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The TI forum activity stats archival project (2002-present)

Started by Dream of Omnimaga, June 05, 2015, 07:49:49 AM

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Dream of Omnimaga

Indeed, but that progress obviously needs to translate into more progress in later years. In 2013, for example, MaxCoderz got revived for 3 months or so, same thing with Revsoft earlier this year, but it seems like it was their swan song,

The problem is that once Summer ends, some important members don't come back or they never return to their former activity levels, so the TI community is in constant rebuild mode (even 2004 wasn't great around September, other than people coming to ask how to turn their calc ON).
  • Calculators owned: TI-82 Advanced Edition Python TI-84+ TI-84+CSE TI-84+CE TI-84+CEP TI-86 TI-89T cfx-9940GT fx-7400G+ fx 1.0+ fx-9750G+ fx-9860G fx-CG10 HP 49g+ HP 39g+ HP 39gs (bricked) HP 39gII HP Prime G1 HP Prime G2 Sharp EL-9600C
  • Consoles, mobile devices and vintage computers owned: Huawei P30 Lite, Moto G 5G, Nintendo 64 (broken), Playstation, Wii U

Unicorn

But there is always the Die hard Year round Programmers to. :P
  • Calculators owned: I own all of them: PICKACHUP TI 84+ CSE TI 83+ SE TI something something ??? ??? ??? ??? ???
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Dream of Omnimaga

Indeed. But this is why it's best that they stick around when they can so it helps big sites transition into the new school year.
  • Calculators owned: TI-82 Advanced Edition Python TI-84+ TI-84+CSE TI-84+CE TI-84+CEP TI-86 TI-89T cfx-9940GT fx-7400G+ fx 1.0+ fx-9750G+ fx-9860G fx-CG10 HP 49g+ HP 39g+ HP 39gs (bricked) HP 39gII HP Prime G1 HP Prime G2 Sharp EL-9600C
  • Consoles, mobile devices and vintage computers owned: Huawei P30 Lite, Moto G 5G, Nintendo 64 (broken), Playstation, Wii U

Dream of Omnimaga

#123
All forum stats on TI-Story have now been updated to include posts from August 26th to October 11th 2015. Here are the top 10 changes during that time frame:

TI-Planet: 3155
CodeWalrus: 2767
Cemetech: 1775
TI-BD: 308
Omnimaga: 282
Tout-82 (original): 158
yAronet 68K: 94
Tama's Team: 17
Revsoft: 15
Tout-82 (2nd site): 10

http://tistory.wikidot.com/forumstats


If you combine the total of every forum then extrapolate them to 365 days (multiplying them by 1.28), then you get a total of 73644, which would be an increase over 2014 total (70803)

  • Calculators owned: TI-82 Advanced Edition Python TI-84+ TI-84+CSE TI-84+CE TI-84+CEP TI-86 TI-89T cfx-9940GT fx-7400G+ fx 1.0+ fx-9750G+ fx-9860G fx-CG10 HP 49g+ HP 39g+ HP 39gs (bricked) HP 39gII HP Prime G1 HP Prime G2 Sharp EL-9600C
  • Consoles, mobile devices and vintage computers owned: Huawei P30 Lite, Moto G 5G, Nintendo 64 (broken), Playstation, Wii U

Dream of Omnimaga

This is not directly related to the post stats archival project, but I was curious about which day of the week was the busiest on CW and I took CW graph, applied some filter on it, resized it down with 7 different offset in an image editor then pasted each result side by side. The results were quite interesting:



I do not know how to make a trend line from an image and I am too lazy to manually calculate the average, but basically, what can be noticed is that during Winter and Fall, Mondays and Fridays are much quieter, then near the end of school year, they are often very busy. Weekends are usually the quietest days of the week, but Sunday is a little busier. Also, it seem that activity variations are smaller on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.

Note, however, that our stats are GMT, so some days might look much busier to you and vice-versa. Typically, Friday evenings are much quieter than anything else, so anyone in Europe probably doesn't notice the impact as much.


