The homepage currently displays a count of accounts on drupal.org as

874,081 people in 228 countries* speaking 181 languages power Drupal.

The number of "people" is really the number of user accounts on drupal.org that have been logged in once and that are not blocked.

This numer probably has a fair amount of profile spammers in it.

I propose to switch the number to computed from the amount of users who have the "trusted user" role. Currently, this would be about 70k users, ie less than 10% of the current amount.

I am open to using other metrics as well.

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jredding’s picture

jredding CreditAttribution: jredding commented

This may be a good time to reposition ourselves, perhaps saying something like:
"1M downloads this year, built by an active community of over 70,000 contributors"

DSquaredB’s picture

DSquaredB CreditAttribution: DSquaredB commented
Issue summary: View changes

Added related issue regarding front page statistics.

joshuami’s picture

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CreditAttribution: joshuami at Drupal Association commented
Project: Drupal.org site moderators » Drupal.org customizations
Version: » 7.x-3.x-dev
Component: Other » Code
Issue tags: +d.o content strategy

We've removed the homepage statistics for now.

We have some additional conversations that have started in the content strategy that should help us build some ideas about possible stats to show.

YesCT’s picture

YesCT CreditAttribution: YesCT commented
Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)
Related issues: +#2475117: Bring back some facts about community participation to the drupal.org homepage

Maybe this is now going to be looked at in #2475117: Bring back some facts about community participation to the drupal.org homepage