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Checking Alexa right now, Dakka is at rank 47,961, Warseer is 43,222 (higher), while Bolter and Chainsword is 87,040

What's Alexa?

Like an oracle?

legoburner wrote:

KamikazeCanuck wrote:Is Dakka the most popular site you figure?

Dakka has (for 3 of the last 4 months):
- the most posts per day
- the most new users per day
- the highest rank (on average) on Alexa
- the most US users

Warseer has
- the most posts archived
- the most UK users

Librarium online has:
- the most search engine hits (heavy SEO) but the highest bounce rate

GW official site has:
- the most overall traffic

coolminiornot ranks fairly highly, as does BoLS (not including their forums), and second sphere has had a strong start, but by most metrics we are generally the largest wargaming community website now.

LO - Why oh why am i not suprised. lol. Heavy SEO.
No wonder they adsense the crap out of the site.




I use to be staff on LO - but the site began to turn into ads-online.
I arrived on Dakka, at first was very hostile drama going on left and right but it calmed down to a nice place to chill out and relax.

The other sites - i can give feth - nothing else like dakka.

I dunno, I've noticed that Dakka seems to attract a lot of lurkers. At any given time, I see about 5x as many guests online as registered users. Thats fine, but it would be nice if they would post something...

The high guest count is a bug in tracking search engine bots. At some points of the day it is accurate and it is still a very high number, but the real figure is usually around 1-2K.

Do you have a handy graph that shows some history to those numbers? I would be interested to see the Yak/Lego effect (Gallery, Articles, etc).

legoburner wrote:

KamikazeCanuck wrote:Is Dakka the most popular site you figure?

Dakka has (for 3 of the last 4 months):
- the most posts per day
- the most new users per day
- the highest rank (on average) on Alexa
- the most US users

Warseer has
- the most posts archived
- the most UK users

Librarium online has:
- the most search engine hits (heavy SEO) but the highest bounce rate

GW official site has:
- the most overall traffic

coolminiornot ranks fairly highly, as does BoLS (not including their forums), and second sphere has had a strong start, but by most metrics we are generally the largest wargaming community website now.

Cheesecat wrote:

Brother SRM wrote:I pronounce BoLS phonetically as "balls" and I think that's pretty indicative of it's quality. They had a huge two part front page article about a girl gamer and fawned over her like a godess. Their rumors are taken from other sites and are up to a week late. [redacted by mod] is an idiot, and posts too often. Great painter though.

I hang around a few Warhammer threads on SA and people there are pretty damn cool.

Do you have a link of the 2-paged article?

Sorry I'm late on this one, but here goes:
http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2010/02/anatomy-of-gamer-girl-part-1.html

Yeah, I'll let you judge for yourself since badmouthing forums is kind of a no-no here.

Yeah, so she's pretty hot. Damn.

I thought I was above being excited by a hot female gamer.

KamikazeCanuck wrote:What's Alexa?

It's a resource that tracks and ranks the relative popularity of websites.

Brother SRM wrote:

Cheesecat wrote:

Brother SRM wrote:I pronounce BoLS phonetically as "balls" and I think that's pretty indicative of it's quality. They had a huge two part front page article about a girl gamer and fawned over her like a godess. Their rumors are taken from other sites and are up to a week late. [redacted by mod] is an idiot, and posts too often. Great painter though.

I hang around a few Warhammer threads on SA and people there are pretty damn cool.

Do you have a link of the 2-paged article?

Sorry I'm late on this one, but here goes:
http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2010/02/anatomy-of-gamer-girl-part-1.html

Yeah, I'll let you judge for yourself since badmouthing forums is kind of a no-no here.

Yeah what you said was true (she is hot though). Listening to a bunch of nerds drooling over a girl gamer is still pretty funny. Thanks for the link Brother SRM.

Hot my gamer/nerd standards only. She's only cute/slightly above average by normal standards.

chaos0xomega wrote:Hot my gamer/nerd standards only. She's only cute/slightly above average by normal standards.

Agreed.


Guess it doesnt take much for gamers though eh haha.

RogueMarket wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:Hot my gamer/nerd standards only. She's only cute/slightly above average by normal standards.

Agreed.


Guess it doesnt take much for gamers though eh haha.

well when something like my pic is true, you would want ANY girl thats slightly good!

RogueMarket wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:Hot my gamer/nerd standards only. She's only cute/slightly above average by normal standards.

Agreed.


Guess it doesnt take much for gamers though eh haha.

I guess I'm not as picky.

kenshin620 wrote:

RogueMarket wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:Hot my gamer/nerd standards only. She's only cute/slightly above average by normal standards.

Agreed.


Guess it doesnt take much for gamers though eh haha.

well when something like my pic is true, you would want ANY girl thats slightly good!

haha why you put a pic of me for..

otherwise QFT (no offense dnd gamers!)

kenshin620 wrote:

RogueMarket wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:Hot my gamer/nerd standards only. She's only cute/slightly above average by normal standards.

Agreed.


Guess it doesnt take much for gamers though eh haha.

well when something like my pic is true, you would want ANY girl thats slightly good!

No doubt, that pic doesn't even begin to describe how much of an epic failure I am when it comes to women, but I still maintain high standards (probably to the detriment of my social life).

Thanks for posting the article link Brother SRM. I thought that Miss Cassie was gracious and friendly enough for anyone to welcome her to a game. The interviewer did seem kind of excitable around her, but I'll give him credit, I would have been totally tongue tied and subject to stupidity, ha ha

I don't like drama, but Dakka Dakka has some very interesting questions raised by the community, and so I come by every day to see what the good folks here are talking about. I like the moderators, especially Frazzled and Ketara, who were forgiving when I acted like a butt head my first time here.

