Just noticed a really interesting page that you can access right at the bottom of the landing page. It's the forum stats, makes for some fun reading. Here's the link directly to the page.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=stats* First thing that caught my eye is that even though it originally started as a Bitcoin forum (I guess obviously), the top 3 boards are now all altcoin related, with Bitcoin Discussion creeping in at number 4.
* Second thing was that at the current rate of new registrations, the number of members will hit 2 million in just under a month's time!!
* And lastly, when the forum first started (or at least the stats were first recorded) back in November 2009, there were just 9 topics created (compared to 21,168 now), containing 37 posts (compared to 752,589), with 4 new members added (compared to 63,756). The latest figures available for these comparisons are December 2017 - presumably the figures are added on a semi regular basis, as the rest of the stats listed seem to be right up to date.
Loads of other interesting nuggets on there too. Got to say congratulations to the forum creators, and also ask what are we going to do to celebrate when the forum hits 2 million members?
NB. These snapshots were all taken just before the time of this post.