Originally Posted by James J:
“Guys, what the actual ...
I posted a few days ago and can't be arsed to keep going back in time to find the post! This thread is literally too big now, does anyone have some method to go to the last post you read after you get off the thread?
Wasn't too surprised "Downturn Abbey" had such a phenomenal timeshift; I did prophesy 2m+ a few days ago, but the thread imploded so much along with this, and the Alesha Dixon Jumps Strictly Sinking Ship
furore that I simply cannot find the post any more to gloat!
On a serious note though, this community is outgrowing the thread. I read the thread nearly every day, despite not having much time to contribute as much as I used to. But I miss so much due to the constraints of the thread format. The growth is insane!
I almost feel as though the community now deserves a Ratings (sub)forum.
Imagine the possibilities: overnights could be posted in separate threads, and discussed separately to ongoing discussions; those of us who enjoy posting opinion pieces, or analyses, would be free to make threads; those who feel their voice is lost could find a voice; and it would allow for a greater depth of discussion, in that the display of the topics would allow people space to breathe.
Maybe I'm ahead of myself, and it's probably been suggested before (and I probably missed it!
), but I think the community is so large and fast moving now that it deserves more than a thread.
The thread started properly in January 2007 and look at the growth per year:
2007 - 1 thread
2008 - 2 threads [+100% yoy]
2009 - 3 threads [+50% yoy]
2010 - 9 threads [+200% yoy]
2011 - 14 threads [+55% yoy]
Despite the amount of threads plateauing, not all threads had the same number of posts... some had up to 9000 posts per thread! So this data is not enough.
I did a quick maths sum on the past threads (and this doesn't include a couple I couldn't find on the board) and the total number of posts since 2007 is over 100,000!. I'm sure someone better than me at figures could generate some fascinating statistics with this data, and certainly data to support a forum being considered! We haven't even talked about the number of VIEWS each thread has, or the number of lurkers (who could potentially be contributors on a Ratings forum!)
While not the giant of say soaps or the UK TV forum, compare to Broadband Internet forum - that has 167,000 posts, which is about equal. The comics forum has just 3000 posts in 259 threads! I think we may just be too big for a thread now...
I think many posts in this thread are beyond valuable. rzt, D.M.N. and others contribute brilliant posts, while many, many others offer interesting, insightful opinion (even if we don't all agree!
)
There are so many characters and great posters and it's now getting impossible to keep up. I'm missing posts. I'm missing pages. Tens of them. In days, it seems! I want to catch up - but it's too hard!
Maybe the community is nicer smaller, and growing it would be hard and a big change. Maybe that's why DS haven't done it.
But I thought I'd put it out there and see what people think. I think we're much more than a thread, and the community has a big future, potentially as a sub forum or even main forum on the forum homepage!”
“Guys, what the actual ...
I posted a few days ago and can't be arsed to keep going back in time to find the post! This thread is literally too big now, does anyone have some method to go to the last post you read after you get off the thread?
Wasn't too surprised "Downturn Abbey" had such a phenomenal timeshift; I did prophesy 2m+ a few days ago, but the thread imploded so much along with this, and the Alesha Dixon Jumps Strictly Sinking Ship
furore that I simply cannot find the post any more to gloat!On a serious note though, this community is outgrowing the thread. I read the thread nearly every day, despite not having much time to contribute as much as I used to. But I miss so much due to the constraints of the thread format. The growth is insane!
I almost feel as though the community now deserves a Ratings (sub)forum.
Imagine the possibilities: overnights could be posted in separate threads, and discussed separately to ongoing discussions; those of us who enjoy posting opinion pieces, or analyses, would be free to make threads; those who feel their voice is lost could find a voice; and it would allow for a greater depth of discussion, in that the display of the topics would allow people space to breathe.
Maybe I'm ahead of myself, and it's probably been suggested before (and I probably missed it!
), but I think the community is so large and fast moving now that it deserves more than a thread.The thread started properly in January 2007 and look at the growth per year:
2007 - 1 thread
2008 - 2 threads [+100% yoy]
2009 - 3 threads [+50% yoy]
2010 - 9 threads [+200% yoy]
2011 - 14 threads [+55% yoy]
Despite the amount of threads plateauing, not all threads had the same number of posts... some had up to 9000 posts per thread!
So this data is not enough.I did a quick maths sum on the past threads (and this doesn't include a couple I couldn't find on the board) and the total number of posts since 2007 is over 100,000!.
I'm sure someone better than me at figures could generate some fascinating statistics with this data, and certainly data to support a forum being considered! We haven't even talked about the number of VIEWS each thread has, or the number of lurkers (who could potentially be contributors on a Ratings forum!)While not the giant of say soaps or the UK TV forum, compare to Broadband Internet forum - that has 167,000 posts, which is about equal. The comics forum has just 3000 posts in 259 threads! I think we may just be too big for a thread now...
I think many posts in this thread are beyond valuable. rzt, D.M.N. and others contribute brilliant posts, while many, many others offer interesting, insightful opinion (even if we don't all agree!
)There are so many characters and great posters and it's now getting impossible to keep up. I'm missing posts. I'm missing pages. Tens of them. In days, it seems! I want to catch up - but it's too hard!
Maybe the community is nicer smaller, and growing it would be hard and a big change. Maybe that's why DS haven't done it.
But I thought I'd put it out there and see what people think. I think we're much more than a thread, and the community has a big future, potentially as a sub forum or even main forum on the forum homepage!
”
some very good ideas here. Since going back to work its hard to read the thread due to the volume of postings.
