MeetFighters News
13,000 Members!
Hello everyone,
MeetFighters, the world's (by our not entirely arbitrary metric) largest wrestling personals site, has passed 13,000 members]! And we have just turned 8 years old!
For those who care, the "active membership", that is, members who have logged in in the past 30 days, is 11693. This means that in terms of active membership, MeetFighters is now bigger than the second and third biggest wrestling sites combined! (And this is on a site that actively discourages practices that would artificially inflate our membership numbers, e.g. prohibiting one person from operating multiple profiles.) We are still a site for the community and run by the community, without a corporate owner or commercial interest. We are sustained by the generosity of our members, and continue growing and giving you new stuff.
Some more numbers because I just love them so much:
- 100 interest groups.
- 82992 photos in profiles, user and group galleries.
- 747 videos.
- 41799 recommendations.
- 44833 confirmed past opponent pairs.
- The list goes on...
- All in 8 years of operation!
- Yes, we are proud. :)
In other news, we have a brand spanking new SSD, partly because it is faster than the old one, and partly because the old one crashed, causing a few hours of downtime a few Fridays back. Thankfully our backups worked well and we only lost a small amount of data and half a percent of monthly uptime.
Behind the scenes, we have been busy in the past few months bringing many stability and performance improvements to the site code. Perhaps the most visible change of late was the rearranging of the profile pages. Let me offer some background on the underlying thought process.
The mission of this site, as codified in the name itself, is to facilitate meets. Therefore the most important metric with which I measure the site's success is the number of past opponents each member accumulates over time. The quality of meets is also of concern, hence the importance of recommendations. These two key metrics are measured over the time a person has been using the site. So, days, opponents, recommendations. By picking and focusing these three metrics, I am hoping to nudge some members who are reluctant to meet to do it more frequently.
To counteract the "wasted" screen space that these boxes use up, other parts of the profile have been broken into two columns, giving quicker access to the introduction and interests of a member. (Granted, "waste" is not the right term for something that is in ultimately infinite supply.) I ask everyone to give the new design some time to grow on you. I am still making revisions to it and your input is valuable, but please understand that it is not possible to come up with a design that appeals to all 13000+ active members.
As always, your input is valuable.
And for those who ask each time and then ignore the answer: yes it is possible to see join/part notifications in the browser chat. Just click on the gears icon on the top right of the screen.
– Admin out
scottimike (26 )
28/11/2016 21:25Many thanks the site is fantastic,keep up the good work team , BRAVO on the stats too !
SubsGuyCambs (20)
28/11/2016 21:29Woo! I love stats 🖒🖒
scottimike (26 )
28/11/2016 21:33(In risposta a questo)
Haha yours aint bad either. Subsguyc..fights etc..
edscissors (31 )
28/11/2016 21:32Thank you, as ever, for your hard work on our behalf. Great news that we are up to 13000 members - and the proportion of demonstrably active members is impressive.
I'm not personally wild about the new design for the profile page but understand your reasons for the big blocks (days, opponents, recommendations) and am sure that, as you say, we shall quickly become accustomed to the new look. Yes: we should give it time.
So: thanks again for our wonderful site.
FLGripper (8 )
29/11/2016 22:29(In risposta a questo)
congrats on a milestone.. a great site
rock20087 (93 )
28/11/2016 21:44Keep up the fantastic and sometimes thankless work in your tremendous efforts keeping our community communicating with one another across the globe. Well done!
Vanman (87 )
28/11/2016 21:45As always, good work.
Can I ask for some more stats? What proportion of users use a mobile device vs a pc? When was users last noted opponent or match? How long do I spend on the site each week or month?
I fall into the mobile fraternity and feel sometimes like the poor relation. The new design is great but if the text or boxes don't resize they become unreadable. The 2 column thing would also cause issues.
I love the site but hate the way I always get the old brownish background when I log in.
I will shut up now and stop moaning. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼💪🏼
Wrestle4Fun (106)
28/11/2016 21:48You MUST be proud!!
You are the best and a great Thanx for all !!0
bobster (34)
28/11/2016 21:48MeetFighters is fantastic. Other than meeting a number of wrestlers on this site the best thing is the site does not promote the sale of "adult" wrestling for profit.
Please keep up the good work and keeping the site user friendly.
Wrestlertoo (105)
28/11/2016 21:58Well I have to say , I hate statistics....just cant get away with them.
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On the other hand, I love this site. Must do, as I have been here for 2257 days.
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Thats.....er.....well, its a long time!
