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Interesting stuff.

Looking at the graph I see Heresey online appears to be catching up with warseer. It looks like its also on the rise at the same rate as dakka.

I've always liked heresy as its got some of the most interesting posters.

I feel bad for Second Sphere. For being a branch of a forum of an ill loved faction, they never really had a chance to begin with.



My little brother and I would like to know. How/Why are there are negative posts?

legoburner -- definitely really interesting analytics -- thank you for posting them.

be really interesting to see if there is any correlation to traffic for GW sites (likely unavailable) and/or GW quarterly revenue (likely available via annual financial statements and quarterly reporting).

Some other correlations which would be interesting would be to UK/US GDP and/or toy sector spending (probably available, at least in the US from the Department of Labor website) just to see if your growth patterns are in line with what's going on in the market and how the recent economic news has affected people's spending and interest in gaming --

also it'd be interesting to see what the average time is that people are spending on dakka vs other gaming sites --

though you are probably already pursuing this, you might consider showing those traffic numbers to advertisers as that kind of traffic growth (irrespective of the Y axis numbers) could garner you and the site some solid revenue.

In any event, it's no mean feat to have had a forum grow successfully -- so congratulations to you and the dakka mods/admins on fostering and cultivating such a large community.

ChiliPowderKeg wrote:I feel bad for Second Sphere. For being a branch of a forum of an ill loved faction, they never really had a chance to begin with.



My little brother and I would like to know. How/Why are there are negative posts?

As I understand it some forums archive or delete posts past a certain point, so those would be times when the number being deleted exceeded the number posted.

Its not a shock to me to see DAKKA doing so well. Back when I started the petition to make GW make a ruling on the Deffrolla rules, I signed up at probably 10 different 40k sites. I have to say, most were just horrible, and hard to navigate, the rest was just full of Aholes and people that didnt like the idea that GW wasnt actually perfect. I got canned from most of those sites just because of what I asked, here it was pretty much embraced with open arms.

I love you DAKKA

I congratulate those people who keep this site going as well as the people who come to this site and make it enjoyable for the rest. This may be my first posting but I have been reading articles at this site for years.

Some cool data.

Although it's a bit morbid, I was interested to see how much of an impact prolific posters had on traffic. The obvious example is Jon Wilson passing so tragically last year (Brimstone), as I always considered Warseer BrimSeer for all intents and purposes. There seems to be a steady decline in their traffic since his passing, which of course could mean nothing (Or something). I wondered if everyone viewed Seer as a rumors only site as I do...and when Brim passed they lost a great deal of information (Although tip of the hat to Scryer, Harry, Stingray and others for continuing to feed the community information).


Good to see Dakka doing well, I consider this my internet toy soldier home and wish you guys continued success (and thanks for the features you've implemented).

I would say it would be better decorum to not only refrain from attacking other forums....but especially deceased individuals that contributed on those forums.

Unnamed poster wrote:Negative comments about a deceased party and another forum redacted.

Heck, not just Legoburner & Yakface, all of our dear mods are great. Thank you!

Please remember that this thread is NOT an appropriate venue for speaking ill of any other site or person there, especially those unable to respond.

I am still waiting for the days of the Dakka dominance! We will host the rumors, and our names will become legend!

ihs wrote:be really interesting to see if there is any correlation to traffic for GW sites (likely unavailable) and/or GW quarterly revenue (likely available via annual financial statements and quarterly reporting)

Nothing too significant that I've seen from casual looks

ihs wrote:Some other correlations which would be interesting would be to UK/US GDP and/or toy sector spending (probably available, at least in the US from the Department of Labor website) just to see if your growth patterns are in line with what's going on in the market and how the recent economic news has affected people's spending and interest in gaming --

Traffic actually seems inverted, people seem to spend more time on wargaming sites when the economy is doing poorly, but I dont really have enough data to say that with any authority.

ihs wrote:also it'd be interesting to see what the average time is that people are spending on dakka vs other gaming sites --

I cannot get that data for other sites without exchanging stats which is usually done in private.

ihs wrote:though you are probably already pursuing this, you might consider showing those traffic numbers to advertisers as that kind of traffic growth (irrespective of the Y axis numbers) could garner you and the site some solid revenue.

