Aha! I stand vindicated! Except for April, MadMan was the uber-poster.

Impressive stats, BTW.

Posted by: Jack on July 1, 2002 03:39 PM

 

And here are some quick stats about when comments are made.

Posted by: Mac on July 1, 2002 03:51 PM

 

"The thing is this: After I have read something you have linked to or written, I like to read comments that have been added since I last looked at the site. I found myself trying to memorise the number of comments on each item, but that soon confused me."

John, tweak your template such that the links to the comments have a URL like mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=435&num=3 ... where num=3 is the number of comments. This way the URL actually changes every time there are new comments, and so the browser will no longer colour the link as "visited".

This is a half-way step to better usability. Later, you can consider adding javascript code which will add a cookie which remembers what the count was last time, so that the page can then be scrolled to the new comments. That's more complicated but doable.

Posted by: Eric Scheid on July 1, 2002 10:36 PM

 

MadMan rules! Woohooo!

Posted by: MadMan on July 2, 2002 12:51 AM

 

MadMan...that will be counted as a comment... and it shouldn't be...artificial inflating.

Wait...this will be counted as a comment.... ohhh yeah!

Posted by: JB on July 3, 2002 04:48 PM

 

An extra comment doesn't matter too much, JB. I'm apparently miles ahead of everyone else. ;)

Now all I have to do is post more comments than John S Rhodes.

Posted by: MadMan on July 4, 2002 03:01 AM

 

3 new webworders so far this month,

I have now updated the webword stats pages:

Added a line at the top giving total members, comments and items to date.
See what times of day and days of week people comment.
Top 100 most commented items of all time.
Top commenting members of all time. (Yes MadMan youre there at no 2 after John !
This report also shows the range of dates that people have been posting. It also takes you to their oldest and most recent comments.

Monthly Reports for domain names referenced in Webword items. This gives a feel for the wide range of sites John link to in his items.

Monthly Reports showing new webworders.

All comments posted in the last week (Monday to Sunday inclusive) This is basically what I produce for myself, with the difference that I can give it custom dates and times.
I thought this might be a useful report for more 'occassional' members, or for people who go on holiday.
It only shows new comments, but it will refer to older items if they have been commented on in the last week (does that make sense !).

I have also tidied up the other reports, and added some words at the bottom of the main page soliciting comments and suggestions.

If you have any suggestions about other Webword statistics you would like to see, or if you want to know more about the app that produces these statistics,or if you have any comments at all please contact me.
If anyone would like the code (VB6 and Access database) to play with, or maybe convert it to server side code and mySQL so we could generate more timely reports then please get in touch.

I will update the reports every Monday evening (or lunchtime for you US webworders) and see how it goes.

Oh, and thanks to Jack for his (more than 50) amusing and self revealing comment she has inserted into his contact URL:

schonchin@insert_comment_here.yahoo.com

_a_sprinkle_a_day_keeps_the_odor_away_have_you_had_your_sprinkle_today?
_I_am_so_full_of_myself_
_I_may_be_barefoot_but_I'm_not_pregnant_
_I_once_walked_in_Jakob's_footsteps_-_no_longer_-_for_I_have_seen_the_light
_I_really_don't_want_to_go_to_work_today
_returning_from_anonymous_land
_the_angry_hoards_walked_in_disguise_I_nary_realized_they_followed_me_to_your_dwelling_forgive_me_oh_Lord_
bahhumbug
blamblamblam
bravo
buyerbeware
cleanbladdersareessential
dyingtoknow
ehhh
enufisenuf
eudorahastoomanyusabilityissues
for_future_generations
he's_a_tired_pundit
hohumfriday
hungry?grab_a_snickers
invisiblesolidshowercleanlargersize
ipushtheleverwithmyfoot,i'mnottouchingthatickything
jackuberalles
jackuberalles
just_wondering
keepingitreal
keepingtrack
my_mind_is_somewhere_else_right_now
mybrainisinsleepmoderightnow
myohmy
mytwolincolns
nope
nospam
nospamthankyou
nursing_wounds
ohyeah
ok_I_will_stop_being_anonymous_for_a_while
openyoureyes
p.s
phbbbbt!
pleasesir,canihavesomemore?
saycheese
sigh
skepticaleye
smoochysmoochy
sorrytodisappointmyfans
thechainsthatbindus
therevolutionbeginsnow
thetruthrevealed
thisrememberaddressthingmaymakemelazy
unclearontheconcept
vroom.vroom
whistlewhileyouwork
yohohoandabottleofrootbeer

Now all these words will only count as one comment, maybe I should introduce a quality measure !

Cheers

Posted by: Mac on July 4, 2002 03:19 AM