Tigerrific (129)
29/11/2016 1:01(In risposta a questo)
I've been on this awesome site for 2142 days! So that makes me as... old, as Jonny here? :p
brick (42)
28/11/2016 22:04I have met so many great people through this site - THANK YOU for your efforts!
privatefight (0)
28/11/2016 22:06le traducteur ne fonctionne encore pas
frenchprowrestler (124)
28/11/2016 22:20Congratulations
;-)
billwrstlr (40)
28/11/2016 22:24Amazing site !!! Thanks so much for making it possible !!
cyclone74 (33)
28/11/2016 22:24Awesome job to the administration, thank you
StrikeFighter (78 )
28/11/2016 22:32Well done and thanks for all your time and effort. Glad to have been a member from the very start. I've made so many friends through this site that I honestly don't know what my life would be like today without it.
Heraclius2 (40)
28/11/2016 22:50Great work guys, thank you very much for it !
I too have met really great guys in here.
matthias (119)
28/11/2016 22:53Very cool. Smart choice of metrics!
DancerDC (3)
28/11/2016 22:53Thanks for all your efforts to promote this community!
the natureboy (16)
28/11/2016 23:18the biggest... but more important... the best and always getting better....thanks for the work and for the enthusiasm...
mikemat123 (12)
28/11/2016 23:27Well done! You've done an amazing job!
tough gut (6)
29/11/2016 1:51Keep up the great work. Before stumbling across the sight by accident and then joining, I thought I was the only one on the planet that enjoyed boxing for & in particular the gut punching. This sight has brought me much closer to others with similar interests and most of us would have more meetups if not for the distances between us. I don't think you can improve on those situations but you're doing great fixing the things that you can.
Alonzo (27)
29/11/2016 2:19Great!!!!
Keep going in this way.
wrestlesub (22)
29/11/2016 2:23Congratulations! Awesome work. Looking forward to see mobile apps improvement as well :)
Rusnak (136)
29/11/2016 3:04Love the site. Great work. One question, in the new format the days that Im listed as belonging to this site is less than a year. Ive been a member for years. Will this be corrected?
carioca fighter (46 )
29/11/2016 3:21i just have to greet you for your dedication on this site
you have been favoring many meetings and friendship through here
so congratulations man you have done, and you still do make an awesome job
Miamigrappler (1)
29/11/2016 3:25The site is excellent.... Believe it or not , once being a Monitor for a no longer Wrestling site, Meetfighters has everything that the other sites had, but the other sites let there growth overwhelm themselves with externals rather than maintaining themselves with a internal discipline.
Financially, I question just the European Dollar, or Euro, ... and PayPal. Here in the States, the more practical payment method would be the use of a Visa card or Mastercard. Paypal for some seems like one more solicitation in a banking form that is not at times friendly. Therefore I would encourage your Financial advisors to investigate Visa and Mastercard.
smeikle (14)
29/11/2016 3:46The site is awesome. Keep up the good work. There is a reason it's number 1
FitScot (38)
29/11/2016 11:09Thanks guys! had some good times though this website here, and sure I've some more to come!
Gran Mitico (0)
29/11/2016 14:52Son contento, ma non sono riuscito a fare un incontro serio, al massimo sono riuscito a prendere un appuntamento, ma senza risultati.
Ringmuscle (51)
29/11/2016 15:02For grown men who like to battle other studs this is the only place to come. You guys do a fantastic job of creating a one stop site for meeting other men who enjoy wrestling. Your chat room is easy to access and for the most part your members behave themselves in there. Thank you.
stdfghter01 (3)
29/11/2016 20:58Thanks so much for all you do. A tremendous site. Have met many great guys and not so great also. But that does not matter. Just having fun in wrestling and fighting. Thanks again.
OVERunder (30)
29/11/2016 21:57I owe MEETFIGHTERS.COM some of the most amazing meetings with people I had in my life (Not exaggerating one bit !) :)
Kudos! please continue keeping the sight fresh, and the spirit of it as it is: community oriented, meeting oriented, supportive and safety aware.
SQUEEZEPLAY (10)
29/11/2016 23:50As always, good work! The new look is fresh and functional! I like your emphasis on making it possible to meet up and wrestle, (or box, etc), although some of the best are a halfway around the world from me! Yet I have still managed to get matches from the site, thanks to efficient administration! Rock on!
wrestle46 (8)
30/11/2016 6:46Thanking you. I love this site. :-)
dabbler1973 (17)
30/11/2016 19:26This is fantastic! Well Done!! and hats off to Fighterboyy Sile for kicking the whole thing off in the beginning!!! Thanks for creating this fun and safe environment to meet other like minded men. Long may it continue!!
Arthuro (7 )
01/12/2016 13:27Vrij onlangs begonnen , op deze site , maar reeds veel plezier gehad , nieuwe vrienden gemaakt , en zelf al een match gehad hier in mijn huis (spanje)
Felicidades por su éxito que ya tienen 13·000 miembros , soy realmente feliz y orgulloso de pertenecer de este grupo , seguir asi , hemos tenido un montón de diversión aquí.