Dakka makes enough to cover costs and that is all we are after. Traffic is certainly high enough that we could make a living out of it if we plastered ads everywhere but that would take away from this being a fun hobby project for us and would kill our interest so it wont happen.

/returns to the DCM penthouse...

What happened to warseer in January 09?

Unsuprising about tauonline numbers falling and flatlining. The falling out from owner and moderators, posters saw a mass exodus from that place that wont ever recover.


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ChiliPowderKeg wrote:I feel bad for Second Sphere. For being a branch of a forum of an ill loved faction, they never really had a chance to begin with.

And now we see the results of data, viewed in a vacumn. With no regards to WHAT the data is, only the numbers themselves.

For example, Second Sphere is doing just find. What you DO NOT get from the data is the fact the huge spike start and drop off would most likely be the results of the fallout from tau site, where as posters/moderates took their archives with them when they left, and set up Second sphere and data dumped it all there in a short amout of time, which is why it starts so high(you had years of data being set up in archives) then the steep drop off followed by the climb up as you see on their trend upward afterwards.

You should note TauOnline's status at roughly the short time before(the fallout I refer to earlier) and see how they nosedive and then flatline....

Numbers are numbers, they dont tell you the WHY.

WE ARE DAKKA FOR WE ARE MANY

Seems like my absense from dakka and recommended your forum to /tg/ gave you guys a large boost.

You are welcome... i guess?

Off i go again , byeeeeee~

So that's how the internet works?

Very nice. Half of those posts are from Alpharius though He's a madman lately.

LunaHound wrote:Seems like my absense from dakka and recommended your forum to /tg/ gave you guys a large boost.

You are welcome... i guess?

Off i go again , byeeeeee~

/tg/.... /tg/! what have you done, we're doomed DOOMED I TELL YOU

We're fine.

We can hold the line.

Rapid Fire and Relentless from the Moderator Team works wonders!

It's nice to see Dakka doing well. I signed up somewhere around spring 2000 and back then this was mostly an American 40K forum and felt a lot smaller than Portent and a few others. A lot has changed and a lot of good posters have left the scene but life goes on.

Thanks much for the post. Forum dynamics are not a subject I think about much (or at all) but found it to be a very interesting and enlightening read.

I'll add my voice to the chorus of thanks to the mods specifically and the community in general for a good place to chat about the games we enjoy.

RZ

Cool graphs and statistics... nice to see Dakka doing so well! Thanks for sharing these, Lego

LunaHound wrote:Seems like my absense from dakka and recommended your forum to /tg/ gave you guys a large boost.

You are welcome... i guess?

Off i go again , byeeeeee~

You recommended us on a Trans Gender forum?

Kid_Kyoto wrote:

LunaHound wrote:Seems like my absense from dakka and recommended your forum to /tg/ gave you guys a large boost.

You are welcome... i guess?

Off i go again , byeeeeee~

You recommended us on a Trans Gender forum?

Traditional Games :3

LunaHound wrote:

Kid_Kyoto wrote:

LunaHound wrote:Seems like my absense from dakka and recommended your forum to /tg/ gave you guys a large boost.

You are welcome... i guess?

Off i go again , byeeeeee~

You recommended us on a Trans Gender forum?

Tabletop Games :3

Same thing

Still preferable to furries, if I should be so bold to say so.

Aww you 2 just jelly -_- cant we just all be happy with having more dakkites?

Monster Rain wrote:Still preferable to furries, if I should be so bold to say so.

Anything but the furries...

And /tg/ isnt that bad. Some good things come from /tg/. They are just another 40k forum really, with a different format.

/tg/ is..... Meh. Lots of boring threads full of stubborn people arguing worthless points under the veil of anonymity. It's a cross section of the gaming community. Unfortunately, it's the ugly, ignorant and often dumb side of it

I visit both /b/ and /tg/ on a semi-weekly basis, and the only difference between the two is that /tg/ isn't as random. Same old fourchin.