21-06-2013, 12:40 PM
Quote:I don't think the new board is as active as the old one. Perhaps the mods or forum administrator can post some stats but to suggest that the last 7 days of activity are more statistically significant than the prior 21 months since the forums inception is a stretch.
If you look at the Board Index and sum the topics I got 593 topics excluding the archive if I divide that by 21 months X 30 days (630) = I get 0.941 topics a day. If I sum up the posts I get 6133 divided by 630 gives 9.73 posts a day. It doesn't strike me as particularly active compared to other forums I'm on but perhaps those aren't like for like comparisons.
I don't have any data to back this up - and the old forum isn't up any more, so it's difficult to check - but from what I remember, that board also saw long stretches of relative inactivity, punctuated by occasional busy periods. The 'a few days of high activity' thing remains significant, because board activity has always been very patchy, depending on whether anything particularly controversial is going on.
Honestly, off the top of my head I'd have guessed at lower numbers than those, actually.