If you thought blog traffic was heavy in January, you weren’t imagining things. It was the fifth busiest month in MB history. In contrast, January 2007 was the fifth slowest month in MB history.
Since we ♥ charts and maps, here are a couple to ponder.
MuseBlog Monthly Comment Totals by Standard Calendar Year
MuseBlog Monthly Comment Totals by Blog Year
Ulp. *hides under bed* THAT’S INSANE!!!!
That’s great! We are growing!
(1) What’s insane, the data in question or the fact someone counted up the comments?
3- Well, I was thinking of the data, but now that you mention it…
now why was it so heavy in june 2007?
3,4- yeah…. who did this?
5- Script Frenzy?
Maybe?
Dang. I can’t see it, as I am using a school computer. But I can just imagine what it’s like…
This chart begins to make records, and records are meant to be broken….
What I mean is so far, we have pulled equal with or ahead on the reacord for each month this year. We could try to keep up with that.
I dunno if it’s skript frenzy? Maybe… oh wait… JUNE IS THE MONTH I POSTED A LOT!!!!!! I don’t think it’s me who did it, but I just thought of that. Fun.
Whoa!! Awesome!
10 – That could lead to a lot of PoPoing.
12- Not necessarily.
Ahaha…the March explosion in 2006 I remember that. How small it is in comparison
It’s hard to believe in August MB will be four! A fully functioning toddler, even! XD
More is not necessarily better — and more-for-the-sake-of-more would almost certainly be worse. People are already complaining that they can’t keep up with the posts we already have.
It would be fine to have more members. More new people waiting to be rescued from normal society is most certainly great.
(6) Guilty. Now you see what I do for recreation.
Actually, totting up numbers and arranging them in spreadsheets is quite soothing somehow…guess that belongs on Dealing with Stress.
(16) Nice way of putting it.
16-That’s what we are here for, aren’t we? To connect with each other? I mean, look at us. None of us are… normal. We are social outcasts, some of us rebelious, others shy. We don’t belong out there. We belong here. With each other. In supporting grace.
5- maybe because some of us don’t have school and we have no life (okay, just me) so we make a life for ourselves at our computers
19- Exactly. In June, we had just moved to back to the motyherland and were technically homeless. Thank goodness and grace for families and computers!
18- Yes, this is a geek sanctuary.
This is FLAMABLAMABLOUS!!!!!!!!
I’m actually working on a MuseBlog counting project – one that would probably be very simple for the GAPAs and all of their GAPA powers, but as a mere blogger I am doing it the long and hard way. It’s actually really fun!
IT IS FLAMABLAMABLOUS! yes, Panda’s right.
(14) Well, Axa, that March still ranks among the busiest — and in contrast to the months that preceded it, it was still quite a leap.
For the curious, here are the, oh, 14 busiest months with their actual totals:
9362 June, 2007
8432 May, 2007
7761 April, 2006
7671 April, 2007
7393 January, 2008
7388 March, 2006
7248 July, 2007
7061 March, 2007
6435 October, 2007
6234 September, 2007
6154 August, 2007
6052 December, 2006
6017 May, 2006
6011 December, 2007
As you can see, each of the past six months is on that list, except for November ( #16), which dipped by to 5613, possibly due to the fact such a crowd of MBers were out NaNo-ing. In any case, Year 03 has been a busy time in our little sanctuary, as KaiYves aptly termed it, averaging just over 200 posts per day.
(22) Actually, Purple Panda, GAPA powers are more limited than I’d like when it comes to counting the kinds of things I want to count, so I am your comrade in arms on the slow and mucky trail. Though I agree, it’s fun!
the infestation is no longer a theory but truth… no denying it now… and without old MBers we’ll just have to build right back up. ok. I can deal with that.
Wow! Cool!
Are there any charts on how many neophytes we got in each month? I think that would be interesting to do…maybe I’ll figure that out next time I’m bored.
(Sorry for double post, if it is one)
25 – What are you talking about…?
26- That would be cool…
Um.
Wow.
Rebecca (24): Yes, I’m sure it is quite tedious either way. I’m sure the GAPAs have some easier way to do what I’m trying to calculate, but that’s okay, because it is really fun to do it despite the tedious nature. Sometimes tedious things can be fun! (Usually only when they’re Muse-related, though :D)
I love graphs, though — they’re my favorite data-displaying-device.
Does the person who did this have
a lifeany spare time?Wait. Let me fix that.
Does the person who did this have
a lifeany spare time?Drat. Ignore those two posts.
Whoa. if it is that big now, and there’s a trend of it peaking in April-June think what this Spring will be like…. O_O…
No, guys, lets not post more. The community here is already too spread out, the post counts already too large…
Do people think the blog will continue to increase in posts?
I hope not.
