Originally posted by Mani Ram:
Probably one of the moderators can post some interesting statistics here like [...]
OK, here are some numbers for you
Average unique visitors per day: 15333
Today's active topic count: 333 (at 7.30pm, so extrapolating: 333 / 19.5 * 24 = 410 active topics in a day).
Many of those active topics will have multiple replies in any given 24 hour period. For example, "
Long time ago," was created this morning, and it has had 20 replies in 19 hours.
Now I am not sure what you can do with these numbers, as there are few people who would be interested in getting every single message in every single forum (although I can bet if we offered it some people would try and find out the hard way just how badly this would swamp their inboxes).
A very bad calculation would be to just multiply all those numbers out, and the result would be 102,117,780 emails being sent out each day. Of course that number is totally incorrect as it is more common for a topic to only have two responses (so bring the number down to 10 million), but there are many people who dont log in every day (so increase the number again).
Rumor has it that other high traffic forums also have major problems when they allow users to request notifications on message creation / modification.
As Ilja says, we tried an RSS feed and it has (so far) caused major problems. It doesnt mean that we will never have an RSS feed or an email notification system, but at the moment we can't offer it.
Regards, Andrew
[ March 29, 2006: Message edited by: Andrew Monkhouse ]