Be well all, and be blessed!
--- Frankie

Ok guys let's not have this turn into a discussion about the obsessions of forum members over a female gamer so back on topic please.

Warboss Imbad Ironskull wrote:Ok guys let's not have this turn into a discussion about the obsessions of forum members over a female gamer so back on topic please.

You will only get nothing but positive here that Dakka is ok ;P same vice versa on any other forum you ask... (mostly)

haha with exception of those who are scared to get banhammered by the interwebz

I love this site. It's genuinely useful and the moderators actually let people talk, within reason. I waded through a lot of horrible sites before I got here and here I shall stay.

RogueMarket wrote:

Warboss Imbad Ironskull wrote:Ok guys let's not have this turn into a discussion about the obsessions of forum members over a female gamer so back on topic please.

You will only get nothing but positive here that Dakka is ok ;P same vice versa on any other forum you ask... (mostly)

haha with exception of those who are scared to get banhammered by the interwebz

You'd be surprised. I actually posted this question on a few of the other sites I'm a member at and you would deffinitly be surprised I just want to keep this on topic. While a female gamer is a rare enough site (even though there has always been one where I've played) it isn't what this topic is about. Just steering us back on course

TMP is where I go to keep informed of the non-GW stuff and to get perspective from alot of older gamers.

I occasionally visit Adeptus Windy City and Black Sun Games to setup meetups and trades.

I check zombismith and Wargames Factory forums to see what they are up too.

As for Dakka, it's is a unique place with lots of drama, but an interesting ability to cut the flaming a micrometer before it gets completely over the top. The fact that a thread 'dakka over other..." even exists is a negative in my book, as many forums have a policy of not dissing other forums. However, it is interesting reading and I am replying so apparently morbid curiosity wins over polite restraint.

Dakka is also good for getting a pulse for competative playing. I'm not a very competative player, but it's nice to keep informed. The modeling/painting/converting sections here are quite good also. Dakka also has a great marketplace. Even though Bartertown is my favorite place to deal, I've setup a few deals here, and the selection is pretty deep.

Eilif wrote:TMP is where I go to keep informed of the non-GW stuff and to get perspective from alot of older gamers.

I occasionally visit Adeptus Windy City and Black Sun Games to setup meetups and trades.

I check zombismith and Wargames Factory forums to see what they are up too.

As for Dakka, it's is a unique place with lots of drama, but an interesting ability to cut the flaming a micrometer before it gets completely over the top. The fact that a thread 'dakka over other..." even exists is a negative in my book, as many forums have a policy of not dissing other forums. However, it is interesting reading and I am replying so apparently morbid curiosity wins over polite restraint.

Dakka is also good for getting a pulse for competative playing. I'm not a very competative player, but it's nice to keep informed. The modeling/painting/converting sections here are quite good also. Dakka also has a great marketplace. Even though Bartertown is my favorite place to deal, I've setup a few deals
here, and the selection is pretty deep.

This isn't a thread about dissing other forums and that's been stated regularly (including my OP). This is a thread where people can talk about how they see Dakka vs other gaming sites in terms of what things do other sites do better or what things do they think Dakka does best. Those few people who didn't listen and did bash other forums didn't pay attention to what the thread was about, and if this was about bashing other threads the moderators would have shut it down a long time ago.

terribletrygon wrote:

And Dakka Dakka? I go here because I am a avid fan of Internet Drama, and you'll find me surfing sites such as Encyclopedia Dramatica, YouTube and DeviantArt in search of it. Dakka Dakka is where I tend to go for Wargaming related drama, and so far it has produced lots of golden material that I simply wouldn't find in any other forums (sans 40k blogs, which is on a whole different level compared to mere forum drama). I have, however, come to also appreciate the WIP and News boards, but reading drama is primarily why I first decided to frequent here. The whole deal with Ex Illis for example was very exciting, and I anticipate the next thread with much glee.

That's why I've lurked here for so long. It's great entertainment. Especially when the drama-monsters summarily ignore the moderators.

I've been on lots of other boards. And DakkaDakka is by far the best. The Mods are fair and laid back. The community is friendly. Here's to you, Dakka!

Eh, she's not bad, but she's more bus hot than actual hot...plus the article's content is pretty loltastic and slathered in silly 'girl on the internet' bull-pucky.

Warseer is alright but it's just way too easy to troll, even when you don't mean to. Sometimes people way over-react to things and you just gotta' run with it as long as you can for max value.

Dakka's a little better since there's more real player activity although I regard the YMDC section as an abomination that serves only to fuel some peoples' egos and drive inexperienced players away from the game.

Honestly, I give the same advice to everyone that I meet at the store regarding online forums in general: Talk all advice with a level head and a handful of salt, do what feels right regardless of what anyone says and take the time to learn things yourself; experience is the best teacher. Also, that I'm convinced people on the internet don't actually know how to play 40K.

Reecius wrote:

The Wasteland=crazyness. It's a bunch of old dakka posters that went and created an anything goes forum that talks about everything from disgusting sexual fetishes to the finer points of the latest tournament metagame. Only go there if you aren't easily offended, it's not a place that gives or asks for any quarter.

Do you have a link to the site? I did a quick Google search but nothing seemed to be matching what you described.

Trust me when I say the wasteland is not for the weak of heart. The oldest and grizzliest dakka members lurk on there toasting everything that comes in range.

Coincidentally, most of the mods are on there.

RxGhost wrote:Also, that I'm convinced people on the internet don't actually know how to play 40K.

Four or five do.

Not many more than that though.