New and old members. WELCOME TOPIC

[ponchi101]

I was quoting someone in a post (hi Megan) and noticed that there is unique user ID assigned.

I assumed it was sequential - which seemed to make sense because Ponchi was #2.

I then went to the member list and Ponchi is indeed the oldest. kirkus was listed next...but was #50.
I looked at a few other veterans , and all was 50 or higher. Wondering if that was for the non admins?

I am the first user because when I created the forum, the admin role is given that number.
Kirkus is the second oldest because when we were talking about this forum to replace TAT1.0, he was giving me advice on some things. He was here second.
The gap between me and Kirkus is because, when the forum is/was installed, phpBB needs to create a large number of bots to operate it. Those are internal and default bots which cannot be not-installed.
And yes, the ID's are sequential.
The forum is dbase driven, so everything you see on the screen comes from a multitude of databases that populate the templates.
We have over 57 working tables in the database, to generate our posts. The largest is, of course, the posts table. After 5 years of usage, we are at a little bit over 128k entries (one per each post) and it weighs about 100MB.

[ptmcmahon]

I was quoting someone in a post (hi Megan) and noticed that there is unique user ID assigned.

I assumed it was sequential - which seemed to make sense because Ponchi was #2.

I then went to the member list and Ponchi is indeed the oldest. kirkus was listed next...but was #50.
I looked at a few other veterans , and all was 50 or higher. Wondering if that was for the non admins?

Heh, kind of funny who's the third one then (#51.)

I'm in the top 20 at least then. I'll take it.