Good job nonetheless, thank you for helping Steemit grow!
I for one am gutted that this Target is unlikely to be met and though we are still growing my guess is that we will have to wait until sometime in February 2018 to see this magical number.
With Halloween and Christmas season round the corner we could encourage relevant posts which will start featuring in the search results during the last 3 months of the year. So maybe offer an incentive for publishing such posts?
Just a thought, because I know that a large content-packed site like Steemit can dominate the search results by using a few good SEO techniques.