Board stats for April 2008

[Steven P. Administrators]

APR '08: 1,308 registrations, 5,357 new topics, 62,155 replies, 2,382 PM's sent and 2,060,769 topic views.

Oh dear :( Seems we still have a steady decline, hopefully with these latest changes over the past few days we'll see some sort of improvement.

[crazzyyfool]

Maybe you need some top heavy lovelies on the front page. :p

[Panacik]

APR '08: 1,308 registrations, 5,357 new topics, 62,155 replies, 2,382 PM's sent and 2,060,769 topic views.

Oh dear :( Seems we still have a steady decline, hopefully with these latest changes over the past few days we'll see some sort of improvement.

Changes are all good, but maybe look in to re-advertising Neowin. Getting its name out on the web again and giving people a reason to come here. I know that this is a tech site that helps people with tech related issues, but we need to give other reasons to come and advertise those features.

Im not sure what you could advertise or use, but im sure with some thought you could think of something.

[Redmak Administrators]

The number of pageviews are still going up

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

Changes are all good, but maybe look in to re-advertising Neowin. Getting its name out on the web again and giving people a reason to come here. I know that this is a tech site that helps people with tech related issues, but we need to give other reasons to come and advertise those features.

Im not sure what you could advertise or use, but im sure with some thought you could think of something.

Consider the recent changes akin to renovation works, making the place more inviting to newcomers.

[Crazysah]

I am sure we can do better for the month of May!

[Lt-DavidW]

Don't worry about the stats. The main thing is that we regulars love the place.

[Panacik]

Consider the recent changes akin to renovation works, making the place more inviting to newcomers.

Yes, but you need to let people know about it and advertise it, otherwise how are newcomers going to know about the changes, or even about Neowin at all?

[Rappy Veteran]

Views should go up soon especially with the big Laptop Competition coming soon and with the newly renovated forums.

[+M2Ys4U Subscriber¹]

Have some more graphs! Each stat averaged over the number of days in each month

[Bant Veteran]

How does this measure up in terms of seasonal trends? Spring and Summer generally means people are going outside and stuff ya know?

[sundayx Veteran]

There is no visible seasonal trends on Neowin. I actually run a personal Neowin statistics tally, and it seems like we're back to the 2002/2003 registration rate.

[RadishTM Veteran]

We'll bounce back (Y)

Radish?

[Steeley]

I'm sure it can be explained away somehow. In the meantime this is the forum where I spend most of my time on the net (even though I'm not a heavy poster). You're doing a good job, guys.

[Sethos]

We're entering the summer months, people wanna be outside, so less posting and less registering :p

[Rappy Veteran]

How does this measure up in terms of seasonal trends? Spring and Summer generally means people are going outside and stuff ya know?

Outside? I never leave the house I know not of this outside you speak of!

[Cara Veteran]

We're entering the summer months, people wanna be outside, so less posting and less registering :p

What is this "Outside" that you are referring to? Is that the large room with the super bright light that is outside of my front door?

Seriously though, I wouldn't be concerned with a drop in stats aside from the ad revenue aspect of things, it might just mean we have more quality posts and less 1 offs.

[betasp]

I would be a little concerned. From a user perspective, things have not "seemed right" for the last 6-8 months.

[Steeley]

We're entering the summer months, people wanna be outside, so less posting and less registering :p

Wouldn't that be somewhat offset by the whole southern hemisphere entering winter (i.e. more people inside)?

[Sethos]

Wouldn't that be somewhat offset by the whole southern hemisphere entering winter (i.e. more people inside)?

... Why you little!!

[Aaron Olive]

change the interface to something that is easy on the eyes and more soothing darker and change the front page to look like a news site instead of a forum layout with more vibrant but smooth

[shakey_snake]

change the interface to something that is easy on the eyes and more soothing darker and change the front page to look like a news site instead of a forum layout with more vibrant but smooth

lol, you sound like a pop-record producer.

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I wonder if the whole "renewed browser war"/"acid 3 shootout" stuff a while back contributed to this decline any.

Lots of people get sick of that stuff, and there was a TON of it on here in February (with the firefox3 betas) and March (acid3).

[Bant Veteran]

Wouldn't that be somewhat offset by the whole southern hemisphere entering winter (i.e. more people inside)?

The whole southern hemisphere?

:p just playin man.

[Steeley]

The whole southern hemisphere?

:p just playin man.

Lol that you actually took the time to do that!

[Aaron Olive]

lol, you sound like a pop-record producer.

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I wonder if the whole "renewed browser war"/"acid 3 shootout" stuff a while back contributed to this decline any.

Lots of people get sick of that stuff, and there was a TON of it on here in February (with the firefox3 betas) and March (acid3).

thats funny i didn't notice that but i was thinking of something like this but it's a very rough draft