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Off-Topic => Off-Topic - Tiny Core Lounge => Topic started by: MurrayMof86 on October 10, 2026, 04:41:20 AM

Title: Off topic: how do you spot the people who really grow a small community?
Post by: MurrayMof86 on October 10, 2026, 04:41:20 AM

Slightly off topic, but this seems like the right corner for it.

I help run a chat server for people who revive old laptops with minimal Linux setups, around 450 members. Most of our regulars arrived through a few people who keep inviting friends and then walk them through their first remaster and extension list.

We wanted to thank those people with a role, and the numbers we had were useless. Accounts that joined for five minutes counted the same as people who stayed for months.

We ended up adding a lightweight invite tracker that ignores fresh accounts and removes leavers, and the list finally matched who we knew was doing the work.

Does anyone here run a group and keep track of this, or do you prefer to keep it informal?

Title: Re: Off topic: how do you spot the people who really grow a small community?
Post by: MurrayMof86 on October 12, 2026, 05:20:34 AM

Small follow-up for anyone searching this later: what finally worked for us was a lightweight invite tracker (https://invite-forge.com), the kind that drops people who leave within a few days. Numbers have stayed honest since.