>>Impressive - nice to see more people joining. I suspect twitter + facebook somehow = more people to the site.
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>We also had half of those accounts from the United States. When the site was created, in the first few years, the new accounts were mostly from the United States. But, then, we started to see more from other countries. So, it is good to see also new accounts from the United States, which represents a very high percentage of our members.

Michel,

congrats. But perhaps you should prepare for some "unwanted" visitors as well, if the level of awareness for UT hightens ;-)
There are data harvesters out there... I have no problem giving ***you*** my real name and the opportunity to contact me per mail.
Giving others the ability to contact via non-public makes sense as well.
Letting every member see each mail adress and other info might not be a good idea.
In my "best of worlds" a member could create a msg to be sent to the email account of another member,
send that to you and you forward this msg via mail to the account of the other member.
benefit: mail account info has not been published at all.
Anybody wishing to publish his account could do this via a checkbox in profile or via special signature.

If other personal data were "protected" at least via captcha and this fact is published at account creation,
perhaps some potential new members would sign up - or make publicizing that info member choice as well.
If I were to sign in today as new member I'd give a Spammable account if it is published and
might not sign up at all if further information is asked for and published without some protection.
Take Amazon communication between as a role model ;-)
This might even lead to correcting contact info which once had been set to a holiday adress
and never been set back after holiday...

regards

thomas