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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

#165
Yeah people seems less interested in forum posting nowadays and more into real-time chat or lurkibg, which can be seen with our respective increases in chat posts. @Adriweb do you have the stats for how many lines of text TI-Planet shoutbox got per year from 2011 to 2016?

On CW shoutbox I see more and more authors posting screenshots of their progress without even making a forum post, even when it's a major update, and this in turn generates less activity
  • 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
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critor

Your point of view is just different, Adriweb.

January-June 2016 was great.
September-December 2016 not so great...

By mixing both periods in your stats (when the users/developers are changing/leaving/joining between June and September), you're just masking the problem IMO, delaying it by 1 year.

Last school-year, I had to *choose* which CE/CX project to feature on ticalc.org.
This school-year, I have to *search/wait* for CE/CX projects featurable on ticalc.org.

Dream of Omnimaga

June 2016 was a disaster activity-wise. We went from 3000 posts to 1500 in a single year difference in June of both years.
  • 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

Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on January 07, 2017, 04:16:11 PM@Adriweb do you have the stats for how many lines of text TI-Planet shoutbox got per year from 2011 to 2016?
With no filtering whatsoever:
2011: 126k
2012: 405k
2013: 499k
2014: 467k
2015: 538k
2016: 640k
  • 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

Darn, that's quite a drastic increase. O.O CW went up from like 245000 to 266000
  • 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

critor

Then we can assume most new members prefer shoutboxes to forums.

So it's not that the activity is lower, it's that it's changing/moving.

Dream of Omnimaga

Yeah, and many online users prefer Reddit, Facebook, Twitter and other centralized places to forums/older chat mediums, so this cuts off the potential userbase even further. Sad, considering those social networks have a total lack of customization. (unlike forums where you can change the CSS, layout, etc)


Also @critor something else to take into account about CodeWalrus is this: From January to May 2015, we had a staff member who averaged around 400-450 posts a month. Afterwards, his activity decreased significantly and he usually showed up about one week per month until finally stepping down in October. Then in February 2016 or so one of our other significantly active user disappeared as well. Also, the first months of CW had a lot of flood compared to later on, as some of our early users had activity that often matched the top posting users, but with plenty of low-quality posts. As those users increased their post quality, this obviously meant their level of activity would drop. And we probably did not get enough new members interested in forums to offset the activity drop over last 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

Semi-major update: I started listing IRC channels and important shoutboxes to the post stats page in a second table below the forum one. However, the only stats available so far are #codewalrus and TI-Planet shoutbox, so if anybody has IRC logs of the other listed channels that could be sent my way (with line-breaks for each line of text of course) so that I can track down the amount of lines per year, then it would be appreciated. Since #cemetech and #tigcc (and most likely the older inactive #inspired) channels disallows the sharing of logs for the most part, someone who got logs might need to run them through a script themselves and send me the lines per year stats instead. I don't mind if the joins/parts are included, since it's just to give a rough idea of how active each channel were.

http://tistory.wikidot.com/forumstats (see at the bottom)
  • 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

p2

I know it's a bit early for that, but I can't wait to see our stats at the end of 2017  :love:
  • Calculators owned: ti-83+, ti-84+, ti-84+, ti-84+se, ti-84+se(te), ti-nsphire, ti-nsphire CAS, ti-nsphire CX-CAS, ti-voyage, ti-voyage, Who reads this list anyways...?
Anyway war sucks. Just bring us your food instead of missiles  :P ~ DJ Omnimaga (11.10.2016 20:21:48)
if you cant get a jframe set up, draw stuff to it, and receive input, i can only imagine how horrible your game code is _._   ~ c4ooo (14.11.2016 22:44:07)
If they pull a Harambe on me tell my family I love them ~ u/Pwntear37d (AssangeWatch /r/)
make Walrii great again ~ DJ Omnimaga (28.11.2016 23:01:31)
God invented the pc, satan the smartphone I guess ~ p4nix (16.02.2017 22:51:49)

Dream of Omnimaga

#174
I don't know, but based on the trend, I kinda expected 15000-21000 in 2017 but it always depends of how many people are absent during Summer and how many of our hi-school users move to college next Fall (and from past experience, those seems to disappear more often when they live in America). It's also hard to base ourselves on the early 2015 spike because back then we had three mass-posters (besides me) and the 4x3 contest. Also, I think I should find a way to include the IRC activity stats inside the board stats page if that's feasible one day.
  • 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

p2

well now we have you (AKA mad posting machine) plus me plus a few other super-active users, I'm looking forward to it ^^
also yess, an IRC activity log would be cool ^^
(cant we just add a statistic of the filesize of the monthly logs? :) Rather inaccurate, but at least it will give us a hint on the direction we're going (increasing//decreasing activity). That shoulr be rather easy to do :)
  • Calculators owned: ti-83+, ti-84+, ti-84+, ti-84+se, ti-84+se(te), ti-nsphire, ti-nsphire CAS, ti-nsphire CX-CAS, ti-voyage, ti-voyage, Who reads this list anyways...?
Anyway war sucks. Just bring us your food instead of missiles  :P ~ DJ Omnimaga (11.10.2016 20:21:48)
if you cant get a jframe set up, draw stuff to it, and receive input, i can only imagine how horrible your game code is _._   ~ c4ooo (14.11.2016 22:44:07)
If they pull a Harambe on me tell my family I love them ~ u/Pwntear37d (AssangeWatch /r/)
make Walrii great again ~ DJ Omnimaga (28.11.2016 23:01:31)
God invented the pc, satan the smartphone I guess ~ p4nix (16.02.2017 22:51:49)

Dream of Omnimaga

Erm the thing about me being a post machine is that I actually posted twice as much when CW opened than right now :P

As for IRC activity logs I guess maybe @Juju could implement a /stats command. But yeah overall we got the amount of lines per year which can help giving an indication.
  • 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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