At 12.20am, only 306 posts are needed to make 1,000,000 posts on the forum!!!

The average daily post count is usually over 300, so it's likely to happen sometime during Tuesday 26th. Who's going to be the one to make the 1,000,000th post

Mememe! I hope

How do you know how many posts there are?

Drift over the reply button on each post, and a link address will appear, where the post number is the final bit of the link : this post is, for example, post number 999728.

In the top right hand corner of your post, it says "Post #3". If you click on that, you will see the URL and at the end of the URL line is the overall post number, which in your case is 999727.

Thanks! (Just helping the count along a bit! )

Do I get the impression then, that later today a host of members will be checking this link with a message ready to send?
Could be the start of a new game!

It'll actually be comparatively difficult to know for sure that you're getting post number 1,000,000 : you may have spotted post number 999,999, but someone else may be posting elsewhere at the same time as you are!

Personally, I hope post 1,000,000 is a 'normal' post (i.e. a post that isn't on this thread purely to make sure the poster has got the millionth).

I probably won't be online again today until after it's been and gone.

A million posts... I wonder how many of those have been in the cafe and how many have been about, er, music

Wonders if forum will blow up when it hits 1,000,000..... Some dodgy programmer somewhere will be to blame

I think Barry should be nominated to make the one-millionth post. In fact, I'm nominating him right now.

Reminds me of the Millennium Bug that never happened



It's likely to happen this evening : and I'm offline most of this evening!

Baz!!

It DID happen.

The only reason you think that it didn't happen is because people all over the world put in an enormous amount of time and money to ensure that services would not be affected. (Including me.)


It is probably more likely blow up on 1,024,000, or 1,048,576.

Agree with the post about the amount of work that happened to stop the millennium bug, the work started at least a decade before 2000.

IMO If it doesn't happen at 1,000,000 then it is not likely to happen until 4294967295 + 1

Grrr, I was going to post that. Pipped to the post.....

When did they start counting from?

I'm struggling to make even a thousand posts

Er, for the non-technically-savvy amongst us... why??

I got a bit confused by that number myself, but didn't want to sound thick!

Oops Sorry if I offended anyone

It's the highest unsigned integer possible working in 32 bits.

You didn't offend me Barry - sorry if I sounded a little terse. Perhaps the 'angry' smilie was a bad choice!

I just like to try to quash that particular urban myth whenever I have the opportunity.

That's OK : I go all scared and frightened every time I see the smiley pointing in my direction

I blame Channel 4 or 5 (can't remember which) which had this as no. 1 in the top 100 hoaxes!...

It is the highest number you can get with 32 ones or zeros - and a much more plausible suggestion than mine.


Quite. I think that it was Channel 5. I shouted at the TV that day.

I note the IT industry didn't make any attempt to quash the urban myth leading up to the "event".

I can think of 2 reasons:
1. There was still money to be made from those who didn't realise ('cos they hadn't been told) that it was actually all going to be fine.
2. It might all have gone t1ts up anyway.

Overtime... Ker-ching, ker-ching, ker-ching!

It's a very valid question Panthera.
My experience with online retailing makes me wonder.
When you start a shop you don't want your first customers to think you have only just launched and that they are the first - you want to show a success track record both for customer reference numbers and for order numbers.
For my main retail business we started order numbering at 10,000
- so it is not impossible to do this with a forum
- but this is the ABRSM, so they will have started at o! Perhaps old posts have been archived?

This is post number 22 : it's possible most/all of the previous 21 posts vanished under the various reorganisations this forum has had over the years...

So we need to get to 999,979 to have the 1 million?

Nope : 1,000,000. In the days BBC (Before Barry Clari ) there used to be separate fora for clarinet and flute, amongst other instruments, and I'd imagine there were a number of similar administrative posts attached to them that have long gone...

Erm I'm with JudithJ on this one too!! The work was put in to avoid the bug. It was avoided, project success! Saying it was a waste of time is like having the measles jab and then not getting measles and saying the jab was a waste of time.

Babybird2 has posted the millionth post

Whoop, whoop! 1,000,000th post!!!

Congratulations on submitting one million posts on the forum! We greatly appreciate all the advice and discussions that take place on these forums on a daily basis. It is a real testament to your passions and professional knowledge that collectively we have reached this epic figure.

We are honoured to host this network for musicians - be they teachers, learners or anyone with an interest in music. And we hope that this facility and, of course, the members continue to support the music community in the future.

And, in order to commemorate this achievement, I would like to offer a branded ABRSM mug to the lucky one millionth poster! (Babybird 2, if you are willing please supply me with your contact address ? via PM or email).

Bring on 2,000,000!

Soprano

And thank you to all the guys and girls at ABRSM Towers!

Hope to still be here for no. 2,000,000

We've now announced the news on Facebook: www.facebook.com/abrsm

It's taken 7 years to get to 1 million posts... wonder how long it will take to get to 2 million...

Car Expert

Much appreciated - both the post and the forum!


Congratulations Babybird2

Haha, congrats Babybird2

Thanks all - most of all to the people who have made this forum what it is... and to those congratulating me

And was that related to a certain managerial appointment in a lovely NE town?

No, this was the 1,000,000th post:Car Expert

Oh. I was hoping it might be a good omen for our life under Tony Mowbray.

Sorry Flossie, I should have timed that better

Well Barry got Post#999999 with this one:Car Expert

I was teaching, so missed my cue.

Another 7 unless they somehow manage to get rid of flood control........