I'm a little confused. I created an account just for kicks and it immediately said there were 58,912 people ahead of me and 2,877 behind me. This means that 2,877 people signed up for the service in the time between my account being created and the page rendering?

But the number hasn't gone up at all, so me and the other 2,877 people were I guess part of a huge surge of signups all within the same 100ms or so, and no one else has signed up since?

This is quite confusing, and does not encourage trust.