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Sean-AMN
11-19-2003, 07:45 PM
Since the sites stil a bit buggy, it might be best to link your friends to the forums to register! Lets try and break 100 members by midnight pst!
Shoxx
11-19-2003, 07:47 PM
It's pretty amazing that by the time I signed up, there was like 50 members, now we're almost at 100... and the place just opened! I say we also go for 500 posts or something like that.
Sean-AMN
11-19-2003, 07:49 PM
lol well this should be fun! I dont wanna get people spamming, so far not bad!
Try 9:00 eastern man... members are signing up fast. midnight PST is too easy a goal.
cirials gf
11-19-2003, 07:51 PM
Let's do it!!! :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool:
Shoxx
11-19-2003, 07:56 PM
9 EST is a little early... seeing as how it's 8 over there already. Make it 10.
Do we get anything for refering people?
11 members in an hour isn't too much. But yeah, it'll happen before the night is up for sure.
Silliw 2
11-19-2003, 07:59 PM
How many people total did the old forums have? (old as in the last one, not the original)
JustUsOwls
11-19-2003, 08:01 PM
GCAdvanced.com still doesnt even work.
Shoxx
11-19-2003, 08:03 PM
Funny... it worked a while ago for me.
Sean-AMN
11-19-2003, 08:04 PM
The server change over takes a while, and can be abit buggy. It should be all good tommrow!
Ahmed
11-19-2003, 08:16 PM
Damn I think the old boards only had like 300+ members...
The way we're heading is that we'll beat that record in about a week LoL.
I guess GCA has really grown in a span of 6-8 months...
Cirial-GCA
11-19-2003, 08:26 PM
If gcadvanced.com has yet to work for you, please reset your DSL/Cable/56k modems.. disconnect them so they power off, and then reconnect to the internet. Give your internet providers time for the DNS cache to initiate the change over that we recently made. All should be well for everyone within 24 hours. It looks like the change is almost done taking place.. for everyone.
pythonfan
11-19-2003, 09:03 PM
Just 9 more! Keep this up we'll have 1000 by Christmas!
Shoxx
11-19-2003, 09:34 PM
Maybe not 1000... but if you guys had about 300 members in the old GCA... wow. You'll definitely beat that one quickly.
Sean-AMN
11-19-2003, 09:43 PM
With the contest we re having 500 might be no prob
When GCA Forums went down there were around 800 or so members, give or take.
Shoxx
11-19-2003, 10:50 PM
Well, we hit 100 pretty quickly... it's safe to say that the launch went quite well... wouldn't you all agree?
I see a huge future for GCA... good job staffers!
Yeah, there were about 800. Probably new GCA will get like 400 within the first 2 weeks.
JustUsOwls
11-19-2003, 11:42 PM
Yeah, if they get www.gcadvanced.com to work on all ISP's then definately.
Sean-AMN
11-19-2003, 11:45 PM
should work by tommrow Sam
Sean, the DNS can take a few days for some people, espically smaller ISP's. bigger ones will be fixed faster.
JustUsOwls
11-19-2003, 11:55 PM
Comcast is a pretty big ISP though
Generally they are slow though because they have a lot of members. Nothing to do with DNS, but it'll take them like 3 weeks just to come and install Internet at your house. I'm happy with BellSouth. I think BS (lrmfoflma) fixed it as soon as the DNS was fixed. It's been working off and on all day. Started working permanetly since like 7pm.
JustUsOwls
11-20-2003, 12:57 AM
Wow, this is a better launch then last time we launched the forums.
I think we had around 30 by days end.
111 is quite good.
Carlos
11-20-2003, 01:14 AM
Originally posted by Silliw 2
How many people total did the old forums have? (old as in the last one, not the original)
I remeber the forums reaching at LEAST 700 members..
Patrick-NE
11-20-2003, 02:54 AM
120 already...once everyone can access www.gcadvanced.com, it will go up fast. I mean I'm still using hope.myidealhost.com...
I think we'll be able to get 500-600 by Xmas
Shoxx
11-20-2003, 05:53 AM
We've got 126 now (unless something's changed in the past 2 minutes). The old GCA never got this big this fast, did it?
Patrick-NE
11-20-2003, 05:57 AM
When you open a site for the 1st time, its slow, but when you reopen, people are normally waiting for it, therefor more subscriptions in the one day. Anyway, the number will grow heeps in the next few days.
