Yep a milestone, although some are inactive those are the ones still responding to messages etc. we have an additional 1675 account that are inactive due to their email accounts not responding that are not included in the 3K figure.

Now for some stats:

On average 350 people are logging in each day

Around 1,200 accounts every fortnight are active, which is an active community

The traffic on the site isnt low, lets take last sunday

18,456 pages viewed, 131,000 hits...  and 5 GIG of data transfer (in a day). This is not the heaviest usage day either.

We get more links refered from mcstories.com than we do from google.... also the national breakdown is as follows for the top 10 countries: