A few years ago, a static graphic of the monthly posting statistics on Omnimaga was created to show a graphical representation of how our forums evolved over the time in terms of posting activity. Eventually we decided to include the old board statistics in it as well. However, because the old board databases were gone at the time, our only source for old stats were the Wayback Machine, along with some snippets of daily stats in IRC logs. As a result, those old stats were not very accurate (although monthly IF stats themselves were nowhere close to accuracy either).
However, now that the old boards were back, I decided to go through the statistic pages and pick the daily statistics, which, with the help of Jimbauwen, Netham45 imported into our activity logs. As a result, much more accurate monthly statistics are now finally available for the old board
here. In addition to that, you can now see the daily stats as well!
A few notes about the recounted statistics: On the old forums, until Fall 2006, posts that were deemed inappropriate were removed completely some drama topics were removed when requested. Today, the policy is to only delete bot messages and edit out illegal material. As a result, since the old stats excludes deleted content, they might actually be slightly lower than the real activity we had on the old board, especially in April, October and November 2006.
This also means that
Juju's statistic graphic, inspired a lot from Kerm's, now shows old stats as well. As you will notice there, as of today, the site activity is still way above anything we had on the old forums (close to 6000 posts last month). We hope that Juju can eventually make it so it keeps a fixed width so that it can be included on the
statistics page.
Besides those stats, now it is possible to see the old monthly posting statistics for most old members too (
example here)! Keep in mind, however, that during the board merge, we removed about 2000 posts containing duplicate content from the links (now on TI-Freakware, although we got a smaller links section again in 2011), downloads and articles section. As a results, my personal stats for some months (where I mostly filled the downloads/links/articles section with content) might be lower than they were back then.
Enjoy!
