I was a FR reader long before I joined.
I too was a reader here for years before I finally signed up. In my immediate family there are 5 who read FR but I am the only one who has signed up on FR. Many of my extended family and many friends are also frequent readers of FR and I don’t think any of them are signed up either. I think the number of people regularly reading FR far exceeds the number signed up on the website.
Same here. I must have read occasionally at FR for three years before I finally registered as a member.
No telling how many thousands of people read here, who don't have an account.