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How many active (posting and/or reading at least once a month) SUN members are there?

I don`t know Doormat.  Probably someone from Sun could tell you more from there stats.  But it seems like we`ve lost a few active posters.  Where are you guys????  We miss you!

I think there`s somewhere between ten and a thousand, but I`d have to go back and count. Lemme put that on my to-do list, and get back to you on that.

Oh...and don`t forget the members of StagNation, none of whom are very active!

Hi Doormat, there are plenty of acticve members here. Hi Janie, I made it!!

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Rich Sloan , Co-Founder, Chief Startupologist, StartupNation

Actually, I have a couple of thoughts on making this better. For a site that`s not only this visible, but also as important to the emerging need (necessity?) for a return to entrepreneurial lifestyles, the forum is very important. I don`t know if there`s a dedicated FTE assigned to it, but if not, it`d be a huge benefit.

• Manually create summaries that can be searched, of topics going more than 1 page
• Monitor and arbitrate problem threads (spam and commercial advertising)
• Act as a consolidation and indexing manager, again for better searching.
• Introduce tagging
• In some way, form a cross-reference to the many blogs in the "other" dimension of SuN.
  

From the git-go, the search function on the forums has been pretty miserable. I say this because of the many times I`ve tried to find even my own topics and couldn`t. When I did eventually find them, I couldn`t make sense out of how the searching is taking place.

If a topic drops off the main Community home, and I miss it, then it pretty much can`t be found except by accident or by scrolling through every single posting in every forum. There ought to be a way to extract ALL topics posted within "X" number of days previous. The problem is not visiting the forums for say, a week or two, then trying to "catch up."

We have an unbelievable archive of resources here in the forums, little of which can quickly be found in an organized fashion. With hyperlinking and grouping, I think it could become as functional as Wikipedia.

The podcasts are an excellent cross-connection resource, and they`re even harder to find in a specific or particular way. The summaries don`t do justice to them, so maybe they could use electronic transcription; I dunno.

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Rich Sloan , Co-Founder, Chief Startupologist, StartupNation