metafilter bills itself as a 'community blog', a site superficially similar to kuro5hin, but with a more irreverent content, non-hierarchal discussion (just one flat thread), and a more daring color scheme. The top of the page proclaims:

"9754 members and growing"

But that number isn't growing. Its been the same since I heard about the site when k5 went down for maintenance and rusty linked to it -- months ago. The site isn't growing at all, and it's really starting annoy me. Technical problems, they claim, is keeping them from expanding. I think that untill they resolve their problem, the text on the page should read"

9754 members and stagnant