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We's got a buncha dakka, but ya NEVER HAVE 'NUFF DAKKA!

I would just like to say that our crusade against thewarp.net continue to be successful.

Thanks Lego!

Poor TauTactica. As forgotten as the codex.

legoburner wrote:Dakka became the biggest wargaming gallery on this planet. Dont let the graph confuse you, it is still pretty much neck and neck, but we are getting loads of wargaming images at a faster rate than coolmini. The absolute number of images is the only thing we can compare as coolmini and dakka could not be more different. They are a great site with a fantastic gallery and a much higher grade of painting community than our more general community (not to say we dont have some great painters too), but most importantly they are doing their part for the community very well, and that is why we are hosting one of their banners on our home page at the moment fwiw. Our gallery is about getting as many wargaming images as possible so you can see something as a WIP, a completed model, on the tabletop, etc. whereas theirs is just showing the best things people have done so we both fill different niches and are complementary rather than competitive. Still I'm pleased we are so large now and the site has not fallen over and died yet!

congrats dakka! w00t!! this does help explain the sudden appearance of a showcase painting and modelling forum recently... apparently we're going to give CMON a run for their money on the high end of the painting scale too!

Dakka is king!

I have had growing pains with the site in the past few years as membership has skyrocketed, but no matter what, Dakka is and always will be my home on the net for my favorite hobby. Plus just about all my gaming buddies hang out here, too, so no matter where I'm at I can talk nerd with friends.

Haha, I am actually wearing my Dakka shirt right now! I am so totally hardcore.

Thanks to Legoburner and Yakface for running such a great internet community, you guys kick ass!

Thank you for this information BigMek.
I do believe our wonderful admins need some thanks.


Now everyone, one three: For they are jolly good fellows, for they are jolly good fellows, for they are jolly good fellows, which nobody can deny."

I claim all the credit for this, as you can see, my join date was a MERE three days after LB started his logging. Good to see that the one GW related forum I read regularly is still steadily growing. Sigh, must get around to re-upping my DCM soon (no, those are not signs of withdrawals you are see, really!).

Well done.

It's amazing that this is the biggest gallery now.
I'm not surprised you're stil growing as Warseer is losing as they can be a right bunch of , I've been flamed mercilessly for rumours I knew to be true...
People have been much more welcoming here...Mostly....

Wow, Tauonline crashed and burned.. I hadn't even noticed.

In other news, popularity will bring its own challenges and problems but I'm sure this place can handle it.

I'd also note I've always been one for more interaction between the community, its just a shame so many have a 'us and them' attiutude sometimes.

Regardless, I'm just glad of the staff that moderate here as it has made Dakka a very relaxed and fun place to post. Probably the main reason for all this growth.

I got a PM asking the following:

What kind of Servers/ Server OS's does dakka use?
What kind of storage solution does it use, and how much room does it take?
What amounts of bandwidth does it take to keep this running so smooth?

so might as well share as I had meant to mention some of it but forgot

Dakka has 1 active server (quad core, 8GB RAM, 3 hard drives (1TB, 250GB, 250GB)) and dakka has 1 backup server that is ready to go at any moment if the main server dies, with a 2 second latency database backup and a 24 hour latency file backup on it (so if the main server died, worse case we would lose up to 24 hours worth of gallery images, avatars and attachments). The backup server is 750GB, one disk, and has dual quad core processors and 8GB RAM. The host is cheaper but I am concerned about stability there which is why we have a bigger server for backup than the main server. Both servers are on different continents so space meteors or thermonuclear war will not be enough take out dakka hopefully.

Dakka's database is about 8GB if you dont include indexes or the search engines. The gallery is about 175GB and counting

Bandwidth fluctuates based on what tweaks I've been doing but excluding backups it runs at about 1.2TB / month. Despite traffic going up, bandwidth per user has been dropping the whole year thanks to speedups and compression techniques.

legoburner wrote:Both servers are on different continents so space meteors or thermonuclear war will not be enough take out dakka hopefully.

Well that's something to look forward to in the apocalypse, then.

Cool stuff.

Very cool. Congrats to Dakka and its community!

Reecius wrote:

Thanks to Legoburner and Yakface for running such a great internet community, you guys kick ass!

ABSOLUTELY this.

Dakka Dakka wouldn't be the great place that it is today if they hadn't stepped up a few years back...

So, I'll repeat that sentiment - thank you Legoburner and Yakface!

AND, a big thank you to the Dakka Dakka community as a whole as well - congrats everyone, really!

micahaphone wrote:Thank you for this information BigMek.
I do believe our wonderful admins need some thanks.


