http://forums.digitalpoint.com/faq.php?faq=dp_faq#faq_statistics This seems like a very sudden and significant drop for DP. Any ideas why and/or why now?
Because default view is weekly, and there are 3 more days in the week, so not all the data is there yet.
Holy crap! One minute and two replies already? Did you guys KNOW I was going to post this? Is it the Psychics Network again? It could be partly yfsbot, but I doubt it's any one individual... this was a large drop in the space of a week after a good couple of years of growth - and it takes the stats back to prior to the YART thread.
The last week showing for me is October 31 - that's either last week or the week before, depending on whether it's the end day or the beginning day.
Also, if I switch to daily view, it jumps from Sept 30 to Nov 1... bug in the database? Addendum: If I switch to monthly view, I see stats for October showing a sharp drop for that month.
No it's not... there isn't a label for every point plotted (you wouldn't be able to read them if there was one for every point... change to Daily and the date labels don't change). It just squeezes as many in as it can without overlapping them. If you want to see more labels, you have to make the image bigger. For example: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/images/custom/stats.php?num=1&type=weekly&x=1000&y=1000 Either way stats are updated (the previous day added) every night at 12:00:01 am. Forget about the labels... just know that the last point is the current week on weekly, current month on monthly.
Ah, OK. It still looks like a downward trend over at least several days but possibly a blip... I wondered if it had anything to do with the vBulletin update.
Look at the daily ones... looks like an EKG, but that way the points are all plotting the same amount of day (1 full day). Last weekend was a little lower than normal, but still averaging over 1,500 posts/day over the "low weekend".
You flatter yourself, Nintendo. It's highly unlikely on a forum this size that any one thread or member can take the credit either for the ups or for the downs.
jagger comes to mind... I joined these forums after getting here 200000 times from a google search ..
Sure, Jagger could account for the late October - early November spike. When I look at the graphs, it still looks like a greater than average drop to below even pre-Jagger levels but that may be an anomaly. We'll see what happens over the next week or two.