I just double checked, April of 2021!
Current Pulse of HCL--counts, and other data
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Help Support Homesteading & Country Living Forum:
https://www.homesteadingforum.org/members/ladylocust.355/Still not getting anything that shows me a number but it’s okay because I don’t want to be older than @Pearl
Still not getting anything that shows me a number but it’s okay because I don’t want to be older than @Pearl
Thank yee
. Not sure what difference it makes but I sound pretty Biblical stating that I’m 355 
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If I got it correct, my number is 46.
My guess is that the number does not represent the order in which we joined the forum. Probably it's a "row number" in a relational database that contains our current entry. As we change data about ourselves in our profile, we may see our row number change. Possibly the software adds us in to a new row and then our old row is subsequently freed up. Then somebody else comes in and gets their record assigned to our old row (because that row is free and available after we left it). It all depends on how the forum software handles adds, deletes, and modifies. "Row number" is usually meaningless to users of a database. The database itself uses these for its purposes, but end users - us forum members - don't.
If the database were add-only ... no deletes and possibly no modifies ... then row numbers might be assigned to us sequentially and never change. In that case, possibly row number could indicate the order in which we were added to the database.
That's my guess anyway.
If someone wants to be adventurous, you could note your current number, then go into your profile and change your username - which is probably the "primary key" to your database entry. If changing your username is even allowed. Then look at your row number again. Did it change? Now, you're on your own to figure out how to get your old username back again along with all your accumulated data. I imagine that usernames may be locked after they get changed/abandoned so that people cannot easily become impostors of a previous forum member. I can offer you no help from this point on, so good luck with recovering from your adventurous test. We thank you for your service.
If the database were add-only ... no deletes and possibly no modifies ... then row numbers might be assigned to us sequentially and never change. In that case, possibly row number could indicate the order in which we were added to the database.
That's my guess anyway.
If someone wants to be adventurous, you could note your current number, then go into your profile and change your username - which is probably the "primary key" to your database entry. If changing your username is even allowed. Then look at your row number again. Did it change? Now, you're on your own to figure out how to get your old username back again along with all your accumulated data. I imagine that usernames may be locked after they get changed/abandoned so that people cannot easily become impostors of a previous forum member. I can offer you no help from this point on, so good luck with recovering from your adventurous test. We thank you for your service.
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You are #140
I figured out who was first!
https://www.homesteadingforum.org/members/admin.1/
Havasu is #2, Angie is #5.
https://www.homesteadingforum.org/members/admin.1/
Havasu is #2, Angie is #5.
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Can't find my number, either.
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https://www.homesteadingforum.org/members/amish-heart.35/
Edit: you joined on the same day I did and shortly after me. Those early days were pretty busy.
amish-heart.35/
You were #35
You're # 140
If you hold your finger on the user name of the person posting, you will get this pop up. That shows the numerical position, understanding even deleted spammers receive a number, and I believe name changes may affect your number, but not certain on that. Honestly, it is just for fun.
Please tell me that is a nose?
Not me, I'm not going to tell you that!Please tell me that is a nose?
The last time I was there some dipstick threatened to kill me.
Not an admin in sight for days, so I told him how lousy his wife and daughter were in bed and offered him to come over to get .......
Not an admin in sight for days, so I told him how lousy his wife and daughter were in bed and offered him to come over to get .......
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Its a nose!!Please tell me that is a nose?
I think the emoji designers need to re do that one!!
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Well, gumpy joined November 24, 2017, and he is number 39! I wish he would drop in to chat with us sometime.
https://www.homesteadingforum.org/members/gumpy.39/
https://www.homesteadingforum.org/members/gumpy.39/
I don't even know when I joined.
If that works, then I'm #100.
Dec 10 2017
Dec 10 2017
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I have had to re-join here a few times, no idea when I actually got here. I think it's been like a decade.
#80! Hey, at least I made the top-100.
Sooo, if I am 3079 and there are only a little over 1000 members, am I really here??
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Look at your profile, at the left of anything you post. It has your image and name, the date you joined and more.
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Your profile says December 13, 2017. Look at what shows up with your comment when you post. It has an image, your user name and a few more things.
Are any of us really here? Thanks Pearl, now I’ll be questioning everything.Sooo, if I am 3079 and there are only a little over 1000 members, am I really here??
