The scary part is that the counter is on our main home page, which a vast majority of people (myself included) bypass the majority of the time just to get to the bulletin board! Just think what the counter would do on the forum page?!
Here's some more stats, just in case you're keeping score...
New users in past 24 hours 0
New users in past 7 days 8
New users in past month 44
Users that have logged in the past 24 hours 161
Users that have logged in the past 7 days 285
Users that have logged in the past month 418
Posted in the last 24 hours 159
Posted in the last week 759
Posted in the last month 3319
Total # of topics 8131
Total # of replies 70945