New board added & end of record 300+ post-day streak

[DJ Omnimaga]

A new board was added on the forums. It is called "Humor and jokes", which includes all the related topics that were originaly located in the member-only Randomness board. Like the Randomness board, which has now been renamed to "Spam", post counts won't increase in this section, but as a difference it is visible to guests and it won't get disabled when its content represents more than 10% of the entire board. The spam board now includes pointless nonsense, board games, test topics and topics people wanted to be member-only.

Currently I am browsing through the hundreds of topics that are located in Randomness, moving many in the appropriate sections. You have no idea how many times I lost the game by doing this...

On other news, our record streak of days above 300 posts has just ended tonight, at 23 days in a row. The streak started on March 11th. The previous record was 13 days, from December 3rd to 15th.

[Freyaday]

Cool. It was confusing what, exactly, Randomness was for, and now we know.
IMO, I still think there should be a board for serious topics that is invisible to guests. But that's just me.
Also, first!

[DJ Omnimaga]

Yeah, my concern, though, is that people would start joining the member-only bandwaggon and almost everything would end up member-only...

[Darl181]

Random question.  Will respect ratings be re-enabled in the new board eventually?

[DJ Omnimaga]

Yeah, I was just busy moving many topics out of Randomness/spam. Fixing it now.

[Munchor]

Finally, it's not 'Cooking nethams...spam', I like 'Humor and Jokes' more

[Ikkerens]

* Ikkerens lost.

[Freyaday]

Yeah, my concern, though, is that people would start joining the member-only bandwaggon and almost everything would end up member-only...

Maybe a subforum then?

[Stefan Bauwens]

Ooh, not so good news then. Comon, Lets post some post.

[DJ Omnimaga]

Yeah, my concern, though, is that people would start joining the member-only bandwaggon and almost everything would end up member-only...

Maybe a subforum then?

That wouldn't make any difference.

[ralphdspam]

I hope that will decrease the clutter in the spam section.

Also, how many posts did we have on the night the streak ended?

[Darl181]

DJ told me on IRC...hang on...
283

[DJ Omnimaga]

Before the streak started it was 299 and when it ended 283. That was the streak, by the way:
420, 322, 414, 493, 316, 372, 366, 364, 363, 479, 371, 502, 474, 558, 517, 399, 467, 414, 387, 483, 528, 523, 310

The last one in December was this:
337, 584, 524, 422, 381, 464, 374, 469, 449, 376, 595, 418, 421

But then there was some sort of activity collapse (probably due to holiday vacations then school). April is probably gonna be the same way due to the bulk of Spring Breaks and then Easter breaks, so a lot of people are gonna be away with no internet access then become busy with the end of school, so if you get fewer feedback on your projects it doesn't mean people don't care or something.

[yunhua98]

528, 523, 310...

what happened that day?

and to think we used to think 200+ post days were a lot. 

[DJ Omnimaga]

March 31st and April 1st were kinda inflated by OS 2.71MP. The result of all the heart attacks are probably what caused the suddent slowdown afterward.

Nah but I'm surprised the end of March was so active considering last year we went under 100 for a while then (and the end of March 2009 wasn't that active either IIRC).