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

[TheMachine02]

The 2015 statistics have now been updated to include posts from May 30th until now. TI-Planet actually leads June for monthly posts (they had over 3000 since May 30 ).

I guess that is the french exam effect. The site where pretty much overloaded 

But yeah, counting by hand seems pretty much slow and painful 

[Dream of Omnimaga]

Yeah that could explain things. That said, they didn't have as much lag as Planète Casio. The latter uses free web hosting. >.<

[Lionel Debroux]

Yeah, the huge popularity of the online mViewer GX Creator converter took its toll on the server's responsiveness at times...
Before the 2014-2015 school season, we had identified a variety of improvements and additions. Some of them, e.g. the new ToutMonExam site, were implemented this year by critor and Adriweb. Work started on several others, and yet more items, such as a job queue for mViewer GX Creator, remain to be implemented.

[Adriweb]

Yeah, for a non-short period of time, the server kept having a generation made about every 5 seconds, the traffic itself is no problem for the server, but the generations... got unexpectedly high.
Anyway, during summer, the post counts probably won't grow much ^^

[Dream of Omnimaga]

I hope that generated files were not mostly HP Prime ones. Those can get big really fast

And yeah the community is quieter during Summer unless many people who were busy with school decide to not work too much during vacations.

[Dream of Omnimaga]

There is now a Google docs spreadsheet of the forum activity table! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HRZW1s374I5ExDCcEmd-QJgJwMyt0NrWJvwWF_IWOjI/edit?usp=sharing

I still need to learn how to use it, though. I just imported the .ods file in it. This one includes extrapolated stats for 2015 (although with the Summer lull, sites with fewer active users tend to have an harder time recovering, while other rebound when school starts.)

[Dream of Omnimaga]

I have now updated the 2015 stats to July 19th to see how things evolved since Summer began. I updated both the TI-Story wiki page, as well as my ods file.

[Unicorn]

Cool! I'm gonna check it out on TI story now.

[Dream of Omnimaga]

Semi-bad news: yAronet no longer shows the total amount of posts per sub-forum nor for entire boards. While this should not be a problem with their activity trends, if they do revive and get a massive amount of posts in the future under such circumstances, this means that I will have to exclude yAronet from 2015 stats onward, and that unless I decide to bother spending several hours counting all posts one by one for said year.

[Lionel Debroux]

Don't worry, the sections of yAronet related to the TI community aren't going to revive...

[Dream of Omnimaga]

Well, there was a small upsurge in activity last month that lasted just a week, but seemed enough to rack up their 2015 stats by over 60 posts (which is on-par with TI-BASIC Developer and Omnimaga). While this doesn't seem like much, it still took quite a while to count those posts one by one. Now imagine if they suddenly get 300-500 posts >.<

EDIT: I will also need to update TI-84-Plus.com stats because I discovered that they have two forums (although both were inactive this year) and the second one is http://www.ti-84-plus.com//calculatorquestions/questions?start=1300

EDIT: Done. I added a notice in the TI-Story page explaining that the website uses two different boards

[Dream of Omnimaga]

The statistics have now been updated to August 26, 1:14 AM GMT-5. If you compare the page revision with past ones, you can have a small hint of how quiet Summer usually is in the TI community compared to other periods of the year. However, I just added up every forum together and if I extrapolate the stats for 365 days then the TI community is still up from 2014 levels. Same if I only extrapolate stats of forums that already got over 1000 posts and keep the rest intact.

[utz]

Wow, looks like a good year for the TI community for sure

[Dream of Omnimaga]

Indeed. I wouldn't say it's that good, since the total activity of every single forum combined is actually lower than 2008-09, but the amount of notable programs is still high and since most of the community is now concentrated on a smaller amount of forums, the more active sites are more active than the most active ones in 2008-09.

Some years also had lower signal to noise ratio overall (as in more posts but less program releases) or more off-topicness, such as 2006 and 2008.

[Unicorn]

Every year is a good year if there is progress.