*realize hes not meant to say anything*
Shoxx
11-20-2003, 06:18 AM
Yeah, that's true too... I remember when I first opened my site, it was really slow. We had a couple members of GCA there (JustUsOwls, but the co-owner banned him), Sean was there, and a couple others, I think. But then we grew, and by the time we closed, we had about 140 members, and 10,000 posts.
Patrick-NE
11-20-2003, 06:20 AM
out of curiosity, why did you close the site? What sort of site was it?
jozenshin
11-20-2003, 07:04 AM
It's all well and good to have a heap of members but if they don't post then what's the point?
This place, so far has been getting a bit of a workout considering.
I might start up some topics tomorrow :P
Patrick-NE
11-20-2003, 07:07 AM
over 850 posts & 125 members in one day, thats a bloody good effort
Xetas
11-20-2003, 07:55 AM
Yes, I'd say its pretty strong. This will be nice
Sean-AMN
11-20-2003, 09:40 AM
Hows 200 by tonight sound... I think its possible.. Ken and I have a surprise for tonight if all goes well... and you will need to be a forum member to see it!
Patrick-NE
11-20-2003, 04:46 PM
Originally posted by Sean-GCA
Hows 200 by tonight sound... I think its possible.. Ken and I have a surprise for tonight if all goes well... and you will need to be a forum member to see it!
Yeah, cant wait. We already have 154 members, I think 200 is very possible.
Wow, this site in like 3 days has more members than some sites have gotten in months.
Shoxx
11-20-2003, 05:06 PM
It's got more than GE did in the 5 months it was open.
Patrick-NE
11-20-2003, 05:11 PM
Originally posted by codeMatrix
It's got more than GE did in the 5 months it was open.
GE?
GameCube Advance's new forums got more people in 2 days than GameCube Café has gotten in a year which I find funny for some reason.
Patrick-NE
11-20-2003, 05:18 PM
lol, well we did have 700 + members in the old forums, and people have been waiting for this for months. Hopefully we'll get over 500 by Xmas
JustUsOwls
11-20-2003, 05:20 PM
GCA is a pretty popular site, although I dont think it is as poplular as N-Philes...It could be if we tried really hard.
I've heard a lot of stuff about N-Philes...such as the site is slowly becoming less and less in hits, and is slowly declining as a top Nintendo site. Yeah, might be rumors, but still.
GCA is pretty popular, but still it needs more hits. Maybe some more exclusive contetsts.
Patrick-NE
11-20-2003, 05:27 PM
Theres something quite exclusive coming to GCA tonight, that people will want to see,a nd I mean really want to see. And to see it, you have to be a member...
Shoxx
11-20-2003, 05:40 PM
Originally posted by JustUsOwls
GCA is a pretty popular site, although I dont think it is as poplular as N-Philes...It could be if we tried really hard.
N-Philes doesn't deserve to be popular.
NickTheGamer
11-20-2003, 05:41 PM
ummm, I wonder? lol What could it be?
Originally posted by codeMatrix
N-Philes doesn't deserve to be popular.
They've brainwashed a lot of people though and made excuses..
Shoxx
11-20-2003, 07:02 PM
Yeah. I remember a few months ago when you talked to me online and you were like "Go to N-Philes and defend GCA," and I was like "No, I can't stand GCA." (This was while I was still banned from the old forums)... turns out they had deleted my account there before I had the chance to do anything.
NickTheGamer
11-20-2003, 07:04 PM
So does Brandon have a chance of comming back? lol even that there will be a fight between Carlos and him for sure that would mess everything up. lol
Shoxx
11-20-2003, 07:08 PM
I believe they had that fight at my old site too... Carlos eventually got banned for life... it was on Super Bowl Sunday, too... so I had to take a few minutes away from the game (Go Bucs!) to ban him.
...It's too bad the Bucs suck this year.
Banning is really overrated. People should show maturity in dealing with people who they think should be banned and just ignore them.
Anyway, this forum is growing really fast.
pythonfan
11-20-2003, 07:11 PM
Yes, very nice to see our beloved forums coming back with a vengeance.
Originally posted by Matt
Banning is really overrated. People should show maturity in dealing with people who they think should be banned and just ignore them. You get banned a lot. :p pwnd <3
Shoxx
11-20-2003, 07:34 PM
Originally posted by MoN
You get banned a lot. :p pwnd <3
I remember banning Matt from GameNet back a year ago.
JustUsOwls
11-20-2003, 07:59 PM
Originally posted by codeMatrix
I remember banning Matt from GameNet back a year ago.
I remember banning you from GCA back a year ago :mad:
;)
Shoxx
11-20-2003, 08:02 PM
How can we forget that? It went on forever by the time me and my posse gave up. (just remember the new me is the one you've been talking to since yesterday).
