertisement.

Mary Ann is not part of poi factory any more

I wonder since POI-Factory inception how many have gone into permanent recalculating mode, I guess we will never know unless a family member logs in to tell us the sad news; the majority of the old timers here are in the late 60s or into their 70s

I hear in Facebook there are surrogate groups that you can give your user ID and password so they can log in using your account to break the news to your friends from your own FB wall.

Maybe JM knows or suspect who they are based on the logs

Thank you Jonathan & MaryAnn and everyone else who makes this family awesome!!!

There are currently 379 users with the active user (windmill) badge. These are users who have posted in at least 3 of the last 5 weeks.

A much larger number of users visit the site to read posts and/or download files. Over the last 12 months, the site has had about 2.5 million vists from nearly 1.9 million unique visitors. Not all register for a user account. Most view the site as guests.

You all can be proud of your participation on the site. It's helping a lot of folks use and enjoy GPS.

Jonathan (aka JM)

THe staff encourages mutual helpfulness and the members come though.
From what I've seen, everyone gets a helpful answer. The shortest answer I've seen is something like, "Check out this thread", and there is a link to the information. Of course, the link connects you to the complete answer.

Congrats!!!!

5 years 1 week!

know what to do if they were not!

pwohlrab
Thanks for advising. Did Angela (GlobeTurtle) take her place? If not, has anybody taken her place?

sorry...