Metafilter Statistics updated

July 2, 2002 5:53 PM

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.
posted by waxpancake to MetaFilter-Related at 5:53 PM (27 comments total)

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

Nice work!
posted by adampsyche at 5:58 PM on July 2, 2002

9622 is beginning to scare me. I think that thread is becoming it's own sentient being.
posted by Salmonberry at 6:02 PM on July 2, 2002

Excellent stuff, thanks!
posted by riffola at 6:08 PM on July 2, 2002

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

REALLY hope that's not an omen...


posted by dash_slot- at 7:03 PM on July 2, 2002

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.
posted by NortonDC at 7:05 PM on July 2, 2002

Fascinating as usual, wp! Thanks.
posted by Lynsey at 7:24 PM on July 2, 2002

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

I'm a sucker for charts. Thanks.
posted by whatnotever at 7:28 PM on July 2, 2002

Nice. I never realized there was a bigger spike after Brill's than 9/11.
posted by anathema at 7:30 PM on July 2, 2002

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.
posted by EatenByAGrue at 8:27 PM on July 2, 2002

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.)
posted by waxpancake at 8:43 PM on July 2, 2002

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.
posted by southisup at 10:00 PM on July 2, 2002

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.
posted by iconomy at 10:47 PM on July 2, 2002

Matt works in mysterious ways. The comments are disappearing at breakneck speed.
posted by iconomy at 11:01 PM on July 2, 2002

Thanks for the info, waxpancake.
posted by EatenByAGrue at 12:49 AM on July 3, 2002

Hey! Who snuck in here in these past two days?
posted by me3dia at 8:15 AM on July 3, 2002

Aw. Doesn't it look cute?
posted by ColdChef at 8:24 AM on July 3, 2002

Say hello to andyHollister, newest member of our tribe.
posted by ColdChef at 8:43 AM on July 3, 2002

I think this new member has accurately sussed out the MeFi ethos.
posted by gleuschk at 8:45 AM on July 3, 2002

Charming fellow.
posted by ColdChef at 8:55 AM on July 3, 2002

I can hardly wait until he makes his first comment, so that someone can tell him to "shut the fuck up".
posted by yhbc at 9:13 AM on July 3, 2002

Hey, why does this happen? I mean, there are some decent people in that list! ;)
posted by MiguelCardoso at 9:21 AM on July 3, 2002

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.
posted by timeistight at 9:48 AM on July 3, 2002

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


posted by matteo at 9:51 AM on July 3, 2002

Did someone page me?
posted by Skot at 10:06 AM on July 3, 2002

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.
posted by MiguelCardoso at 10:25 AM on July 3, 2002

Good name for a band, though.

It's been done.
posted by Marquis at 11:03 AM on July 3, 2002

before, too.
posted by dhartung at 3:32 PM on July 3, 2002