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kermmartian
Site Admin Kemetech
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Just for fun, I wrote up a comparison of the five most popular TI calculator programming community fora, excluding ticalc.org, of course. The results weren't a huge surprise; UnitedTI won in every category except posts per day, in which category Cemetech earned first place. Maxcoderz came in a fairly close third, while Omnimaga lagged behind in fourth and Revsoft brough up the rear in fifth. Check it out, and comment!
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luby
I want to go back to Philmont!!
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looks like 541 is a popular number in the members column.
Is the members per day couting "new" members per day?
GO UTI!!!!
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kermmartian
Site Admin Kemetech
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Yes, it means new members per day. On a side note, I see the image has artifacts from my fried video card. :(
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Delnar_Ersike
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*Action Initiated: Read Chart...
Action completed with no errors.
Action Initiated: Analyze Data...
Errors encountered!
Number of errors: 2
Location of errors: forum restart value
Checking forum restart value for United-TI: Ø
Checking forum restart value for Cemetech: Ø
Checking forum restart value for MaxCoderz: {1,1}
Checking forum restart value for Omnimaga: {1}
Checking forum restart value for Revolution Software: Ø
Errors have been encountered in the following sections: MaxCoderz, Omnimaga
Action aborted.*
I think you can understand the message I am trying to relay...  |
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kermmartian
Site Admin Kemetech
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| Posted: 20 Jun 2007 12:29:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Cemetech's actually been restarted twice. I didn't take that into account. |
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luby
I want to go back to Philmont!!
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| Posted: 20 Jun 2007 12:30:07 pm Post subject: |
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| nope. Explain? Forum restart value? |
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kermmartian
Site Admin Kemetech
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luby wrote: nope. Explain? Forum restart value?
[post="108903"]<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/post]
Three of the fora (Cemetech, Maxcoderz, and Omnimaga) were deleted and started from scratch again, so their values are incorrectly lower than they would be had the deletions not occured. |
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Delnar_Ersike
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luby wrote: nope. Explain? Forum restart value?
[post="108903"]<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/post]
Ø means has not been restarted
{1} means has been restarted once
{1,1} means has been restarted twice
@Kerm: hmmm, I never knew Cemetech was restarted twice. That means the data is faulty with Cemetech, too. The real reason UTI is at the top is because I think it was never restarted or if it was, it was a very long time ago. |
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kermmartian
Site Admin Kemetech
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| Posted: 20 Jun 2007 12:34:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Also, as Spencer pointed out at Revsoft, UnitedTI has a much higher concentration of newbies who join, ask a question, and never return afterwards. |
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Delnar_Ersike
Lazy H4xx0r
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| Shoot, I forgot to mention that at Cemetech, many people use SAX instead of posting about their problems. Oh, and Omnimaga has a Spam section that doesn't count toward total number of posts, but does toward the posts per day. |
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kermmartian
Site Admin Kemetech
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Delnar_Ersike wrote: Shoot, I forgot to mention that at Cemetech, many people use SAX instead of posting about their problems. Oh, and Omnimaga has a Spam section that doesn't count toward total number of posts, but does toward the posts per day.
[post="108908"]<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/post]
Also solid points. And now with tiSAX, sites such as Rivereye Studios, MorphTeque, LaffeRealm, OTBP, Swivelgames, and Stickfigure Productions are also SAXing instead of posting quite as much. |
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Arcane Wizard
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Delnar_Ersike wrote: Ø means has not been restarted
{1} means has been restarted once
{1,1} means has been restarted twice In a nonordered set {1} is the same as {1,1} and {1,1,...} for that matter.
I would suggest storing the number of restarts simply as an incrementing number. The fact "number of restarts" holds only one number for the relevant grain "a forum". Should you wish to allow for history and logging of restarts there are other solutions for that.
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DarkerLine
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Instead of {1,1}, can we use the following sequence instead?
Ø
{Ø}
{Ø,{Ø}}
{Ø,{Ø},{Ø,{Ø}}}
{Ø,{Ø},{Ø,{Ø}},{Ø,{Ø},{Ø,{Ø}}}}
This way, we don't introduce the arbitrary symbol "1" in our sets, which doesn't actually mean much as an element, and stick with the clearly-defined Ø. Which we of course could write as {}, and then have nothing but brackets and commas to deal with.
The number of restarts, however, does not affect the rate of posting or the rate of new members.
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Arcane Wizard
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I'm pretty sure it does when people post more or less due to the associated events.
For example they might leave due to being tired of it, or they might be demotivated to post new things. Or new members might hear about it for the first time due to the news that it was restart, or the restart motivates some to post old findings in a new way.
etc etc
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DarkerLine
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| Okay, to amend my comment, they don't directly affect the posting rate. Indirectly, the posting rate would be affected; in fact, I'm pretty sure it would go up significantly, since this way the forum starts off with an existing userbase, thereby skipping the initial low-activity phase of all forums that gets averaged in without a restart. |
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Recursive Acronym
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| Doesn't Detached Solutions have a forum? Or is it only support for their line of Apps? |
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IAmACalculator
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| Yes, and there's also TI-FR, TICT boards, and lots of other forums that we didn't mention. These are just the biggest English ones. |
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kermmartian
Site Admin Kemetech
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Recursive Acronym wrote: Doesn't Detached Solutions have a forum? Or is it only support for their line of Apps?
[post="109885"]<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/post]
I realized I had forgotten them about a week later. Turns out that their stats are pretty impressive; they might even make it into the top 5 if I actually calculate it out. |
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Taricorp
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Total posts: 34177
Total members: 1105
Total topics: 2927
Age: ~1640 days
Restarts: probably 0 |
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kermmartian
Site Admin Kemetech
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Taricorp wrote: Total posts: 34177
Total members: 1105
Total topics: 2927
Age: ~1640 days
Restarts: probably 0
[post="109892"]<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/post]
Posts per day: 20.4
Members per day: 0.674
Topic per day: 1.785
Edit: this means that checked against the above table, Detached kicks out Revsoft (restarts discounted) as #5.
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