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Dr Unne
03-03-2007, 05:43 AM
If you're like me, you spend <em>hours</em> worrying about how popular EoFF is compared to other Final Fantasy message boards. I can hardly sleep at night.

vBulletin boards happily display how many users are currently logged in, right on the front page. Last night I wrote a little Ruby script that automatically runs every 15 minutes to record how many visitors are currently online at the top 20 or so (as reported by Google) Final Fantasy message boards. I ignored non-vBulletin boards (all of which are extremely small, from what I can tell) which leaves 17 MBs. Today when I got home from work I had a nice little pile of data waiting for me.

There are some caveats here of course; for example these numbers largely depend on the (I believe configurable) timeout after which vBulletin will consider a member no longer visiting; a longer timeout will inflate the numbers. However let's work under the assumption that all the MBs are using sane and comparable timeouts.

This is a chart of one day of data including lurkers:

http://ffclassic.net/random/counts_with_lurkers.png

Lurkers are probably skewing the results given how many of them are search engine spiders. So I separately plotted only the non-lurkers (i.e. only logged in real human members):

http://ffclassic.net/random/counts_no_lurkers.png

Now we can all rest easy.

nik0tine
03-03-2007, 05:44 AM
This is fucking hot.

Zeromus_X
03-03-2007, 05:47 AM
That's impressive, Dr. Unne. :p

I had no clue FFNet was even on the top 20 of anything. xD

Roto13
03-03-2007, 05:47 AM
I like how the pretty lines go up and down.

XxSephirothxX
03-03-2007, 05:49 AM
Who knew adventchildren.net was so popular....with the bots. :p Kinda nice to see we come out pretty much at the top of the pack.

Leeza
03-03-2007, 05:50 AM
Our 6:00 a.m. time slot needs improvement. :cat:

SnoopyG
03-03-2007, 06:07 AM
I'm part of that red line:D

Yamaneko
03-03-2007, 06:30 AM
Congrats to all the winners.

Raistlin
03-03-2007, 06:43 AM
This reminds me of the time when I made the thread about how EoFF had just become the #1 FF-related EzBoard. My thread was cooler.

Bahamut2000X
03-03-2007, 06:45 AM
I think it's cause of the best smilie ever. :pinkelephant:


This reminds me of the time when I made the thread about how EoFF had just become the #1 FF-related EzBoard. My thread was cooler.

Yours isn't scientific though. With pretty color and numbers.

Raistlin
03-03-2007, 06:52 AM
Yours isn't scientific though.

It was by total posts, which is about as scientific as we could get with EzBoards. :p

Bahamut2000X
03-03-2007, 06:54 AM
But...he has charts with pretty colors and wrote programming...PROGRAMMING MAN! Egads that there is as scientific as I can possibly think of.

vorpal blade
03-03-2007, 08:15 AM
I'm part of that red line:D

What a coincidence, so am I!

I'm also a part of the purple line near the bottom.

Eiko Guy
03-03-2007, 08:16 AM
I like that its very informative. I didnt expect us to be soo high up. I log on quite often so..you're welcome.

Yuriev's ghost
03-03-2007, 08:47 AM
The second graph is pretty much what I expected. EoFF, ACF and FFShrine are the most notorious FF forums, in any case.

Jojee
03-03-2007, 09:28 AM
*head explodes* xD I never even knew half of these forums existed.


This reminds me of the time when I made the thread about how EoFF had just become the #1 FF-related EzBoard. My thread was cooler. It beat FF:ID but I don't think it ever beat FF:HW... :p Although HW did move out of EZboard at some point, not sure if it was before EoFF did. xD

Samuraid
03-03-2007, 10:15 AM
Wow, nice code work, and nice stats as well. :)

I guess this board gets around. :mwahaha:

KentaRawr!
03-03-2007, 11:00 AM
We are indeed quite an impressive bunch.

Cz
03-03-2007, 11:09 AM
Hang on a second. You mean there are other Final Fantasy message boards!?

Kossage
03-03-2007, 02:40 PM
Impressive. :)

Remon
03-03-2007, 02:54 PM
At least excluding lurkers we are the best :)

Sergeant Hartman
03-03-2007, 02:59 PM
At least excluding lurkers we are the best :)
EoFF winz!

Psychotic
03-03-2007, 03:04 PM
I guess this board gets around. :mwahaha:Traitor! We all know you wanted adventchildren.net to win!

