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Wow, half of the forum is Misc.
See, it's not dying. 

Last edited by scimonster (2012-01-03 12:15:55)

Not very surprising to me, as the people that post in the forums are pretty much always the same known faces(well, names), and they aren't that many.
If we consider a website with near 1 million registered accounts and a forum with only a fifth of that, and then take into account the massive amount of bot-created users, the numbers fit.


What surprised me, however, is that only 2% of the registered users on the site actually are active. I would have imagined at least 30%...

LS97 wrote:

What surprised me, however, is that only 2% of the registered users on the site actually are active. I would have imagined at least 30%...

I guess I'm used to that one. Remember, those are total registrations from the beginning of Scratch time, back in 2007. Also, many people only check in once in a while - this only reflects the average number to check in during one week.

This should be a blog post.  Your blog is getting stale.

scimonster wrote:

Wow, half of the forum is Misc.
See, it's not dying. 

We used to be all consuming 8/

rabbit1131 wrote:

scimonster wrote:

Wow, half of the forum is Misc.
See, it's not dying. 

We used to be all consuming 8/

No, my impression from the past few weeks is that these numbers / percentages have been pretty stable for a while. There are other metrics that we've been tracking for longer that haven't changed much - flag rates, etc. So if these recent numbers reflected a recent change, I'd think those numbers would show a similar change. But I don't really think they have.

ProgrammingFreak wrote:

Wow that is surprising, but that just shows us that there is a whole other world out on the main site. I've started to notice this as I spend more time on the main site, and was almost astonished at how many users were oblivious of the forums, and happy about it. 

It's true - Scratch is really broad and diverse. But if you mostly hang out in a particular corner, you tend to think that that corner represents all of Scratch. But since who you spend time with on the main site depends mostly on whose projects you regularly follow and comment on, or what galleries you hang out in, there are lots of small "other worlds" out there.

Scratch is more an ecosystem than a monoculture. That's one of the qualities that makes it interesting to me.

Last edited by Lightnin (2012-01-03 15:50:12)

Wow 

Amazing how many people that make accounts actually use them 

very surprising
can you find out how many are trolls

Last edited by GameHutSoftware (2012-01-03 20:44:10)

Cool facts! I love the visulization of the ages on the stats site. It was made in flash, eh?

scimonster wrote:

SJRCS_011 wrote:

I don't think they are surprising.  Scratch should (in my opinion) be all about programming, and not really about the forums.  The forums (in my opinion) should be just to discuss the programming.

Yep, that's why half the posts are in Misc. XD

Yah, there is that flaw in my logic.
EDIT: rephrasing what I meant in my original post

Last edited by SJRCS_011 (2012-01-04 17:07:06)

Is there an update of stats now that it's a new week? 

zippynk wrote:

scimonster wrote:

BoltBait wrote:

This should be a blog post.  Your blog is getting stale.

Yeah, it is. 

Please make a new blog post! They're fun to read.

Wow, back by popular demand! I thought nobody read them. XD

Ok - what should it be on?
(Oh no: mod encouraged off topicness..Terrible!! Maybe instead of replying here you should make a suggestion in the suggestions forum.