What would be interesting is to get the hourly stats by month, as well as our demographics (age range or average age, country, main language, favorite calculator, if into calcs at all, etc). Maybe at one point I'll do a survey.
  • Calculators owned: TI-82 Advanced Edition Python TI-84+ TI-84+CSE TI-84+CE TI-84+CEP TI-86 TI-89T cfx-9940GT fx-7400G+ fx 1.0+ fx-9750G+ fx-9860G fx-CG10 HP 49g+ HP 39g+ HP 39gs (bricked) HP 39gII HP Prime G1 HP Prime G2 Sharp EL-9600C
  • Consoles, mobile devices and vintage computers owned: Huawei P30 Lite, Moto G 5G, Nintendo 64 (broken), Playstation, Wii U

Dream of Omnimaga

#125
Bump: I quickly updated the stats at http://tistory.wikidot.com/forumstats to include posts from October 11th 20 PM to December 3rd 15 PM GMT-5. It looks like the total at the end of the year will be a bit under 2014, after all (before Summer it seemed to be headed above it but still under 2009). TI-BD is having a nice increase, though, and the original Tout-82 forum broke past the 1000th mark (they're about to merge back with the 2nd forum)


Should I merge both Tout-82 stats like with TI-84plus.com forums once they merge?
  • Calculators owned: TI-82 Advanced Edition Python TI-84+ TI-84+CSE TI-84+CE TI-84+CEP TI-86 TI-89T cfx-9940GT fx-7400G+ fx 1.0+ fx-9750G+ fx-9860G fx-CG10 HP 49g+ HP 39g+ HP 39gs (bricked) HP 39gII HP Prime G1 HP Prime G2 Sharp EL-9600C
  • Consoles, mobile devices and vintage computers owned: Huawei P30 Lite, Moto G 5G, Nintendo 64 (broken), Playstation, Wii U

Dream of Omnimaga

Update: Stats for 2015 are now complete. The total is higher than 2014, but only by a few hundreds.

http://tistory.wikidot.com/forumstats
  • Calculators owned: TI-82 Advanced Edition Python TI-84+ TI-84+CSE TI-84+CE TI-84+CEP TI-86 TI-89T cfx-9940GT fx-7400G+ fx 1.0+ fx-9750G+ fx-9860G fx-CG10 HP 49g+ HP 39g+ HP 39gs (bricked) HP 39gII HP Prime G1 HP Prime G2 Sharp EL-9600C
  • Consoles, mobile devices and vintage computers owned: Huawei P30 Lite, Moto G 5G, Nintendo 64 (broken), Playstation, Wii U

alexgt

Nice, That is quite interesting, I believe it will swing back up in a year or two though...
  • Calculators owned: Ti-84+, Ti-Nspire, Hp Prime, Broken HP Prime, HP 48SX

Dream of Omnimaga

Yeah it probably depends of what kind of games come out for the 84+CE in the future, especially now that an emu and DCS9 are arriving. :)
  • Calculators owned: TI-82 Advanced Edition Python TI-84+ TI-84+CSE TI-84+CE TI-84+CEP TI-86 TI-89T cfx-9940GT fx-7400G+ fx 1.0+ fx-9750G+ fx-9860G fx-CG10 HP 49g+ HP 39g+ HP 39gs (bricked) HP 39gII HP Prime G1 HP Prime G2 Sharp EL-9600C
  • Consoles, mobile devices and vintage computers owned: Huawei P30 Lite, Moto G 5G, Nintendo 64 (broken), Playstation, Wii U

semiprocoder

Wow codewalrus was one of the highest(and I am pretty sure highest) posted on site. Thats awesome! Also, omninaga fell over 20k posts from 26.6k to a measly 4.4k. Wow.
  • Calculators owned: ti nspire, ti 84 plus se
My cemetech username is awesommee333.

Dream of Omnimaga

#130
True, but we have to keep in mind that most founding CW members were Omni members who either no longer felt welcome there and/or wanted their old policies back and this eventually culminated into CW creation. But since those members were by far the most active Omni users, the site activity suffered. It would still have done so if CW had never existed, just not as severe (probably between 600 and 1100 posts a month, based on Spring 2007 stats).

Also, most people still go to Omnimaga for Nspire hacking and Axe help. This can be seen in the high amount of topics being created each month and last year they had way more new topics than us this year, even if they had less posts.
  • Calculators owned: TI-82 Advanced Edition Python TI-84+ TI-84+CSE TI-84+CE TI-84+CEP TI-86 TI-89T cfx-9940GT fx-7400G+ fx 1.0+ fx-9750G+ fx-9860G fx-CG10 HP 49g+ HP 39g+ HP 39gs (bricked) HP 39gII HP Prime G1 HP Prime G2 Sharp EL-9600C
  • Consoles, mobile devices and vintage computers owned: Huawei P30 Lite, Moto G 5G, Nintendo 64 (broken), Playstation, Wii U

Dream of Omnimaga

Does anyone know if there is an easy and fast way to browse Github commit and bug reports discussions? I would like to add Github TI project post statistics to a second list on the TI-Story page.