Tavrobel
03-03-2007, 03:06 PM
I guess this board gets around. :mwahaha:Traitor! We all know you wanted adventchildren.net to win!

LIES AND PROPAGANADA! You take that back, you heathenous venom-filled pus maggot filled with icky, icky goo!

On a lighter note, I like how often we have compared this board to other boards thus far today.

Polaris
03-03-2007, 03:07 PM
We don't need lurkers :( we're the best without them! :(

Roto13
03-03-2007, 03:07 PM
I guess it's as scientific as you can get based one 24-hour period.

Psychotic
03-03-2007, 03:10 PM
I guess this board gets around. :mwahaha:Traitor! We all know you wanted adventchildren.net to win!

LIES AND PROPAGANADA! You take that back, you heathenous venom-filled pus maggot filled with icky, icky goo!The sickening truth of Samuraid's betrayal. (http://forums.adventchildren.net/member.php?u=17949)

Tavrobel
03-03-2007, 03:13 PM
No, that's not true! That's impossible!

Although, to be completely fair, he has only played FFVII so far.

Bunny
03-03-2007, 03:45 PM
I'm not sure what is going on here, but the pretty colors fascinate me.

Dr Aum
03-03-2007, 03:51 PM
Perform a two-sample T-test on our numbers and AdventChildren's numbers and then I'll be impressed.

Raistlin
03-03-2007, 06:17 PM
This reminds me of the time when I made the thread about how EoFF had just become the #1 FF-related EzBoard. My thread was cooler. It beat FF:ID but I don't think it ever beat FF:HW... :p Although HW did move out of EZboard at some point, not sure if it was before EoFF did. xD

Wasn't HW created later? But anyway, EoFF beat out all of the FF-related EzBoards at that time. FF:ID was the largest before that. It only took like 5 months, too.

Samuraid
03-03-2007, 07:42 PM
I guess this board gets around. :mwahaha:Traitor! We all know you wanted adventchildren.net to win!

LIES AND PROPAGANADA! You take that back, you heathenous venom-filled pus maggot filled with icky, icky goo!The sickening truth of Samuraid's betrayal. (http://forums.adventchildren.net/member.php?u=17949)
:eek: *flees*


No, that's not true! That's impossible!

Although, to be completely fair, he has only played FFVII so far.

Oh it is very true, however, I generally just help them with a few odd code fixes and a little bit of security. I don't care for most of the general forum, especially since they let certain people (http://forums.eyesonff.com/member.php?u=4020) get away with the most epic level of complaining and whinging there. :monster:

rubah
03-03-2007, 07:42 PM
So how do we funnel these members to our front site?

Owen Macwere
03-03-2007, 07:53 PM
Well, these charts make me proud of being an EOFFer. Now, what's my prize?.

Bahamut2000X
03-03-2007, 07:55 PM
So how do we funnel these members to our front site?

Trick the peons into going under the pretense of there being cookies and cake.

Dr Unne
03-03-2007, 08:13 PM
So how do we funnel these members to our front site?


<?php
srand(time());
if(rand() % 99 == 0) {
header( 'Location: http://www.eyesonff.com' ) ;
}
?>

Probably only 4 people reading this thread will get that joke. :(

Vikeve
03-03-2007, 08:27 PM
I'm so proud of eoff. Yeah, I don't get the joke Unne.

Freya
03-03-2007, 08:48 PM
I feel smarter just looking at those.

We need to step up our game at those early hours. We can't even let them have a mild win over us.

Tavrobel
03-03-2007, 09:36 PM
So how do we funnel these members to our front site?


<?php
srand(time());
if(rand() % 99 == 0) {
header( 'Location: http://www.eyesonff.com' ) ;
}
?>

Probably only 4 people reading this thread will get that joke. :(

LOL winnared more, please.

Shlup
03-03-2007, 10:06 PM
And here someone-I-will-refrain-from-naming was trying to convince us EoFF needed a spam forum and to be run more like AC if we ever hoped to be as active as them (which we didn't anyway). Funny.

Iceglow
03-03-2007, 10:21 PM
lmao this is pretty cool.

for those who didn't get the joke I am pretty sure Unne posted php source code for the forums which shows the eoff banner....pretty sure my php is as good as my chineese. xD (I learnt Japanese not Chineese watch kill bill for vol 1 and 2 for the opinions on the two)