Sim
Administrator
Do you get the feeling I like statistics ? 
Well, for those of you who care - the old WebBoard forum was officially launched 2 years ago today by Ian Somers.
Actually, the first post was Feb 26th 2001 - a test message by Ian, but he didn't publish the link until March 1st.
If you want to see that first thread started by Ian - here is the link !
http://www.somersoft.com/forums/showthread.php?postid=4132#post4132
You may also want to go a browse through some of the earliest threads from the WebBoard forum - some interesting stuff there. If you sort the archive view "last post time" in "ascending" order, from "the beginning" - then you will get some of the oldest posts from WebBoard. Alternatively, just click on this link which should give you the same thing: http://www.somersoft.com/forums/for...astpost&sortorder=asc&daysprune=1000&x=11&y=8
So this means that the chatroom is officially 2 years old today as well, since it was the WebBoard software that allowed us to have such a facility.
For the curious, I have been maintaining statistics on the chatroom for a while now, and you can see them all laid out in full colour at my website http://stats.hampel.com.au/
I have just done a "special" stats run showing statistics covering the entire 2 years of logs. I normally don't do this because it takes so long for the program to process it all - but I figured this was a special occasion ! You can see these logs at http://stats.hampel.com.au/all.html
Interestingly, it seems as though Boyler_Room has just topped the 100,000 lines mark - well done BR ! The top 10 line writers in the chatroom over the last 2 years have been:
01. [100,493] Boyler_Room
02. [ 88,494] asy
03. [ 55,201] Ruby
04. [ 46,489] Sim
05. [ 36,681] The_Wife (not a regular anymore )
06. [ 34,998] Phil_H
07. [ 32,593] Rolf_Latham
08. [ 29,314] Deve
09. [ 23,055] Waverly_Bay
10. [ 21,632] GoAnna
The next top line writers are: see_change, Michele_B, Rixter, muppie, Rob, watto, Jax, Rick_Gibson, Kellie, and rossv
For those of you who look at the stats and wonder where I find the time to do all this, if you look carefully on the stats pages (down the bottom), you will find some information about the software I use to generate them. Once I had set up the configuration to generate things the way I wanted, it becomes very easy to just run the program every so often to update the stats. So it doesn't actually take much time at all
Another bit of useless information for you... I estimate that within the next 2 months we will hit 1 million lines of chat !!
Well, for those of you who care - the old WebBoard forum was officially launched 2 years ago today by Ian Somers.
Actually, the first post was Feb 26th 2001 - a test message by Ian, but he didn't publish the link until March 1st.
If you want to see that first thread started by Ian - here is the link !
http://www.somersoft.com/forums/showthread.php?postid=4132#post4132
You may also want to go a browse through some of the earliest threads from the WebBoard forum - some interesting stuff there. If you sort the archive view "last post time" in "ascending" order, from "the beginning" - then you will get some of the oldest posts from WebBoard. Alternatively, just click on this link which should give you the same thing: http://www.somersoft.com/forums/for...astpost&sortorder=asc&daysprune=1000&x=11&y=8
So this means that the chatroom is officially 2 years old today as well, since it was the WebBoard software that allowed us to have such a facility.
For the curious, I have been maintaining statistics on the chatroom for a while now, and you can see them all laid out in full colour at my website http://stats.hampel.com.au/
I have just done a "special" stats run showing statistics covering the entire 2 years of logs. I normally don't do this because it takes so long for the program to process it all - but I figured this was a special occasion ! You can see these logs at http://stats.hampel.com.au/all.html
Interestingly, it seems as though Boyler_Room has just topped the 100,000 lines mark - well done BR ! The top 10 line writers in the chatroom over the last 2 years have been:
01. [100,493] Boyler_Room
02. [ 88,494] asy
03. [ 55,201] Ruby
04. [ 46,489] Sim
05. [ 36,681] The_Wife (not a regular anymore
)06. [ 34,998] Phil_H
07. [ 32,593] Rolf_Latham
08. [ 29,314] Deve
09. [ 23,055] Waverly_Bay
10. [ 21,632] GoAnna
The next top line writers are: see_change, Michele_B, Rixter, muppie, Rob, watto, Jax, Rick_Gibson, Kellie, and rossv
For those of you who look at the stats and wonder where I find the time to do all this, if you look carefully on the stats pages (down the bottom), you will find some information about the software I use to generate them. Once I had set up the configuration to generate things the way I wanted, it becomes very easy to just run the program every so often to update the stats. So it doesn't actually take much time at all
Another bit of useless information for you... I estimate that within the next 2 months we will hit 1 million lines of chat !!
