Does this chart look familiar to you?

Looks a bit like this, doesn't it?

But it is actually...

So we are averaging around 8000/9000 daily unique posters/commentators at present.

Those are the daily counts though, what about the past week, fortnight, and month, etc?

7 days
select count(distinct author) from comments where created > getdate()-7
18446

14 days
select count(distinct author) from comments where created > getdate()-14
23720

28 days
select count(distinct author) from comments where created > getdate()-28
32402

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On the 30th January 2018, 41288 accounts posted, the ATH. I posted on that day on one account.

In the past week, I have posted on abh12345, zapncrap (for actifit), steemcommunity (power-up league), and via automated comment on misterengagement, and on Thursday, all 4.

There were 8500 unique posters/commentators on Thursday. Remove promotion bots, community accounts, apps, other automated comments (bookkeeping, the spell-checker, etc), and how many individuals do you think posted?

8000?

4000?

2000?

This is in response to a message I received today - I'm pretty sure we don't have 500,000 active users, whatever you choose to base 'active' on.