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[UpRiverGreg]

Another exciting bit of UpRiver news: we are now averaging roughly 30 unique users per week!

While that may not seem like much, we’re pretty happy, considering this website was launched less than a year ago, by three guys who basically have (or had) no clue about creating, building and maintaining websites.

However, if you’ve ever browsed through our forum before (much like you are now) you’ll likely notice that conversation is almost exclusively amongst the three UpRiver creators of Matt, Spencer and myself (with, of course, the exception of a few other rockstars who post from time to time — guys, we love you!)

With that said, I’d like to use this thread as a friendly bit of encouragement to get some of those other 30 unique users to chime in! Who are you? How did you find UpRiver? What do you think of it? What do you like to do for fun? Do you have any pets? (bonus points for pics)

Trust us guys, we don’t bite, and we’d love to hear from you! So please, leave us a little message and introduce yourself (yes, YOU!)

[UpRiverMatt]

Fun fact from Wikipedia:
“In Internet culture, the 1% rule is a rule of thumb pertaining to participation in an internet community, stating that only 1% of the users of a website add content, while the other 99% of the participants only lurk. Variants include the 1–9–90 rule (sometimes 90–9–1 principle or the 89:10:1 ratio),[1] which states that in a collaborative website such as a wiki, 90% of the participants of a community only consume content, 9% of the participants change or update content, and 1% of the participants add content. This also applies, approximately, to Wikipedia.”

[UpRiverGreg]

Good little bit of info there, Matt. Thanks for that!

So it seems like, according to that rule, we’ll need to pump those numbers up 70 more before we hook a live one.

Then again, UpRiver has never been about following the rules 😏 😜

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