How the hell we did so far (evil)

Dream of Omnimaga · December 15, 2014, 03:43:49 PM

Quote from: Eiyeron on December 15, 2014, 03:41:32 PM
It could have ben qui te epic, yup.

Erm, Google Translate fail?

Duke "Tape" Eiyeron · December 15, 2014, 05:01:38 PM

Google translate? No need, I'd need a better touchscreen keyboard.
"It would have been quite epic"

Dream of Omnimaga · December 23, 2014, 12:45:09 PM

Good thing you don't use an iPod Touch 4. On that thing, the touchscreen is so horrible that when you try to click a link, you need to zoom in until the height of the text take about half of the screen, else it will always click the link below or above or do nothing. >.<. It's that bad.

Also regarding post stats, I thought it would be interesting to show how it elvolved by week (starting from forum creation until today, not Sunday to Saturday):

Nov 12-Nov 18 330
Nov 19-Nov 25 330
Nov 26- Dec 2 496
Dec 3 - Dec 9 388
Dec 10-Dec 16 307
Dec 17-Dec 23 218 (although this includes today which is not done yet)

Regarding post stats by weekday here this is the average pattern so far, keeping in mind that this forum uses GMT timezone:

Sun: 37.1667
Mon: 46.5
Tue: 58.333
Wed: 56.5
Thu: 51.5
Fri: 55.5
Sat: 41

Had we used GMT-5 (Montreal/New York) timezone, Saturday would probably average under 10 and some early week days above 60

pimathbrainiac · December 23, 2014, 03:20:36 PM

oh that's pretty cool. Based on those stats, we can see when the forum is most active and when we should probably post news and such. I will be posting project news and such here, in addition to Project Periodical.

Dream of Omnimaga · December 23, 2014, 04:30:47 PM

Well to be honest it would kinda make some sense that whoever is staff here cross-post or post their own projects here since they're staff.

Regarding activity I guess it's not bad for a brand new forum, considering most new forums don't even get what we got in 1 week in 2 years. On the other hand, I can't wait until public opening because with finals it was very hard to keep the board as active with just 17 members having access. >.<

novenary · December 29, 2014, 08:18:22 PM

Hmmm, I'm back to bring some activity. Buckle up.

Dream of Omnimaga · December 30, 2014, 12:59:56 AM

Quote from: Streetwalrus on December 29, 2014, 08:18:22 PM
Hmmm, I'm back to bring some activity. Buckle up.

Not just for one night I hope?

That said on a serious note I am curious about how many of the members awaiting approval will use the forums in long terms after it opens. One issue is that some people might be expecting 100% calculator discussion, but in fact we ended up being some core group of friends hanging out on a new site with a certain level of programming experience, so it was inevitably gonna result into a lot of off-topic discussion. That said, most off-topic discussion still revolves around our main themes, so I guess that's good.

Duke "Tape" Eiyeron · December 30, 2014, 08:22:46 AM

Concerning your last post DJ, I'm thinking the forum will, maybe, suffer from a "private joke"/" alienation" problem the first days, because we've been hanging out here for more than a month. Look at the Telegraph thing, I don't have a clue what's that already and I'm one of the first non-staff member

Dream of Omnimaga · December 30, 2014, 06:32:41 PM

I personally don't think they will. It's possible, however, that some users might be upset that we didn't let them in earlier and there will probably be some people who are less interested because the site took so long to become public that the hype decreased over the last few weeks, but among the 30 users awaiting for approval, most have joined in the last 6 days or so, so unless they are truly impatient or didn't read the Coming soon text at the top of the page, I don't think they have a problem with waiting an extra week before being able to access the site. As for people feeling excluded because we have been around longer, I don't think this will happen, because after all, if we are opening the site to public now, this means we are welcoming new members, right?

As for Telegraph I assume you mean Telegram? This is a chat client and service like Skype, MSN, Yahoo messenger, AIM, ICQ, etc, except that it's supposedly more secure. Basically, instead of using a private #Codewalrus-Ops channel on IRC to discuss staff matters that has to be discussed in real time, we use a private group on Telegram.

novenary · December 30, 2014, 08:06:42 PM

Lol yeah, Telegram is also better because it's almost real time if you have a phone (if you know whatsapp then it's very similar, if not, think of it as sms/mms but much faster, group support and very good security).

Dream of Omnimaga · December 31, 2014, 04:53:12 AM

I prefer Telegram to Whatsapp, though, because it doesn't permanently lock you out if you miss the activation screen (glitch).

That said, we really need to find a way to move some of our Telegram activity to the IRC channel, because only me, Hooloovoo, juju and Unknownloner ever use it. Maybe someone could code a bot that syncs the Telegram chat with IRC and have a staff CW Telegram channel?

Keoni29 · December 31, 2014, 11:45:07 AM

I like telegram because it allows you to share files and it is more optimized for mobile use. I will use irc more often when the site opens to chat with new codewalrus community members.

Dream of Omnimaga · December 31, 2014, 05:09:53 PM

Except that #CodeWalrus IRC channel has been publicly available for almost a month now.

Even Geekboy and Chronomex (xmc) idle in there.

novenary · January 03, 2015, 11:05:30 PM

I should try to make a better android irc client. Every single one on the play store sucks.

Dream of Omnimaga · January 04, 2015, 05:04:45 AM

That would be nice. I don't mind IRCCloud but it disconnects after 2 hours of inactivity and sometimes, on Android, clickling "Reconnect" will do nothing, so you have to mash the reconnect dialog non-stop until it finally registers a keypress.