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Main Discussion Area => Stream of Consciousness => Topic started by: Beej on January 21, 2005, 10:53:40 AM
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So, are we going to stay here or what?
Please note: I just set this up to show y'all the slendor & wonder of the 'poll' function.
I've become used to this type of forum-software what with goofing off with the Brits over at CG. So, I can hang here no problem.
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So, are we going to stay here or what?
kind of funny how we see two examples of things we can't do at discserver here: Beej's avatar and these polls!
:roll:
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Well, let's not forget your handsome visage, geoff!
But, yeah- we could have some fun here that's for sure. More toys than the old one. But, the simplicty of the old one is nice, too.
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But, yeah- we could have some fun here that's for sure. More toys than the old one. But, the simplicty of the old one is nice, too.
Like anything else, people learn to deal with the tools they have. I think that someday we should take it to the extreme and do it in a chat room
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I need to get to the convention center; have missed ah hour so far!
I'll check in later.
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Later, dude.
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But, yeah- we could have some fun here that's for sure. More toys than the old one. But, the simplicty of the old one is nice, too.
Like anything else, people learn to deal with the tools they have. I think that someday we should take it to the extreme and do it in a chat room
I'm torn. On one hand, like a lot of you, I'm kind of missing the way the old boad worked, basic but familiar.
But I'm not quite ready to write this off yet either. As Geoff implied, staying here will mean we need to learn new habits and ways of reading and managing our posts so they're as easy as possible for others to find.
Why don't we keep this up for the rest of the day, and see how we feel then? As GG said, the size of the bill we get from disc.server will likely play a large role in our final decision.
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I'm torn. On one hand, like a lot of you, I'm kind of missing the way the old boad worked, basic but familiar.
But I'm not quite ready to write this off yet either.
Same here. Needed a third option on the poll - undecided.
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Dude. Dig your nifty avatar. Where'd you swipe that?
Tyranny and mutation, not to be confused with mutant trannys.
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Dude. Dig your nifty avatar. Where'd you swipe that?
Tyranny and mutation, not to be confused with mutant trannys.
Googled Blue Oyster Cult and got it from some web page (second on the list). Already perfect size and everything!
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Anyone else chiming in?
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Am I correct in assuming this board would cost us a lot less than the old one? Not that I'm a cheapskate or anything...
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Am I correct in assuming this board would cost us a lot less than the old one? Not that I'm a cheapskate or anything...
We haven't gotten a bill yet from disc server, but it was two hundred last year. Right now, this test forum is being hosted on one of Geoff's sites. Probably we would need to get a seperate site going, so we don't use up all of Geoff's bandwidth/volume. I don't know as much about it as Geoff, but you can get a site for considerably less than 200 bucks a year. Plus, there is additional space for storing stuff, creating additional content, etc...
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Am I correct in assuming this board would cost us a lot less than the old one? Not that I'm a cheapskate or anything...
We haven't gotten a bill yet from disc server, but it was two hundred last year. Right now, this test forum is being hosted on one of Geoff's sites. Probably we would need to get a seperate site going, so we don't use up all of Geoff's bandwidth/volume. I don't know as much about it as Geoff, but you can get a site for considerably less than 200 bucks a year. Plus, there is additional space for storing stuff, creating additional content, etc...
I'll talk to my ISP guy to calculate a wild estimate of how much space this kind of database takes up. This kind of forum is available everywhere if we find some free space too.
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Am I correct in assuming this board would cost us a lot less than the old one? Not that I'm a cheapskate or anything...
We haven't gotten a bill yet from disc server, but it was two hundred last year. Right now, this test forum is being hosted on one of Geoff's sites. Probably we would need to get a seperate site going, so we don't use up all of Geoff's bandwidth/volume. I don't know as much about it as Geoff, but you can get a site for considerably less than 200 bucks a year. Plus, there is additional space for storing stuff, creating additional content, etc...
I'll talk to my ISP guy to calculate a wild estimate of how much space this kind of database takes up. This kind of forum is available everywhere if we find some free space too.
Just curious--anyone got an idea how many posts we've been averaging per day or per week on the old board? I couldn't venture an accurate guess but I'd have to think it's in the range of several hundred per day, and 4 figures weekly.
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Just curious--anyone got an idea how many posts we've been averaging per day or per week on the old board? I couldn't venture an accurate guess but I'd have to think it's in the range of several hundred per day, and 4 figures weekly.
Cut and pasted from the statistics page in admin for the other board. Not sure what this tells us:
Date Unique IPs Pageviews
2004-12-24 18 151
2004-12-25 10 92
2004-12-26 11 95
2004-12-27 20 894
2004-12-28 22 1165
2004-12-29 21 1774
2004-12-30 18 1761
2004-12-31 13 216
2005-01-01 8 80
2005-01-02 13 120
2005-01-03 24 1217
2005-01-04 27 1049
2005-01-05 24 2254
2005-01-06 16 1687
2005-01-07 21 2114
2005-01-08 14 336
2005-01-09 17 165
2005-01-10 27 2174
2005-01-11 28 2229
2005-01-12 30 2374
2005-01-13 22 2106
2005-01-14 20 1839
2005-01-15 17 188
2005-01-16 16 128
2005-01-17 155 1331
2005-01-18 22 2185
2005-01-19 21 1524
2005-01-20 43 930
2005-01-21 42 336
2005-01-22 9 41
2005-01-23 15 50
Average 24 1051
Total 32605
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I assume "pageviews" means the number of times people access the site (regardless of whether they actually post) on a given day.
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I assume "pageviews" means the number of times people access the site (regardless of whether they actually post) on a given day.
Yep. In internet-ese, pageviews translates to how many times any page was loaded from our site, also known as "hits." "Unique IP" (or unique users) translates to how many different people generated those hits.
Btw, if I were to read posts at work, and then check back later at home, I would likely be counted at two unique users, as I would have two separate IP addresses. So just because we had 27 unique IP's on a given day doesn't necessarily equate to 27 different people. Still, if each of us checked in from two separte IP's it shouldn't add up to 27, I don't think, so there's gotta be a few people out there lurking who aren't speaking up much, or at all.
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Just curious--anyone got an idea how many posts we've been averaging per day or per week on the old board? I couldn't venture an accurate guess but I'd have to think it's in the range of several hundred per day, and 4 figures weekly.
well, you can see from the front page that in the two days we've been testing, we've generated 240 posts.
I talked to my guy, and it looks like unless we do some really massive posting, or major other features, the $50/year package will be fine.
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not sure about the sizing.
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not sure about the sizing.
looks like you're doing fine! Have fun.
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not sure about the sizing.
Nice pic. Is that from the calendar signing?