JustUsOwls
11-20-2003, 08:21 PM
Originally posted by codeMatrix
How can we forget that?
Bake me a cake and all is forgiven. No carrot cake please. (;))
Carlos
11-20-2003, 08:24 PM
GE (GamersEvolved) closed because Wildcard didn't want to run the site anymore, he has a "life" as he claims to have.....End of story.
Everyone's probably banned somewhere, or was banned, or whatever, or will be banned.
Banning is just dumb lol.
Shoxx
11-20-2003, 08:34 PM
Well, he's working on the new site now, I believe. We want a January 1 launch.
JustUsOwls
11-21-2003, 12:42 AM
199 members right now, come on...hit 200 by midnight!
Too late my time. :)
Wow, I really should go to sleep. lol bye
Messiah
11-21-2003, 02:58 AM
Theres 211 members now. Wow its grown so quickly!
It would've been faster if the site was avalible to everyone. I wouldn't be here if my fellow staffers didn't show me the way :)
Shoxx
11-21-2003, 05:55 AM
Originally posted by JustUsOwls
199 members right now, come on...hit 200 by midnight!
lol, it shouldn't have been too hard, you posted about 9:30 last night.
254 now, but again, we have many 0 and 1 posters.. =\
Oh well, it's always like that with forums.
This new contest willl get a lot of people signed up if membership is needed.
Shoxx
11-21-2003, 03:52 PM
That, and it will cause everyone to start posting.
431 now, there's been a load of members joining overnight. 431 since 18th Nov is incredible. These are the fastest growing forums I've seen!
JustUsOwls
11-23-2003, 12:53 PM
Fastest for GCA anyways :D
It seems that Vbulletin is more popular now than Ikonboard was. It seems it was a good move after all. Though I miss the Ikonboard ones (Babes thread *drools* - That thing was amazing. The GCA newbs missed something special there ;) )
Sean-AMN
11-23-2003, 04:11 PM
In all honesty I am blow away by the numbers... and the contest hasnt even started!
Wow, it is growing pretty fast. What really needs to be counted is the number of active posters, because total members means nothing if no one posts :P
(EDIT: Wait, people have to sign up to enter the contest? Well THAT'S a cheap method to get more members. But eh, whatever works, I suppose.)
Originally posted by Pojo
(EDIT: Wait, people have to sign up to enter the contest? Well THAT'S a cheap method to get more members. But eh, whatever works, I suppose.) How is it cheap? If you visit the site you SHOULD register anyway. Plus, it enables him or her to have full capabilities.
NickTheGamer
11-24-2003, 03:48 PM
It's also a great way to make the site bigger and better.. its not cheap.. its a good concept!
Sean-AMN
11-24-2003, 10:45 PM
Once you see the forum rules you will know whay we had to do it this way... it has to do with tracking stuff
Just Gabriel
11-24-2003, 10:50 PM
hey, at least they didn't go IGN or Gamespot and make you pay for full access. All you have to do is make an account.
489 members. GCA just can't stop growing!
Shoxx
11-25-2003, 05:53 AM
Yeah, and creating an account here, takes what? 5 minutes? Compared to having to do credit card info. on GameSpot and IGN... please don't ever turn into them and start making us pay for access. I would be so mad.
Just Gabriel
11-25-2003, 09:24 AM
Yeah, IGN was awesome until they got greedy, so I turned to Gamespot. Then THEY started locking a bunch of stuff for Gamespot Complete members ONLY... what a bunch of crap...
So I mostly only go to GCA and Gamefaqs Forums for game info now. If they're going to make you pay for stuff, I'd rather have something I can keep, i.e. a Magazine
I'm going to remind the people I referred to this place last year that the forums are back up ^_^
Today we should have 500
5 minutes, more like 5 seconds. When I register I just add my Username and Password, then I add all the other stuff when I've got time. This is gonna grow way faster than the others
JustUsOwls
11-25-2003, 09:41 AM
Someone posted a news article on the main page saying "GCA Forums reach 500 members" but we were only at 480-something. It has been changed since though.
I should imagine you'll be changing it back soon though :)
Sean-AMN
11-25-2003, 11:38 AM
It was changed right away, just 2 more till 500!
YAY!! 500 members, and in a week! That's amazing! Woo! Congratulation GCAdvanced!
I'm not suprised. Even though it is a big number I think we would've had the members faster if the DNS worked earlier for more people. Anyway a big congrats w00t!!!