34- Yeah. I don’t want to turn into someone who complains about the number of posts and eventually leaves, but this is ridiculous…
I hope the posts stay about like this…it’s a small community, but a pleasant one, and everybody knows everybody else. When there are forums with hundreds and hundreds of people you don’t get quite the same level of friendship as you do on communities of
24) ha, guess I was wrong then! amazing how many posts, really
It almost seems like MB is outgrowing itself! There’s bound to be some fall off point though, in any case I’m gonna ride the wave like always XD
I doubt we’d ever geat to be a huge forum, which is nice. But I don’t have any problem at all against newbs, and it only makes sense that more newbs will keep on coming.
I miss the old days when the entire list of bloggers fit on one screen…
40- I never knew those days. It sounds nice, though.
40- Why do you miss them?
40-woah, cool.
May I hide under my bed and not come out now? Nearly ten thousand posts in a month is rather insane.
42 (Vixen)- Why not?
44-Because to say that those were the good old days implies that you don’t like the new people.
Heck, February is pretty busy too!
44- Yeah, on another forum I fire off fourty posts a day, but I haven’t reached ten thousand in SIX months!
Where are you guys getting tenthousand from? It doesn’t say that anywhere????
42- because then we could have conversations where each of our posts were responded to and we knew our fellow bloggers quite well.
I’m still lobbying for another Anti-Chatroom thread (https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=86) but apparently there hasn’t been enough interest–only Alice, IBCF, and Vixen said they wanted to do it.
(50) We’re listening, Purple Panda, and we’re brewing up an idea that will incorporate some aspects of the Anti-Chatroom. It won’t be ready for an unveiling for a little while yet, but I think you will approve.
50- I’m interested!
50.isn’t that enough?
Rebecca (51): Really? Flamablamablous!!
51- give us a hint.
please?
51- oooh, an idea! *waits with excitement*
*hums*
57- right. well then it’s obviosly not important.
*refuses to be baited*
*continues humming*
it’s probably talking about how bad each other’s hair is. well, I need some stimulating discussion. *moves to religion threads*
Ooooooooo, bar graphs.
61- Hi Sliverdragon! Right? I’m confused.
Sunrunner! I haven’t seen you in ages. Welcome back! ::pies::
51- Great! MuseBlog certainly does need an anti-chatroom thread, or at least the aspects of one.
61- *pies Sunrunner*
51- Does this have anything to with Canix’s PLAN? Although he never seemed the type to be nostalgic about the old days…
51) Oooh sounds cool! I’m definitely interested.
(65) No, but in a roundabout way, the idea came partly from you.
Then it’s probably something to do with theater or writing.
TADA!!! THE GRAND UNVEILING!!!
*AHEM*
AVERAGE AGE OF MUSEBLOGGERS BELOW NINETEEN:
15,39230
RANGE AGE OF MUSEBLOGGERS BELOW NINETEEN:
10 (18-8)
That was fun, actually. The list is in the Polling Thread for further reference.
69- that is inaccurate, do to the fact that there are still people missing.
70- then they could have turned in their birthdays. I got the birthdays from the birthday list from last year. even if they did get included, it wouldn’t have made a big difference.
How can the average age of below-19 MBers be in the 15 thousands? Do you mean total?
Europeans use commas as decimal points.
68- That was amusing. I know what MY reputation is for.
69- Cool. *rounds* 15.4, then. About where I thought it would be. I’m almost there.
69-Wow, the youngest MBer was 8?
back in the good old days when a post answering you was regarded as monumental. ahh…when we were young. how old am i now anyway?
(68) Doesn’t everything?
Robert (73): Oh yes, of course! I must not have looked at it carefully, too, because there were definitely more than 3 numbers after the 15. -hits self in head-
75- IS 8. He just hasn’t been on in a while.
72, 73- Oh. sorry. I’d forgotten about that…
69 (Vixen)- For reals? I thought it was a good deal younger than that, although I’m not sure why. Maybe it’s just because the people I notice tend to be younger than that.
80- I was guessing the average would be 14, but we have quite a few seventeen and sixteen year olds to bring it up. Not very many twelve and eleven year olds to bring the average down, so we ended up with fifteen. However, there were quite a lot of fourteen year olds.
Penty (80): The person was actually 6 when he posted, but two years have passed, I guess. And, technically he’s only 7 now, because his birthday is on the 21st.
OH.mY.gAWD.sEe ME I aM wRItiNg In RanDOm tYPe bCUz tHiS iS so. CRAZY HUGE!
83 (Agrrfishi)- Don’t, my dear.
Pardon me, but holy ****! I mean, wow.
*is stonkered*
That’s wierd, I would have thought the most busy time would be summer when we’re all off from school. hmmm…
wow, looking at that makes me remember how long I’ve been here… since summer ’06! I guess I’ve kinda slowed down on posting though… Highschool with advanced classes and a part time job REALLY takes up time. Hope to back to regular posting by this summer!
75 – Yeah, I think I was eight or nine when I joined up…
Wow. That’s a…lot…of posts.o.O
hey, i am two uears old on the blog! thats ancient!!! i first posted in april of ’06. sweet! back when i was…lets see…12? well, i;m fourteen now…and my birthday was in september…soooo …hmmn …yeah 11! I LOVE MUSEBLOG!!!!!!!!!!!
Ditto, my cheesecake. We all do.
I like cheesecake…..