The monthly stats for December. Seems there was a big jump from the month before - some of that came from p.ie being down but even so, the stats were headed past the previous month's numbers by around 22nd December. I don't think p.ie had been down then.

Some other interesting stuff - how people use the portal - great to see the links being used. And keyword analysis as to how people found us - moonies and minnesota ??

That's a good solid rise - and you can kind of feel it in the site.

The statistics are getting statisticer! What ibis just said on the previous post was very evident in January I thought - the site had a good rhythm. Was it a waltz

I think the pattern of the last row of bars is very interesting and I'd be really interested to know if other sites have that wavy pattern ... I didn't notice it before. Those last stats are MN by week back as far as since we started keeping the stats last July.

Next I'm going to map the moon phases onto that .....

Everything is up anyway - hooray!

Without being in the least bit competitive, this is interesting too:

http://www.google.ie/search?hl=en&q=irish+political+forum&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

Yay!!

Could it possibly be that civility is on the rise in this nation? Or intelligence? Or reasoned debate? I must calm down, it's probably just an Obama effect.

I would imagine that Slim Buddha has the monopoly on those Swiss accesses. Or does he?

Sorry, it might be crass of me to ask but I presume there is a running cost involved in this thing. is it much and who pays?

I may be a bit nosey asking, if so just ignore the question.......

shutuplaura wrote:

Sorry, it might be crass of me to ask but I presume there is a running cost involved in this thing. is it much and who pays?

I may be a bit nosey asking, if so just ignore the question.......

Yep, it's extortionate so what we do is we invent some really cool financial instruments with assets derived from things such as post-modern Transdniestran art, widget futures and Iraqi property and sell these packages onto financial markets to ensure that the books balance. It's a sure-fire, fool-proof stratrgy!

shutuplaura wrote:

Sorry, it might be crass of me to ask but I presume there is a running cost involved in this thing. is it much and who pays?

I may be a bit nosey asking, if so just ignore the question.......

This website literally costs only the time of the people who are interested in keeping it running. There's a fair bit of effort in it.

The monetary costs are quite low to run a site and forum, in fact it's free for this place but the forum won't be here forever.

Again I'll say there's a lot of effort put in by people who give generously of their time and knowledge - as well as that, members who contribute regularly are the other half of the wealth of the forum.

Lots of those numbers up there are your own.

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

shutuplaura wrote:

Sorry, it might be crass of me to ask but I presume there is a running cost involved in this thing. is it much and who pays?

I may be a bit nosey asking, if so just ignore the question.......

Yep, it's extortionate so what we do is we invent some really cool financial instruments with assets derived from things such as post-modern Transdniestran art, widget futures and Iraqi property and sell these packages onto financial markets to ensure that the books balance. It's a sure-fire, fool-proof stratrgy!

Here is one such financial instrument in action:

Well congrats to the moderators/administrators and thanks for taking the time to run the place so well.

Stats for the shortest month - the middle one is the weekly one going back to July. I think it's fascinating that it has peaks and troughs like a wave. I'd love to see similar stats from other forums - I'd guess they'd have this pattern too because of the moon affecting the brain like.

Thanks to everyone. Felt like a quieter month but as nearly as many pages were read this month as last month so .. make of em what you will.

It would be interesting to see the full geographic spread. We know that the Kremlin reads MN regularly, and the Saudis. African readers so far are thin on the ground. 905 - a good thread or two form you might get them turning our pages.

What I would like to know about is what the Ukrainian Secret Service is doing spying on our site. Yes Olaf, I am looking at you.

Wanting the University Challenge updates, I expect.

cactus flower wrote:

Wanting the University Challenge updates, I expect.

That must be it. They are hanging on my every word. Also, they have no other source of news, so I can tell them what I like. In that case Crawley Polytechnic walloped the University of Surrey 495 to 20. The team at Surrey have susequently gone into hiding with an order of Tibetan monks.

http://machinenation.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=1506&start=0