And, yup! Those numbers are correct. They even exclude bots. Those page views are real and were made by real humans.

Forums go through a lot of page views. They're quite different (in usage patterns) than blogs like the MFU site. So, the page view count will be much, much higher.

Hell, it's not even halfway through the month and we've chewed through almost 500mb of bandwidth.

I have public stats enabled, as it's a nice way to motivate people. Maybe I can find a few ways to have contests or something and we can have some sort of rewards system? Anyhow, that's a long ways down the road. Right now, the site hasn't even been open to the public for a month!

Right now, we're doing fantastic! Take a look:

Friday Night Guitar Thread Community - Statistics Center

That's right, y'all are kicking ass and not even bothering to take names! There are forums that have been around for years and not had this much activity. My plan appears to be working! I put the framework here, you build what you need to build on it. Just doing archives would have been okay, but this seemed like a more productive route to take. So, it's not just archives and it's great to see you all taking advantage of this.

Hmm... I should probably write something up and do the rounds, letting the rest of the people know about this site. That way, they can register before it goes invite-only, however that's more a note to myself than it is anything else. That will happen, I've just not set a date in stone yet.

Either way, the point is that the site is starting to mold itself into what you want it to be. Much like the guitar thread, it's just a framework for you to use. I just get it started and facilitate it. What you do with it is, for the most part, up to you. The stats show me that you're actually making use of it. The number of page displays is particularly impressive.