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Each wotmania board had their own stats numbers Larry Send a noteboard - 19/02/2013 12:43:26 AM
*wonders if he had the same misunderstanding about wotmania*


I didn't save mine (like some did), but I want to say I had something like just over 1 million page views (and a little over 20K posts) over the six CMBs and over 2 million page views (and around 13-14K) posts on OF, for example. For a shade over 8 years, that was on the high end on the site, I think, but compared to something like 4K posts here for nearly 4 years, the disparity is sobering enough, I suppose.

That is a little over once per week, so the answer to your question is apparently "precious few."


There's really little left to be said. The people I liked most have almost totally left this site and I suspect that might be the case for many. I'm not the same person at 38 (almost 39) as I was at 26. Probably many others feeling the same way.

It's slight over once a day, note that it has moondog at 67 and myself at 66 (tied at 67 when I submit this) but then say 'last 30 days' Isaac: 51, Moondog: 48, it's not measuring the last 365 days, just 2013 posts.

I mean, the most frequent posters chiming in once per day is still not exactly blazing, especially by comparison to wotmania at any point, even the final months. But it is far less flat than I feared when I first looked at the stat. I took it for granted "the last year" meant just that, and do did not bother comparing that figure to those on the past month, but should have. My bad, sorry, and thanks for the clarification. :<img class=' />

I tend to pay more attention to the number codes of the posts, this one I'm replying to for instance is 272,794 making it the 272,794th post on the site. Type in a random number to replace it and most of the time you'll pull up a CMB post but not always, and you won't redirect to another board because the page includes the board even if the numbers are chronological against the whole site.

In terms of milestones:

Site start:

Start: Aug 30, 2009

Post 100,000: 20 April 2010

Post 200,000: 5 April 2011

To date the site averages about 6-7,000 posts a month or about 200 a day. We've had roughly 3000 since 2013 started, just under 50 days ago so we're running just over 150 posts a day currently, down but not a lot, of course that's about what its been running at since mid-2010 anyway. Not much has been going on at the CMB of late but the other boards are busier.


If you want to compare those numbers to wotmania, I recall the OF board having something around 240K posts from October 2001-August 31, 2009. Its volume was about an eighth of the CMBs over that time and a third or so of the two WoT MBs. OF, again if I recall, would have about 20-30 active posts (at the three day setting). The four main MBs right now combined barely reach that these days. So I'd estimate the current traffic here is probably less than 10% of wotmania's in 2008-2009. Sobering, huh? :P

Oh, as for combined 2013 figures, don't forget there was a huge spike on the WoT MB for the first three weeks of January.


Yeah, the other MBs have been trending up, at least relative to themselvs and the CMB, for a year or two. It definitely looks much bleaker on the CMB than elsewhere, but I remain concerned about how many non-wotmaniac RAFOlk there are, and the percentage of them who are primarily or exclusively WoTMB posters. I still think RAFO made a mistake not developing a load of WoT content as a true heir to wotmania, and using the narrow window of opportunity during the final volumes to establish RAFO in its own right. But done is done, as Thom Merrilin once said, and the final WoT book has hit the stores; for good or ill, that opportunity is gone beyond recall, and RAFO must sink or swim without it.


It's a listless hulk, but if you really want something to chew on in regards to "what if?", keep in mind that in the transition most of the wotmania Admin team were not retained here. Some, like myself, stayed around somewhat, but those who created the content on the WoT and OF MBs, with very few exceptions, are not active here any longer (some are at Westeros, though).
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie

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Ah, that is slightly better (if slightly confusing) then. - 17/02/2013 04:37:46 AM 504 Views
Yeah it confused me too but my own stats staring me in the face helped - 17/02/2013 04:27:23 PM 534 Views
Huh, I never realized the message count was not specific to each board. - 17/02/2013 11:25:32 PM 523 Views
Each wotmania board had their own stats numbers - 19/02/2013 12:43:26 AM 515 Views
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