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

[Unicorn]

Oh, that is a good idea. When its done will you post it on other sites?

[Snektron]

It actually surprises me how many calculater related forums there are

[Dream of Omnimaga]

That's because most people who started forums started them only to have admin powers. People thought that being admin somewhere made you look cool. Many of the small programming teams were not even teams and when they were, they were about three staff member who were also staff of several other smaller programming teams (for example, at one point I ended up being global moderator of 6 different forums, 3 of which where I was just promoted before even posting)

[Snektron]

Same with people who start minecraft servers just tohaveadmin powers i guess

[princetonlion.tibd]

That's because most people who started forums started them only to have admin powers. People thought that being admin somewhere made you look cool. Many of the small programming teams were not even teams and when they were, they were about three staff member who were also staff of several other smaller programming teams (for example, at one point I ended up being global moderator of 6 different forums, 3 of which where I was just promoted before even posting)

My failed invisionfree forum included?
Which reminds me, I should check on it

[Dream of Omnimaga]

Oh, right, I should maybe include that one lol. But yeah the issue is that many of the newer TI community members would start their own team for the aforementioned reasons. But the other problem is that those teams often consisted of programmers who never had programmed before so the sites often had nothing to showcase from the start. But again, in CW's case we had nothing at first either, which is why we remained private/invite-only for almost 2 months prior opening.

EDIT: But again maybe I should not include boards with less than 50 posts. Eg I didn't include The Calc League because they had like 20 posts. http://calcleague.proboards.com/

I also need to check TI-Wizard and CalculatorTI to check if they had enough posts to be added at some point. http://www.tiwizard.com and http://www.calculatorti.com/

[princetonlion.tibd]

Don't include it, it's dead

It was for my IRL programming friends, but they all didn't want to make an account

[Dream of Omnimaga]

Aah I see. ANd yeah it's hard to convince IRL friends to join an internet forum about calculators. >.<

[Snektron]

Yeah especially if they're not that into calculators. Luckily CW has enough off-topic, art and pc game topics too

[Dream of Omnimaga]

That too. That said, I did not include forums that had calc boards on them, but with like 99% offtopicness. Eg int10x10 or whatever it was called and JDonald's forums, which had tiny calculator sections, but with like 50 posts out of maybe a thousands. CW and Cemetech are fine, since they have a significant amount of calculator focus and thus, a better reflexion of who hangs out on calculator-related forums.

[Unicorn]

Yeah, I should get my friend to join, he likes to code. (We are 2 of 3 people who actually understand a language in the middle school)

[Dream of Omnimaga]

If you get him to join, try to lead by example, though, by not spamming/flooding.

[Unicorn]

LOL, that might be a good idea

[princetonlion.tibd]

I'll replace Unicorn if needed

[Dream of Omnimaga]

I can also reset post counts to zero

EDIT I have now included Calculator-TI and TI-Wizard in the stats, but I have not updated the 1st post yet. All 0-post years are now gray.

I will also try to update the 2015 column with new stats but I can't promise anything.

EDIT: I just did it with the bigger sites (without saving): TI-Planet leads the TI community for this month and the overall trend seems slightly up despite some drops for certain sites.