I would also like to add the TI calculator reddits. Both Github and Reddit would remain into separate lists, to compare.
  • Calculators owned: TI-82 Advanced Edition Python TI-84+ TI-84+CSE TI-84+CE TI-84+CEP TI-86 TI-89T cfx-9940GT fx-7400G+ fx 1.0+ fx-9750G+ fx-9860G fx-CG10 HP 49g+ HP 39g+ HP 39gs (bricked) HP 39gII HP Prime G1 HP Prime G2 Sharp EL-9600C
  • Consoles, mobile devices and vintage computers owned: Huawei P30 Lite, Moto G 5G, Nintendo 64 (broken), Playstation, Wii U

Adriweb

Yeah, you could probably look at GitHub's API to get properties for issues like comment counts (along with a bunch of other info) - it's available here, for instance on CEmu: https://api.github.com/repos/CE-Programming/CEmu/issues
  • Calculators owned: TI-Nspire CX CAS, TI-Nspire CX, TI-Nspire CAS (x3), TI-Nspire (x2), TI-Nspire CM-C CAS, TI-Nspire CAS+, TI-80, TI-82 Stats.fr, TI-82 Plus, TI-83 Plus, TI-83 Plus.fr USB, TI-84+, TI-84+ Pocket SE, TI-84+ C Silver Edition, TI-84 Plus CE, TI-89 Titanium, TI-86, TI-Voyage 200, TI-Collège Plus, TI-Collège Plus Solaire, 3 HP, some Casios
Co-founder & co-administrator of TI-Planet and Inspired-Lua

Dream of Omnimaga

#133
Thanks for the link. I will have to check if this API is also available for commit comments and decipher what all of this means (if I ever can <_<). From what I could see, this could probably be an issue for issues/commits where the original post or the comments spans multiple years, but those are probably very rare due to the nature of commits/issues resolving, so it shouldn't ruin accuracy too much.

If I or somebody else can manage to make such script or a tool that makes it easier to count comments by year, then all I would need to do is search for all existing Nspire, 82/83/84/85/86/89/92/v200 projects on Github.


Also that begs the question: Traditional forums are a dying breed and not just in the calculator community: SMF support forum used to average at 1500 posts a day in 2009 and now it averages around 150. Forums are being eaten alive by Reddit, Github issues/comments, Wordpress and the like, even though those places lacks any customization and moderation for web masters. Does this mean that CodeWalrus, Cemetech and TI-Planet will have to switch to Discourse/NodeBB/Flarum forum softwares to become more friendly to social network fans or will they have to become Facebook/Reddit groups outright? Flarum has something that resembles a tag system that would fit our needs since we use a topic cloning mod combined with a tag system, but would such new layout deters current users and really help bringing new ones?
  • Calculators owned: TI-82 Advanced Edition Python TI-84+ TI-84+CSE TI-84+CE TI-84+CEP TI-86 TI-89T cfx-9940GT fx-7400G+ fx 1.0+ fx-9750G+ fx-9860G fx-CG10 HP 49g+ HP 39g+ HP 39gs (bricked) HP 39gII HP Prime G1 HP Prime G2 Sharp EL-9600C
  • Consoles, mobile devices and vintage computers owned: Huawei P30 Lite, Moto G 5G, Nintendo 64 (broken), Playstation, Wii U

Dream of Omnimaga

#134
I began adding stats for Jan 1st to August 1 2016 in the TI forum stats page, but I'm not finished yet. I don't know if I will add Casio and HP stats because I was not active enough in those communities and I am sure too much data would be missing to mean anything.

EDIT: Done. You can see the 2016 (so far) result at http://tistory.wikidot.com/forumstats
  • Calculators owned: TI-82 Advanced Edition Python TI-84+ TI-84+CSE TI-84+CE TI-84+CEP TI-86 TI-89T cfx-9940GT fx-7400G+ fx 1.0+ fx-9750G+ fx-9860G fx-CG10 HP 49g+ HP 39g+ HP 39gs (bricked) HP 39gII HP Prime G1 HP Prime G2 Sharp EL-9600C
  • Consoles, mobile devices and vintage computers owned: Huawei P30 Lite, Moto G 5G, Nintendo 64 (broken), Playstation, Wii U

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