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[Tokyo Joe]

85 simultaneous visitors today shatters the old record of 79, reached when John Witchel last updated his blog.

We did it without Witchel this time.

Prospers.org already has beaten its monthly highs for Page Views, and new posts should also set a record this month...

[NewHorizon]

We did it without Witchel this time.

R U sure he had nothing to do with it?    

[AmexFan]

If Witchel logged in, 84 still beats 79!

ETA - It's possible that some of his decisions at Prosper.com led to some increase of traffic to here.

[Urbi_et_Orbi]

ETA - It's possible that some of his decisions at Prosper.com led to some increase of traffic to here.

You think?

 

[Capital_Finance_Group]

ETA - It's possible that some of his decisions at Prosper.com led to some increase of traffic to here.

You think?

 

Me thinks it has sumpin to do with the extreme-a-ration at the official forums that make it uterly impossible to have any type of discussion of the relevant issues. 

[Tokyo Joe]

Obviously there's no way to measure this, but I suspect Prosper.org's growth has been done without the aid of many borrowers, which makes it doubly impressive.

In the old days, we had a lot of borrower traffic here, and the RML forum and Group fora were humming.  Most borrowers however are transient, and are gone when their loan funds.

By killing the official RML, and erasing any trace of .org from the official site, most borrowers don't know about us.  Nearly all of the Group fora are dead now, RML has slowed down a lot.  So the borrowers aren't showing up anymore.

Which means it is the lenders who are chubbing up the .org stats...

[Mark12547]

Which means it is the lenders who are chubbing up the .org stats...

Even on the old .com forums, on different polls that looked at lenders vs. borrowers, the participating lenders tended to outnumber participating borrowers about 3 to 1.

Between groups basically being abandoned (thanks to Prosper Marketplace, Inc. removing group leader fees) and Prospers.org being just about invisible to Google until just recently, there was very little here that would attract borrowers.

Now that we have two forums that are crawled by Google and Yahoo, it should be easier for borrowers to find us and for borrowers and lenders to interact in the appropriate forum. But, even so, I would still expect lenders to outnumber borrowers because lenders have their money tied up for three years and are interested in the issues that affect their money, whereas once a borrower's listing turns into a loan, the borrower has no economic incentive to stay, so the few who do stay are here to help others or like the social interactions.