If someone is confused by the current number of users
the reason is that we have fine-tuned some of the forum parameters.
We got rid of the inactive users, for example:
Users who registered “two years ago” but with zero activity (zero posts, zero read time, zero presence).
And this is now the process the forum performs on a daily basis so it is possible that the numbers will decline to some extent.
One of the unwanted side effect is that we will need to celebrate 10k again 
or better - imagine this topic is a kind of time machine
Just be careful not to meet yourself here and not to break the time-space continuum with your actions !
Thank you