I just checked and it looks like OVER 250 new members have joined since the 1st of the year !
The reason many of them are not noticed is that many of them have not yet posted their first post.
To see for yourself go to the members list at:
http://metaldetectingforum.com/memberlist.php
and click on "JOIN DATE" then click on the "V" arrow next to "JOIN DATE" to do a "Reverse Sort Order" to list members starting with the most recent new members first.
There are over 5 pages of new members from the first of the year (50 members listed per page) and notice how many still have 0 posts, and I guess most of us only notice a new member joined when they post their first post saying they just joined. I just thought to check the list again now because of this thread to see how many new members have actually joined since the 1st of the year.
So as of now that makes roughly about an average of 6 new members a day since the 1st of the year !
…….more than I thought, and likely more than many of us thought !