Board statistic page update and other things

[DJ Omnimaga]

If you check the board statistic page you will notice that the monthly posting statistics graphic was updated. It also now includes the yAronet Omnimaga board statistics from 2004 and obviously January 2011, in a Netham45-like color. As you can notice, the 2004 statistics are pretty much negligible compared to the rest (58 posts in half a year) but I guess it is still part of Omnimaga history. Also as you can see, January 2011 is the 4th month above 10000 posts in a row. Activity, despite having decreased by over 2000 a month since November, is still very high:



Despite this graph showing a noticeable drop in posting average, the calculator project section has seen a large increase in discussion, which eventually lead to the creation of 10 individual projects sub-forums. It also seems that the recently added Math and Casio Prizm boards are very popular. In addition to that traffic has increased a lot in January: A total of 3608893 requests were served this month, 788339 of which were forum pages, and we are near the 20 million mark now. A lot of new members have signed up too.

Besides that we also added a new page in the Awards section of the website for notable calculator games and utilities. It will include a list of every downloadable game and tool (regardless of the download location) that made Omnimaga headlines. It currently only includes 2011, though. In the future we may build pages for previous years, although they will probably exclude updates made in the old RPG archives, since most games there were released several years before getting included.

In addition to that #omnimaga IRC logs from 2010 were split in their own page, like the ones from 2005 to 2009. All logs can be found here.

[ztrumpet]

Wonderful updates as always.   Keep up the great work DJ.

[kalan_vod]

I am glad you keep track of these things, seeing that people are around here (posts or not) helps keep me motivated!

[DJ Omnimaga]

Actually keeping track of the stats is really easy because SMF had the option to enable board stats, which tracks daily posts, daily topic and daily member registrations, and I don't have to go through the admin CP to access the stats. (the above graph actually required me to put all stats in a spreadsheet, though) On Invisionfree they also had this in the admin panel, but on the regular IPB versions those features were missing. On Cemetech Kerm was forced to write a PHP script that generates a graph at 4 AM from the MySQL database, tracking daily post stats.

And I agree, when we check new posts on a forum, hoping for some interesting read, but there are no new posts it's kinda boring, same if everything is always in Randomness. When you were first around on this SMF board I remember coming back from work after a 8 hours long schedule and there were no new posts. The cool thing though is that sometimes less posts means people are busy working on their projects.

[Munchor]

There's a lot of different statistics available, wonderful. The better part is they're good, Omnimaga is growing

EDIT: Growing in a healthy and controlled way, what we want

[DJ Omnimaga]

There's a lot of different statistics available, wonderful. The better part is they're good, Omnimaga is growing

EDIT: Growing in a healthy and controlled way, what we want

This. Personally I would hate if we had 600 posts a day but 400 of them were located in the randomness board or were not even calc-related. We currently get 100 less a day than we used to, but there are more calc-related discussions than there were when we had 400 a day.

[shmibs]

delicious updates, as always!
i think the difference may be new mediums in which people can express themselves (nspire stuff, prizm, axe, 3rd party os's, etc) moving past the very first stages, which attract everyone's attention and gets them excited enough to post a lot, and into heavy, community-wide development.
EDIT: oh, and why does the new page say january 2010?

[DJ Omnimaga]

It keeps changing back to 2010. I'll have to edit it again. 3rd time already...