Comments on: Metafilter Statistics updated

Metafilter Statistics updated

waxpancake — Tue, 02 Jul 2002 17:53:15 -0800

Metafilter Statistics have finally been updated, and the top 20 charts are back. The big news here is that it looks like thread/comment traffic has slowly declined over the past few months, after a big spike in January. Also, the User Growth charts now show the number of new user signups per month, resulting in a cute graph (signups are on! signups are off!, signups are on!, etc). Now that I'm storing all the user/thread data in a database (instead of a flat file), expect these stats to be updated monthly again.

By: adampsyche

adampsyche — Tue, 02 Jul 2002 17:58:58 -0800

89 threads in one day? Sure, it was Sept. 13th and all, but lawd have mercy.

Nice work!

By: Salmonberry

Salmonberry — Tue, 02 Jul 2002 18:02:29 -0800

9622 is beginning to scare me. I think that thread is becoming it's own sentient being.

By: riffola

riffola — Tue, 02 Jul 2002 18:08:24 -0800

Excellent stuff, thanks!

By: dash_slot-

dash_slot- — Tue, 02 Jul 2002 19:03:02 -0800

This looks like a stegosaurus fallen flat on it's nose.

REALLY hope that's not an omen...

By: NortonDC

NortonDC — Tue, 02 Jul 2002 19:05:33 -0800

And there I was, all proud of my Neighborly Love thread pulling in a 150 comments with no additional input from me, and it doesn't even make the list.

By: Lynsey

Lynsey — Tue, 02 Jul 2002 19:24:38 -0800

Fascinating as usual, wp! Thanks.

By: whatnotever

whatnotever — Tue, 02 Jul 2002 19:28:44 -0800

Mmm... graphical representation of quantitative data... *drools*

I'm a sucker for charts. Thanks.

By: anathema

anathema — Tue, 02 Jul 2002 19:30:25 -0800

Nice. I never realized there was a bigger spike after Brill's than 9/11.

By: EatenByAGrue

EatenByAGrue — Tue, 02 Jul 2002 20:27:29 -0800

I just noticed that your top twenty most active days (by comments) is actually a top twenty most active days (by threads with most comments, irrespective of when the commenting occurred). Shouldn't it be instead a list of days with most comments that occurred on that date? Not asking for a pony, just curious. Thanks for the stats.

By: waxpancake

waxpancake — Tue, 02 Jul 2002 20:43:28 -0800

Grue: Sorry, impossible to do with my current data set. I'm not indexing each threads, so I can't get the timestamps for individual comments. (For the curious, I'm getting the thread lists from the archives.)

By: southisup

southisup — Tue, 02 Jul 2002 22:00:19 -0800

Good work!

Shame you can't get the number of bytes per thread from the archive pages. Last I looked 1142 was still ahead on that score.

By: iconomy

iconomy — Tue, 02 Jul 2002 22:47:20 -0800

I think that the declining comment trend will reverse itself now that ponchogaddo is here to make a comment about piss tests in every single thread.

By: iconomy

iconomy — Tue, 02 Jul 2002 23:01:48 -0800

Matt works in mysterious ways. The comments are disappearing at breakneck speed.

By: EatenByAGrue

EatenByAGrue — Wed, 03 Jul 2002 00:49:31 -0800

Thanks for the info, waxpancake.

By: me3dia

me3dia — Wed, 03 Jul 2002 08:15:35 -0800

Hey! Who snuck in here in these past two days?

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Wed, 03 Jul 2002 08:24:59 -0800

Aw. Doesn't it look cute?

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Wed, 03 Jul 2002 08:43:45 -0800

Say hello to andyHollister, newest member of our tribe.

By: gleuschk

gleuschk — Wed, 03 Jul 2002 08:45:59 -0800

I think this new member has accurately sussed out the MeFi ethos.

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Wed, 03 Jul 2002 08:55:58 -0800

Charming fellow.

By: yhbc

yhbc — Wed, 03 Jul 2002 09:13:36 -0800

I can hardly wait until he makes his first comment, so that someone can tell him to "shut the fuck up".

By: MiguelCardoso

MiguelCardoso — Wed, 03 Jul 2002 09:21:49 -0800

Hey, why does this happen? I mean, there are some decent people in that list! ;)

By: timeistight

timeistight — Wed, 03 Jul 2002 09:48:52 -0800

Miguel, the search searches the whole user's entry – not just the nickname. All those decent people have the text string "fuck" somewhere on their user page.

By: matteo

matteo — Wed, 03 Jul 2002 09:51:04 -0800

I think this new member has accurately sussed out the MeFi ethos.

user name: fuck

????
WTF? Let's fucking hope he keeps his fucking mouth shut. I hate fucking profanity, it's fucking up this community

By: Skot

Skot — Wed, 03 Jul 2002 10:06:25 -0800

Did someone page me?

By: MiguelCardoso

MiguelCardoso — Wed, 03 Jul 2002 10:25:02 -0800

Well I'm just glad I don't have that "text string fuck" thing, is all I can say. Good name for a band, though.

By: Marquis

Marquis — Wed, 03 Jul 2002 11:03:00 -0800

Good name for a band, though.

It's been done.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Wed, 03 Jul 2002 15:32:14 -0800

before, too.