New Members???? (Lots and LOTS of them!)

I thought there were no new members since about June of this year (2024) (???).

I just went and looked at the member list and there's literally hundreds, if not thousands, of new members since June of 2024. Most of them have zero posts, but there's hundreds.

Go to member list, sort by join date, and then go to the last page. There's over 100 members signed up just today even.

What's up with this???

a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

We all know what's up and who the majority of new members are. It is great that ABS is a free site but if we were charged five bucks a year I bet most of the new members would have the same bank account.????

a reply to: annonentity

But...numerous mods have said that there have been no new sign ups since June (when the email thing (or something) broke). That doesn't appear to be the case.

I counted (22) new members today. (25) new members yesterday. About the same the day before, and so on. Not exact counts because I was just eyeballing it, but close. You can go look.

I counted 1,900 members who have "joined" since May 31, all of whom have exactly zero posts. The last new member post was on May 31, 2024.

So...I thought no new members could sign up? What's up with that?

a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

you can join but don't get the email to confirm and change the temp one sent to you.
did you notice if any had visted since they joined since June of 2024. if so that goes against all that has been posted about that.

a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

If they have a 'join date' of 'Dec 31, 1969' that means they didn't receive the activation email and therefore couldn't activate the account.

It aligns perfectly with what we've been advised, there can be no new users because the email server is brokeded.

No big conspiracy here lol

a reply to: BernnieJGato

There's a few right after June 1, 2024 who show last visit dates in 2024, but everything after June 2, 2024 shows a last visit date of Dec. 31, 1969.

a reply to: MykeNukem

1,900 people??

a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

that matches what mikenukem said. iirrc it was june 5th that it stopped sending out emails. might be wrong abut that.

there a thread about it somewhere.

originally posted by: MykeNukem
a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

If they have a 'join date' of 'Dec 31, 1969' that means they didn't receive the activation email and therefore couldn't activate the account.

It aligns perfectly with what we've been advised, there can be no new users because the email server is brokeded.

No big conspiracy here lol

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