I have just checked, and only about 160 members have actually posted. About 1/3 of those have under 10 posts. Also, only 12 people have 100 or more posts. It's fair enough having lots of members, but having the majority of those never posting isn't as impressive.
Originally posted by Serj
I have just checked, and only about 160 members have actually posted. About 1/3 of those have under 10 posts. Also, only 12 people have 100 or more posts. It's fair enough having lots of members, but having the majority of those never posting isn't as impressive. That's how it is everywhere, though, especially if people have to sign up to take part in a contest :rolleyes:
Just Gabriel
11-25-2003, 05:59 PM
Yeah, well you have to sign up to get some of the content. So it really isn't so much a number of how many people are on the boards, but more accurately a figure showing about how many people visit the site regularly (I beleive the number will level out to a more accurate figure when we get more content that is member only, I'm guessing in about 3-6 months)
Plus, it's still really early into the board's life! Don't worry about numbers just yet!
Another useless fact is that at the minute, 45% of posts have been posted by just 10 people (Top 10 posters)
Just Gabriel
11-27-2003, 09:07 AM
Yeah, but that will probably change. We'll always get those people who come to the site and don't post (but register to access movies and junk), butmore people will come that are dedicated members. Either way, the ratio will probably still be the same (number of people in the 45% of posts percentile vs the rest of the members)
But even the posters haven't posted that often. Those 45% are from just 10 out of 160 posters!
Sean-AMN
11-30-2003, 04:35 AM
Listen the number of people int he community means a lot. Many of those people may have joined the 1st day we opened, and I think most of those will post... right now we have a healthy number of people who post a lot and that will grow over time!
Yeah, you're right. I've noticed that a lot more members have started to post now, and the no. of members has shot up over the last few days as well. Everythings is going well :)
Shoxx
11-30-2003, 08:49 AM
Actually, the number of member sign ups has decreased in the past few days.
666 members! I reckon we could get to near 1000 by the new year ;)
Shoxx
12-03-2003, 05:51 AM
I think it's slowed down a lot lately... but 1000 by 1/1/04 is possible.
Messiah
12-05-2003, 02:17 AM
700 now, thats got to be a milestone now right?
McBizzel
12-05-2003, 10:52 AM
Originally posted by codeMatrix
I think it's slowed down a lot lately... but 1000 by 1/1/04 is possible.
Sure if it is, if we got around 12 new members every day, totally possible.
Boondock Saint
12-05-2003, 11:10 AM
Originally posted by McBizzel
Sure if it is, if we got around 12 new members every day, totally possible.
dude, let's HOP to it, then! only 12 more to go, today!
705 member. Golly me these forums have grown so fast. (so have the number of posts ;))
Shoxx
12-06-2003, 08:51 AM
Yep... we haven't been open that long, and we've got over 700 members... I haven't checked the posts recently though.
Boondock Saint
12-06-2003, 11:19 AM
actually, i've only seen about 20-25 active members who post regularly. we need to get that 700+ crowd to post a LOT, and then we'll be rockin' these boards.
739 now, I reckon there'll be 1000 by 2004 :)
Rensa
12-08-2003, 08:17 AM
Woah. The old boards never got past 450, did they?
Actually, I'm okay if no more than say 150 post regularly. I'm all for expansion, but if the community gets too big, it gets hard for newbies to make an impact on the boards. :\
Boondock Saint
12-08-2003, 08:19 AM
newbies aren't making that much of an impact. hell, we've still got older guys that are still in the 20 count as far as posts go.
...(like XETAS, who's apparantly addicted to FFXI too much to post more than he does)
Sometimes a lot of newbies can spam and divide the friendship with everyone else. I like GCA as it is now, a few more newbies posting would be cool though
McBizzel
12-08-2003, 12:47 PM
Originally posted by Serj
739 now, I reckon there'll be 1000 by 2004 :)
There is no way that will happen. 1000 members by 2004? By the end of 2004 yeah, but not by the beggining. It's just not going to happen.
I remain confident. We're getting about 20 members a day I think. Plus, visitors who get a GC for Xmas may decide to join
Rensa
12-09-2003, 04:15 AM
What I mean is, if you go and sign up at a large, 2000+ community, it gets quite hard (assuming you're an honest member, not a wanker or a spammer) to become a recognisable face.
Messiah
12-09-2003, 05:04 AM
I dont think thats going to be problem here cause there aint that many people who post on a regular basis.
Shoxx
12-09-2003, 05:57 AM
Yeah, I like to think TeamXbox when it comes to huge sites like that.
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