@ethot We gained 7,196 users this year, and that doesnt count spam accounts as we have in the past few weeks aggressively removed old accounts that didnt post spam but had spam in their account description (previously we had only removed active spammers). This effort was thanks to our latest moderator @khird who has done a phenomenal job and spearheaded that effort.
That number would have been a decent chunk larger if it werent for that.