Do you have board stats available (other than the front page’s # of members or # of posts)?
I guess, like hits per day, members with highest post counts, largest thread (in replies), etc.
I was just curious. If not, no beeg theeng.
Well, if they had a board stat available that was something like: “Member with the highest posting average”, I think I’d win it. 
And as for the member with the highest post count, I think that honor would easily go to handy… no question about it! 
To answer the OP: no we don’t.
Bummer.
Do a search for kabbes in this forum. He’s the guru.
handy has the most posts. I think SPOOFE is second?
Arnold
Have traffic levels and the average number of users/day completely recovered from the crash?
Truth Seeker - I don’t know that either.
Coldfire, tracer, and Guinastasia all are have more than SPOOFE**.
(hoping this is not another “false memory attack”): At the bottom of the front page, there also used to be a “total number of members online now” stat. I used it as a kind of barometer to see how long it would take pages to load. Disabled?
Thanks
Quasi
Word. My information is out of date.
Another useless board stat:
Coldfire has the highest amount of posts below 10,000 with 9052. When you take out the days of the Winter of our Lost Content, he’s got approximately a 9.7 PPD rating. This means we’ll have our second 10,000 post party approximately July 26, or, if he waits two days, July 28, which is also the anniversary of his joining these boards.
Yes, I spent 5 minutes on this instead of mes devoirs de francais.
This is the thread in my sig. It talks about the rate at which newbies join and disappear again along with general post count kerfuffle.
At some point I did make another thread analysing statistics of posts per thread and views per thread in each of the forums. Try as I might, I don’t seem to be able to find this thread though (called something like “It’s time for some more board statistics”.) Maybe it got lost in the Great Purge.
This is a shame because it Definitively Proved[sup]TM[/sup] that the BBQ Pit was the most worthwhile forum. AND there were some theories put forward by extremely esteemed posters about why that might be the case.
Ah well.
pan
Is that why you forgot the cédille in français?
Quasimodem - it’s been disabled.
Speaking of board stats…
Are we actually getting more hits per day post-upgrade? It’s the one thing I can think of which would make the “new” boards harder to use than the old, and yet it doesn’t seem to be that there’s been any real increase in traffic. Or are we still not back on our “old” server yet?
My poor memory recalls a post by TubaDiva a month or so ago where she said that we were getting about “30% more traffic now than before the Great Crash”.
But I can’t find it in Search, and my memory is bad (I also remember TubaDiva and Gillian Anderson driving me to Vegas in a Chrysler Town and Country minivan one long, erotic weekend last Winter, but that can’t be right…I mean really, a minivan???), so it might not be a true memory.
Although I haven’t analyzed the web access logs thoroughly a preliminary analysis has shown we are getting 10% to 15% fewer pageviews after the crack/hardware upgrade/software upgrade than before. I’m not too surprized that the move to the new version of vBulletin has probably resulted in a performance hit even with processor upgrades thrown into the mix.
During the last month the server had been performing rather poorly but I didn’t have time to do anything about it. I made a change to the server configuration last Friday and since then I’m happier with it’s performance. Less thrashing (which is why you experience the huge swings in performance over just a few minutes), better memory utilization (less swap space utilization), the database engine is getting more processing cycles and not dying every four hours, etc.
The size of the database is still a problem and of course a couple of database wide searches will promptly bring all 525+ users to a grinding halt as the server has to read from disk again and again and again. At such times you’re reduced to the speed of the disk subsystem instead of the processor/memory subsystem. That’s not good because the disk subsystem is not particularly fast. In fact, we went from a RAID 1 setup to a RAID 5 setup during the upgrade so I could add much needed disk space. The only problem is RAID 5 tends to be slower than RAID 1.
C’est La Guerre!
Jerry
Thanks for the info Jerry. The explanation of “thrashing” is informative. I am of course grateful for what we’ve got. FWIW I have noticed an improvement in the last week.
A minivan?
Perhaps it’s time to discuss deactivating the board-wide searches once again?
I understood the French better than what you just said.
Makes good sense to me. Thanks, Jerry!
I’m also up for killing board-wide searches. I like them well enough, but not so well that I’m willing to suffer the performance hit.