Now everyone, one three: For they are jolly good fellows, for they are jolly good fellows, for they are jolly good fellows, which nobody can deny."

Agree. Yak and Lego!

The guys who stepped up to the plate to not only make sure Dakka survived the loss of its Primarch ( ), but grew and flourished. Two guys more dedicated or more suited or with better skills for such a project I can hardly imagine.

Huh.

I guess we DO know what happened to the two Lost Primarchs after all!

Don't forget Russ, our founder!

(He's living comfortably in NH, raising two kids and kicking butt on a general gaming podcast.
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/332344.page ; wouldn't the Space Wolves like to know!)

So no wonder Dakka's so blessed. With three Primarchs involved, how could we not be?

Thank you for sharing this info with us. It's always interesting for me to see this kind of stuff. The graphs tend to back up my personal habits and observations over the last year or so. At the begining of the year I was mostly checking/posting with warseer and a few others, but as the year progressed, I found more posts (and often better quality posts) on dakka. It's pretty much to the point where I pop up dakka to flip through the posts once every couple hours, where I MIGHT check other sites once a day. Great job so far, and keep it up

Wow! This is great news. It's also not especially surprising. I love Dakka and suggest it to other people all the time. I was a long time user over at the Warseer (I was there back during the Portent.net days) and while I won't speak badly about that community, there was a reason I left and came over here.
Let the age of Dakka begin!

I'd attribute the success of Dakka to the core of quality posters surrounding the gribble of commoners like myself, but also due to the great Mods here. Warseer and 40k online are much tighter, and it's quite a negative experience.

Here however, it's much more lax, but not so lax that it is detrimental.

Cryonicleech wrote:I'd attribute the success of Dakka to the core of quality posters surrounding the gribble of commoners like myself, but also due to the great Mods here. Warseer and 40k online are much tighter, and it's quite a negative experience.

Here however, it's much more lax, but not so lax that it is detrimental.

Mhm, pretty much this.

The way in which this forum is moderated makes it for me. Good moderation can make or break an online community. Letting discussion happen, even with moderately heated disagreement is a good thing. Killing discussion kills the community.

As someone who moderates a clan forum, albeit, witha significantly smaller, but pretty active user base, I understadn the challenges in being a good moderator. So kudos to the admins and mods on Dakka for knowing how to toe a very fine line. You guys do an excellent job on the moderation part.

Its interesting to see that Dakka has about 3.5 more posts per day than the bulk of other sites.

wolfshadow wrote:

Cryonicleech wrote:I'd attribute the success of Dakka to the core of quality posters surrounding the gribble of commoners like myself, but also due to the great Mods here. Warseer and 40k online are much tighter, and it's quite a negative experience.

Here however, it's much more lax, but not so lax that it is detrimental.

Mhm, pretty much this.

The way in which this forum is moderated makes it for me. Good moderation can make or break an online community. Letting discussion happen, even with moderately heated disagreement is a good thing. Killing discussion kills the community.

As someone who moderates a clan forum, albeit, witha significantly smaller, but pretty active user base, I understadn the challenges in being a good moderator. So kudos to the admins and mods on Dakka for knowing how to toe a very fine line. You guys do an excellent job on the moderation part.

Indeed, despite what I said previously, some of the mods do their jobs quite well. As any community though, it is the few outliers that give the entire group a negative image. No qualms about it being difficult and fairly unrewarding work as well.

Anyway, as I post again I'd also like to say thanks to Yak and Lego. If you two didn't keep this place up and running, I wouldn't know what to do with myself some days.

Judging from those charts I think we can gather that we are winning the war.

Great, now I have to be a DCM to see all this "naughty thread"

So we are undisputed rulers of the internet. Also, 10k people registering at one time is almost impossible. I liked these graphs, and chuckled when we saw dakka rise above all others.

BrookM wrote:Judging from those charts I think we can gather that we are winning the war.

YEEARRGG!! we will crush our enemies, see them driven before us, and hear the lamentation of their women! assuming they have women... eh, one can hope.

Either way, i googled dakka and found this super secret image of lego and yak in dakka's secret server farm planning their future conquests!

I know I personally switched full time to Dakka from Warseer mainly cause of that buffoon .... Also a few other members and mods on that site.

cgage00 wrote:I know I personally switched full time to Dakka from Warseer mainly cause of that buffoon .... Also a few other members and mods on that site.

Which buffoon? There seem to be many nowadays.

The name of whatever buffoon he referred to appears to have been edited out by a moderator.

Best to let it alone, friend.

Whops, carry on then.

And beacuse it needs to be said again, thank you Lego and Yakface. Without you this would be nothing. And to all the mods, we love you guys! And to the community of dakkadakka, WAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!