Random ChiefsPlanet Stats

[DaFace]

There are all sorts of stats about the forum buried in the Admin CP. I'd love to make those available to everyone, but I haven't really found an add-on that does it well. But, I'm a stats geek, so I might bump this thread from time to time with useless tidbits that I find interesting.

[Otter]

Originally Posted by Donger

I agree. You need to up your game to catch up.

Well done.

[BryanBusby]

Hello friends

I have done some analysis and in the spoilers I have generated a list of every good poat BabyLee ever made. Please enjoy.

Spoiler!

Good BabyLee Posts:

[Chiefspants]

Originally Posted by DaFace

By request from lewdog, here's the 2016 update of our overall posts by year.



Post count isn't everything - I think we're rather have high-quality content more than high-quantity content, but things are definitely slowing down around here. Here's the average number of people logged in per day:



My guess is that most of the drop is due to the growth of a lot of other types of social media where people get their news, like ArrowheadPride, reddit, even the Chiefs themselves. I think the age of the flat forum is probably just plain coming to an end. But still, it's part of the motivation to try and see if we can make this place a little more attractive moving forward.

It’s possible you’ve already done this, but I’d love to see an update of this graph in the Mahomes era.

Did we get a boost? Or is it an inverted line where places like this thrive the most in misery?

[Spott]

Originally Posted by Bowser

Ha, nice!

So that being the case, does the database not record or recognize any activity BEFORE August 2000, because I've never seen anyone with a join date of July 2000 (or earlier).......

We were all on the old Star board getting banned and taking turns insulting Denise in July 2000.

[mlyonsd]

Originally Posted by DaFace

Negative. The IDs are all wonky, but based on the timestamp, this is the first post and thread in CP history:

https://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/show...=6905#post6905

Great find. It's like the day we landed on the moon.

[Raiderhater]

Originally Posted by Otter

What qualifies as an OG? I'd like to see those numbers.

Anyone with a join date of August 2000 is OG. Anyone with a join date after August 2000 is a n00b.

[Boise_Chief]

Originally Posted by DaFace

Ha, that's a fun one (and easy). Alas, there are none. However, here are five guys who really show what it means to be lurkers. They all joined in August of 2000, have been active in the past month, but have less than 500 posts.

username
posts
SUPER CHIEF
98
chief mohawk
125
Traveller
158
Iron Chef
418
Wrasse
499

SUPER CHIEF was active this morning and averages one post every 85 days.

I think I need to change my tagline.

[DaFace]

Originally Posted by Chiefspants

It’s possible you’ve already done this, but I’d love to see an update of this graph in the Mahomes era.

Did we get a boost? Or is it an inverted line where places like this thrive the most in misery?

I update it from time to time, but honestly it hasn't been all that interesting in recent years. It's not completely clear like this, but you can kind of think of CP in four eras:

2000-2003 - Founding and rapid growth
2004-2013 - Continued steady growth
2014-2016 - The decline of the flat forum era
2017-2023 - The era of stability

Beyond that, we saw our biggest growth spikes in posts in 2009 (frustration with the beginning of the Haley and Cassel era?) and to a lesser extent in 2020 (because WTF else did we have to to?) and 2022 (more to discuss with the revamped roster?). In general, though, things fluctuate a little bit from year to year these days, but I think we largely have our set user base, and it just goes up and down a little bit depending on what all we have to discuss.

Anyway, here are the charts since you were interested.

[Rams Fan]

Originally Posted by DaFace

I update it from time to time, but honestly it hasn't been all that interesting in recent years. It's not completely clear like this, but you can kind of think of CP in four eras:

2000-2003 - Founding and rapid growth
2004-2013 - Continued steady growth
2014-2016 - The decline of the flat forum era
2017-2023 - The era of stability

Beyond that, we saw our biggest growth spikes in posts in 2009 (frustration with the beginning of the Haley and Cassel era?) and to a lesser extent in 2020 (because WTF else did we have to to?) and 2022 (more to discuss with the revamped roster?). In general, though, things fluctuate a little bit from year to year these days, but I think we largely have our set user base, and it just goes up and down a little bit depending on what all we have to discuss.

Anyway, here are the charts since you were interested.

Are you able to look at the net-growth of active posters?

For this, we could define an active poster as someone who posted >=100 times within a calendar year. In-active poster being someone who has posted <100 times within a calendar year.

Also, the mean users looks promising as it seems the forum isn't declining in people who view it when compared to previous years. 2019 maybe elevated due to the interest surrounding the team and the chase for the first ring with Reid/Mahomes and 2020 being an anomaly.

[ChiTown]

Originally Posted by Bowser

If I were to guess, the first 300 users to have signed up? 500?

If memory serves, a whole load of you got sick of the KC Star board and started this place, right?

[Chiefspants]

In an era long past the great exodus from online forums to Reddit and social media, it’s incredible that you’ve been able to retain the retention that you have here. Hats off, y’all.

[Bearcat]

Originally Posted by Bowser

If I were to guess, the first 300 users to have signed up? 500?

If memory serves, a whole load of you got sick of the KC Star board and started this place, right?

*checks userid*

Yeah, first 500.

[DaFace]

Originally Posted by Rams Fan

Are you able to look at the net-growth of active posters?

For this, we could define an active poster as someone who posted >=100 times within a calendar year. In-active poster being someone who has posted <100 times within a calendar year.

Also, the mean users looks promising as it seems the forum isn't declining in people who view it when compared to previous years. 2019 maybe elevated due to the interest surrounding the team and the chase for the first ring with Reid/Mahomes and 2020 being an anomaly.

Generally, I'd say that the average daily users metric moves similarly to the total "active" users (>100 posts in the year) metric. Here ya go:

post	active_users	
2000	234	
2001	107	
2002	17	
2003	44	
2004	325	
2005	555	
2006	556	
2007	587	
2008	602	
2009	714	
2010	667	
2011	657	
2012	677	
2013	730	
2014	620	
2015	535	
2016	485	
2017	517	
2018	510	
2019	541	
2020	534	
2021	506	
2022	483	
2023	356

Note that 2023 doesn't really count yet since there's still plenty of time for more folks to get over 100 posts before the end of the year. Also, I'm pretty sure a ton of posts were lost in the early years due to a database issue, so I would consider those to be unreliable.

[Spott]

Originally Posted by Bearcat

*checks userid*

Yeah, first 500.

Were you on the old Star board? It’s been a long time ago, but it seems like I remember you being part of that group.

[Hammock Parties]

can you show us the users with the most reps given, and the most reps received