We now have....

TTony

richardhomer said:

Long may it continue. There's a renewed sense of vigour about this forum, which seemed to be ebbing away from MR towards the end. A fantastic achievement in such a short space of time. Well done guys!

Jalapeno said:

Wot he said ^^^^^^^

Good job chaps !

On behalf of my absent colleagues, I will be happy to accept all the credit.

But seriously, we (more "they" tbh) just built a shell.  Without everyone using it, it would have been an interesting challenge, but no more.  

You guys (& gals) are the ones who are really building it - creating the content, the inter-action, the feeling about the place.  Long may it continue.

TTony

397 ...

 

I've been sat here hitting the "refresh" button waiting for member #400!

 

Though, if I hadn't banned & deleted all the spammy spammers (first blocking their IP addresses), we'd be closer to 500 by now.

TTony

Typical, I look away for 5 minutes, and people rush in without me noticing.

 

402.

thumpingrug

Ignorant question perhaps, but how do the spammy spammers find us so quickly, we've only existed for just over a week.

( I have no idea which smiley represents confused so have this one)

:-B

BluesyDave

So this is where you all are......Nice work Nick, I knew you'd end up ruling the World (of Guitars    )

monquixote

BluesyDave said:

So this is where you all are......Nice work Nick, I knew you'd end up ruling the World (of Guitars    )

Cheers Dave 

Glad you found us!

TTony

Bit spiky yesterday ...

TTony

Our busiest-ever day yesterday.

 

29,621 page views in the day - nearly 2,000 higher than our previous highest (which was Monday last week).  That's 2 consecutive days of pretty significant growth.

digitalscream

TTony said:

Our busiest-ever day yesterday.

 

29,621 page views in the day - nearly 2,000 higher than our previous highest (which was Monday last week).  That's 2 consecutive days of pretty significant growth.

Brilliant work

In related news, the server's still absolutely fine. We've used about 1.5GB of disk space, but 1.3GB of that is the server access log which we're not going to need once we get Google Analytics on the case.

TTony

digitalscream said:

 once we get Google Analytics on the case.

Which reminds me ... to the dev list with that one!

digitalscream

TTony said:

digitalscream said:

 once we get Google Analytics on the case.

Which reminds me ... to the dev list with that one!

I was just about to make that suggestion It's a shame we don't already have it, because it would've been nice to know where all the extra traffic came from.

jaygtr

TTony;10772" said:

Our busiest-ever day yesterday. 29,621 page views in the day - nearly 2,000 higher than our previous highest (which was Monday last week).  That's 2 consecutive days of pretty significant growth.:)

I was just wondering if you have any idea how that compares with the MR forum ?

TTony

jaygtr said:
I was just wondering if you have any idea how that compares with the MR forum ?

I don't have any actual data - though this place is starting to feel just as busy as the MR forums were towards the end.

The busy-ness is a little distorted IMHO (towards OT) and some sections (eg classifieds) are still quieter than they used to be, and we obviously don't have the depth of content yet for people to hunt through.

But close to 300k page views in a week and a half.  I'd have settled for that!

 

digitalscream

jaygtr said:

TTony;10772" said:

Our busiest-ever day yesterday. 29,621 page views in the day - nearly 2,000 higher than our previous highest (which was Monday last week).  That's 2 consecutive days of pretty significant growth.:)

I was just wondering if you have any idea how that compares with the MR forum ?

No idea - and, really, there's no way to know without getting access to MR's access logs. Even Alexa doesn't look at the forum specifically, so there's no historical info there either.

digitalscream

Just for the record...the last couple of weeks we've been averaging 20 - 25 members online. The last two days, it seems to have jumped to consistently over 30. That's got to be a good thing

viz

.... for UK productivity

thumpingrug

Buts works alwasy really slow adn boring during august.  It will drop again come september and we all get busy again.

TTony

thumpingrug said:

Buts works alwasy really slow adn boring during august.  It will drop again come september and we all get busy again.

I doubt it ... because we're still adding c15 new members every day ...

digitalscream

I know everyone's probably bored of the updates, but we went over 30k page views yesterday. 31,466 to be exact.

Madness, I tell thee...

TTony

21 new users signed up so far today (where are they all coming from??), taking the total to 551 (after I deleted about a dozen pathetic attempts at spam signups).

Biggest number of daily page views so far was yesterday (31,500 - nearly 2,000 more than our previous high).

Bigger and bigger.  Better and Better.